ALICIA WALLACE: Choose life for ourselves and each other by playing by the rules
We are almost two weeks into our new and temporary way of living. It has been extended, as many of us expected, and it is in our best interest to follow the guidelines provided.
EDITORIAL: The cost of the coronavirus battle
A BILLION dollars by July.
FACE TO FACE: Keeping the faithful connected as churches fall silent
Churches all around the world are embracing the digital age like never before in the face of the global pandemic caused by the Covid-19 virus. Church leaders are faced with finding new ways to reach their members as the pews are not filled for the first time in recent history.
PETER YOUNG: Are we doing enough to prevent economy being left in ruins?
In writing further about the coronavirus crisis - now being called the greatest ever threat to the world in peacetime - I offer comment this week on the latest developments in Europe, including Britain, and here at home as well. The crisis affecting so many countries has become nothing short of a human catastrophe and the most serious global health challenge of our times. Its effects have also had a horrifying impact on the world economy and have disrupted modern society on an unimaginable scale.
EDITORIAL: Get off the roads and stay at home
STILL too many people on the road – that’s the key point to be drawn from the latest tightening of regulations to curtail movement.
WORLD VIEW: Today’s OAS - run by a few for a few
ON March 20 a reckless and irresponsible General Assembly (GA) was held by the Organization of American States (OAS), putting the health of many at risk and giving an entirely wrong example to the entire world.
EDITORIAL: Stop this virus spreading within our community
TWO hammer blows struck last night – one on our shores, and one across the water in the US.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Time to wake up to what’s happening all over the world
THIS week, “all buck up go” forced a full-lockdown curfew, elitism stepped forward and got pushed back, and press briefings morphed into something unrecognisable. Let’s begin.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Essentially, we could do with some flexibility
When you consider that Hubert A Minnis has been a doctor ten times longer than he has been prime minister, you can appreciate his medical stop-the-spread-at-any-cost approach to COVID-19.
EDITORIAL: Saving lives, then saving the economy
THE extent of the economic crisis we are facing is beginning to become clear.
FRONT PORCH SIMON: Real leadership in times of crisis - listen, learn and act
US presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has written extensively on public leadership and character. In Leadership in Turbulent Times, Mrs. Kearns Goodwin chronicles how Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) and Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) grew through personal adversity and performed through periods of national crisis.
STATESIDE: Trump keeps putting his foot in his mouth without sanitising it
On Tuesday the coronavirus claimed one of its biggest victims yet. The 2020 Olympic Games have been postponed. The International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo organising committee officially announced the quadrennial global games had been put off until sometime next year.
ALICIA WALLACE: 'We're not being punished just protected - but we must not forget those who fall through the gaps'
We are here. What is being called a “24-hour curfew” is now in place and will remain until March 31. Except for essential workers, we are to work remotely or businesses are to pause their operations. The only businesses that should be open are grocery stores, pharmacies, medical supplies and services, hotels, banks, gas stations, laundromats and food takeaways.
EDITORIAL: At the end of it all, there remains hope
THE Bahamian people were asked to behave sensibly, to choose to act wisely to limit the spread of coronavirus. Collectively, we failed.
FACE TO FACE: Shanika strives to help patients with no-one else to turn to
Dr Shanika Hill is happy that she got to fulfil her mission to come to The Bahamas and help hundreds of diabetic patients before the Covid-19 pandemic, which has now changed the face of healthcare in the world. Earlier this month, Shanika led a team of 14 healthcare professionals and students from Miami to Nassau to take part in a special campaign to help decrease the amount of local diabetic patients undergoing amputations.
