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.
FRONT PORCH: The balm and grace of mercy
WITH many more deaths, illness, fear and unrelenting heartbreak during this period of the COVID-19 pandemic we are bewildered, grief-stricken, angry, frustrated and embroiled in a range of emotions coursing through individual souls and the soul of the nation.
EDITORIAL: Is the election bell about to ring?
IN a flurry of ceremony, Police Commissioner Paul Rolle not once, but twice made the trip to Parliament to announce first that Parliament has been prorogued, then some hours later announcing when Parliament is to reconvene.
EDITORIAL: We have failed to protect our healthcare system
THE point of imposing restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 was to give our healthcare facilities the best chance possible to deal with the pandemic. We have failed.
ALICIA WALLACE: Learn, listen then explain and perhaps people will feel ready for the vaccine
WE are tired of the COVID-19 pandemic and there is no end in sight. The Prime Minister made the ridiculous statement a few weeks ago that the pandemic is over for the vaccinated. That was far from the truth. While some of us have some protection, we are all still vulnerable to COVID-19 and its effects.
EDITORIAL: How can immigration defy a court order?
TWO young boys have not been heard from since the earthquake in Haiti last week – and they should not have been there at all.
PETER YOUNG: We couldn’t stay for ever but a chaotic exodus opens the door to disaster
THE age-old maxim about a little knowledge being a dangerous thing should be uppermost in the minds of newspaper columnists who cover a wide range of topics on a regular basis. They should also be aware of the warning by George Bernard Shaw – the famous Irish playwright, critic and polemicist – to “beware of false knowledge since it is more dangerous than ignorance”.
FACE TO FACE: Bain Town boy building big on his vision
ANDREW “Andy” Ingraham is in a league of his own. A Bahamian born in Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera and bred in Bain Town, he is known around the world as a leader in creating ownership for blacks and minorities in the hotel industry. He is a successful businessman with a unique flair for networking and connecting people in ways they may have never envisioned and continues to create more and more scholarship opportunities for young Bahamians to become educated and see the world as their oyster.
THE KDK REPORT: A simple test can save a life and not just leave you with memories
There is a line in Les Misérables wherein one of the characters affirms there is often a grief that can’t be spoken and the pain goes on and on.
WORLD VIEW: Are people in the Caribbean becoming architects of their own destruction?
THE question has to be asked. Are some people in Caribbean countries becoming the architects of their own and the region’s destruction?
EDITORIAL: Wrong time for hospital staff to take action
THE hospitals are full of COVID patients, we are in the middle of a surge that has already seen us have the record number of cases in a single day… and hospital staff are choosing this moment to stage industrial action.
