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.
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.
