POLITICOLE: Bahamas after college = professional suicide
AS the school year ends, here is my advice to prospective or recent Bahamian college students and graduates.
LIFE OF CRIME: Paedophilia and the need to protect children
Paedophilia. The dark, dark secret. A terrible taboo. Surely this does not exist in the Bahamas?
YOUR SAY: Why National Health Insurance?
IN the lead-up to the 2002 general election, I joined a delegation led by Perry Christie on a visit to Moore’s Island, Abaco. In our walkabout, we met a young man who was extremely challenged, both mentally and physically.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: PLP misplaces its belief in Bahamians
LET’S be frank and honest and agree that, by all signs and indications, the governing Progressive Liberal Party has swung into campaign mode in anticipation of the 2017 general election.
TOUGH CALL: A serious Wrinkle in the system
Here’s a story that needs to be re-told in full. I knew the protagonist as a high school student in Queen’s College more than 40 years ago, but have had no substantive dealings with him since then.
POLITICOLE: Charlie Charlie - who is the real demon?
LAST week, I wrote that we were in the asylum. Little did I know that this week I’d be able to specifically substantiate that claim. But I can’t yet decide who is most culpable for ushering in the madness.
LIFE OF CRIME: Mental disorder and killing
OVER the years I have received more abuse for giving evidence to the courts about the existence of mental illness in someone who has killed another person than all of the rest of my involvement in forensic psychiatry.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Is our flagship hospital sinking under a lack of care?
THE Princess Margaret Hospital is supposed to be the flagship institution of healthcare in the Bahamas, yet it exemplifies everything that is wrong with the decision-making for people in the Bahamas and with those making the decisions.
POLITICOLE: High-end tourists, low-end Bahamians
ACCORDING to Free National Movement and Opposition Leader Hubert Minnis, Prime Minister Perry Christie is missing the point as regards the Bahamian people.
Tourism competition is not a guessing game
The performance of only five of the 14 independent Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are recorded in the 2015 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report published by the World Economic Forum.
LIFE OF CRIME: Gangland Bahamas - how much violence can be put down to gangs?
I READ all the time about gang-related crime in The Bahamas; in fact recently, a senior official went so far as to blame all killing on gang activity.
Why we cannot afford more delays
It is safe to say that all well-thinking people would agree that approving a second telecommunications company for The Bahamas, thus bringing competition and better service and lower prices, is good for all.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Conduct unbecoming at Carmichael Road police station
This week, I had cause to attend the Carmichael Road police station on behalf of two clients who, among other things, appear to have been brutally beaten in police custody. The matter is now sub judice and so I will not delve into the particulars of that matter.
TOUGH CALL: A comprehensive Environmental Management Act
IN AN obvious attempt to soothe public anger over the Rubis fuel leak disaster in Marathon, Environment Minister Ken Dorsett recently unveiled draft legislation “for the establishment of the Department of Environmental Planning and Protection”, saying the law would be brought to Parliament in October.
POLITICOLE: Calculating Carnival: What's wrong with GDP - and Paul Major's version of it
IN a May 12 Nassau Guardian article, several quotes about the economic impact of Junkanoo Carnival in The Bahamas are attributed to Paul Major. This overall economic impact is to be measured by what is being referred to as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) impact of the festival on the Bahamian economy.
