STATESIDE: Every flag a memory
ON this day, there were 693,274 index card-sized white plastic flags. They were neatly arrayed in 149 sections, and a light breeze stretched out many of them so the messages they bore could be read by passersby. The sun was shining. The sky was blue. Summer humidity had given way to a fresh cooler wave that made early autumnal temperatures feel a bit like San Diego.
FRONT PORCH: ‘A hungry man is a angry man’
THE COVID-19 pandemic exposed and dramatically deepened food insecurity, hunger and undernutrition globally. According to the World Bank, the pandemic reversed years of development gains in numerous countries.
EDITORIAL: No easy balancing act as govt lays out blueprint
THE new government has shown its cards.
ALICIA WALLACE: Petito case is one of too many cases where women are being killed
GABRIELLE “Gabby” Petito, a 22-year-old white woman went missing while on a cross-country road trip to Wyoming with her fiancé Brian. They had been documenting their trip on YouTube as Nomadic Statik and Van Life, but 23-year-old Brian returned to Florida, in her 2012 Ford Transit van, without her on September 1.
EDITORIAL: Bell’s words ring hollow as Atlantis presses ahead
WHEN a new government is voted in, it is important to hit the ground running – and for ministers, that can mean making a strong first impression.
PETER YOUNG: We need to be tough on illegal immigration but obey the law
THE most recent comment by Senator Ted Cruz about the ongoing crisis on the US border with Mexico says it all.
FACE TO FACE: A one stop place for learners online
NEVER before in the history of mankind have billions of human beings used the internet as a tool for traditional learning at the same time.
EDITORIAL: It might not be a New Day after all for the PLP
THREE different stories on our front page today might cause readers to raise an eyebrow at our new government.
WORLD VIEW: There’s no such thing as ‘turns’ for Commonwealth Secretary-General
THE announcement by the President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta that his government has nominated the country’s energy minister, Monica Juma, for the post of Commonwealth Secretary-General, has re-opened the contention surrounding “turns” to hold the post.
EDITORIAL: 100,000 vaccinations is no small feat
THE fight against COVID-19 received mixed news over the weekend.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Mr PM — You are so right, we are not in this alone, but the future will be built on what we alone do
ON September 25, Prime Minister Philip Brave Davis addressed the General Debate of the 76th Plenary Session of the United Nations. Still in the victory lap of his party’s win at the polls and assumption of the reins of governing a country with more needs than money to meet them, he spoke for 16 minutes and some seconds with real conviction, delivering a message that should not be lost on the Bahamian people.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Behind the world on marijuana legislation
AFTER recently hearing Assistant Superintendent Audley Peters inform the media that the DEU officers seized $3m worth of marijuana in an early morning drug bust on Thursday.
EDITORIAL: Prison suspension looks more like old PLP than New Day
THE early days of the new government have prompted some eyebrow raising. Promotions put on hold. Contracts being reviewed. Board appointments, disaster authority, food aid programme to be reviewed.
STATESIDE: The wheel turns again confronting us with a problem for which we struggle to find a solution
MOST of us would agree that a generation is about the time it takes for us to grow up, get married, have children and begin the process of passing the torch to those children – the next generation. So a generation becomes a measure of time. About 27 years, perhaps.
FRONT PORCH: No hiding from the shameful vitriol directed at those who would risk everything for a better life
THERE is a regional and global context to the approximately 1,000 Haitian migrants who recently landed in Inagua. There may also be a domestic and political back story. We are experiencing national and global fractures from COVID-19 which are turning into deep economic, social and political fissures.
