A COMIC'S VIEW: Let’s get ready to rumble
As wrestling fans throughout The Bahamas keenly watch the WWE vs AEW ratings wars, all while enjoying the weekly wrestling entertainment, the pro wrestling buzz has hit The Bahamas again, with the same fervor as days gone bye, when our generation were kids.
EDITORIAL: Can there be smarter ways to pay the bill?
The cost of Hurricane Dorian is beginning to become clearer.
PETER YOUNG: Enforce the law but show good will
LAST week’s controversial exchanges about the treatment of displaced migrants following the destruction by Hurricane Dorian of the shanty towns in Abaco should have come as no surprise. As everyone knows by now, the potentially explosive issue of Haitian immigration to The Bahamas goes back a long way.
STATESIDE: All we wanted was a quiet life – now look at us.
We all live in a democracy. We vote in elections. We choose our leaders in a hopefully thoughtful process. We hope we made the correct choice with our vote.
ALICIA WALLACE: Are we really getting the next steps right?
Mandatory evacuation, on the surface, seems like a good idea. It is for everyone’s safety, right? We want to ensure the government can legislate for our safety particularly when we expect disaster will strike. We need to know people in the most vulnerable areas not only have somewhere else to go, but are compelled to go.
FACE TO FACE: Giving back - Doug's deep connection to The Bahamas
IMET William “Doug” Douglass through my father, Allan Ingraham. Daddy was very excited to tell me how Doug was building a recreational court for the kids in a settlement near Doug’s home in South Eleuthera back in 2017. It was a near $200,000 investm
EDITORIAL: Focus on the victims not on immigration
IT WOULD seem some people need to be reminded that there was a hurricane that devastated our islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama a little over a month ago.
EDITORIAL: Residents still left waiting for govt
WITH much of the focus on Abaco in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, people in the East End of Grand Bahama are concerned.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Three Bills, hundreds of clauses, one giant step to save The Bahamas
IN the 1960s, long before the Queen Conch was the subject of conservation debate, the mollusk was so plentiful that some considered it a pest.
STATESIDE: Who will face Trump - if he’s still President?
EVERY morning now, we open the newspaper, turn on the television or fire up the computer to hear new reports or opinions about American president Donald Trump, his administration and his many political critics.
EDITORIAL: Put the phone down when you drive
FOR a long time, we have called in this column for action to be taken to clamp down on driving while using a phone. Well, we are delighted to see that as of Monday, this will be illegal.
EDITORIAL: Abaco residents being left behind
A LACK of action by the government, no law on the streets, rampant theft and a future filled with nothing but uncertainty.
ALICIA WALLACE: Child refugees struggle to get back to school
WE are consumed by our private lives. In many ways, we see our lives and experiences as synonymous with the Bahamian experience or the human experience.
FACE TO FACE: He aimed to become a judge - he served as the highest in the land
SIR Michael Barnett is living proof that if you can see it, and if you believe it with all your heart, then you can achieve it. Lifetime goals are something to never give up on, despite any obstacles that may come your way. He stands as a testament to the fact that it is indeed possible. Now in his sixties, he is at the peak of his career and is still going strong.
EDITORIAL: Turning a cold shoulder after Dorian
What makes one victim of Hurricane Dorian deserve different treatment from another?
