EDITORIAL: Police to be paid, but how much?
AT a PLP rally on Thursday night, Prime Minister Perry Christie threw the Royal Bahamas Police Force a half-chewed bone — at last they will receive their court-ordered overtime pay. But how much will be paid is still a mystery.
WORLD VIEW: Globalisation policy change needed to help Caribbean
Globalisation was originally a construct of industrialised nations whose economic activity had developed sufficiently to withstand competition within their own borders from other countries, and who had the capability of exporting goods and services to other markets.
EDITORIAL – Wanted: Politicians with integrity to end corruption
WITH LESS than two weeks until the general election, the outcome remains hard to predict in the absence of any meaningful testing of public opinion in advance by pollsters who are so much a part of the political scenery in America and Europe.
A COMIC'S VIEW: PLP sinking in the age of pulling files
Instead of ripping off Loretta Butler-Turner’s ‘Forward Together’ campaign slogan (which she ripped from Hillary Clinton), the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) should change it to one that is more fitting these days: Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil.
EDITORIAL: Surely Bahamians would not be so foolish
“WE KNOW that there are those of you who are looking for jobs, who are looking for security, and who feel that more could have been done,” Prime Minister Christie told a Progressive Liberal Party mini-rally in Marathon recently.
Mental health of the nation: The cycle of hate
The stunning beauty of the sparkling sands and the turquoise waters attracts millions of visitors to these shores.
EDITORIAL: Two old antagonists command the world stage again
DONALD Trump and Vladimir Putin have managed to push other world leaders and most unrelated news from the front pages of newspapers for significant parts of the past eight months, since the first information about Trump’s business ties to Russia and possible Russian interference in the US presidential election began to leak out last summer.
TOUGH CALL: Smoke continues to obscure landfill bid process
Faced by another toxic fire at the Harrold Road dump as a general election nears, the government has swung into action with an express ‘request for proposals’ (RFP) to fix the problem.
EDITORIAL: When power is uncontrolled, tragedy awaits
TWO WEEKS before voters go to the polls to determine the course of history for the Bahamas for the next five years, the governing Progressive Liberal Party is throwing rallies, dancing in the streets, passing out t-shirts, food and promises, ignoring the reality that should be hitting its supporters smack in the face.
POLITICOLE: Arrogance, avoidance and achievements - a voter’s guide
Jerome Fitzgerald’s response to reporters on Nomination Day, after The Tribune article which revealed emails he sent to Baha Mar developer Sarkis Izmirlian:
EDITORIAL: Baha Mar - grand show of ‘smoke and mirrors’
IT was indeed a grand affair. At last Baha Mar, scheduled for opening in December, 2014, was open. However, in the context of Baha Mar the word “open” has a very special meaning.
WORLD VIEW: Iron ladies show gender is not a leadership issue
Modern history is showered with women as political leaders and heads of government. When women first emerged in these roles, it was regarded as “breaking a glass ceiling” - a breakthrough for the female gender in occupying high positions once regarded as the preserve of men.
EDITORIAL: World tensions rise to danger level
WHILE our immediate priority is next month’s general election, the well-publicised current world tensions should be of no less concern to smaller nations than to the major players directly responsible for resolving them.
A COMIC'S VIEW: The Fitzgerald affair simply beggars belief
Now that there has been reporting that our Minister of Education, Jerome Fitzgerald, has been allegedly caught with his hands in the proverbial cookie jar, some of you have rushed to judgment and declared he should resign.
The Disenfranchised: Reality of life on the streets in Nassau
Growing up in the inner city (ghetto) I have had the experience of knowing what it is to be living below the poverty line, to have a wall literally separate me from what was considered then as the upper class in this country. I know what it feels like to not belong or be a part of the country I know as home.
