DIANE PHILLIPS: What in the world has happened to us?
I’VE often wondered if my parents had it a whole lot better than my generation and I think they did. We’ve never eaten more but felt less satisfied. We’ve never owned more but felt less complete. We’ve never had so much technology and so much information at our fingertips yet done so little to make the world safer. We’ve never worked longer but relaxed during time off less. We’ve never travelled more but arrived home less rested or changed by what we experienced.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Choose your vaccine - but choose to be safe
THIS week had its moments but the two stories that caught my eye were a multitude of options on vaccines for the nation and more PLP crying over spilt milk.
EDITORIAL: No more supply issues - so get your jab
THROUGHOUT the battle against COVID-19, one of the repeated questions has been over the need for the government to secure enough vaccines for everyone. That question has now been answered – and emphatically so.
STATESIDE: Architects of their own demise - and possible presidential future
American governors are very much in the news these days. Mostly, it’s for the wrong reasons.
FRONT PORCH: Many are finally waking up to the harsh reality of COVID and taking the vaccine
A SOLDIER heading to war or to a military engagement usually has a number of normal fears. Once on the battlefield or in a foxhole surrounded by enemies, mortar fire and other deadly instruments of death his fears morph, sometimes growing more intense.
EDITORIAL: Show us the money
WHO owns the companies that received contracts related to COVID-19?
ALICIA WALLACE: You shouldn’t need to be exceptional to enjoy basic rights
“You like bad treatment.” When is the last time you heard that? Whether it was directed to you or someone else, you likely got the feeling the person saying it does not want to offer their support. How does it feel when someone tells you your situation is due to your failure to remove yourself from it?
PETER YOUNG: Europe’s day of darkness when it betrayed its core values
IT HAS been called the worst civilian atrocity in Europe since the Second World War and the darkest page of modern European history. In July 1995, in Srebrenica in the state of Bosnia – part of the former Yugoslavia – over 8,000 people, mainly Muslim men and boys, were rounded up and executed by Serbian forces.
FACE TO FACE: Striving for a healthier future in our own back yard
IN a world where more and more people are getting sick and the cost of imports are steadily rising, the chairman of the Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation (BAIC), Bishop Gregory Anthony Collie, is calling on Bahamians to invest in farming as one of the keys to a healthier, wealthier future for the country.
EDITORIAL: We must stop the surge
THE state of emergency is about to be extended, it would seem.
WORLD VIEW: Rethink full membership of CARICOM to make it effective
Almost 80 years ago, Jamaica’s Norman Manley asked a question that has been echoing throughout the 12 independent English-Speaking Caribbean countries that form the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
DIANE PHILLIPS: There’s always a heavy price for broken promises and betrayal
WE don’t often talk about love and politics in the same breath. Well, maybe if we are married to a politician but for most of us, the words politics and love are about as far apart as the Model T and Tesla.
A COMIC'S VIEW: The epidemic of fake news
I recently had a chance to have a candid and very informative conversation with Dr Duane Sands on ‘Talking Heads’ on Kiss 96 FM, a talk show I co-host with my better half Mary Jane, who you all know from mid-days on our sister station Y-98.
EDITORIAL: Gardiner brings home the gold
EVEN the darkest day can be transformed by a ray of sunshine.
STATESIDE: A deep divide but salvation lies in awaking the middle ground
The old friends sat together on a comfortable bench whose careful contours well suited their ageing frames. Shaded from a brilliant hot summer sun under a large oak tree, two men who had known each other for nearly 40 years talked together about the events of the day.
