TOUGH CALL: Energy reform is just all hot air in The Bahamas
EVER since Dr Marcus Bethel was named Minister for Energy and the Environment in 2006, during the first Christie administration, we have been hearing about energy reform.
POLITICOLE: Is illegal and mass migration retribution for slavery?
I was having an interesting conversation with one of my mentors a few weeks back. Our discussions have always been immensely thought-provoking, stretching my thinking way beyond the normal considerations.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Sickening prospect of NHI and a painful price to pay
THIS week, half the Cabinet was globetrotting and we saw the battle over the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme continue to play out as a war of words between the government, the Bahamas Insurance Association (BIA), Sanigest and various factions, producing dramatic headlines.
A YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Is Damien Gomez the MP who cried wolf?
Of late, Minister of State for Legal Affairs Damien Gomez is appearing more and more a political blowhard, a political percussionist whose utterances are ambiguous, lack effect and, based on recent political history, bear no real follow-up. Politically, Mr Gomez is being compared to the fabled boy who cried wolf.
A YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: The misuse of government vehicles
I HAVE seen a preponderance of red plate vehicles on the road and, more often than not, they are not performing any official tasks but are instead filled with little children, parked in places where they shouldn’t be or, if one observes the driver, being used for personal errands.
Why it’s so important to end disability discrimination
To mark the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities tomorrow Lester T Ferguson explains how the Bahamas is making progress in breaking down discrimination and inequality and looks at what still needs to be done.
YOUR SAY: Christie’s failing government has much to answer
MY ongoing work as opposition leader here in New Providence and travels throughout the country, make it urgently clear that the majority of Bahamians and residents of the Bahamas are disappointed and fed up with this failing Christie-led government.
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.
