EDITORIAL: COVID reminder - and a watchful eye on China
IF it seems to many that COVID-19 has gone away, today is a rude reminder that it is anything but.
PETER YOUNG: When political leaders fail to act in their country’s interests
DESPITE the normal festivities surrounding Christmas, my wife and I found there was more time this year for reflection since I was house-bound while recovering from hip replacement surgery. So I was particularly grateful to a good friend for his kind gift of an interesting book entitled ‘The March of Folly’ by American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author, Barbara Tuchman. In her heyday in the 1960s she was well known as one of America’s foremost popular historians for she had an engaging style and succeeded in making the past interesting to millions of readers.
FACE TO FACE: Giving voice to the children
THIS is the beginning of one of the most significant years in Bahamian history. This year, 2023, marks the 50th anniversary of Bahamian Independence. Let the celebrations begin!
DIANE PHILLIPS: Finding our roots, literally
THE very word farming conjures up physical images. Words like honest labour, grit, sweat on the brow, God’s green earth. Its words are prayer-like -- praying for good weather and absence of insects that eat what you are growing before you can harvest it.
ONE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION: Break the status quo
REFLECTING on 2022, one of the most significant milestones for One Eleuthera Foundation (OEF) was our organisation’s 10th anniversary, celebrated on April 22nd (Earth Day.)
STATESIDE – Halfway through his first term: Biden and the immigration issue
US President Joe Biden is halfway through his first term in the nation’s top job. After an initial boost in favourable poll ratings and with TV and other media pundits, Biden began to slip, until earlier this year he achieved a dubious distinction when he sank “under water” with less than 50 percent approval ratings in the polls. Oddly, Donald Trump and “his” Supreme Court have rescued Biden twice.
FRONT PORCH: Reading critical to human development
THE Brothers Grimm, German academics and authors in the late 18th century and early 19th century, became world famous for their piquant and complex folklores, fairy tales and oral tales, which offered object and classical lessons about morality and ethics and the struggle of humanity in every generation to become more civil, humane and less barbarous.
EDITORIAL: Kicking the can again over NIB
ANOTHER year is coming to an end with no resolution to the thorny problem of what to do about our diminishing National Insurance Board fund.
ALICA WALLACE: Justice for Megan Thee Stallion
IN July 2020, Megan Thee Stallion (legal name Megan Pete) was shot in her foot in Los Angeles. She posted on Instagram: “On Sunday morning, I suffered gunshot wounds, as a result of a crime that was committed against me and done with the intention to physically harm me.”
EDITORIAL: Back to Bay Street with a bang
JUNKANOO returned – and it was dazzling.
COLUMN: My Bahamian journey
MY first visit to The Bahamas took place nearly twenty years ago, in the spring of 2003. But when I reminisce over the twists and turns my life has taken over the years, I realize that the journey that would eventually lead me to forge a lifelong connection to The Bahamas started many years earlier, during my last year of college in January of 1988.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Rising to support brothers in need
ON Friday, December 16, the story of brotherly love was the subject of this column. It was the story of two brothers named Lorenzo and Devon Knowles, Long Islanders who came to Nassau to work 15 years ago and for most of those years worked through, or in some connection with, the late Sir Durward Knowles, the first eight years at Queen’s College, later at Montagu Gardens restaurant until it closed. They often worked multiple jobs. After Sir Durward died, they scraped by doing odd jobs, looking after a parking lot, washing dishes at other restaurants, cobbling together a few dollars daily to feed themselves, sometimes going hungry, always faithful to church and Bible study, even when they walked in the rain to get there.
FRONT PORCH: The light which is the essence of Christmas
CHRISTMAS is a time to celebrate and to reflect on the Incarnation, God’s very personal and redeeming gift in the person of Jesus Christ.
STATESIDE: Still a distance to go on women's equality
1972 is usually regarded as a seminal moment in the American women’s movement for greater equality of opportunity, since that was the year of what has simply become known as Title Nine.
ALICIA WALLACE: Handling the holidays
IN just a few days, Christmas Day will be here and we will all hear people saying some version of, “All that, and one day and it’s over.” The build-up to Christmas is long, everyone seems to be frantic, and everything is expensive and time-consuming. Many resources go into planning and executing Christmas activities, and for many of us, it is all an untouchable, unchangeable practice, but what if we took a step back?
