EDITORIAL: Importance of democratic accountability
TO FOLLOW up our online editorial earlier this week about developing events in Catalonia, we look today at the affect on democracy of globalisation and political and economic centralisation in an increasingly interdependent world.
EDITORIAL: Nassau Needs a Mayor, City Manager
NASSAU needs a mayor. We have beat around the bush long enough and pretended that somehow this historic city could just run itself. We should have known better. Its majestic Madeira trees are suffering.
EDITORIAL: Nothing should be kept from the Bahamian people
WE agree with a statement made by Dioniso D’Aguilar last year that CTFE was an “unsuitable investment for the Bahamas.” In fact, we would go so far as to say that no touristic investment — particularly with casinos attached and having the remotest connection with Macau — should be considered desirable for the Bahamas.
Small is beautiful but the law is paramount
EVENTS in Catalonia are attracting huge international attention as Spain’s most prosperous region of 7.5 million people could declare unilateral independence within days following its illegal referendum.
EDITORIAL: Some suggestions to get our crime under control
IN THIS column yesterday we commented on this country’s mushrooming crime problem.
EDITORIAL: How can today’s growing crime be controlled?
CRIME! Is there a solution? Will there ever be a solution?
EDITORIAL: Our Sister’s Keeper
AS Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis led a delegation to Dominica yesterday to view firsthand the devastation left by Hurricane Irma, we wondered how anyone could be so cold, so callous, so hard-hearted as to believe that by helping others we deprive ourselves of the ability to help Bahamians.
EDITORIAL: The balancing act of a Bahamian politician
IT IS said that “a politician is a person running for office who flip-flops on issues as the polls change.” While the politician makes promises he might not deliver on once elected, “the statesman is a person who stands by his ideals and does everything in his power to do what he believes is right for the people of his country.”
EDITORIAL: Renewed focus on future of Europe
THE resumption of Parliament at Westminster following the long summer break, together with another round of Brexit negotiations in Brussels, has ensured that the issue of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union is once again at the forefront of the nation’s political and economic agenda.
EDITORIAL: Society must cooperate in defeating crime
“Yes, mommy, I love you too.”
EDITORIAL: The Bahamas cannot refuse Dominica
“THERE, but for the grace of God, go I!”
EDITORIAL: What US Football Can Teach The Bahamas
ON Sunday, politics dominated the football field in America, displaying a deep divide that is not unlike a quiet storm we are facing in The Bahamas.
EDITORIAL: PMH must now be brought up to an acceptable standard
ALTHOUGH the PLP government seemed to have no difficulty spending $10m in consultancy fees to set up a National Health Insurance scheme, it could not find $642,567.70, part of which was urgently needed to repair the roof of the Princess Margaret Hospital damaged by Hurricane Matthew in October last year.
EDITORIAL: Mitchell worries about legacy
WHILE Health Minister Dr Duane Sands has spent countless hours trying to discover how he is going to find the millions needed to bring the Princess Margaret Hospital up to an acceptable standard, we have Senator Fred Mitchell trying to defend the PLP’s legacy. After reading The Tribune’s front page today we are wondering what legacy there is to defend, but we leave that to our readers.
EDITORIAL: Bets on Trump not completing his first term
IT IS, paradoxically, so easy to overlook and diminish Donald Trump, despite his ubiquitous presence in the news media worldwide. It seems natural to underestimate and dismiss as a temporary phenomenon this fatuous blowhard who seems so sensationally self-absorbed and disloyal that it is a wonder he has any political allies or even business associates. Trump has proven to be a headline hog who has so debased the office of president of the United States that pundits and casual observers alike still bet privately and occasionally publicly that he will not complete his first term in office.
