ADRIAN GIBSON: The Long Island boating tragedy
Columnist Adrian Gibson looks more closely at the boating tragedy in Long Island; the new school year and the Cuban abuse claims.
NOELLE NICOLLS: Slaying the dragon; an immodest proposal
Features Editor Noelle Nicolls attends the Keva M. Bethel Distinguished Lecture at the College of the Bahamas.
ADRIAN GIBSON: The Elliston Rahming diplomatic 'fiasco'
THE government’s scurrying this week to right a “diplomatic wrong” indicates that they blundered and are thoroughly embarrassed by the Elliston Rahming diplomatic fiasco.
ACCORDING TO ME: The Cuban fiasco's biggest abuser
THE Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas spoke this week on the current Cuban detainees controversy, telling the country he leads that he is both “worried” and “concerned” about our nation’s reputation – a reputation that has once again become tarnished in large part by the actions of one of his Ministers – Ministers he ought to keep in check as head of the Cabinet.
TOUGH CALL: Tax justice and what it would mean for the Bahamian economy
IN July, the Observer newspaper in Britain published an exhaustive study by the Tax Justice Network asserting that at least $21 trillion of unreported private financial wealth was hidden in secret tax havens by the global super-rich elite at the end of 2010 – a sum equal to the combined size of the American and Japanese economies.
YOUR SAY: Is there light at the end of the tunnel?
NO matter what your political affiliation, you would agree that there is a feeling of despair and hopelessness in our country.
YOUR SAY: Security should be part of your approach to business
DUE to the high level of crime, security has come to be the watchword for almost all businesses in the Bahamas.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: We've been here before
LONG Island — Here comes Blue Water all over again! Certainly, that’s what most Bahamians must be thinking about the government’s sudden decision to divide the Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) into two, privatising one of the proposed splinter companies.
ACCORDING TO ME: War against our wallets
SEVERAL days ago, a single mother walked into a tyre shop in search of a used tyre.
TOUGH CALL: Stem cells and health tourism
IN one of his now infamous “Sith Lord” videos posted online, fashion mogul Peter Nygard is shown injecting himself with a hypodermic needle while exclaiming to awed onlookers at his Lyford Cay pleasure dome: “Ah, it feels so good – and you can see it’s working.”
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Shipping in the Bahamas
THERE is an urgent need to examine shipping in our archipelago. I have recently had cause to ship building supplies to Long Island via G and G shipping company, which is situated in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Firstly, the service was horrendous and the cost for shipping was exorbitant and, frankly, ludicrous.
ACCORDING TO ME: Rules broken, rights stolen
KILLARNEY MP Dr Hubert Minnis can return to the Monday, August 12, scheduled sitting of Parliament and be within the rules of Parliament in doing so – and that is because contrary to what everyone is being told, the Speaker failed to follow House rules regarding the naming and suspension of a Member, and thus in fact failed to have the Member suspended from the Parliament.
TOUGH CALL: Crocodiles in the Bahamas
EVERYTHING you always wanted to know about crocodiles in the Bahamas is contained in a paper recently published in the Florida Museum of Natural History’s scientific bulletin.
TALKING SENSE: Political hyperbole on the medical frontier
WHEN politicians train to be politicians, one of the first lessons they learn is about the use of hyperbole, the art of using obvious and intentional exaggeration to make a point.
ACCORDING TO ME: None of our business
WHEN you hear the phrase “the business of the House” as it pertains to parliament, that business refers to our business – the people’s business.
