Bahamas requires more firms with credible continuity plans
Hurricanes do not call ahead. Neither do server crashes, ransomware attacks or sudden supplier collapses.
STATESIDE: Fines, stripped of titles or the owners being forced to sell?
If you weren’t paying much attention to soccer developments in Europe, you might check on line and find that in the most powerful men’s soccer league in the world (the English Premier League) and the most powerful women’s soccer league in the world (the Women’s Super League, also in England), the same powerhouse club is in first place in both leagues.
FRONT PORCH: Leading grocery chain desperately needs to modernise stores
At the parking lot entrance in Cable Beach of one of the two stores owned by the leading supermarket chain in the country, sat a crater pothole that had not been paved for many months. It was finally paved just yesterday.
Statistics don’t always match economic reality
“The economy, stupid.” The phrase, famously associated with political strategist James Carville during Bill Clinton’s 1992 US presidential election campaign, was intended to keep the effort focused on the issue that mattered most to voters: The economy. More than three decades later, the expression remains relevant because regardless of the political noise surrounding an administration, people ultimately experience government through their pockets.
ALICIA WALLACE: Three years on..
IN his open letter to Angela Davis, James Baldwin wrote, “For if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.”
FACING REALITY: When worship becomes theatre and faith becomes a weapon
MANY churches are in the business of saving souls, feeding the hungry, helping the needy, clothing the naked, and sheltering the homeless.
WORLD VIEW: When the promise of a Haitian-led solution begins to fade
WHO speaks for Haiti? It’s a question the international community can no longer avoid.
Stopping ‘one bad applefrom spoiling the bunch’
The saying, “one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch”, is especially relevant in the workplace because negative attitudes and behaviour can quickly influence others and damage a company’s internal culture along with morale and productivity.
ALICIA WALLACE: Restaurants: the good...the bad...and the ugly!
A FEW weeks ago, I spent a few days in Chicago—a city known for its beautiful summers, walkability, and excellent dining options.
FACING REALITY: Black crab syndrome
IN the Bahamas, we have talked for generations about what we call the “black crab syndrome.”
Op-Ed: Clarify responsibilities on NorthEleuthera airport runway repairs
The runway concerns at North Eleuthera Airport demand a clear answer: What protects passengers and crews while repairs are being arranged?
How to fight back on BPL’s ‘invisible tax’
For Bahamian businesses, unreliable utility services have become more than an inconvenience. Frequent blackouts, load shedding and power surges are creating an invisible tax on business operations, affecting productivity, customer service, equipment, inventory and ultimately profitability.
Op-Ed: Sovereignty is not a lease
THAT was Prime Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis at the United Nations General Assembly last week.
DIANE PHILLIPS: 100 million-plus play this sport (yet it feels so . . . out there)
AS the world strives for equality, it sometimes strikes me that the greatest chasm in democratisation of opportunity lies in the strangest place of all: the games we play.
STATESIDE: Dems gloat over expected Republican midterm losses
THIS morning, it’s 33 days until the date when many Americans feel that their great, ignominious embarrassment will finally begin to end.
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