FACE TO FACE: Remembering ‘Sir Coaks’ who put Bahamians front and centre
AS The Bahamas gears up to celebrate another Independence anniversary, I wanted to take the time to take a look back in history at the man who helped to organise our very first Independence celebration cultural extravaganza.
EDITORIAL: Hesitancy among our health workers
IN yesterday’s Tribune, we reported on the concerns of nurses with a number of workers sick with COVID, and one having recently died. Those are valid concerns indeed – so why is it that in today’s Tribune, we hear that there is a hesitancy within healthcare workers to take the vaccine?
PETER YOUNG: Beating the Germans at Wembley, dare we dream of more?
AFTER writing last week about the then upcoming clash between England and Germany at the European football championships, the extraordinary events of recent days demand a return to the subject today.
WORLD VIEW: The Caribbean should support ecocide as an international crime
SMALL island states and countries with low-lying coast are the victims of ecocide.
DIANE PHILLIPS: What we should learn from the Surfside tragedy
For days after a 12-storey luxury high rise in Surfside, Florida crumbled, leaving a scene that looked more like a bombed-out city in Syria than an upscale coastal town in America, we were glued to the screen. As the hours passed, the horror of what happened hit harder, loss of life climbed, hope of finding survivors waned.
EDITORIAL: Unsolved murder at Government House
WHO killed Petty Officer Percival Perpall and attempted to kill two more Marines at Government House in 2019?
STATESIDE: North and South Biden’s got problems on the border
WE are all too familiar with the devastating effects of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic on families here and in every country. Statisticians and historians probably will need years if not decades to calculate the loss and damage.
FRONT PORCH: So much to gain by playing the long game
IT is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. – Charlie Munger (Warren Buffet’s long-term partner in Berkshire Hathaway).
EDITORIAL: A remarkable woman, gone too young
TAKE a look at the woman on our front page today.
ALICIA WALLACE: Whose rules to follow in the great dating game?
ON Bahamian social media, there are a few topics that come up over and over again, always without resolution. On an endless loop, people on opposite sides argue their positions or, more accurately, argue against other positions. In these pseudo-conversations, some people actively participate by engaging others, some state their own opinions while others have side conversations on the topic at hand or one adjacent to it.
PETER YOUNG: More than just a game
IN the US it is called soccer. Elsewhere in the world it is known as football, and in Britain it carries the affectionate sobriquet of the “beautiful game” which folklore suggests was a phrase first coined by the Brazilian footballer, Pele, known as perhaps the most famous footballing hero of them all.
FACE TO FACE: Brave Peyton won’t allow scoliosis to work against her
IT’S amazing the things you will learn if you sit down and have a heart to heart with a child. I did this the other day with 11-year-old Peyton Gomez. In the simplest, purest way, she shared an outlook on life that everyone should apply to their own. Her way of handling life and the curveball it threw her is nothing short of phenomenal.
EDITORIAL: Tourism returns at last - and we need it
WHEN we wrote about the return of tourism on Friday, we said the Americans were coming – well, they’ll be here sooner than you might have thought.
WORLD VIEW: Joint endeavour or collective surrender: resisting global tax
THE proposal by the US government to establish a global minimum corporate tax is not a remote matter from the lives of people in the Caribbean. It is a real issue with deep implications for Caribbean economies, and, indeed, for the capacity of Caribbean countries to continue to participate meaningfully in the global trading and financial system.
EDITORIAL: The light at the end of the tunnel
THE Americans are coming.
