INSIGHT: Governments have ignored senior police advice over the years
Based on his 30 years experience as a police officer Paul Thompson begins a series looking at why the Bahamas is in the state it is today and what lessons should have been learned
INSIGHT: Take it or leave it - the Baha Mar deal
Malcolm J Strachan doubts that former Baha Mar employees will be paid what they are owed in full come settlement time at the end of the month . . .
INSIGHT: The truth about the Baha Mar payouts
In debating the pending Baha Mar payouts, let’s recognise one good thing amidst the surrounding sea of errors and deception: former Baha Mar employees (about 2,000 of them) will soon be paid what is owed to them.
INSIGHT: The tail wagging the dog
Questions, more questions. Malcolm J Strachan pleads for answers from the government over the Baha Mar creditors process . . .
INSIGHT: Goodwill gesture by Chinese is a sideshow
Richard Coulson explains why the $100m ‘gift’ to Bahamian creditors is doing nothing to advance Baha Mar’s revival . . .
INSIGHT: Has Perry Christie saved Baha Mar?
After all the legal manoeuvres, rhetoric and agreements, Richard Coulson doubts any progress has been made on the stalled mega resort . . .
INSIGHT: How many firms does it take to spin a lie?
Stanley Cartwright says no amount of public relations trickery - all at taxpayers’ expense - can hide the government from serious questioning over the Baha Mar deal . . .
INSIGHT: New British PM strikes positive notes on ‘Brexit’
The real work negotiating Britain’s exit from the European Union starts today with the return of Parliament, says Peter Young . . .
INSIGHT: Water torture - the drip, drip of Baha Mar dealings
Surprise, surprise. After 20 months of waiting the Government has announced a Chinese carve up of the stalled Cable Beach mega resort, Malcolm J Strachan says . . .
INSIGHT: Radio Ga Ga – URCA slammed for issuing licences like 'confetti'
Tribune Radio Ltd (TRL) has hit out at the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA), calling the agency’s “excessive and ill-advised” issuance of over 40 FM broadcast licences and its subsequent plans for a retroactive shuffling of a station’s position on the FM (frequency modulation) dial as an “outrageous and irrational abuse of power”.
WORLD VIEW: Trump’s Mississippi miscalculation
On June 26, 2011, 47-year-old Craig Anderson was on his way to celebrate his birthday when he was attacked and murdered by ten white teenagers in a parking lot in Jackson, Mississippi.
INSIGHT: And then there were none
Neko Grant’s announcement that he will not stand for re-election next year means it is now only a matter of when and how the FNM’s ‘Dissident Six’ will meet their political demise, says Malcolm J Strachan . . .
INSIGHT: All Bahamian lives matter - a solution
Terry Goldsmith, who has extensive experience in working with this country’s youth, calls for a national initiative - which would include curfews and gun amnesties - to fight the lack of respect and lawlessness dogging The Bahamas today.
INSIGHT: Ambassador gives the Haitian view on changes in immigration
The Bahamas recently changed its approach to immigration including introducing a belonger’s permit. Haitian Ambassador Jean Victor Geneus spoke to The Tribune’s Ava Turnquest about those changes and how they are failing to tackle the immigration problem . . .
INSIGHT: Where has fight in developing countries gone?
THE ease with which developed countries appoint heads of international and multi-national organisations (sometimes in the guise of an election) is not their achievement alone; it is also the fault of developing countries who let them.
