EDITORIAL: Trump under fire - and furious
Two relatively unploughed fields of battle have now opened in Washington, DC for America’s most adept media manipulator. While President Donald Trump’s public 2017 fights with critics and erstwhile friends were largely limited to TV and print media, the worlds of books and movies have now been added to the public frenzy that is the current US presidency.
EDITORIAL: Foreign challenges await for Trump
With a cold dose of reality after the peace and goodwill of Christmas and the resolutions of a new year, the current crisis in Iran is suddenly top of the news agenda while the simmering dispute with North Korea over its nuclear programme has taken a potentially significant new turn.
EDITORIAL: What next for the US rollercoaster?
What will the New Year bring for American politics? It’s hard to find two people who will agree on that suddenly existential question, but there is undeniably something stirring among voters in the United States. For a change, they are truly engaged.
EDITORIAL: We must have a vision for our country
Successful businesses nail down a vision of exactly what they want to be and work toward achieving that.
EDITORIAL: HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR READERS
As 2017 draws to a close, we reflect in this final commentary of the year on the uncertainties and challenges facing us here at home, together with fears about world conflict, as we look towards a brighter future during the coming months.
EDITORIAL: Merry Christmas to all our readers
We at The Tribune take delight in using the opportunity of our last publication before Christmas Day to send Season’s Greetings to our readers, friends and colleagues.
EDITORIAL: Solution to migration starts in Haiti
Twice in recent months, small wooden sloops overloaded with Haitians attempting to enter The Bahamas illegally have managed to slip past authorities and land on shore embarrassingly close to the back yard of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force. It was easy to point fingers and say it was the RBDF’s fault.
EDITORIAL: Uncertainty in the absence of diplomacy
In the face of endless conflict affecting an increasingly uncertain world, widespread concern about international stability and even the threat of war continues to grow.
EDITORIAL: Jean Rony's story opens our eyes
In the newspaper business there is an old adage, 1000 deaths is a statistic, the tragic death of a four-year-old is news.
EDITORIAL: After Alabama, Gillibrand's star begins to rise
The stunning win for Democrat Doug Jones in last week’s Alabama Senate election represents different things to different American political actors. US President Trump, who had held a rally in support of polariSing GOP candidate Roy Moore just before the election, typically blamed everyone but himself.
EDITORIAL: We have no real option but to play by the rules
The flurry of activity recently by the Government in connection with new pressure from the European Union (EU) against so-called tax havens is an indication of the continuing fundamental importance of the financial services industry to our nation’s economy.
Why move BEST Commission portfolio?
Thousands of words have been written and spoken about the circumstances surrounding the mysterious August 22, 2017, Gazette allegedly stripping Minister of Environment and Housing Romauld ‘Romi’ Ferreira of most of his responsibilities.
The shrinking of US foreign policy
American embassies can represent a lot of things to different people, but they generally become important when someone needs to renew a visa or replace a lost passport. For Americans overseas, there might be an invitation to a Fourth of July party celebrating the US national day.
EDITORIAL: A Royal occasion to lift the spirits
It is well known in Britain that the prospect of a royal wedding invariably raises the spirits of the nation.
EDITORIAL: Sol Kerzner proposed for Heroes’ Day nomination
LUXURY real estate broker Mario Carey in considering this country’s heroes has suggested that on Heroes’ Day next year, Sir Sol Kerzner should be nominated.
