EDITORIAL: When will we say ‘enough’ and protect this land and sea?
ON FRIDAY of last week, The Tribune ran a story headlined ‘Activists’ Fear for Cat Cay.’ The article was accompanied by several colour photos taken from the air a few days earlier showing once-stunning turquoise waters off South Cat Cay in the northern Bahamas clouded by sand and silt.
WORLD VIEW - Mugabe: a graceful coup
WHEN independence was finally wrenched from Britain in April 1980, Zimbabwe was described as the “jewel of Africa” by Tanzania’s President Julius Nyerere.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Stamp out this post office problem
Once again, this was a busy week of tackling issues in the country.
EDITORIAL: Welcome progress in just a week from government
In these columns last week we took the Free National Movement government to task for a sense of drift that seems to have developed recently despite its good start in office six months ago.
Time to honour our nation's heroes
History waits for no one and clocks do not stop because a loved one dies. Each time we lose someone who means something special to us in our personal lives we wonder what more we could have done for them before they passed or how we might have acted differently had we known their end was so near.
EDITORIAL: Answers needed on Haitian sloop
When a Haitian sloop came ashore on the southwest coast of New Providence in the wee hours of Sunday morning Bahamians were outraged. How could this have happened? Why did the Royal Bahamas Defence Force not spot and capture the would-be migrants before the boat reached shore?
CULTURE CLASH: MPs, prove your worth before even thinking about a pay rise
We, the Bahamian people, are frequent victims of the bait and switch. Parties in opposition agree with us, promise to represent our positions, then forget about us once they have consent to govern on our behalf.
EDITORIAL: REMEMBERING THE FALLEN
LAST week’s church services and ceremonies in Nassau to mark Remembrance Day were conducted with customary solemnity, dignity and efficiency. They reflected, as they always do each November, the fine organisational work of those concerned in producing, with appropriate seriousness as well as pomp and pageantry, a national commemoration of those who perished in two world wars and other conflicts.
EDITORIAL: How to crack the traffic problem
It will not take yet another traffic study to tell us what we already know.
WORLD VIEW: Time to level the playing field
The absence of meaningful consultation between governments and private sector organisations in the Caribbean is leading to the implementation of externally-driven laws and regulations which will not serve the region well.
INSIGHT: The time has come for both political parties to stop playing politics with immigration
The Bahamas’ leading human rights lawyer continues his analysis of the Minnis administration’s December 31 deadline for illegal immigrants to leave the country.
EDITORIAL: A Republican rout - but what next?
Last week, most of the attention in the American political world was on the biggest, most significant election of this year.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Many mouths of Minnis
In 2014, the former PLP administration established the parliamentary select committee to determine salary increases for MPs. Needless to say, “nobody was on dey run”. The mid-term timimg for this proposal (as that former administration’s popularity
EDITORIAL: Don't rush ahead without the facts
In the country’s rush to taste blood and make the guilty pay for corruption, greed and graft, reports flying out of the Auditor-General’s office in the last week have been juicy teasers, tantalising pieces alleging, at best, financial indiscretion and at worst, blatant disregard for anything but the most self-serving gratification.
YOUR SAY: How long before the gates go up on Cabbage Beach? Is it time to buy?
In 2005, a jaw-dropping California court ruling sent shock waves through a crowd of Hollywood A-listers.
