EDITORIAL: Safety first when it comes to keeping virus out of prison
IS enough being done to stop the spread of the coronavirus in The Bahamas?
STATESIDE: Which way to go to bring life back to normal?
It’s called the Gadsden flag. You’ve probably seen it. It usually has a mustard yellow background and features a coiled timber rattlesnake, poised to strike like a cobra. Below the snake are these four words: Don’t Tread on Me.
FRONT PORCH: We see the shallow critics carping from the sidelines - why don’t they serve?
US President Theodore Roosevelt was a militarist and adventurist who used the bullying might of the American Colossus to advance his country’s imperialist stratagems in Latin and Central America.
EDITORIAL: Where is the police transparency?
WHAT is going on in the Royal Bahamas Police Force?
ALICIA WALLACE: Towards a new horizon? Not with the same old names writing the script
The optimistic among us believe we may be moving toward more participatory governance. It is possible there will be more opportunities for citizens to more directly engage in decision-making processes.
EDITORIAL: The high price you risk for breaking quarantine
IF people weren’t taking the risks involved with breaking quarantine seriously beforehand, then yesterday’s introduction of a hefty possible punishment ought to focus the mind.
PETER YOUNG: Word on the street (when we’re allowed out) is things need to ease up
AS the nightmare of the extended lockdown now continues for another month it is amazing to watch - not least in the US and UK - how know-alls purporting to be experts attack their own governments when, more often than not, they have no relevant professional qualifications and little understanding of the pressures facing ministers.
FACE TO FACE: Rhonda’s standing tall on the shoulders of a woman who pointed the way
While schools throughout the country have adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown by moving their classes online, one school has found that years of providing an online learning experience for its students is paying off.
EDITORIAL: No letting up on emergency measures now
Another month of emergency measures.
EDITORIAL: Healthcare system straining at the seams
YESTERDAY was a tragic day in the battle against COVID-19.
A COMIC'S VIEW: So you reckon there was no preferential treatment, Marvin?
AS the Coronavirus pandemic continues here in the Bahamas, this week’s ‘Corona Chronicles’ showed a track meet at the courthouse, pastors securing the bag first, and the fact some of us don’t know the meaning of ‘quarantine.’
DIANE PHILLIPS: Guess what - we’re discovering we really can do things for ourselves
Complain, gripe and grumble all you want about being stuck at home. The reality is that while it is killing the economy, it is saving lives.
STATESIDE: Wise words well worth listening to when it comes to opening up
Even as the American congress throws hundreds of billions of dollars at the COVID-19 public crisis and debate on restarting the economy continues to rage between Republicans and Democrats and along regional lines between the coasts and the Midwest and South, the pandemic steamrolls on. American reported deaths passed the 45,000 mark the other day, among nearly 850,000 confirmed cases. Those figures give the term American exceptionalism new meaning. Just not in a good way.
FRONT PORCH: Roar, refrain and echo of history
The uneven global response to COVID-19 means some countries will see less infections and deaths, while others will experience needless pain and suffering because of the recklessness, incompetence and magical thinking of some leaders.
EDITORIAL: Nygard case goes to the heart of how our nation is run
THE priority of the nation is understandably the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic right now – but the allegations that continue to unfold against Peter Nygard should not be overlooked.
