INSIGHT: Nottage on crime – too little, too late
ON Thursday night, Minister of National Security Dr Bernard Nottage gave a weak and poorly received national address on crime.
Why Danny might be a blessing for the parched Caribbean
The Atlantic Ocean finally got its first hurricane of the season last week, when Danny passed the hurricane test with wind speeds in excess of 75 mph and a developed eye.
INSIGHT: Face time with fearsome fish
Sharks have been in the news with a series of attacks on humans, but as Mindy Pennybacker finds, more people are wanting a close-up experience with the great marine predators.
INSIGHT: Nottage too silent on crime
LAST week, Minister of National Security Dr Bernard Nottage walked past a group of protestors in Rawson Square who are fed up with the rising murder count and the almost daily bloodletting that occurs on the streets of New Providence.
INSIGHT: ‘Let Bahamians finish Baha Mar’
As the wrangling over Baha Mar becomes ever more tense, CEO Sarkis Izmirlian wrote to the president of The Export-Import Bank of China, Liu Liange, on July 23 in an effort to break the deadlock over China Construction America holding the resort “hostage” and asking for a response to his proposals by today. This is what he wrote.
INSIGHT: Mission Implausible - Why the Allyson Adventure to China was a desperate and doomed ploy
Richard Coulson insists a Bahamian Chapter 11 procedure is the only way forward for Baha Mar.
INSIGHT: Committing to camera
The making of almost40 and film in the Bahamas
Nicole ‘Col J’ Burrows has reached a milestone in her life - on the cusp of turning 40 she has written and produced her first film. This is her (short) story about the experience.
A chapter of disaster?
The Baha Mar bankruptcy order should be granted in the Bahamas to avoid a damaging dog-fight between creditors, Richard Coulson urges.
INSIGHT: Chaos in the PLP
For the past two weeks the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) has been mired in internal chaos, with two of its members of Parliament abandoning ship in near succession, citing the party’s poor leadership as a main catalyst.
INSIGHT: The good, the bad and the ugly - A dangerous mix of tourism and crime
For generations the relationship between country's leaders and its inhabitants have straddled a Cartesian dualism, in a sense that both politician and voter interact within a single socio-economic reality from competing foundations.
Disclosure and the law
BAHAMIAN voters deserve transparency and accountability in government in tangible ways, not just lip service.
INSIGHT: Fuelling our own demise
The Bahamian government is attempting to walk a line - a line which is in fact a gulf - between climate advocate and gung-ho oil investor.
INSIGHT: Secrets and the dark ages
Three months shy of the third anniversary of Prime Minister Perry Christie’s August 2012 pledge to enforce the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act within his term, it was announced last week that the revised bill would be released for public consultation.
Three years of the PLP
ON Thursday, the Christie administration will celebrate three years in office.
INSIGHT: Rubis row spills over into recrimination
Last week, the cries of Marathon residents hit mainstream politics with the release of an independent report prepared by Black and Veatch International into the 2012 underground fuel leak at Rubis Bahamas’ service station at Robinson and Old Trail Road.
