EDITORIAL: What do you mean, free speech has limits?
THE words uttered by the erstwhile hard-working, well-meaning Attorney General Carl Bethel this week “free speech has limits” should have sent chills up and down the spine of every Bahamian citizen or individual resident in this country.
EDITORIAL: Trump decisions unsettle the world
WAR is very much on people’s minds today in Washington, DC, and New York City. Maybe it is a hot topic in Beijing and Moscow, too. There is certainly concern in Ottawa, London, Paris, Berlin and Mexico City.
Remembering Sir Durward, a national hero
THE Bahamas lost a great citizen on Saturday when Sir Durward Knowles passed away at age 100. So much has been written about the man known affectionately as “Sea Wolf” in the days since and in the year of celebrations leading up to his 100th birthday that you might think it would be hard to add anything more. Yet such was the mark of the man that the more you know, the more there is to know; the deeper you dig, the greater his spirit shines; the more records you realize he holds, the better you understand that Sir Durward was far more than a sports hero. He was a national icon, the father figure for a nation eager to find a symbol of all that is good.
EDITORIAL: Broadcasting sector on verge of collapse
DESPITE the warnings on August 4, 2004, of then Cabinet Minister Obie Wilchcombe that “while government had 50 applications for additional broadcast licences for New Providence, it would have to proceed very carefully, if at all, as the market is overcrowded.” That was 14 years ago,
EDITORIAL: Brexit’s ripples will reach all the way here
DESPITE the continuing opposition in Britain of so-called ‘remainers’ following a referendum in 2016 in which a small but decisive majority voted to leave the European Union (EU), the process of Brexit is moving forward inexorably.
EDITORIAL: America's easy gun laws affect The Bahamas
AMERICAN politicians seem conflicted as to whether their second amendment right to carry firearms is more important to them than the lives of citizens who are being mowed down by those same firearms in the hands of mentally disturbed persons.
EDITORIAL: Imagination is first step to ‘fixing’ Grand Bahama
POWERFUL images of hundreds of hopefuls lined up for a government-led job fair in Grand Bahama over the weekend delivered an unmistakable message. Grand Bahama is hurting.
EDITORIAL: Tug-of-War between Trump and FBI
LAST Saturday had the potential to be one of the great news days of 2018, and it delivered on that promise. In the continuing, deepening battle between Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the US Department of Justice and the FBI on one side and American president Donald Trump and his scarred administration on the other, last Saturday could have represented a home run for either side.
EDITORIAL: The increased isolation of America
WE make no apology for returning in these columns to the issue of parochialism in some of the mainstream US media at a time when so many parts of the outside world are in turmoil.
EDITORIAL: The scandals of Trump's government
READERS with especially long memories will recall the many political or personal scandals which in recent decades have brought down or destabilised parliamentary democratic governments in England, France and Italy among other places.
EDITORIAL: Our beautiful spaces need funding
FOR years, Bahamians have used parks throughout the country without paying a penny.
EDITORIAL: Haitians must be treated fairly
IT SEEMS ironic that almost 40 years later Sir Roland Symonette’s son, Immigration Minister Brent Symonette, should be one of those faced with the “Haitian problem” and the need to amend the law to control the growing crisis.
EDITORIAL: What were they thinking?
There is no excuse for the undignified, low-brow exchange that took place in and outside of the House of Assembly this week.
EDITORIAL: Man tries to crack marijuana’s secret
LAST year Jamaican scientist Dr Henry Lowe made history when his drug, developed from cannabis, to treat acute myeloid leukemia was granted “orphan-drug” designation by the United States Food and Drug Administration.
EDITORIAL: Donald Trump's constant state of confusion
OBSERVING the behaviour of the current US President can evoke a wide range of emotions. Donald Trump can inspire disdain, disbelief, mockery, infuriation and even weariness. To be fair, he can also inspire intense positive passion and genuine admirat
