FRONT PORCH: PM has our safety at heart - nothing more sinister than that
In an impassioned communication in the House of Assembly yesterday, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis pleaded with Bahamians and residents to better appreciate and to take more seriously the current and potential long-term health consequences of COVID-19.
EDITORIAL: Knocking down shanty towns alone won’t solve anything
IMMIGRATION and work permits have been thrown again into the spotlight – not least by the arrival of more than 100 Mexican workers bound for employment at Baker’s Bay, and the concern from the public over whether those were jobs that could have been done by Bahamians instead.
ALICIA WALLACE: When we are having a difficult conversation - are we really listening?
Over the past few months, I have been facilitator and participant in scores of conversations. In most cases, they were informal, but generative.
PETER YOUNG: It’ll take a brave man to predict accurately what is coming next
Forecasting is a tricky business at the best of times.
FACE TO FACE: My Bahamian queen in the year of Independence
This special Independence edition is dedicated to the very first person I ever saw face to face in this entire world – my mother. As I reflect on my country, its achievements, and where it needs to go in the future, I continue to honour those who have paved the way. My mother Agatha Watson is among them.
EDWARD FIELDS: The time for Independence 2.0 is now
In my journey toward peace of mind, I have one last cause left of an altruistic nature before I dive headfirst into focusing on living life for my personal well-being.
EDITORIAL: The traumas that create killers
WHEN you think of a murderer in this country, what do you think of?
DIANE PHILLIPS: Good riddance to that planet-killing piece of throwaway plastic
With eyes on COVID-19, the economic fall-out and an attempt to re-open the borders, it would have been easy to overlook a major milestone this week – crunch time. July 1, 2020, time to kiss those single-use plastics goodbye.
A COMIC'S VIEW: It’s Minnis v Minnis in the lockdown battle
A dialogue in lockdown between the PM, the Minister of Health (the MOH) and the Competent Authority
EDITORIAL: Outrage is just the start
IT is not often that we hear the voice of the Prime Minister’s wife in the wake of the violence that too routinely breaks out on our streets.
EDITORIAL: Job cuts, businesses gone and a long road to recovery
THE reopening of our borders might be taken by some to show we’re getting back to normal – but as the comments from Tourism Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar show, we’re a long way from that.
STATESIDE: Both sides should be mindful of the lesson from Delaware - just ask Mike Castle
Mike Castle will celebrate his 81st birthday today. Who is he and why does his example offer a significant message for members of the political party that opposed him for almost 50 years?
FRONT PORCH: Don’t dare relax - behave like fools and we’ll pay a deadly price
In one of his most ominous warnings since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pleaded with world leaders and the international community:
EDITORIAL: Country opens, but resorts stay closed
TODAY is the day. The first commercial flights from the US and Canada will be touching down today, ending the border closure put in place to protect us from COVID-19.
ALICIA WALLACE: We know opening the borders just doesn’t add up: we’re chasing the dollars and it’s a big risk
Is this freedom? Beaches and parks, gyms and spas, places of worship, and businesses are now open. The requirements are different from what we expected.
