Hubert Ingraham on the wrong side of history
North Abaco voters were unable to resist the blandishments of the new PLP government on Monday, and the by-election was a replay of what happened when former Prime Minister Sir Lynden Pindling resigned in 1997.
YOUR SAY: Clarification on the renaming of PI bridge
I COMMEND Sharon Turner on making her discontent with the proposed event honouring Sir Sidney Poitier known.
WORLD VIEW: Austerity leads to aid being cut off
AUSTERITY budgets throughout Europe, and Government cuts on welfare spending, have caused many people to argue that aid allocations to foreign countries should be reduced and the money spent on domestic needs.
Politics and BEC
IN the summer of 2009 I went to Abaco to seek out a top-secret government construction site deep in the pine forest.
YOUR SAY: Tackling illegal immigration
In March, 1951 I joined the Royal Bahamas Police Force where I served 30 years and continued my service as a police reserve. I am still connected to the force and will be eternally grateful for the education and other benefits derived.
TOUGH CALL: Another set of islands another set of solutions
KIRKWALL, Orkney – Visiting this remote group of islands off Scotland’s northeast coast recently, I was struck by some remarkable similarities to the Bahamas.
A look back at the last talk about tax changes
Large-scale taxation to finance a growing public sector is a 20th century phenomenon.
Tax and poverty in the Bahamas
TOUGH CALL: THE current debate over more and different taxes to pay for an expanding public sector has focused fresh attention on our economy and standard of living.
The policeman who took on the numbers racket
THE Numbers racket has been widespread on New Providence for many decades. In my day, Bahamians bought numbers from street vendors, or in bars and petty shops over-the-hill. Some number sellers visited offices, shops and other businesses to provide custom service.
Bahamas can learn from Condoleezza's lesson
FORMER US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a stirring speech at last week's Republican National Convention in Tampa that focused on education in America.
New government pushes green energy policies
THE new Progressive Liberal Party government issued its first statement on the future of energy in the Bahamas recently, and all signals were positive.
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.
Looking at Bahamian education
THIS past summer, scores of experts from around the country sat down in a hotel ballroom at great expense to figure out how to “transform” our failed education system. It was the first major re-evaluation of Bahamian schools since a national task force was set up in January, 1993.
Why the Caribbean must back Australia and Finland
THE 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries will be supporting Australia and Finland for two of the ten non-permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) when elections are held in the UN General Assembly in New York in October. There is good reason to do so.
Business and government link up to fight pollution
THE Caribbean is, in the coming months, to see a move to strengthen public and private sector partnerships to bring about a reduction in land-based sources of pollution across the region.
