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.
The Chinese dream
CHINESE Ambassador to The Bahamas Mr Hu Shan writes about Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese dream.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: The oil industry
TODAY’s column is my last column until the 25th of May. I am presently preparing to sit year one of the Bahamas Bar exams and so I must now fully focus on studying.
Still concerns over airlines across the Caribbean
By Sir Ronald Sanders
Education is the key to equality
IT was promising to see some average, everyday Bahamians gather at Rawson Square this week to demonstrate about matters concerning them. In last week’s column, I spoke about the need for us to break out of the mindset of sitting and waiting for a general election to take an active role in our democracy. To the extent that right-minded Bahamians are starting to get that message and go beyond just talk to action, I am encouraged.
TOUGH CALL: A story of speculation in Great Harbour Cay
GREAT HARBOUR CAY, the Berry Islands -- “I call it the knowing. I know what’s going to happen,” 58-year-old Craig Wells confided to me from beneath a raggedy straw hat at the dilapidated beach bar here, just across from the airport terminal.
