POLITICOLE: Lost messages amid the sound and fury
I watched bits and pieces of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) convention because I have to see and hear things for myself - but that was pretty much all I could stomach.
Your Say: Media must act honestly and responsibly for good of the country
Mass communications in The Bahamas has become one of the most lucrative professions. In a world where everything is so desensitised, the country must hold its journalists and media personnel responsible for its woes and successes.
EDITORIAL: Are Bahamians being taken for a political ride?
AVOIDING their annual party convention for the past eight years, and after much to-ing and fro-ing as to whether one should be held at all, the PLP settled on a well-orchestrated, fun-filled event just four months before the deadline for the general election.
WORLD VIEW: President Trump’s policies and the Caribbean
THE President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, is systematically implementing the pledges he made during the Presidential election campaign.
EDITORIAL: Press freedom in a democracy
IT IS axiomatic that freedom of expression and an independent press that is free of state interference are essential elements of democracy. The media plays a crucial role in ensuring the flow of information and ideas in order to enable the public to contribute to decision-making by governments and to seek to exercise control of them when they overstep their powers.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Alternative facts in The Bahamas
JUST when I thought our local political landscape couldn’t get any better, I mean it’s filled with alleged conspiracy, countless episodes of idiocy, unnecessary pomp and circumstance, VAT, crime, ‘numbers’ and ‘looms’ and the list.... (insert your issue here) goes on and on.
VIEW FROM AFAR: The distraction of politics
IT HAS been quite a while since my last column. Maybe not many people noticed but I thought it may be good to explain why.
EDITORIAL: Will Fred Mitchell now apologise?
ON this page today, we publish in full the letter of apology written by lawyer Fred Smith, QC, for remarks he made recently at a meeting of home owners in Freeport.
POLITICOLE: Analysing the words of Trump
THE irony of Donald J Trump is that he is ultimately a Republican puppet.
EDITORIAL: Gangs win, we lose, time to stop talking and take action
‘We are an armed and dangerous country and we should be mightily afraid of what we have become…’ WHEN the fear of crime is so great that it keeps people locked behind doors afraid to go out after dark, imprisoned by their own burglar bars, the time for talking is over.
WORLD VIEW: Trump, trade and the Caribbean
TRADE between the US and other countries of the world, particularly China, was a major plank of Donald Trump’s campaign for the Presidency. He regarded all the trade deals as inimical to US interests. So, is there reason for Caribbean Community Common Market (CARICOM) countries to worry about their trade relationship with the US under the Trump Presidency?
A COMIC'S VIEW: Make The Bahamas great - and start at home
Today’s column was supposed to take a totally different tone this week.
EDITORIAL: Bahamian airlines no longer taxed to fly over our airspace
IT WAS announced by government last week that at long last Bahamian aircraft will no longer have to pay the US Federal Aviation Administration overflight fees to cross its own islands.
EDITORIAL: Heavy price paid for ‘sovereignty’
THERE are varying opinions about the first signs that Baha Mar might be starting to move towards a long delayed opening.
TOUGH CALL: Why Bahamian beaches are safe from the excavators
EVERY now and then we work ourselves into a frenzy based largely on hearsay and conspiracy theories. Eventually the controversy du jour settles down and is forgotten - until the next time.
