TALKING SENSE: The economics of stem cells
IMAGINE living in a world where a drug-free fix for HIV/AIDS existed, or a cure for cancer, blindness, Parkinson’s, diabetes, heart disease, even Lou Gehrig’s disease.
TOUGH CALL: Is there the will to fix shanty town problem?
IN THE wake of the most recent shanty town fire (off Joe Farrington Road), we witnessed yet another impassioned outpouring of Bahamian angst – on the air waves, across social media land and around lunch tables and water coolers.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: IN POLITICS PERCEPTION IS SOMETIMES THE ONLY REALITY
DR HUBERT Minnis’s stance in the House of Assembly on Monday, indicates that he has adopted an outlook of no surrender, no retreat!
TOUGH CALL: Exploring the history of our ancient Bahamas
ON Facebook recently, someone posted an early map of the Bahama Islands with a few references to Lucayan place names, which generated a lot of interest. In response I posted a map with all the surviving Lucayan names (and their translations).
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: The problem with funding
IN the wake of the now infamous Peter Nygard video—Nygard takes the Bahamas back—it is clear that the Bahamas is in need of an Integrity Commission, the enforcement of the Freedom of Information Act and—on a broader scale—an Office of the Ombudsman.
YOUR SAY: Abortion and the stem cell bill
By PASTOR CEDRIC MOSS
ACCORDING TO ME: 'I spend, you owe'
WITH all the reports swirling about payola by political supporters, government compromise and the fallout over the same, it is a good time to make this a teachable moment for the average Bahamian about why the subject of government corruption matters to you and your family.
Bring financial engine into play to propel China's economy
By AMBASSADOR HU SHAN Chinese Ambassador to the Bahamas
TOUGH CALL: Nygard, Bacon and the history of Clifton Bay
O VER the past several months, flamboyant 70-year-old Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard has released one outrageous video after another – all seemingly calculated to make fools out of Bahamians.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: The stigma of mental illness
IN the Bahamas, there appears to be a lack of political and social will to transform our mental healthcare system from its archaic functioning capacity to a well-funded, more human undertaking. Of late, I have heard a number of stories about mental health patients—even prisoners—being warehoused at the Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre which, as alleged by several interviewees, is poorly run. Indeed, the state of public health services—across the board—leaves much to be desired.
ACCORDING TO ME: Misusing national symbols
I’VE ALWAYS believed that “national pride” without knowledge about and esteem for the codified symbols of one’s nationhood is not national pride at all, but simply an emotion of form over substance draped in national colours – colours that for us are too often the incorrect ones at that.
TOUGH CALL: Medical reform in the Bahamas
AS WE move to reform medical financing in the Bahamas, the Pan American Health Organisation is currently updating the numbers contained in the Blue Ribbon Commission’s 2004 report on national health insurance.
ACCORDING TO ME: 'What can we do?'
AS Bahamians prepare to observe 40 years of nationhood, much of the focus has been on what has happened over that time period.
ADRIAN GIBSON: What Independence means to the Bahamas at 40
COLUMNIST Adrian Gibson, who pens “A Young Man’s View” for The Tribune’s sister publication, The Big T, each Saturday, gives his assessment of our 40 years of independence, on the eve of the anniversary.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: PLP BLUNDERS
OF LATE, there has been a litany of embarrassing events with which the government has been associated that has either turned out to be disgraceful flops or shameful, internationally discreditable shams.
