EDITORIAL: A welcome compromise in citizenship case
THE compromise offered by the government during the ongoing legal case over citizenship may not be the end of the story, but it’s a welcome stepping stone along the way.
EDITORIAL: Minister Dames and the crime problem
A bloody weekend has put our murder rate in the spotlight again – with five men killed between Thursday and Monday.
EDITORIAL: No end in the search for justice
THERE are too many murders in our country. One would be too many, but our murder rate puts us among the highest in the world.
EDITORIAL: Cable Bahamas issues under the spotlight
COMPLAINTS work. THAT’S one lesson to take from the lead story in today’s Tribune. Regulator URCA had been given the task of investigating the restructuring of Cable Bahamas’ REV TV cable packages. They have approved the restructuring – but in the process they received complaint after complaint after complaint about service interruptions and other issues.
EDITORIAL: What really went on in Treasure Cay?
THERE are very obviously missing pieces in the story of what happened that led to the plane crash in Abaco that killed two pilots.
EDITORIAL: Hesitation may be your last regret
OUR country’s hesitation to get vaccinated is coming home to roost – with Princess Margaret Hospital now at full capacity.
EDITORIAL: Hesitancy among our health workers
IN yesterday’s Tribune, we reported on the concerns of nurses with a number of workers sick with COVID, and one having recently died. Those are valid concerns indeed – so why is it that in today’s Tribune, we hear that there is a hesitancy within healthcare workers to take the vaccine?
EDITORIAL: Unsolved murder at Government House
WHO killed Petty Officer Percival Perpall and attempted to kill two more Marines at Government House in 2019?
EDITORIAL: A remarkable woman, gone too young
TAKE a look at the woman on our front page today.
EDITORIAL: Tourism returns at last - and we need it
WHEN we wrote about the return of tourism on Friday, we said the Americans were coming – well, they’ll be here sooner than you might have thought.
EDITORIAL: The light at the end of the tunnel
THE Americans are coming.
EDITORIAL: A long legacy of illegal detention
THE question of the illegal treatment of Douglas Ngumi is not at issue. He was locked up for six and a half years illegally – that’s already been ruled on in court. The Bahamas illegally imprisoned him.
EDITORIAL: Born to a Bahamian man? The court says you’re Bahamian
WHEN the Supreme Court ruled in May last year that children born out of wedlock to Bahamian men and foreign women are citizens at birth and do not have to wait until 18 to apply for citizenship, Attorney General Carl Bethel vowed to appeal.
EDITORIAL: We must keep going to get past the third wave
PERHAPS we are too eager for good news – but any hopes we might have emerged from the third wave of COVID-19 affecting our country are perhaps premature.
EDITORIAL: If The Bahamas could rub a genie's lamp . . .
LET’S make three wishes for The Bahamas.
