INSIGHT: Can the magic return to the Magic City?
Richard Coulson detects encouraging signs of a renaissance in Freeport.
WORLD VIEW: Defending rights and resisting unfair practices in Caribbean banking
In January, coincidental to my assuming the Presidency of the Permanent Council of the Organisation of American States (OAS), I met, in Washington DC, the Prime Minister of Belize, Dean Barrow, who had just taken on the responsibility of Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government.
INSIGHT: It's time for transparency
Khrisna Virgil says the Bahamas must have a non-partisan Contractor General if contentious political issues over BAMSI, the toxic city landfill and Urban Renewal programmes are to be avoided in future . . .
INSIGHT: FNM has questions to answer over Save The Bays
Today in Parliament the Free National Movement (FNM) will have to answer some serious questions.
WORLD VIEW: Informed political discourse required on immigration and trade
In the first part of this commentary on immigration and trade in politics, the focus was on the present primaries of the United States Presidential election.
INSIGHT: The FNM’s pied piper is playing the wrong tune
If the Opposition leader was trying to defend the common man at and after the Cabbage Beach protests, he got it wrong again, Stanley Cartwright says.
VIEW FROM AFAR: When some issues must transcend party politics
It was very refreshing to see the unanimous vote in Parliament on moving forward towards gender equality.
INSIGHT: Cable Bahamas rights offer disappointment
ALTHOUGH denied, it can only be a disappointment to an excellent company like Cable Bahamas that its rights offering was not fully subscribed.
World View: Trading untruths in the US presidential primaries
Trade has become an issue in the political party primaries of the US Presidential elections that holds lessons for the countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
INSIGHT: Time to do what is right for women
A foreign man married to a Bahamian woman wanting to have a family gives his view of the gender equality issues facing the country
Bahamian youth awards gain royal seal of approval
The Earl and Countess of Wessex departed the Bahamas this weekend after a whirlwind trip which saw the royal couple meet scores of young participants in the Governor General’s Youth Award (GGYA).
INSIGHT: Human development key to alleviating poverty
IN a time of economic woes and of war and decline it is imperative that the world - and particularly The Bahamas - takes a closer look at sustainable development and where it intends to progress for future generations.
Is the future of cars in the Bahamas electric?
OWNERS of a Nassau car dealership who have invested in electric vehicles have received a boost with a prediction by Bloomberg News that the 2020s will be the decade of the electric car and nearly half the new vehicles in the world would have a plug by 2040.
INSIGHT: Over-the-Hill tax talks
I UNDERSTAND that some listeners to the programme may have been offended by the acerbic tones in which I dismissed Dr Minnis’ stated programme on tax initiatives over the Hill as a “joke“ and “nonsense.”
WORLD VIEW: Would the real tax havens please stand
“IT IS tantamount to an economic blockade”. That’s how Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, described the current withdrawal from Caribbean indigenous and offshore banks of correspondent relationships by US banks. His sentiments were echoed by Deane Barrow and Freundel Stuart, the Prime Ministers of Belize and Barbados respectively.
