EDITORIAL: Will the Bahamas become America’s Taiwan?
THE fiery response from the Chinese Embassy to the White House Press Secretary’s statement that President Trump “looks forward to working” with The Bahamas and other Caribbean countries to “counter China’s predatory economic practices”, should at last open the eyes of the American government to what we have been predicting for some time in this column - China is flexing its muscles in the Caribbean basin - America’s security moat, both on the Atlantic and Pacific side.
A COMIC'S VIEW: On the funny side of Easter ... or why some hair spray might restore your faith in a good joke
Since Easter is approaching, and Good Friday is a holiday, I thought I’d get the jump on the ‘Easter Bunny’ with some ‘Easter Funny.’
DIANE PHILLIPS: A stench of entitlement laid bare
In March, when the story broke revealing some 50 people had been indicted in the US for what was labelled a “racketeering scheme” involving Hollywood hotshots, hotheads and CEOs paying up to $500,000 to have test scores altered so their children could get into good colleges, shockwaves radiated from coast to coast.
BUSINESS BITES: To really grow our economy we need foreigners - tens of thousands of them
Whenever I look at a map of the Caribbean I am astonished at the size of our country: an archipelago 760 miles long, matching the arc stretching from the Virgin Islands down to Trinidad, giving us sovereignty over the 150,000 square miles of earth and water known as the Lucayan Sea.
STATESIDE: Sunshine and Scandals
Florida: The Sunshine State. Now widely estimated to be the third most populous state in America, right behind California and Texas and, pending the results of the 2020 census, formally overtaking New York. The Bahamas’ favourite shopping centre.
EDITORIAL: A knife has no place in a schoolbag
WHEN our children walk out of our doors to go to school on a morning, we want their bags to be packed with the things they need for school.
THE ALICIA WALLACE COLUMN: What’s in the message is most important thing
I remember being told, over and over again: “It’s not what you say. It’s how you say it.” Hearing it now brings back memories of being told my delivery was more important than the message. Though I have learned the importance of considering the audience, I still rail against tone policing and the dismissiveness that meets nonconventional delivery that defies neocolonial norms.
THE PETER YOUNG COLUMN: There’s no escaping it - Britain’s a laughing stock
Having written in preceding weeks about the thorny issue of Brexit, I turn today to the related subject of parliamentary representative democracy in Britain.
EDITORIAL: Lessons must be learned from near collision
Things could have been so much worse.
FACE TO FACE: Kevin bares his soul in language which helps us all to see
The poem on the right is one in a series about to be released in a newly-published book Revelations of a Silent Heart by author Kevin Cartwright. I have had a sneak peek at the book and I find the poems so heartfelt, so sincere and very touching. This is his literary debut, which he describes as “a brave compilation of various moods of poetry and prose that speak about life, love, risks and the courage to face head on whatever life throws at him”.
EDITORIAL: Turning dreams into reality
IT was the words – as well as the art – of Keith Thompson that caught the attention yesterday.
STATESIDE: Time out in The Big Easy
Many American cities have nicknames. Among the best known are The Big Apple (New York City), City of Angels or La-La Land (Los Angeles), The Windy City (Chicago), The City of Brotherly Love (Philadelphia), The Hub (Boston), Motown (Detroit), The Queen City (Cincinnati), Charm City (Baltimore), Big D (Dallas), The Mile-High City (Denver) and the City by The Bay or just The City (San Francisco). It might be illustrative that the national capital city of Washington DC really doesn’t have a nickname to rival the others, unless of course you just call it The Swamp.
WORLD VIEW: Belize: Put the national interest first
Narrow party-political ambitions frequently thwart the wider national interest in practically every country.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Slam dunk! Here are six things we could have done with $1.2m
WHILE I read Tribune Business Editor Neil Hartnell’s column, revealing the sobering fact, that Bahamian taxpayers paid $1.2m to global sporting and entertainment giant -US-based, Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG). And got nothing, nada, zilch, zero in return, I was dumbfounded.
DIANE PHILLIPS: We're selling ourselves cheap and it's got to stop
Once the avenue of luxury shopping dreams, today’s Bay Street is more accurately the ageing T-shirt capital of The Bahamas. All is far from lost.
