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.
ACCORDING TO ME: 50 unanswered questions
SINCE the start of the current administration’s term in office, a preponderance of unanswered questions continues to mount...
Tackling illegal fishing
AN official delegation returns to the Dominican Republic next week for more talks on a bilateral agreement to address illegal fishing in Bahamian waters. And the government will soon approve a $200 million investment in patrol boats and port facilities for the Defence Force.
Eyeing the case before the Caribbean Court of Justice
THE judgment in a case now proceeding through the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) could prove to be a landmark in the movement of West Indians through each other’s countries.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Gambling referendum a colossal failure
THE gambling referendum was nothing short of a colossal failure, an opinion poll that can only be likened to a swift drop kick, collectively meted out by an electorate clearly fed-up with the chaotic process leading up to voting day.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Rent Control
IN THIS country, the strong societies that were founded by African slaves and were anthological/archaeological gems have now deteriorated into squalid pigsties.
ACCORDING TO ME - Crime: we love it, so we're letting it kill us
I BEGIN with this truth – we as Bahamians say we want crime to decrease, but what we really mean is we only want certain crimes to decrease, while at the same wanting to be otherwise free to ignore the rule of law whenever doing so provides us personal benefit or pleasure.
TOUGH CALL: How the old man came to the sea at Bimini
LATER this month, Ernest Hemingway’s grandson, John, a 52-year-old writer from Montreal, will take part in a fishing tournament sponsored by the Bimini Big Game Resort & Marina.
TOUGH CALL: The botched referendum
THE internet arrived in the Bahamas in 1995.
