YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: More on regulating webshops
Years ago, I remember hearing that Sir Lynden Pindling, the country’s first prime minister, was known for espousing the view that “the voice of the people” was that of God’s.
TOUGH CALL: Speaking out to protect oceans for the future
WHEN Dr Sylvia Earle began her career as a deep-diving scientist in 1953, no one imagined that we could do anything to harm the ocean by what we put into it or took out of it. Back then, the ocean was as vast and as mysterious as outer space.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Regulation, a game changer?
ADMITTEDLY, I was pleased to see that the government decided to overlook potential electoral threats and/or the propensity to please campaigning churchmen (to lock up their church members’ votes) and instead chose to govern.
MOXEY: STAFFORD SANDS BROKE THE STRANGLEHOLD OF WHITE RETAILERS
WHEN you enter the drawing-room of former parliamentarian Ed Moxey you know you’re entering into the space of a man who is at heart an archivist and a lover of history.
TOUGH CALL: Taxation and representation
Outside of ZNS and other PLP circles, the outrage over tax dodging politicians and officials has been visceral as the government pursues a big increase in the average citizen’s tax burden to reduce its fiscal deficit.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Time for Cabinet Shake-up
By all accounts, the public is increasingly becoming uneasy with this government and there are some who are demanding a Cabinet shuffle. There are certain PLP ministers who are sufferers of windbaggery and fictitious disease syndrome and, frankly, some of their performances in various ministries amounts to nothing more than a substantive negative outcome!
TOUGH CALL: Make the most of Old Nassau to rebuild the 'Family Business' of tourism
GOOGLE “downtown redevelopment” and you will find zillions of web pages focusing on one city after another – from Miami to Manhattan to Toronto and almost every place in between. Even Las Vegas has a downtown revitalisation programme, although the city was originally just a cattle ranch and wasn’t incorporated until the 1900s.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Multimillion dollar operation that must be officially recognised
RECENTLY, Governor of the Central Bank Wendy Craigg urged the Government to quickly address the issue of unregulated web shop gaming and the associated vulnerabilities presented as a result and, even more, cautioned that this sector in its current state threatened to undermine proposed plans for a Bahamian Credit Bureau.
Petro Caribe: Are Caribbean countries prepared for the worst?
By Sir Ronald Sanders
TOUGH CALL: The threat of wildlife trade
If you are like most Bahamians, you probably don’t know or care much about iguanas.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: College hoping to reach potential
THE College of the Bahamas (COB)—of which I am a proud alumnus—is a sleeping giant, one that has been impregnated with the dreams of thousands of Bahamian youngsters (myself included) and, yet, it has not given birth to its greatest potential.
TOUGH CALL: Bahamian approach to recycling
DURING an informal discussion at a science conference on Abaco recently, the question of recycling came up, with one participant insisting that even the local breweries’ much-touted bottle re-use programme was not working.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Police, PMH don't agree
THE REVELATION that 519 people were shot and stabbed—per Princess Margaret Hospital statistics—which bear a stark contrast to the 10 attempted murders recorded by the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) for the same period, seems to suggest that some manipulative hanky-panky might have been done to vary the police’s data.
TOUGH CALL: Campaigning for conch
MARSH HARBOUR, Abaco – Since 2004, Abaco’s home-grown conservation group - Friends of the Environment - has staged a two-day conference every two years that brings together scientists, students and the public to discuss important research.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Time to reset the moral compass of the Bahamas
ASTOUNDINGLY, we refuse to deal with the root causes of many of our social and economic problems here in the Bahamas and, frankly, those root causes are poor parenting, waste, inefficiency, greed and corruption.
