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.
DIANE PHILLIPS: What's love got to do with it anyway?
News alert. Today is Valentine’s Day. That is, it’s a news alert for anyone who drove to work today with blindfolds on and did not see pop-up florist stands proffering roses for those to whom planning ahead was something that could be procrastinated.
EDITORIAL: The long, slow path to justice for Ericka
IT has taken a long time for any measure of justice to be reached over the death of Ericka Fowler.
STATESIDE: Watch who Trump targets - that may be his biggest contender
They put a Rotary Club awards ceremony on American national TV last week.
EDITORIAL: Good news after the storm
THE delight was obvious to see in Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis’ announcements of two big economic deals – one for South Abaco and one for Grand Bahama.
ALICIA WALLACE: Going through the motions is the easy option - but not the right one
This past weekend, my father celebrated his birthday and we marked the occasion by attending his church. I realised, not for the first time, that it was quite easy to go through the motions of sitting and standing, responding when prompted and follow the entire service without aid. Years of weekly attendance with my great-grandmother ensured that, not only was the mass cemented into my memory, but several versions of it.
EDITORIAL: Big promises but prosecutions fall flat
FIRST on the election trail and then again once in office, tackling corruption was a theme that Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis kept returning to.
