FACING REALITY: We don’t need to be loud to be seen
d by the height of its buildings, the size of its economy, or the influence of its politicians.
WORLD VIEW: The Caribbean’s limits in absorbing other states’ deportees
Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control.
BEYOND THE BORDER: Your student visa was approved! Yayy! What’s new on how to keep it
International students in the United States under F-1 (academic) and M-1 (vocational) non-immigrant classifications are subject to the most technically rigid compliance requirements in US immigration law.
ERIC WIBERG: Lights and wrecks of Ragged Island, the Jumentos, and Long Island
HMS Spey took on a local pilot at Crooked Island and then doubted him.
DIANE PHILLIPS: More than 50,000 repaired shoes – a cobbler’s half century view from East Steet & Wulff Road
Tyrone Wilson was nine years old when he began working with his dad, the shoemaker for the working Bahamian.
STATESIDE: OAS to monitor Bahamas elections
WE’RE in the late stages of a general election campaign here in The Bahamas, and word came yesterday from the Organisation of American States (OAS) that the organization has already “deployed our Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) to The Bahamas ahead of the elections.
FRONT PORCH: A free and fair general election?
BAHAMIANS were angry at the blinding confusion and insufficient health protocols at the Advance Poll held in 2021 during another deadly COVID-19 wave.
ALICIA WALLACE: Countdown to election
WE ARE now less than one week away from the 2026 general election.
BEYOND THE BORDER:
WELCOME to a special month-long edition of Beyond the Borders.
WORLD VIEW: A pin, a principle, and the integrity of the Caribbean
THERE are moments in international affairs when a seemingly small act reveals a much larger contest of principle.
ERIC WIBERG: Cay Lobos, Old Bahama Channel, Southern Bahamas
THE UNESCO-designated lighthouse at Cay Lobos was completed in 1869.
DIANE PHILLIPS: You asked for it! More highs and lows of the week
IN MY column of March 20, I confessed to shamelessly borrowing a concept from Sunday Today Show host Willie Geist,
STATESIDE: A memorable Correspondent's Dinner
HO HUM. Another dull week unfolded in Washington in the past seven days.
FRONT PORCH: The joy of openness to growth
IN 1941, in his early 70s, after an extraordinary career and a dozen years before his death at 84, the brilliant French artist Henri Matisse underwent surgery following a diagnosis of abdominal cancer.
ALICIA WALLACE: The Melbourne Declaration
THIS WEEK, Women Deliver—the largest global conference on gender equality—is taking place in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia.
