INSIGHT: When will we wake up and break this vicious cycle that haunts Bahamian women?
SOMEONE once said that being a Bahamian woman was a most difficult thing.
INSIGHT: A haunting story of 39 lost souls
The Bahamas and Haiti have a complicated relationship that spans the scope of centuries.
INSIGHT: We must not turn a blind eye as the body count mounts around us
THE police-involved killing of a young man who was a suspect in a bank robbery last week has likely already fallen off everyone’s radar. And why not – isn’t it just another young thug - just like the rest of them? A bunch of lawless young bandits driving up the crime rate and making our communities less safe? Sure, that’s one way to look at it.
WORLD VIEW: As Haitians suffer the world stays silent
ON February 20, the UN Security Council received a grim report of deteriorating human rights and collapsing rule of law in Haiti. The troubling situation includes widening malnutrition, kidnappings for ransom, rapes and gang violence.
POLICE ADVICE: It’s all our job to keep to keep children safe
It is our job, our duty to keep our children safe. Our responsibility is to teach them basic safety and crime prevention.
WORLD VIEW: Guyana-Venezuela and international law
GLOBAL attention on Guyana has focused on the current campaigning for general elections due on March 2. Reports indicate a vigorous campaign with the country’s newly found resources in oil and gas very much on the minds of the contesting political parties.
INSIGHT: A long road to travel on which we need to tread carefully
NEARLY six months after Hurricane Dorian and we are still in a sobering transition period. Two islands – one on the brink of rediscovering its magic and the other comfortably thriving and contributing healthily to the Bahamian economy – both tied together by one storm’s singularly unmatched devastation.
INSIGHT: When Nygard stomped his feet over broken promises
I’m sure there’s many out there who feel like shouting Good Riddance to Peter Nygard now that he faces allegations of drugging and raping dozens of women, many under age.
INSIGHT: There are clouds on the horizon - but is it going to rain?
Donald Trump is many things. Modest and unassuming are not two of them.
INSIGHT: Minnis must have other secret deals lined up if he’s to pull this one off
LAST week’s announcement of deals in Abaco and Grand Bahama by Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis may have provided residents there hope after the devastation of Hurricane Dorian.
WORLD VIEW: Hypocrisy unmasked as OAS stands at crossroads
IF candidates were to get a prize for making the best case for why they are best suited to be Secretary-General of the OAS, María Fernanda Espinosa would have easily walked away with it when the three contenders for the post appeared before the Permanent Council of the Organization on February 12.
INSIGHT: Education is critical otherwise we're on the road to nowhere
At a time when the country is filled with challenges, the Bahamian people, while not having a shortage of problems, can’t say the same for solutions.
WORLD VIEW: Time for a new approach in Venezuela - and it may very well be played by Trump himself
WHEN is a failed policy recognised as a failure and abandoned for a new approach? That was the question Barack Obama and his administration had to confront after more than 50 years of a policy of trade embargoes, sanctions and, at one point, invasion that failed to dislodge the Castro government in Cuba. It is a question the present Donald Trump administration should be considering in relation to Venezuela and the Nicolas Maduro government.
INSIGHT: Setting sail to raise the alarm on climate change
Bahamian biologist O’neil Leadon is set to sail across the Atlantic and embark on a tour through Europe to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (SB52).
