POLITICOLE: Health questions over mobile liberalisation
We’ve been using mobile phones in The Bahamas for almost 15 years, at least since the time I returned from college and was on my second job in 2000-01.
A COMIC'S VIEW: A stellar waste of time and energy
This past week, a new Bahamian political party emerged on the scene and an old controversy in politics made its way into the spotlight.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Moss is swimming against the electoral tide - and will sink
THE upcoming election cycle is setting up to be a sulfurously partisan and venomous affair, a true soap opera featuring politically shrewd operators and mountains of special interest dollars.
Minnis salutes women pioneers
ON November 25, 1962, Bahamian women gained the right to vote in our national general elections.
Lisa Johnson on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Lisa Johnson on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
TOUGH CALL: Social media loses perspective after Paris terror attacks
AS the patriotic strains of the Marseillaise drifted over Paris following the recent terror attacks, social media around the world erupted with gushers of hate, anger, sorrow and solidarity.
POLITICOLE: A pilgrim’s tale
ONE of my closest and oldest childhood friends recently reminded me of one of my idiosyncrasies as a teenager. She said, “whenever you left your seat in class, you didn’t want anyone else to sit in it while you were not there. You would leave and come back and say ‘why is my seat hot?’”
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Talk is cheap but crime is exacting a heavy price
SOME time ago, I said that The Bahamas is a powder keg. Today, I believe in that statement even more than I did then. Our society is imploding and we have reached the point of absolute crisis. There is no other description for the criminality and mayhem happening around us on a daily basis.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Death panels, ninja suits and flag follies
This week, National Health Insurance (NHI) and crime continued to dominate the headlines while another horrific act of terrorism thousands of miles away had all the right Bahamians arguing for all the wrong reasons.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Immigration’s response to Cuban duo’s detention
Last week, the Department of Immigration - via Bahamas Information Services - responded to a column I wrote about Cubans Carlos Pupa Mendoza and Lazaro Seara Marin, who are currently being held at the Bahamas Department of Corrections without charge and who have suffered inhumane treatment.
POLITICOLE: Too late for the victims, too little for their killers
THIS past week, Reverend Ranford Patterson, Christian Council President, said: “We cannot allow the criminal elements to determine how we will live in our society.”
A COMIC'S VIEW: Never mind dealing with crime, we must keep Whatsapp
THIS week, when news spread that the country’s murder record had been tragically broken, I glimpsed my teary-eyed, 80-year-old aunt (rosary in hand) praying. Trying to offer comfort, I asked her if she was okay. Her response? “No, I’m not okay because I never imagined this is what The Bahamas would come to.”
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Trampling on human rights in The Bahamas
ON the face of it, human rights appears to be a non-starter in certain quarters of The Bahamas.
TOUGH CALL: Floor crossing and the game of political musical chairs
POLITICS is a strange game in The Bahamas – full of “crazy per-sons”, as Holly laughs to Megan in the Coca-Cola commercial that plays endlessly on television.
YOUR SAY: Strategies to combat crime in The Bahamas
CRIME in The Bahamas is at unacceptable levels. But what do we mean by “crime”?
