DIANE PHILLIPS: Promise of jobs not what it used to be
ONCE upon a time in Bahamaland, the promise of jobs was the golden ticket.
FRONT PORCH: Lessons from FNM’s 1992 victory:
AS the Free National Movement (FNM) celebrates the 34th anniversary of its first election to office in 1992, there are lessons the current FNM might draw from that victory.
STATESIDE: Pundits balk as Trump "collapses world order"
FOR a growing number of Americans, there’s a feeling of wanting their president to just go away.
ALICIA WALLACE: Black hair and self expression
AS schools start to reopen, the hair debates—that only focus on black children’s hair—have started once again. Every school year, we go through the same nonsense, as schools attempt to police children’s blackness, in this majority black country.
FACING REALITY: The first lie we tell our children Everyone is guilty!
Remember this: “A liar is a thief, and a thief is a murderer!” We have heard that since the beginning of time.
WORLD VIEW: Stop the money flow to organised crime
HAITI’S plight must not be forgotten because it’s no longer a regular feature of international headlines. The suffering has not diminished.
KDK REPORT: This human experience
FIVE years ago, I sat down to write the first edition of a newspaper column that I wasn’t entirely sure anyone would read.
BEYOND THE BORDERS: Familial caregiving is not employment - defending against erroneous adjudications
ADJUDICATIONS conducted by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
LIGHTHOUSES: New Providence & stories of small lighthouses
IN 1967 a British paper in Liecester carried an article about dramatic stories told by well-regarded former head of the lighthouse service in the Bahamas, Commander R. Langton Jones.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Some places need to be left in perfect disarray
THERE’S a long, skinny peninsula connected by an isthmus to a mainland in the Central Bahamas that by all reasonable expectations should have been wiped out long ago, swallowed by a storm surge, devastated by a hurricane, evaporated by winds and rushing waters pounding its shallow sea level.
How delegation can build stronger teams
Every leader eventually hits the same wall. Too much work, too little time. The best ones do not push through it alone; they delegate. But handing off tasks well is a skill in itself, and experts say it comes down to seven habits.
Leverage cruise tourism by increasing our value
A recent article on cruise tourism raises an important discussion about the future of tourism in The Bahamas.
EMPIRE SPORTS MEDICINE SERIES: Is doing you best always enough?
“JUST do your best.” It is probably one of the most common things we say to our children before they compete. We say it before the race, before the game, before the swimming final and sometimes even before an examination. Usually, it comes from a good place.
FRONT PORCH: National museum could join public and corporate for sake of Bahamian culture
A LITTLE over half a century as a sovereign nation, The Bahamas still does not have a national museum. It’s telling sign of our priorities and sometimes pseudo patriotism that we have not mustered the will and resources to create and sustain sucwh an institution.
STATESIDE: Will Upper Midwest finally upend Trump-effect?
YESTERDAY morning brought to American TV screens and on-line news feeds some news that surprised many observers. It may presage results in the upcoming November elections that seem poised to bring an end to what has amounted to one-party rule in Washington since president Donald Trump was reelected nearly two years ago.
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