EDITORIAL: Silence from the PLP benches is not going to help anyone
OFF they go again.
EDITORIAL: Detention Centre a horror story demanding Immigration Dept overhaul
The case of yet another life interrupted by a horrific and prolonged stay at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre punctuated by beatings and abuse without formal charges ever being filed against the detainee makes for grim reading.
EDITORIAL: We need a Marshall Plan for Haiti
They came in their hundreds to mourn the dead.
EDITORIAL: Lessons still to be learned as we take steps in the right direction
Amid claims the crisis in Venezuela has been caused by outside interference, the evidence suggests the reasons are homegrown. Dictatorship and rule by decree, political repression and economic mismanagement on a massive scale have resulted in the disaster of a failing state.
EDITORIAL: So is Oban nonsense, Dr Minnis?
Here we go again with Oban.
EDITORIAL: The Great Game continues as Venezuela continues to suffer
What are we to make of the deteriorating and regionally increasingly perilous situation in Venezuela?
EDITORIAL: What can we learn from tragedy?
What must it take?
EDITORIAL: Has May finally got a chance of a deal?
The thorny issue of Britain’s departure from the European Union is top of the world’s news agenda again. Brexit has divided public opinion in the United Kingdom and precipitated a deep political crisis. It is also significant internationally because of the likely effects on the economies of other countries - ourselves included - arising from disruption and uncertainty in relation to trading patterns.
EDITORIAL: Time to make Debbie proud
Take a walk downtown and you’ll be far removed from the paradise idyll The Bahamas is famed for worldwide.
EDITORIAL: Jockeying for position as Trump stumbles on
Next year America prepares for several landmark events. There is the centennial celebration of women’s voting rights. There is a general election including for the office of president. And there is the once-a-decade process called the census, a process by which individual state populations are counted and surveyed to ensure there is proportionate representation in the American Congress. It appears now all three of these events will be directly related.
EDITORIAL: Hitting the next generation of students
It seems some people here in The Bahamas don’t understand what the word “loan” means.
EDITORIAL: Talking a good game - now for the delivery
It is generally accepted that globalisation is part of the reason for the rise of populism in the West. The growing support for populist extremist parties in Europe seems also to have resulted from a loss of faith in traditional political establishments and their capacity to deal effectively with either national issues or the problems of the general public.
EDITORIAL: Universal Health Care or Socialised Medicine?
WHILE Health Minister Dr Duane Sands is to be commended on his announcement regarding Universal Health Care, we, as Bahamians, need to answer some fundamental questions as to the future of our public healthcare before we go any further down this slippery slope of a single payer, income-tax funded socialised medical system, such as they have in Canada and the UK.
EDITORIAL: Fyre which burnt too many
THERE is an old saying about success having many fathers – and if that’s the case, then the Fyre Festival is the loneliest of orphans.
EDITORIAL: Time's up – we have to take action
Some realities are harder to digest than others. For Bahamians to whom conch is as much a staple as bread, the reality that the population of the mollusc is declining at an alarming rate and may be gone in 10-15 years if we continue to consume at the current rate is not easy to stomach.
