POLITICOLE: FNM’s crime plan leaves too many questions unanswered
An ignorant and very idiotic person once referred to me as an Eastern-Road type. I was too down-to-earth, he insinuated, to be of Lyford Cay or Old Fort Bay ilk, or some other part of the island he had racially profiled to be the home of lighter-skinned people.
EDITORIAL: Crime continues - where does the blame lie?
WE ARE 36 days into the new year and already 19 Bahamians are dead and several others are in hospital fighting for their lives.
VIEW FROM AFAR: Debunking the myth of exchange controls
THE Central Bank continues to ease exchange controls. This is a good thing. However, I again ask why the fear of completely removing exchange controls?
A COMIC'S VIEW: Halkitis + Fitzgerald = fuzzy math
BACK in the nineties, former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham gave us one of those great, immortal Bahamian political quotes: “I say what I mean, and I mean what I say!”
EDITORIAL: It’s time for the Opposition to get its act together
WITH only three months away from a general election there is no unified opposition to challenge and defeat a government that does not deserve another five years in power. Already on the brink of disaster, five more years of PLP-ism will be the death knell of a Bahamas that we once knew.
NASSAU LIFE: Painful numbers for The Bahamas
TYPICAL Bahamians, like citizens everywhere, take little interest in the numbers underlying their country’s successes - or failures.
TOUGH CALL: Opposition forces must tap into popular outrage
AS we head into the second month of 2017, the political battle lines for the upcoming general election are becoming clearer.
EDITORIAL: Four key points for true freedom of information
FIVE YEARS after we were promised that legislation would be enacted giving the Bahamian people the right to information about how our money was being spent, how contracts were being awarded, the status of our applications for Crown Land, we still have no Freedom of Information legislation.
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.
