DIANE PHILLIPS: What happens when the story’s off the front page?
At the Fox Hill Community Centre, volunteers try to keep 56 children occupied. It isn’t easy. The shelter is at full capacity with 250 souls. It is one of the better ones, newly built, air-conditioned but still it is rough. People aren’t supposed to live like this, herded like cattle, sleeping in rooms with hundreds of strangers, sharing toilets with those they have never met, wearing the same clothes day after day.
EDITORIAL: A ship can only have one captain
IT is without doubt that we are in a time of national crisis. Hurricane Dorian has torn at our hearts, and devastated our northern islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco.
A COMIC'S VIEW: A bigger bromance with Trump than with former PMs
THIS week, in the wake of the utter devastation left behind by Hurricane Dorian, two former prime ministers stepped to the microphone, and a bromance bloomed.
EDITORIAL: We must all pull in the same direction
THE more we learn about the impact of Hurricane Dorian, the greater the scale of the challenge facing the country becomes apparent.
STATESIDE: Time to think the unthinkable - even when running for the presidency
Hurricane Dorian moved off the major American front pages yesterday, replaced by news of US President Trump’s firing his fourth National Security Adviser, John Bolton. Bolton insisted he had resigned; he wasn’t fired. Maybe that was part of the communications problem between the two men. More on that later.
ALICIA WALLACE: Together in grief, kindness and hope we will come through
Grief is a beast like no other. It is unpredictable, unwieldy and unwanted. We often do not know how to deal with it, whether it is our own or someone else’s.
PETER YOUNG: The rescue and the rebuild need a strong hand at the helm
So much has been written already about the catastrophe of Dorian that it is hard to find further words to describe its deadly effects and the horrors inflicted on people in Abaco and Grand Bahama. The destruction and loss of life is almost beyond belief and the extent of the suffering unimaginable. So it is heartening that the worldwide publicity has produced an extraordinarily positive response from other countries and that an international humanitarian aid operation is now under way.
FACE TO FACE: We don’t give these storms the respect they deserve
I had a chat about Hurricane Dorian with 29-year veteran meteorologist Wayne Neely, who has spent most of his professional life writing books with detailed accounts of hurricanes that have affected The Bahamas.
EDITORIAL: We must be united in response
IT was perhaps inevitable that after the initial rush of support in the wake of the immediate impact of Hurricane Dorian that dissenting voices would start to be raised.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Dorian’s emotional toll – where are the shrinks, the counsellors, the comforting hugs?
On August 23, 1992, family members were stationed on an island just off Bimini when Hurricane Andrew slammed The Bahamas with ferocious winds that topped 200 miles an hour.
A COMIC'S VIEW: We are living through the stages of grief after Dorian
THIS past weekend, two of our northern islands, Abaco and Grand Bahama, bore the brunt of a vicious superstorm named Dorian. Hurricane Dorian will go down as one of the most destructive forces to ever pass through our islands in modern history. As I
EDITORIAL: Hear of looting? Contact authorities
Throughout the past day, we have received reports at The Tribune of looters operating in the wake of Hurricane Dorian.
FACE TO FACE: Marilyn’s moving and shaking with Houston’s elite - but never forgets her roots
Bahamians all around the globe stared at their mobile phones in despair this weekend and into today as they saw videos and photographs of the destruction Hurricane Dorian wreaked on this country as it dragged across the northern islands.
EDITORIAL: In the face of the worst, we show our best
AS we write this, Grand Bahama is facing the worst possible scenario.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Bringing light to the children whose lives are in darkness
The first time I saw Angel, her frightened eyes flashed back to some unnamed horror she had experienced. Those dark eyes, so filled with fear and terror, dominated her face, obliterating other features. Later, I would see a new Angel, growing up and out of the fear, strong, smiling, overcoming the terror that had forced officials to remove her from her home as a child.
