INSIGHT: Sensitivity must be set aside as the government prepares for future superstorms
THREE weeks after the most traumatic experience The Bahamas has ever faced we are still picking up the pieces for what may be a years-long recovery and rebuilding process. The physical and psychological damage experienced by the victims, as well as other citizens that have listened to the many nightmarish accounts of surviving Dorian is palpable.
WORLD VIEW: Cross-Border Climate Change refugees looming large
“HURRICANE Hell” and “The Bahamas is at war being attacked by Hurricane Dorian. And yet The Bahamas has no weapon to defend itself”, are two memorable expressions that emerged from the wreckage of the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama in the chain of islands that make up the territory of The Bahamas.
A COMIC'S VIEW: A few choice cuts from the barbershop
I’VE long said that the barbershop is the last bastion of free speech.
EDITORIAL: Shanty town issue not an easy fix
THERE will be many who will not welcome the words of Fred Smith today. That doesn’t mean that he isn’t right.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Meet the real people who left home to come and help The Bahamas
DAVID Radford-Wilson is 53, tall and muscular. With looks that would be equally at home in a jersey on the soccer field or a power suit in the board room, he’s an executive coach with clients including a director in a major London bank, a legal counsel in an American law firm and a high-ranking officer in the British government foreign office. By phone or face-to-face, he coaches them in crisis leadership and training.
STATESIDE: Why Joe Biden dominates the primary race
A year can be an awfully long time in politics, as American voters are about to find out.
FACE TO FACE: Bahamians will continue to make valuable contributions to the US – if given the chance
THERE was a time when tens of thousands of Bahamians migrated to the United States of America. It was 1943, and World War II was still raging. Many Americans were drafted to serve in the armed forces. Others left the farms to work in more profitable war industries.
ALICIA WALLACE: It’s time to help, not to fight
THE past two weeks have gone by quickly, but the beginning of relief efforts feels like it is in the distant past.
THE PETER YOUNG COLUMN: All hands on deck to recover from Dorian
OLD habits as a diplomat die hard, so even in retirement I shy away from commenting in this column on domestic politics. However, in the terrible aftermath of Hurricane Dorian perhaps, for once, such self-restraint can be put aside temporarily in offering a view following the publicity last week about the involvement of two former Prime Ministers in dealing with the crisis.
EDITORIAL: We must not fail those in need
"In times of crisis, some things happen that are inappropriate."
BUSINESS BITES: Joplin recovered from tornado - so can we from 2019 Dorian?
In the Tornado Alley states of the USA, tornadoes, large and small, are too frequent to be named. Only the worst are identified for the official records — like Joplin in 2011.
WORLD VIEW: Handmaiden to the tyranny of a minority
THERE have been many ignominious moments at the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) and many farcical decisions made, but they pale in significance when compared with the events of Wednesday, September 11, 2019.
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.
