DIANE PHILLIPS: Calming our wild, wild West waters
It is impossible to think of The Bahamas without thinking water.
STATESIDE: Has Trump awakened to who Putin really is?
Something significant might just have happened on Tuesday afternoon in hot, humid Washington, DC.
OEF: Eleuthera - Island where heaven and earth meet
This spring marked 22 years since my first visit to the island of Eleuthera.
KEITH ROYE II: Don’t swat away the drone logistics future
Imagine ordering a package online and, instead of waiting days or even weeks, a small flying drone delivers it to your doorstep in under an hour.
ALICIA WALLACE: No changes for gender equality
Another year of Independence has come and gone, and The Bahamas remains in the same place that it has been for decades when it comes to women’s rights and gender equality.
PETER YOUNG: Importance of foreign aid
International or multilateral assistance is frequently subject to controversy, but provision of special bilateral aid by richer countries to poorer ones has always been a matter for special debate.
IVOINE INGRAHAM: The Bahamas - an alcoholic society
It has been recently announced, but no news, that alcohol use among teens has reached “crisis levels”, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Health and Wellness. Well, blow me down with a feather. It has also been said that from the sampling of interviews, more than one in every five of our young are suicidal, which is devastating.
WORLD VIEW: Haiti is bleeding—and the Caribbean cannot look away
Haiti continues to wallow in deep crisis as criminal gangs entrench their violent control over nearly 90 per cent of Port-au-Prince and other parts of the country.
STATESIDE: US facing confusion and uncertainty under Trump
There’s a profoundly unsettling aspect to what’s happening in the US these days. Uncertainty and dread seem to shroud numerous volatile situations overseas. The US role in regional international conflicts, long a reliably steadying influence and force, now seems to have developed as an active agitator for ambiguity and confusion.
FRONT PORCH: The selection of election candidates
After the Free National Movement (FNM) announced 17 candidates for the House of Assembly ahead of the upcoming general election, there was the usual ritual of criticisms, a number of which are frequently trotted out at election time.
ALICIA WALLACE: Politics - full of sound and fury
The next general election is just down the road and around the corner.
PETER YOUNG: Labour government in UK unpopular after first year
After its commanding win in Britain’s General Election just a year ago, it is hard to believe reports of the extent of the domestic unpopularity of Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government today.
FACING REALITY: ‘THE EYES HAVE IT' - A personal experience with cataracts
Cataracts are real.
GAIN AN EDGE: Montayanna Major - Moving with purpose
For Montayanna Major, movement is more than a function of the human body, it’s a window into healing, empowerment, and change.
INSIGHT: Political season begins in earnest
THE unveiling of candidates for the upcoming election has inevitably got tongues wagging – but the list of MP hopefuls for the FNM can tell us as much about how the party intends to govern as the chances of them doing so.
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