EDITORIAL: A glimpse of a normal world - after a jab
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis dangled a carrot yesterday for those still reluctant to get their vaccinations. The world can start getting back to normal – if you’ve had your jab.
EDITORIAL: Vaccinations and the workplace
SHOULD an employer be able to require a worker to be vaccinated if they want to keep their job?
EDITORIAL: Plenty of reasons to be concerned about virus
IF Education Minister Jeff Lloyd truly has “no concern at all” over an outbreak taking place at schools despite a third wave of COVID-19 hitting the country, then we suggest he think again.
EDITORIAL: Something is going to have to change in our attitude to vaccination
THE road out of the COVID crisis was always going to be bumpy and right now it seems we’re being bounced all over the place.
EDITORIAL: Nothing adds up in Abaco shanty raid
THE raid on The Farm shanty town in Abaco yesterday was a big operation.
EDITORIAL: Another detention, another court defeat for govt
AFTER holding seven people in detention for nearly two years, it turns out that the government couldn’t even explaining why they had done so.
EDITORIAL: Cases must not be delayed further
IN this column yesterday, we discussed the principle of justice delayed being justice denied – and just how much it is delayed in the case of police-involved killings has become clearer still.
EDITORIAL: We must do all we can to stop third wave
THE concerns over mounting cases of COVID-19 continue – with 92 new cases over the holiday weekend.
EDITORIAL: We know the problems - where are the solutions?
Perhaps the most shocking thing in the latest report on human rights in The Bahamas by the US State Department is that so many of the problems are already known.
EDITORIAL: How do we give women a fair chance in politics?
IN two separate articles in today’s Tribune, the question of gender in politics is raised.
EDITORIAL: Don’t close the beaches, police them
THE scene pictured on our front page ought to annoy everyone who has been doing everything they can to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
EDITORIAL: The last thing we want is a third wave
THE numbers tell the tale. Steadily, the number of cases of COVID-19 have been rising.
EDITORIAL: In the shadow of Stalin and Chairman Mao?
FRED Smith, QC, certainly knows how to catch attention. In his latest collision with the government over shanty towns, he compares government policy to that of Stalin. Asked to tone it down by the court, he offered an alternative of Mao Zedong in China, whose cultural revolution “destroyed the homes of 20 million people”.
EDITORIAL: $1 for an airport - but it’s no bargain
YOU can’t even get a jitney ride for a dollar these days – but that’s how much is being paid to buy Grand Bahama International Airport.
EDITORIAL: Talk of herd immunity is premature
THE sun always shines in the world of Renward Wells.
