WORLD VIEW: Caribbean in no one’s backyard
PJ Patterson, the former Prime Minister of Jamaica, recently observed to an attentive audience in Washington, DC that: “We of the Caribbean should never allow our strategy to be dictated or determined by anyone else”, adding that “we live in no one’s backyard”.
EDITORIAL: The health of a nation, is the wealth of a nation
IT WOULD appear that Prime Minister Minnis is unwilling, embarrassed or unable to muster the courage to address the “pink elephant in the room”. While some may be relieved to learn it is not an Immigration, U.S. crime warning, OECD black listing or global pandemic spread by some highly infectious disease, in reality it is a far more deadly, insidious and immediate threat to our country.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Two giants fighting for our affections
The past few weeks, I’ve tried to focus on my personal life - my barber shop stories, and just everyday life as a father raising kids and tending to my family, which I value a lot.
EDITORIAL: A chance to change the police for good
THE latest round of senior police officers being told to go home – and more to follow – is no surprise given the top-heavy nature of the force.
EDITORIAL: The question's there - is the prize enough?
THE tabling of the Heads of Agreement for the Disney deal in South Eleuthera gives us all the chance to see the devil in the detail.
THE ALICIA WALLACE COLUMN: It’s shoddy, unacceptable and time we demanded better
The current administration has not been popular - and that may be an understatement.
PETER YOUNG: Rejected it may be, but May’s deal may be pill which has to be swallowed
For many people in Britain it is mind-boggling that with so little time remaining before the nation is due to leave the European Union on March 29 the terms of its departure have still not secured parliamentary approval.
FACE TO FACE: Now that’s a SMART idea
Last week I met a group of smart women who decided to come together to do something special for this country.
EDITORIAL: Fishing for the truth about Oban
IT is more than a year now since the much-heralded Oban Energies Heads of Agreement was signed – a year in which the leaders of the project have changed and government enthusiasm has wilted in the face of revelations about those they were dealing with.
WORLD VIEW: Cooperation, coercion and capitulation
ON March 12, the Council of the 28-nations European Union (EU) placed 15 small territories on a list of what it calls “non-cooperative jurisdictions”. What the EC considers these territories to be “non-cooperative” about reveals the raw exercise of power by the strong over the weak.
EDITORIAL: As the world steps forward, once again we drag our feet
WHAT exactly does The Bahamas want its position to be when it comes to marijuana?
A COMIC'S VIEW: The many ups and downs of fatherhood (and why the Stealth Bomber had nothing on me)
As I sat doing a live remote from Dunkin Donuts last Friday, I got to see a young father, maybe a first timer even, have a ‘special moment’ with his child.
EDITORIAL: Action as well as words, Mr Commissioner
FAIRNESS is on the mind of Police Commissioner Anthony Ferguson.
DIANE PHILLIPS: He is not a dummy - the life and lessons of Michael Wells
In everyone’s life, there is someone who changes you. For me it was Michael Wells. Michael was born with cerebral palsy, the result of a breach birth. No one expected him to live past the age of 20. In June, I helped him celebrate his 53rd birthday.
