EDITORIAL: It’s time for the Opposition to get its act together
WITH only three months away from a general election there is no unified opposition to challenge and defeat a government that does not deserve another five years in power. Already on the brink of disaster, five more years of PLP-ism will be the death knell of a Bahamas that we once knew.
EDITORIAL: Four key points for true freedom of information
FIVE YEARS after we were promised that legislation would be enacted giving the Bahamian people the right to information about how our money was being spent, how contracts were being awarded, the status of our applications for Crown Land, we still have no Freedom of Information legislation.
EDITORIAL: Are Bahamians being taken for a political ride?
AVOIDING their annual party convention for the past eight years, and after much to-ing and fro-ing as to whether one should be held at all, the PLP settled on a well-orchestrated, fun-filled event just four months before the deadline for the general election.
EDITORIAL: Press freedom in a democracy
IT IS axiomatic that freedom of expression and an independent press that is free of state interference are essential elements of democracy. The media plays a crucial role in ensuring the flow of information and ideas in order to enable the public to contribute to decision-making by governments and to seek to exercise control of them when they overstep their powers.
EDITORIAL: Will Fred Mitchell now apologise?
ON this page today, we publish in full the letter of apology written by lawyer Fred Smith, QC, for remarks he made recently at a meeting of home owners in Freeport.
EDITORIAL: Gangs win, we lose, time to stop talking and take action
‘We are an armed and dangerous country and we should be mightily afraid of what we have become…’ WHEN the fear of crime is so great that it keeps people locked behind doors afraid to go out after dark, imprisoned by their own burglar bars, the time for talking is over.
EDITORIAL: Bahamian airlines no longer taxed to fly over our airspace
IT WAS announced by government last week that at long last Bahamian aircraft will no longer have to pay the US Federal Aviation Administration overflight fees to cross its own islands.
EDITORIAL: Heavy price paid for ‘sovereignty’
THERE are varying opinions about the first signs that Baha Mar might be starting to move towards a long delayed opening.
EDITORIAL: The Lucayan Sea would truly recognise Bahamian waters
EVERY once in a while, an idea is proposed that makes so much sense you wonder why no one thought of it before. Naming the waters of The Bahamas the Lucayan Sea is one of those ideas.
EDITORIAL: A young man of principle leads a movement
IT WAS refreshing to hear a young Bahamian tell his followers that they could not expect “an administration to be accountable and follow the law, if we ourselves are not going to follow the law.”
EDITORIAL: Murders continue, but the PLP has a plan
NATIONAL Security Minister Bernard Nottage must have been carried away with the wild beat of the junkanoo drums during New Year Day’s Junkanoo Parade when he told our reporter that Bahamians would agree that the PLP government has the best policies to fight crime and improve people’s lives.
EDITORIAL: Foundation started for paediatric health care
ON FRIDAY, Tribune President Robert Carron announced The Tribune Media Group’s establishment of the Aidan Roger Carron Children’s Foundation to make available to our medical profession the latest information, equipment and whatever is needed to assist them in their fight against paediatric diseases in The Bahamas.
EDITORIAL: An uncertain world going into 2017
WITH THE onset of a new year, world politics are now dominated by changes set in train during 2016. All eyes are on America and Russia, the Middle East and the future of the European Union.
EDITORIAL: Potential voters turned away because of dress code
WITH the 2017 election deadline only four months away, there is growing concern that Bahamians are so turned off by their politicians that they are not registering to vote.
EDITORIAL: Las Vegas and the Bahamas Cabinet
THE Cabinet of the Bahamas and Las Vegas have a lot in common.
