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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”?

POLITICOLE: Living with a history of corruption

MOST people think corruption refers to something big, unusual ... the behaviour of a select group. It can be, but it’s also – and maybe more often – the little, deceitful, ordinary things you do every day that eventually add up to a larger act of dishonesty that carries with it greater penalties and repercussions.

NASSAU LIFE: A plan for Baha Mar

Richard Coulson suggests a compromise of interests can be found to preserve the stalled mega-resort development

A COMIC'S VIEW: Wells and Rollins pointing the finger at the Emperor

This week has been one of defections, reflections and deflections. Members of Parliament switched teams, two leaders went head to head in the proverbial “political game of chess,” and somehow another “party” cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars.

YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Defection is another nail in Christie’s political coffin

TODAY, Prime Minister Perry Christie must be feeling like a politically wounded man, losing two of his former political acolytes to the Free National Movement and reducing his parliamentary team from 30 in 2012 to 27 when Fort Charlotte MP Dr Andre Rollins and Bamboo Town MP Renward Wells crossed the floor.