Remembering Butch: The man who shared his heart and love to create a million memories
This week we lost a giant in the Caribbean tourism industry - Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, who brought vision and excitement, romance and luxury to the world of all-inclusive resorts.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Good idea or bad - it’s time for resolutions
IT’S a New Year once again, that time of year when we all make a myriad of bad self improvement promises to ourselves called ‘New Year’s Resolutions.’
EDITORIAL: A shameful day for the US
AS you drive down Shirley Street, a large screen blocks off the view of construction of the new US Embassy. A new era for the embassy – one which we’re sure those behind its construction will hope will be a bright one.
FRONT PORCH: Standing on the shoulders of a nation builder
SIR William Allen was a man of dedicated public service who enjoyed and cultivated the life of the mind. During an exemplary public career he employed his prodigious intellect, reflective nature and good judgement in the service of a sovereign Bahamas.
STATESIDE: Finding their voices now the final dominoes fall in Trump’s dreamland
DAWN broke cold, grey and wintry over much of the American Northeast yesterday.
EDITORIAL: Time to refill the NIB pot
THERE is a saying in the US that social security is the third rail of politics – the third rail being the one that carries the electric charge and if you touch it, you’ll get zapped.
ALICIA WALLACE: The system doesn’t work and we shouldn’t just measure our children against it
THERE is a story about a family with generations of people baking turkeys in the same way. They always cut the legs off before putting it in the pan to bake. When being taught to a cook turkeys, the youngest generation asked why it is done that way. The parents said they did it that way because their parents did it that way. Unwilling to leave it at that, the youngest generation asked the grandparents why the legs are always cut off. The grandparents said they only did it that way because the pan wasn’t big enough for the whole turkey to fit.
EDITORIAL: It’s not about the exam being held - it’s about the results
THE Ministry of Education seems to want a participation prize.
PETER YOUNG: It’s vital we get our vaccine programme right and learn how others have fared
IN a free society it is axiomatic that authority should be held to account. Criticism of mistakes and failures should be encouraged, if only to prevent them in the future. So, on the thesis that it is the role of the Fourth Estate to scrutinise official policies and actions and to ask the tough questions, I return this week to the vexed issue of the coronavirus vaccine.
FACE TO FACE: Honouring three souls in the Rastafari community
THE Rastafari community has been rocked by a series of recent deaths. These individuals were well-known in their respective rights not only as Rastas, but as people with great hearts and a love for their fellow man. They were bright lights and their transitioning from this Earthly plane has shocked all who loved them, and has resulted in a great deal of introspection and re-evaluation for the Rasta community.
EDITORIAL: Dr Dahl-Regis deserves her honour
IN Thursday’s Tribune, our columnist, Front Porch Simon paid tribute to the “expert, clear and steady leadership” provided by Dr Merceline Dahl-Regis as he hailed her as his person of the year.
EDITORIAL: Clarity is key in police shootings
EARLIER this year, we wrote in this column with concern about a police shooting.
STATESIDE: Time for Biden to call out Trump?
A Canadian friend was commenting the other day about the goings-on in Washington, DC, just three weeks before Joe Biden will be sworn in as America’s new president and Donald Trump will grudgingly depart the White House.
FRONT PORCH: PERSON OF THE YEAR – Dr Merceline Dahl-Regis’s spirit of courage and fortitude
Dr. Merceline Dahl-Regis, O.D., does not suffer fools or viruses gladly. When COVID-19, the worst global public health pandemic in approximately 100 years struck and rapidly spread around the world, the Bahamas needed expert, clear and steady leadership to combat the deadly and highly infectious contagion.
EDITORIAL: The best way out is through
AS we near the end of a dreadful year, we hope that 2021 will bring better things.
