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.
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.
