INSIGHT: Junkanoo bust up may mean an empty Bay
THE road to Bay for Junkanoo this year is proving harder than ever.
INSIGHT: Unions, Davis and timing for election
ELECTION, election, election – it’s been the talk of the past week with candidates being named and others jockeying for position.
INSIGHT: Artificial intelligence and what it means in our classrooms
THERE is a line made famous by legendary musician John Lennon, who sang: “Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.”
INSIGHT: US Ambassador for Bahamas long overdue
TO SAY the prospect of a new US ambassador has been long awaited in The Bahamas is an understatement of almost as epic proportions as the wait itself.
INSIGHT: Balancing act between constituency and party
ELECTION nomination season is proving a rough ride for the Free National Movement.
INSIGHT: The crisis we cannot ignore
THE latest warning over travel to Haiti should not be needed for anyone who has given even half a glance at the state of that nation – even more curious is that what seems to have prompted it is an incident involving a massive drug bust that left three Bahamians dead.
INSIGHT: Community-based treatment - helping the suicidal find healing
Suicide statistics in The Bahamas are at alarming levels.
INSIGHT: Are we really independent?
INDEPENDENCE this year felt a little different – and for me it was not just down to the downpour of rain that forced the schedule to be rearranged.
INSIGHT: Suicide - can we make a difference?
WHEN I was a young man, I had my first personal experience with knowing someone who committed suicide. It was inexplicable.
INSIGHT: Worrying direction for US visa policy
IT was in 2019 that a Harvard student passing through Boston’s Logan International Airport was stopped by immigration authorities.
INSIGHT: Caribbean nations need funding to recover after major disasters, but where is it?
Whitney Mélinard still remembers the moment Hurricane Maria’s winds tore through Dominica in 2017. As lightning flashed outside her window, she realised the neighbouring house had completely vanished. “I questioned, was the house there? Was it further behind? There was not a structure. There was nothing,” she recounts.
SIR RONALD SANDERS: A silent emergency: Mental health issues demand our voice, our will, our action
Across the nations of the Americas, a silent emergency is suffocating hope, stealing futures, and exacting an unbearable toll in lives lost and potential squandered. That “silent emergency” is a mental health crisis which is growing, unrelenting, and still, tragically, hidden in plain sight.
INSIGHT: What is the status of our fire services?
AFTER the fire that hit Downtown Nassau last week, and the multiple blazes that continue to affect Abaco, one thing seems very clear right now: Our nation does not have the capacity it needs to fight fire.
INSIGHT: Solutions and EMTs needed
ONE of the less heralded jobs of government is to connect the dots – the management of resources.
INSIGHT: ‘CAPAS: A stepping stone to a glorious career’
In the previous two articles, we considered why there is such an overwhelming need for a new ‘Creative and Performing Arts School of The Bahamas’ (CAPAS), examined the many benefits to be had from this new cultural and economic sector, and considered what a ‘Life in a Day at CAPAS’ might look like. But, like every training institution, CAPAS is not an end in itself.
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