DARREN PICKSTOCK: Foreign Affairs and Foreign Services Bill passage a significant milestone
Foreign Affairs and Foreign Services Bill passage a significant milestone
“Innocence abroad,” remarked the American satirist and literary giant Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. Those words still shape how nations and cultures appreciate their similarities, pursue common goals, and navigate their differences.
FRONT PORCH: Where are we headed?
ON 9 July 1973, six and a half years after the Second Emancipation of majority rule, a jubilant crowd of approximately 50,000 descended on Clifford Park to usher in and to celebrate the first light of dawn of a new Bahamas on 10 July 1973.
Trump and the world of transactional diplomacy
Well, this is different. After three years of leading a global coalition against blatant Russian aggression in Ukraine, and sending hundreds of billions of dollars of military, economic and other assistance to Kyiv, the US just voted against a UN resolution condemning Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
ALICIA WALLACE: Non-violent communication
National hand wringing over crime is a repetitive and predictable event. Every few months, there is a pile up of murder cases, exposure of young people to crime, or one very upsetting event. All of a sudden, everyone wants to talk about crime.
WORLD VIEW: CARICOM nations should respond together to new American policies
Two executive orders issued by US President Donald Trump have sparked concern across the Caribbean, much as they have in Central America and beyond.
DIANE PHILLIPS: The hidden world of luxury yachting in The Bahamas...and what benefits can we reel in?
The arrest of three foreigners and the seizure of the charter boat they were on in waters off Grand Bahama last week was intended to send a message – fish illegally in the waters of The Bahamas and you will pay the price.
Bush medicine: A culture-rich treasure trove of healing power
For centuries, people of the Caribbean have looked to plants for healing, harnessing the power of “bush medicine,” an age-old practice that infuses African, and Indigenous herbal traditions.
Training and competing with intensity
INTENSITY separates the good from the great. It’s what defines the most dominant competitors in sports history.
STATESIDE: Democrats’ challenge to change perception
The US Democratic Party gathered earlier this month at a fancy convention venue on the southern edge of Washington DC to pick their new party leader.
FRONT PORCH: Funding the arts and heritage preservation
How might we more sustainably fund the arts and heritage preservation?
ALICIA WALLACE: ‘Rape is rape’, except in our laws it isn’t
“Prime” describes minister. Every minister is not the prime minister. The prime minister is a specific type of minister. We can talk about minister in general, and we can acknowledge that different ministers are treated differently. In particular, the prime minister is quite different from other ministers given the specific aspects of the position that other ministers do not have.
ERIC WIBERG: Fire and loss near Governor’s Harbour
During World War II the loss of the nondescript wooden Canadian cargo ship Bernardo to fire off Governor’s Harbour would probably been overlooked except this happened while a search was underway for dozens of US aviators missing in a large seaplane.
PETER YOUNG: Counting the cost of USAID, but what of the human toll?
OF all the radical steps President Trump has taken precipitately since his inauguration only weeks ago, his dramatic and uncompromising action in relation to the US overseas aid programme has, arguably, been the most damaging to the most people, both at home and in overseas countries.
GAIN AN EDGE: Ka’Lon Duncanson - A study in determination
Ka’Lon Duncanson knows the value of determination.
WORLD VIEW: Is CARICOM failing its smaller countries?
Recently, the smaller member states of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) have renewed complaints that the promised benefits and compensatory mechanisms that convinced them to join first CARIFTA, and later CARICOM, have not materialised.
