STATESIDE: Out of the White House shadows at last we saw something presidential emerge - Melania Trump
Looking back, maybe we should have seen it coming. But it was quite unexpected. It was unethical if not yet illegal. And it might yet prove to be a real turning point.
FRONT PORCH: Make no mistake - we’re all in this fight and have to work together
“We have to move from ‘they should’ to “we should’. We have to move from ‘they say’ to ‘we say’.” – Prime Minister Hubert Minnis
EDITORIAL: Is a level playing field really the best way?
WITH the country on course to start to reopen next week, when will the borders fully reopen?
ALICIA WALLACE: Scratching your head trying to work out what really changed in seven days? Me too
Last week, the Prime Minister announced a seven-day lockdown to start immediately due to the rise in COVID-19 cases. The next day, he reversed the decision because, as should have been obvious, people were not prepared for it. He said various business could operate “until further notice”, but never gave any indication of plans to announce another lockdown.
EDITORIAL: From lockdown to opening the doors
That wasn’t what we expected.
PETER YOUNG: COVID’s here to stay and it may be we’ll just have to learn to live alongside it
Some people consider that so much has been written about the coronavirus pandemic that there is little further to say.
FACE TO FACE: A lifetime’s mission to redress the wrongs of slavery and explore a people’s African roots
August is the month that commemorates the emancipation of Africans in the Western world. The people of the Rastafari movement never let Emancipation Day pass without impassioned calls for the freedom, redemption and repatriation of African descendants throughout the Diaspora. It has been decades since the calls first began.
WORLD VIEW: Diplomats hamstrung as COVID drives them to the computer screen
THE COVID-19 pandemic is severely limiting the work of diplomacy. It could have a lasting adverse affect on international relations if finding a vaccine continues to elude global researchers for much longer.
EDITORIAL: Hearing nurse Rolle shows reality of the COVID-19 fight
AS she fought a losing battle against COVID-19, nurse Bernadette Rolle recorded a voice note detailing her struggle.
EDITORIAL: The long arm of the law has a heavy hand
WHEN Deon Duverny set off to drive his cousin home, he did not expect the journey would end in a prison cell.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Is there a plot to jettison Minnis? His advisers are not making him look too hot
Let me open this week by saying, as a professional comedian with 23 years in the industry, you can’t write the comedy of errors that unfolded before our eyes this week any funnier.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Once I was lost, now I am found
Once upon a time, a family took a long vacation by van, exploring the backwoods and places they had never been before. Though taking the lesser known route came with some risk, it was a chance to unite, to be together and what an adventure it would be, creating memories to last a lifetime.
EDITORIAL: Does the Prime Minister have a plan?
IN just four words, former Health Minister Dr Duane Sands shows the problem with our current approach to tackling COVID-19: “What is the plan?”
PETER YOUNG: Those who live in a democracy must be on permanent guard
A month ago, I wrote about the thorny and controversial subjects of ‘wokeness’ and the ‘cancel culture’ - and I return to these today because there is growing evidence that people in the UK are fighting back against these strange phenomena, which are loosely defined as demanding adherence to a new orthodoxy about social and political justice together with attacking and ruining the lives of any who do not submit to such demands.
STATESIDE: Biden may have cracks, Trump’s loathed but can be masterful - for the US it is what it is
Were you watching the first couple of evenings of the Democratic national convention in the midst of a Bahamas lockdown as COVID-19 tried to secure a tighter grip here? Most of the convention was actually quite worth watching.
