EDITORIAL: Azario Major case a landmark
THE family of Azario Major rightly celebrated the coroner’s court verdict yesterday.
ALICIA WALLACE: Politicians does lie... Marital rape bill’s lack of progress concerning
“People does lie.” Those are the words of a religious leader in The Bahamas. While he used the word “people,” the rest of his drivel indicated that he was really talking about women. In particular, he was talking about women who are raped by their husbands, suggesting that they are liars who want to get out of a marriage.
EDITORIAL: Don’t punish public for impasse with govt
THE long-running dispute between government and gas retailers has finally ended up in action – though not the sort that helps anyone.
FACE TO FACE: 50th Independence is a good opportunity to reset and define Bahamian identity
The 50th Independence anniversary of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas is a great opportunity to start from scratch and define our national identity and culture, according to a giant in the Bahamian music industry, Fred Ferguson.
PETER YOUNG: Summits galore for world leaders
The ubiquitous and apparently tireless President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is perhaps today’s busiest leader on the world stage.
EDITORIAL: We need to have confidence in investigations
RIGHTLY or wrongly, there is a perception that some investigations are treated with greater urgency than others – depending on who is being investigated.
WORLD VIEW: 1.5°C is upon us - are we prepared?
THE report on May 17, from the World Meteorological Organization, (WMO) that global temperatures are likely to surge to record levels in the next five years should have sent all Caribbean institutions, such as the CARICOM Secretariat, the Caribbean Development Bank, and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, into overdrive to explore further ways in which the region could accelerate efforts to avert this calamity.
EDITORIAL: It’s not the dog, it’s the owner
TRUST Kim Aranha to talk some sense. There has been a lot of talk in recent times about pit bulls – a lot of it sounding very much like a kneejerk reaction.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Morgan Freeman live, another nod to the orange economy
ONCE you’ve played God, it must be hard to be human. But on a recent Sunday night in the Atlantis Theatre, the real Morgan Freeman strolled out on stage, took a seat in a comfortable armchair and talked with a crowd of film festival goers, answering every question with humour and honesty, even if a few would not have gotten a thumbs up for intelligence on Rotten Tomatoes.
ERIC WIBERG: The last flight of a Marauder
On October 17, 1944, five years into World War II, a B-26 Marauder aircraft assigned to the Royal Air Force Transport Command took off from the Windsor Field.
STATESIDE: Immigration crisis may indeed require a wall to stem the tide
ONE of the most notable moments in Donald Trump’s CNN town hall session last week involved his proposed border wall along the US southern border with Mexico. When Trump raised the wall in a lengthy critique of the Biden administration’s management of a surge of immigrants pressing for entry into the US, Trump claimed his administration had built hundreds of miles of the wall.
FRONT PORCH: A progressive and healthy press is vital to a country’s democracy
THE prestigious Pulitzer Prize, named after the renowned American newspaper publisher and magnate Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), is a prize “given annually to recognise and reward excellence in American journalism, photography, literature, history, poetry, music and drama”.
EDITORIAL: A bigger pie for all to share?
THE new cruise port is due to open soon – and with it comes questions about what the impact of it will be.
ALICIA WALLACE: Government’s duty is to protect and promote human rights; it’s not a gift
WHILE it is not news to me that there is a fundamental lack of understanding of human rights, particularly the human rights of people in situations of vulnerability, it continues to be both frustrating and offensive when it is made obvious by people in positions of power and people who claim to be supporters of human rights.
PETER YOUNG: Turkey’s identity at stake as the country faces a possible presidential run-off
TO many people, Turkey is something of an unknown quantity. But it is in the news at present because of last Sunday’s parliamentary and presidential elections. These are said to be the most pivotal polls in the nation’s history and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s toughest challenge since he first came to power in 2003.
