YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Waiting for Superman
POLITICS anywhere is a grimy, gritty business that is full of deceit and hypocrisy.
ACCORDING TO ME: Enemy of our state
WHEN governments identify a citizen who they allege has committed crimes against the nation, that person is referred to as an enemy of the state. Well for this column I invite you to broaden your scope of thought about that term of reference, because in a different sense here in The Bahamas, many of us are identifying the enemy of our state – our state of being, that is.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Grading PLP Governance
THE Bahamas has become more polarised since the election of 2012, with certain members of both major political parties stoking the embers of the fiery political divisions now consuming the electorate due in large part to their high-strung rhetoric and histrionics.
ACCORDING TO ME: Pride interrupted
I AM a Bahamian whose national pride has been interrupted. It’s been interrupted by a group of persons commonly referred to as the government, who in just 13 short months, has managed to set our country back many years.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: The 'pimp' slap heard around the archipelago
SO, I have decided to grade the PLP—after one year in government—next week. And yes, the ministerial report card will be completed for publication in a few weeks.
TOUGH CALL: Lesssons from the floods
Pat Rahming is one of the country’s leading architects and storytellers. This guest column developed from an online conversation immediately after the recent floods.
TOUGH CALL: Energy desperately needs to be addressed
THE budget proposals relating to BEC are clear evidence of the government’s failure so far to create a new energy model for the country.
TOUGH CALL: Flooding in New Providence
A FEW years ago I attended a meeting where a government planner displayed some startling maps. They showed the areas of New Providence that would be severely affected by storm surge flooding from a direct hit by a major hurricane.
TOUGH CALL: Why still no action over deaths in traffic accident?
ANGRY questions are being raised about the tragic deaths of two Canadian retirees in a recent traffic accident on Exuma.
WORLD VIEW: Not a Caribbean man?
TENSION is developing toward the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) from some quarters in Jamaica. This was exemplified by a column in the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper written by an Immigration Attorney, Mr Ronald Mason.
ACCORDING TO ME: Millions for smoke and mirrors
THE 2013/2014 fiscal budget is supposed to be presented in Parliament in less than two weeks.
TOUGH CALL: The story of HMBS Flamingo
THIRTY-TWO years ago this month, four Defence Force marines were killed when a 103-foot Bahamian patrol boat was sunk by the Cuban air force less than six weeks after the formation of the RBDF.
ACCORDING TO ME: Our children are dying while we are lying
The worst crime levels in The Bahamas are not of murder, attempted murder or armed robbery. And the worst assault taking place in our communities is not at the hands of street thugs or gangsters.
YOUR SAY: We must be proud to be Bahamians
THE REV Fr S Sebastian Campbell continues his articles reflecting on how to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Independence.
TOUGH CALL: The immigration question
THE recent controversy over Immigration policy is clear evidence of the inability of Bahamian governments to rationally tackle the core issues that hold our economy back.
