EDITORIAL: Last chance saloon for BPL
“THERE will be an end to load shedding,” declared Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) chairman Dr Donovan Moxey in December as the new Wartsila engines were unveiled. How many of us believed him?
WORLD VIEW: Guyana-Venezuela and international law
GLOBAL attention on Guyana has focused on the current campaigning for general elections due on March 2. Reports indicate a vigorous campaign with the country’s newly found resources in oil and gas very much on the minds of the contesting political parties.
EDITORIAL: Speaker should learn when to speak
The current Speaker of the House, Halson Moultrie, came to his post without the benefit of experience of Parliament.
DIANE PHILLIPS: The culture of power is changing before our very eyes
Through the six decades that I have been writing thousands of published news articles, magazine pieces, more lately columns, I have steered clear of politics and have rarely tapped the overflowing well of famous people whose legacy descends into a downhill slide from grace.
EDITORIAL: Are we prepared for the next hurricane season?
As much as we have talked about the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, we must now turn our minds to a new hurricane season.
STATESIDE: Is Trump about to lose another loyalist who just can’t take any more?
The latest public spat between US President Trump and one of his key cabinet members has involved a superficially unlikely but perhaps predictable cabinet secretary.
EDITORIAL: We must concentrate on the victims, not the politics
TODAY’S developments in the allegations against Canadian businessman Peter Nygard make shocking reading.
ALICIA WALLACE: Whispered secrets which tell a much deeper story
Everyone is talking now, just as they were before, but with voices that are a little louder. It almost seems as though there is less fear. Memories are being jogged as stories are spilling and judgments are being made. People are finally saying, in spaces where more people can hear them, that they knew at least a part of what was allegedly happening behind the walls at Peter Nygard’s Lyford Cay home.
EDITORIAL: Marsh Harbour relocation a model for all our futures
Should Marsh Harbour be moved inland?
PETER YOUNG: 30 years on, we remember Mandela’s walk to freedom
A free man at last. Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa 30 years ago.
FACE TO FACE: What happened next to Sweet Emily, the Queen of Junkanoo
She was the biggest female name in Bahamian music. Her songs are still played, sung and loved to this day.
EDITORIAL: Find answers - not offer distractions
IMAGINE if you will that a serious allegation is made. Two sides look at the allegation, one nods soberly and says yes, we’d better investigate. The other side says that’s crazy and look over there, that other thing over there is what we really need to investigate.
WORLD VIEW: Hypocrisy unmasked as OAS stands at crossroads
IF candidates were to get a prize for making the best case for why they are best suited to be Secretary-General of the OAS, María Fernanda Espinosa would have easily walked away with it when the three contenders for the post appeared before the Permanent Council of the Organization on February 12.
EDITORIAL: Nygard lawsuit shows our failings as a nation
THE allegations against Peter Nygard are horrendous.
A COMIC'S VIEW: I once fell in love with someone who only knew four vowels . . . They didn't know I existed
Happy Valentine’s Day to each and every one of you. Seeing how, oftentimes love is accompanied by laughter, I think it only fitting to offer up some Valentine’s humour on the day of love, for all of the lovers, in love, in The Bahamas.
