EDITORIAL: Digging a hole ever deeper at NIB
IN today’s Tribune, we reveal the scale of losses to the National Insurance Board due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What we cannot reveal is what anyone is doing about it.
ART OF GRAPHIX – Nothing stays the same: Change now inevitable
In this Information Age, and its impact on the ever-evolving global economy, change is now the norm for business. But, despite its presence everywhere, change does not come easy. Companies sometimes fail to make critical reforms due to an ingrained resistance to change.
ALICIA WALLACE: Don’t be fooled - youngsters know what’s going on and we need their help to change
LAST week, the Regional Conference of Youth on Climate Change was held at University of The Bahamas, bringing young people from the region together to talk about the climate crisis and the climate action we all need to take.
EDITORIAL: Red tape and lack of transparency for investment
IT will come as no surprise to anyone that bureaucracy in The Bahamas can be a hindrance to investment.
PETER YOUNG: From the summit of success to now being shown the door - it’s all over for Boris
“ALL political careers end in failure”. Those were the memorable words of Enoch Powell, who was a leading right-wing Tory, and some say a contrarian and a maverick politician, of the 1960s and beyond. It is a fair bet that some of the older generation in Britain will have recalled this famous dictum when watching Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation statement outside No 10 Downing Street last Thursday as he stood down from what he called “the best job in the world”.
FACE TO FACE: A new platform for Junkanoo to perform
MARIO Smith Jr has created something new in the world of art and Junkanoo. He has created a miniature parade designed to bring the memory of the exciting Junkanoo parade to life.
EDITORIAL: Atlantis goes from up for sale to new investment
THERE has been quite the turnaround at Atlantis – and that’s welcome news.
DIANE PHILLIPS: The more things change…
ANNIVERSARIES, national or personal, become times of reflection. In personal relationships, that reflection can evoke feelings of joy or sadness. There are memories that jump right out at you – the first kiss, the birth of a child, a graduation ceremony, a fight when words that should never have been spoken rang out and would not stop ringing in your ear.
WORLD VIEW: Safeguarding rights from authoritarian governments
THE rights of persons everywhere in the world have to be protected from authoritarian governments that suffocate them.
EDITORIAL: Just tell us what govt will do over BPL costs
WILL they raise prices at BPL? Won’t they? Will the government throw a subsidy at BPL to avoid a price rise? Won’t they?
STATESIDE: We can see the cracks – but haven’t they always been there?
NATIONAL Days. Independence Days. Canada had its special day last Friday. We have ours coming up this weekend – and a very special 50th one to look forward to next year. The US stumbled through its own Fourth of July on Sunday. On an occasion meant to be a celebration of national pride, it’s pretty difficult to remain optimistic about the US these days.
FRONT PORCH: A new mission for a new monarch
THE helmeted Britannia figure, a Corinthian-like female warrior armed with a trident and protected with a shield, is the personification and symbolic representation of Great Britain and the now defunct British Empire.
EDITORIAL: Twin disasters of COVID and Dorian
WE ALL knew that COVID-19 had inflicted a hammer blow to the Bahamian economy. The scale of that impact is still only now becoming clear.
ALICIA WALLACE: Same old, same old - the bodies pile up with no solutions ever offered
IN RECENT days, there has been hand-wringing about the number of murders counted in just one week. This is not an unfamiliar place for us. As the number of murders steadily moves toward 100, people start talking. They decry the state of the nation and worry aloud about its direction and destination.
EDITORIAL: We must build on this new beginning to tackle crime
WHEN The Tribune wrote on Monday of the silence among our political leaders in the face of the soaring murder statistics, we hoped it might prompt a response in our country.
