DIANE PHILLIPS: What happened to our compassion for Haiti?
ON Saturday, August 14, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit Haiti, killing more than 2,000 people, over 20 times the number who died in the Surfside building collapse which had us glued to our TV screens watching the tragedy unfold.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Coalition chaos - and a prayer for Sawyer Boy
THIS week, the “coalition of coalitions” fell apart, and a fan favourite battles COViD.
EDITORIAL: The unknown cost from excess deaths
WHAT is the real price of COVID-19?
STATESIDE: The changing faces of today’s America
THE government has announced that preparations are well underway for the next Bahamian national census. An estimated 119,000 households are due to be surveyed over the first three months of 2022. Ho-hum?
FRONT PORCH: Moultrie’s grand farce and the carnival of egotism
Parliament Square has been the site of extraordinary events in the nation’s political history. On April 27, 1965, in protest against the gerrymandered results of the Boundaries Report and the UBP’s intransigence on the Report, Leader of the Opposition Lynden Pindling famously threw out the Speaker’s Mace from an eastern window of the House of Assembly to an expectant crowd in the Square.
EDITORIAL: If you promise to fix a date, why call an early vote?
WHEN the FNM laid out its manifesto for the 2017 election, one item was very clear – a fixed date for General Elections. It’s a promise that remains unfulfilled.
ALICIA WALLACE: We vote in a broken system which fails us and the options in most cases are terrible
THE signs are here – and they are terrible. The uninteresting, uninspiring, unsightly lawn signs litter New Providence with red, yellow and not much else.
EDITORIAL: A family torn apart by COVID
It started with a scratchy throat.
PETER YOUNG: A helping hand for poor, desperate Haiti
The televised images of human suffering in Haiti are heart-rending. It is hard to watch the misery of individuals as their lives have been torn apart in an instant by another devastating earthquake, and the turmoil has been made worse by the damage from a tropical storm.
FACE TO FACE: Seize the day – and Bridgette’s doing just that
A WOMAN of many talents, Bridgette Bell Bastian has found after decades of using those talents to help others, that all along, they existed for her to help herself most of all.
EDITORIAL: PM calls on citizens to get vaccinated
WITH COVID-19 still surging and after the election bell was rung last week, there was a lot of expectation around last night’s national address by Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis.
EDITORIAL: It's not just a vote, it's the country's future
WHO do you trust? That’s the question our front page headline asks today, and it’s a question that voters must find an answer to. Who do you trust with the future of our country?
DIANE PHILLIPS: For Whom the Bell Tolls
THERE is a particular line in the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls that goes like this: “The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
A COMIC'S VIEW: Grab your popcorn, the race has started
THIS week, the outgoing Speaker of the House presided over his first and last “open parliament,” and the proverbial election bell got rung. Let’s get started.
STATESIDE: Biden’s blundered in the execution but the decision to leave was the right one
AT 12:30AM on Sunday morning, lightning struck the Washington Monument, perhaps the most distinctive memorial in America’s capital city that is full of them.
