ALICIA WALLACE: Minimum wage doesn’t cut it - we have to get real
There are a number of life skills we either learn on our own, usually through trial and error, or suffer continuously for not having learned. They are not taught in school, though they should be, and our parents fail to impart certain kinds of knowledge because they do not have it, do not know how to share it, or it has not occurred to them that certain skills are critical and need to be taught.
FACE TO FACE: Wise words from a boy who simply cares for others
I was blown away by the thoughts of a ten-year-old boy who was asked to jot down in his own words some sentences about the abuse of children. I’ve known Makaio Mackey to be a high achiever since he was very young. Like my son Elijah, Makaio is an avid golfer. His mother India would rave about Elijah’s golfing skills and she felt encouraged that her son would do well in the sport.
PETER YOUNG: Imagine a tidal wave of refugees like we saw from Vietnam... North Africa ... Syria - but this time it’s from Haiti
So much has been written recently about the treatment of Haitians post-Dorian that I hesitate to comment further. But criticism of the Government, both here at home as well as overseas, has been growing and this prompts me to address the issue again.
EDITORIAL: Tell the truth about Tellis
IT takes some stretching of credulity to believe that there’s nothing at all going on with regard to the position of Commodore Tellis Bethel.
EDITORIAL: End the tribalism for the sake of the public
“Deeply tribal, mediocre and unproductive.”
WORLD VIEW: Caribbean business community stands to lose from de-risking
THE business community in the Caribbean – both foreign and local – has made no collective statement and taken no joint position on the process of de-risking and the withdrawal of correspondent banking relations (CBRs) with which all Caribbean countries have been plagued since 2015.
EDITORIAL: Still too much confusion
A SMALL but significant step took place yesterday in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian - the Missing Persons Help Desk was deactivated.
A COMIC'S VIEW: This attempt to muzzle the media is laughable
ONCE again irony has collided with hypocrisy within the FNM, and it’s the perfect recipe for a good belly laugh.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Stuck in the spider’s web of the great credit card machine
If you ever want to waste a morning, try to cancel a credit card. In life, there are challenges and then there is the challenge of unwanting and ditching, whether online or by phone, a four-inch plastic card that holds the power of purchasing anything you want with an insertion, swipe or scan.
EDITORIAL: Can the Speaker back up his words?
WHATEVER is going on with House Speaker Halson Moultrie?
STATESIDE: Could the bureaucrats be the ones who bring the president down?
during Donald Trump’s three-year presidency, many Americans who are repulsed by his buffoonish lack of good manners and arrogant disregard for US law and political custom have comforted themselves with the notion that at least in several areas, a resolute resistance to some of his worst instincts could be found in the form of a perhaps unlikely source.
BUSINESS BITES: It’s time to call a halt to this colonial throwback and take control of Grand Bahama
The destruction, flooding and profound commercial dislocation wreaked by Hurricane Dorian on Grand Bahama has awakened the long-simmering debate about how the island is governed.
EDITORIAL: Pride and prejudice
“THE time is coming” were the words of Pineridge MP and pastor Frederick McAlpine recently on the subject of civil unions for same-sex partners. He might not have shared the memo with some of his fellow pastors.
The Bahamas continues to be a nation that victimises and abuses the human and constitutional rights of people of Haitian ethnic origin
Leading human rights lawyer Fred Smith has strongly rejected the government’s response to complaints by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights about The Bahamas renewed deportation of undocumented migrants.
THE ALICIA WALLACE COLUMN: Here we go again - the church seeking to control how we think
It was recently confirmed that Pride celebrations will be held in The Bahamas in October 2020. It is no surprise this announcement was closely followed by homophobic rhetoric, proclamations that The Bahamas is a Christian nation and that we should remain focused on hurricane relief and nothing else.
