POLITICOLE: Home thoughts from abroad
Every month this year, PolitiCole is using this space to rally Bahamians living abroad (starting in America) to find out their hopes and plans for their native Bahamaland, their thoughts looking from the outside in on society, life and politics.
VIEW FROM AFAR: New Year resolutions
IT is human nature to hope that the new year will be better than the old year. However, in order to have a better chance of this being so, it is always useful not just to hope but to take those actions which would make it more likely to happen.
A YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: The matters that must be resolved in 2016
AS WE enter 2016, there are a number of pressing national issues that must be quickly addressed and sorted. Today’s column will highlight a few of them and should serve as a dose of reality for the New Year particularly on issues that our government has tried so desperately to dissuade the public not to believe statistics and/or their very own eyes and ears and instead to believe the mumbo-jumbo that the leaders of government and their minions espouse.
YOUR SAY: Empty promises and disastrous ideas
FOR too long, I have sat on the sidelines hoping that honest politicians, pastors, lawyers or other leaders of our country would speak up concerning the disastrous trajectory our country continues to spiral on.
POLITICOLE: What’s to love about online dating?
AFTER chatting with one of my good friends recently, I decided to look more closely at the world of online dating. And by “look more closely” I mean sign up with a few online dating sites and see what comes of it.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: The ethical hypocrisy of George Smith
WHENEVER I read, hear or watch a news story where former Progressive Liberal Party Cabinet minister and Exuma MP George Smith is an uncompromising purveyor of political ethics, I always have flashbacks to 1984.
Christmas message from Prime Minister Perry Christie
As we celebrate Christmas this year, let us be mindful of one of the great truths impressed upon humankind by Jesus Christ whose birth we are commemorating: Love Thy Neighbour As Thyself.
YOUR SAY - Hubert Minnis: My vision
Dr Hubert Minnis, leader of the Free National Movement, outlines his vision for the future of the country.
POLITICOLE: Check your BTC bills (and Cable Bahamas)
I DON’T usually use this space to complain about specific businesses, but I will today, because unfortunately I now join the chorus of unnecessarily disgruntled BTC customers, and my recent gripes with them are likely being experienced by their other many but virtually voiceless patrons.
Caribbean has no cause to celebrate Paris climate agreement
The results of the Climate Change conference in Paris (COP21) give no reason for small island states to cheer. The agreement reflects many promises and little action. The one item of concrete action is merely an undertaking to evaluate carbon emissions every five years - and even that has no teeth.
A COMIC'S VIEW: 'Twas the night before Christmas
‘Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house Not an MP was stirring, from “doer” to “louse”;
ADRIAN GIBSON: What is going on inside Bahamasair?
A SELECT committee of the House of Assembly, along with an investigatory body of private citizens and government representatives, must be appointed to investigate the goings-on at Bahamasair.
VIEW FROM AFAR: Make our democracy work
We live in a multi-party democracy, thank God.
POLITICOLE: All Trumped Up
Whether those three words best describe Donald Trump, his supporters, or everyone else, I can’t say for certain now, but Trump is surely stirring the political pot in the 2016 US presidential race. He is a livewire.
Gonsalves eyes history and legacy after election victory
Dr Ralph Gonsalves is set to make history in St Vincent and the Grenadines as he starts a fourth term in office as Prime Minister. Having already completed 14 years as Head of Government, within three years of the term to which he was elected on December 9, Dr Gonsalves will overtake the record of former Prime Minister Sir James ‘Son’ Mitchell who served 16 years from 1984 to 2000.
