PETER YOUNG: As an island nation what do you do to halt the flood of refugees?
WITH surprising candour, even the minister responsible for immigration has admitted it. In the words of the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, the UK’s current asylum system is “broken”. This is an issue of prime importance in Britain, not least because the nation’s lack of control over its own borders was one reason for withdrawing from the European Union. So perhaps it is worth examining the current situation in some detail.
EDITORIAL: The cost of those PLP promises to the unions
PROMISES, promises. It’s election time, and that means that candidates are making their pledges to would-be voters in hopes of winning their support.
FACE TO FACE: Work hard, never settle added up to success for Antoinette
She climbed to the heights of her career in financial services and pioneered in her field, blazing a trail for women in The Bahamas. She has travelled the world representing her country, helping to secure the second pillar of the economy. She has led premier international companies with footprints in The Bahamas, always lobbying for this jurisdiction.
EDITORIAL: A nomination day of crowds and COVID
NOMINATION day is a landmark in the Bahamian political world. Normally, it is a riot of colour and sound as candidates make the most of their moment as they hand over $400 to confirm their nomination. Would COVID-19 make a difference? Sadly, not as much as it should have done.
EDITORIAL: A lack of due diligence over PLP deal
IT didn’t take long for the house of cards that was the PLP deal with unions to come tumbling down.
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.
