DIANE PHILLIPS: If only road traffic deaths were a little sexier
Car accidents aren’t sexy news. They don’t compete for headline space with juicy scandal or murder for hire.
EDITORIAL: Has the government backtracked on police leave?
IT feels like we are not being told the full story when it comes to police officers being put on leave.
STATESIDE: Biden his time - will it be Joe’s final glory?
How many of the 20 Democrats currently running for president of the US can you name? If you can identify more than half of them, maybe you should consider throwing your hat in the ring as the latest challenger to James Holzhauer, the incumbent champion on TV’s 55-year-old quiz show Jeopardy.
YOUR SAY: Time to grow up, Bahamas
It’s time The Bahamas grew up. If we want to be a big player like Singapore on the world stage and if we want to be in the First World category, then we need to embrace immigration for investment and development purposes. For far too long, the amazing potential of the Bahamas has been choked by oppressive, repressive, discriminatory and abusive immigration policies.
EDITORIAL: A legacy to live up to
TOO often in this column, we lift our pen to criticise – with justification – many of those who fill our political landscape today.
THE ALICIA WALLACE COLUMN: Welcome words but we need action too
Bishop Simeon Hall recently called on the church to take a stance against sexual violence, specifically including acts within families and marriage. He made a distinction between the desire for sex and the attempt to gain power which leads to sexual violence. Hall also correctly made the connection between the dehumanisation of women and failure to see us as valuable people, noting society must value women in order for sexual violence rates to go down.
EDITORIAL: Time to stop the rot at BAMSI
THE long wait for answers over what has been going on at the Bahamas Agriculture and Marine Sciences Institute (BAMSI) goes on.
FACE TO FACE: A sheltered island girl who sat at the head of the nation
From Rose’s to Mount Fitzwilliam is one of the best books I have ever read. After completing the nearly 400 pages of rich history and personal reflection, I closed it with the same feeling I had when I arrived at the end of Sir Clifford Darling’s A Bahamian Life Story… a greater sense of responsibility, love of country and impetus to do and be my best.
THE PETER YOUNG COLUMN: In the horror of Sri Lanka, the BBC falls short of the mark
In today’s world of instant communication via the internet, news of the horrors of the recent evil and cowardly terrorist attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka will have reached far and wide.
EDITORIAL: Don’t get caught by surprise on plastics deadline
The start of January next year will be the end of an era of destruction to the environment.
EDITORIAL: Stand up for the victims
PEOPLE would do well to pay attention to the words of Bishop Simeon Hall today.
WORLD VIEW: The Caribbean ideals of Alister McIntyre
SIR Meredith Alister McIntyre was born in Grenada but for much of his life, dedicated to promoting the interests of the Caribbean, few knew his birth place. What they knew was that he belonged to a group of West Indian thinkers whose identity was West Indian and who worked assiduously in the collective interest of the region.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Marijuana – if we legalise it, we must also decriminalise it
I have long stated that the barbershop is one of the last bastions of free speech.
DIANE PHILLIPS: When will the penny drop? It’s just not worth it
Usually a sucker for the underdog, a protector of whatever species is facing undeserved or premature extinction, the penny is one lesser specimen of which I am not a fan. Quite the opposite, I stare at it with wonderment, like why in the world is it still around?
EDITORIAL: Harbour Island project doesn't smell right
WHEN it comes to analysing the project under way in Harbour Island, it seems to fail the smell test in a number of ways.
