EDITORIAL: Putting the Great into Grand Bahama with the four T’s
IF THERE is one thing that political parties within The Bahamas and any careful observer outside the country could agree on, it is that the island of Grand Bahama has gone from shining star with rising property values and lives filled with optimism to a giant question mark.
WORLD VIEW: No winners in secession – in Europe or the Caribbean
SHOULD areas of countries break away and govern themselves as they see fit? That’s a question that has been debated in several parts of the world, and is in focus now between Catalonia and Spain; Scotland and the United Kingdom, and to a lesser extent Barbuda and Antigua.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Roberts' 'cheap political shots' at Dr Duane Sands
First, Do No Harm There has been much controversy the past few days following the revelation that the Minister of Health, Dr. Duane Sands, is still performing surgeries for patients at the Rand Memorial and Princess Margaret Hospitals. First, let m
CULTURE CLASH: Sexual harassment is an act of violence
#MeToo — a campaign started by actor Alyssa Milano encouraging women to let people know they have experienced sexual harassment or assault has populated social media with evidence of the pervasiveness of sexual violence.
Who are the real targets?
Leading human rights lawyer continues his series of articles attacking the government’s new immigration crackdown
AT first glance, the Christmas “Minnis Manifesto” appears to be directed at persons who are illegally in the country. The Prime Minister commands them to voluntarily leave or regularize themselves by getting their papers straight or face aggressive arrest and deportation in the New Year. But, effectively, who is the threat directed at?
EDITORIAL: Here a Trump, there a Trump, everywhere a Trump Trump
ONE day in the American media it’s the continuing devastation from Hurricane Maria that continues to imperil Puerto Ricans. The next day dramatic stories in the New York Times expose the misbehaviour of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. There is reporting about the worldwide refugee crisis, Venezuela, North Korea, and Iran. But there is a Donald Trump angle to every one of them. You cannot escape him.
EDITORIAL: One easy step to a prettier Nassau
MONSTROUS lettering on top of buildings, revolving electric signs that affront and assault the senses, snipe signs with skinny metal legs poked into the ground, signs nailed to poles and stapled to trees advertising services by people you would never want to call on for those services because if they don’t respect majestic trees, what makes you think they would respect your modest property?
EDITORIAL: And where has the $43 million gone?
LAST WEEK Opposition Leader Philip “Brave” Davis mocked the Minnis administration’s inability to trace $42 million of the $150 million borrowed by the Christie administration for hurricane recovery. Mr Davis had the audacity to call it the “height of incompetence” on the part of the new government for failing to trace these funds.
FRED SMITH: Trampling on people’s rights, ignoring the law, is a dangerous path to follow This process of threats, ultimatums, indiscriminate, wholesale terrorist raiding by the government on the imm
The FNM Christmas ultimatum is a continuation of the unconstitutional and illegal fascist practice of state terrorism against the migrant community.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Getting in a flap over ‘no chicken imports’
WHEN Bamboo Town MP and Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources, Renward Wells announced in Parliament:
EDITORIAL: Importance of democratic accountability
TO FOLLOW up our online editorial earlier this week about developing events in Catalonia, we look today at the affect on democracy of globalisation and political and economic centralisation in an increasingly interdependent world.
‘Minnis is the new Mitchell and he is a menace to the rule of law!’
THE Bahamas is now being thrown from the frying pan into the fire.
CULTURE CLASH: We need leaders we can trust and who share what we want
Everyone is talking about leadership. While people battle for top positions in households, corporations, and countries we redefine and re-conceptualize leadership in response to community needs, mindset changes and shifts in power dynamics.
EDITORIAL: Nassau Needs a Mayor, City Manager
NASSAU needs a mayor. We have beat around the bush long enough and pretended that somehow this historic city could just run itself. We should have known better. Its majestic Madeira trees are suffering.
EDITORIAL: Nothing should be kept from the Bahamian people
WE agree with a statement made by Dioniso D’Aguilar last year that CTFE was an “unsuitable investment for the Bahamas.” In fact, we would go so far as to say that no touristic investment — particularly with casinos attached and having the remotest connection with Macau — should be considered desirable for the Bahamas.
