EDITORIAL: Behaviour and attitudes at the airport have to improve
THE year was 1981. President Ronald Reagan was only six months into his presidency when America’s air traffic controllers called a strike, demanding higher salaries, a shorter work week and better working conditions.
MENTAL HEALTH OF THE NATION: Love is all you need
THE Bible has been around longer than The Beatles and the concept of love perhaps even longer, but somehow there is agreement on the importance of love.
EDITORIAL: Parties ignoring the looming economic issue place a nation in peril
THE countdown to elections, 21 days away, is driving up the speed and lunacy of promises by the Progressive Liberal Party and threats from the Free National Movement.
POLITICOLE: Bahamians pay a high price for proper governance
DEPUTY Prime Minister Davis said the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) will win 30 seats in the upcoming general election.
EDITORIAL: Have Bahamians returned to ‘Ten, ten, the Bible ten’?
“LET us by our conduct in the general election campaign that officially starts today prove ourselves worthy of the great democratic traditions of free, fair and peaceful elections that have made our country the marvel of nations around the world,” said Prime Minister Perry Christie in a televised address on Tuesday as he announced the end of the 2007-2012 parliament.
EDITORIAL: May 10 election offers chance of national unity
AT THIS time of the year, celebrating Easter as a time of redemption, forgiveness and hope of new beginnings, and with a general election just around the corner, we return to the theme of good governance and national unity in a modern Bahamas where love of country is too often superseded by selfishness, greed and political divisiveness.
TOUGH CALL: A time for change as May 10 looms large
NOW that the political battle lines for the upcoming general election are as clear as they will ever get - and the election has been set for May 10 - we can take a look at the prospects.
EDITORIAL: Where is the anger over the missing $191m?
BAHAMIANS have an incredible tolerance for official villainy.
POLITICOLE: This government can’t see through the smoke
JUST over a month ago, our New Providence landfill, aka our national dumpsite, a veritable national monument, caught afire like it never has before.
EDITORIAL: Donald Trump forced to tone down his rhetoric?
WHATEVER happened to the blustering Donald Trump, who promised to show the world how he was going to put an expansionist China in its place and make “America First” again? Of course, we did not realise that America was not first, but that is the gospel according to Trump — a gospel, which, after only 40 days in office, we have decided to ignore.
EDITORIAL: Integrity, honesty and fairness will be key elements in the election
IN ANTICIPATION of the fast approaching general election, we analysed in these columns yesterday the poor performance of the ruling Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) and called for unity amongst the opposition parties in order to bring about political change in the Bahamas.
A COMIC'S VIEW: On-off-on again Carnival is a joke in any language
Once again our political landscape mirrors today’s hottest reality tv and epic soap operas of days gone by.
EDITORIAL: A country crying out for political change
WITH THIS week’s announcement of the dissolution of Parliament on April 11 and a general election just around the corner, there is already a palpable growing sense of relief that political change is imminent.
