Belize and its experience with oil
KINGSTON, Jamaica – As prospectors are about to drill for oil in Bahamian waters, it’s worth taking a look at the recent experience of petroleum licensing in a fellow CARICOM state – Belize.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Selling off Bahamian oil
ADMITTEDLY, the discovery of oil in the Bahamas can have gargantuan returns, fostering self-sufficiency and increasing prosperity among Bahamians, if the massive amounts earned is properly managed and used for the national good.
ACCORDING TO ME: Lies, damned lies and statistics
Lord Courtney’s quote refers to the twisting of information including statistics for one’s advantage. Over the past few months, the Bahamian people have been dealt one of the most untenable forms of dishonesty and disrespect their government could spin – the consistent insistence that the country’s very serious crime problem is not as bad as we and they know it to be.
Export-led growth? Who will lead the Caribbean?
By Sir Ronald Sanders
TOUGH CALL: Bahamian conch in danger
BAHAMIAN conch populations are in danger of collapsing – as they already have elsewhere in the region – and this was a point of discussion at the Bahamas National Natural History Conference held recently at the College of the Bahamas.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: House of Assembly becoming embarrassment
OUR Parliament (more so, the House of Assembly) is rapidly becoming a national embarrassment—one that outsiders could easily misread as being representative of a noisy and unruly democracy.
Force and the police force
THE Royal Bahamas Police Force is in the spotlight following the recent police custody deaths of Jamie Smith and Aaron Rolle. Neither man died of natural causes. When it comes to discourse about police brutality and cover-ups, it is very easy to discuss the subject in terms of the usual generalisations and popular notions about policing and the Police Force.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Corruption in the Ranks
LET me begin by saying that I love the police, that the police are my friends (literally and figuratively).
Food self-sufficiency is an illusion for the Bahamas
OPENING the newspaper this week, I was confronted with a huge load of BS.
A tour of Grand Bahama
THIS article was originally published in December 2009. Since then, Deepwater Cay has invested $10 million to expand and refurbish the resort, with new homes and a new clubhouse.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Crime and Punishment
Recently, controversy erupted over the issuance of a nolle prosequi by the Attorney General’s office that led to the discontinuance of a gun possession case against the former clients of Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson.
ACCORDING TO ME: The Mid-Year Budget that wasn't
I BEGIN by pointing out that the government says it spent $956 million in fixed and capital costs in five months, between the period of July and December 2012.
WORLD VIEW: Harsh terms a sign of the future?
JAMAICA’S harsh experience with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to get a new $750 million loan, signals equally harsh conditions for many Caribbean countries in the not too distant future.
TOUGH CALL: Tracking the path of history
FOLLOWING hard on the heels of his earlier book – The Migration of Peoples from the Caribbean to the Bahamas – Bahamian Keith Tinker has come up with another scholarly page-turner, entitled The African Diaspora to the Bahamas.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Officers, but not gentlemen
THESE days, a number of bull-headed police officers are abusing their authority and adopting a grossly misguided perception that because they wear a uniform and carry a badge, they are above the law.
