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EDITORIAL: Gangs win, we lose, time to stop talking and take action

‘We are an armed and dangerous country and we should be mightily afraid of what we have become…’ WHEN the fear of crime is so great that it keeps people locked behind doors afraid to go out after dark, imprisoned by their own burglar bars, the time for talking is over.

EDITORIAL: Bahamian airlines no longer taxed to fly over our airspace

IT WAS announced by government last week that at long last Bahamian aircraft will no longer have to pay the US Federal Aviation Administration overflight fees to cross its own islands.

EDITORIAL: Heavy price paid for ‘sovereignty’

THERE are varying opinions about the first signs that Baha Mar might be starting to move towards a long delayed opening.

EDITORIAL: The Lucayan Sea would truly recognise Bahamian waters

EVERY once in a while, an idea is proposed that makes so much sense you wonder why no one thought of it before. Naming the waters of The Bahamas the Lucayan Sea is one of those ideas.

EDITORIAL: A young man of principle leads a movement

IT WAS refreshing to hear a young Bahamian tell his followers that they could not expect “an administration to be accountable and follow the law, if we ourselves are not going to follow the law.”

EDITORIAL: Murders continue, but the PLP has a plan

NATIONAL Security Minister Bernard Nottage must have been carried away with the wild beat of the junkanoo drums during New Year Day’s Junkanoo Parade when he told our reporter that Bahamians would agree that the PLP government has the best policies to fight crime and improve people’s lives.

EDITORIAL: Foundation started for paediatric health care

ON FRIDAY, Tribune President Robert Carron announced The Tribune Media Group’s establishment of the Aidan Roger Carron Children’s Foundation to make available to our medical profession the latest information, equipment and whatever is needed to assist them in their fight against paediatric diseases in The Bahamas.

EDITORIAL: An uncertain world going into 2017

WITH THE onset of a new year, world politics are now dominated by changes set in train during 2016. All eyes are on America and Russia, the Middle East and the future of the European Union.

EDITORIAL: Potential voters turned away because of dress code

WITH the 2017 election deadline only four months away, there is growing concern that Bahamians are so turned off by their politicians that they are not registering to vote.

EDITORIAL: Las Vegas and the Bahamas Cabinet

THE Cabinet of the Bahamas and Las Vegas have a lot in common.

EDITORIAL: Thanks to those who helped bring Christmas cheer

ON BOXING DAY, hundreds of under privileged children crossed Paradise Island bridge — many of them for the first time — to attend the Santa Claus Committee’s Christmas party organised especially for their enjoyment.

EDITORIAL: Standard & Poor’s Christmas gift to The Bahamas

WHAT a gift to be dropped into The Bahamas’ Christmas stocking a mere five days before Christmas!

EDITORIAL: The gift of selfless giving this Christmas

“It is because people feel they can make a difference that they do.”

EDITORIAL: Time for Dr Minnis to step down

TODAY’S politicians don’t seem to understand that Bahamians are no longer impressed by their promises, yet they continue to throw out the attractive-sounding bait still believing that there are enough voters out there of borderline intelligence to bite.

EDITORIAL: Time for Opposition to get its act together

ON a radio programme over the weekend, FNM Leader Dr Hubert Minnis described himself as the “people’s candidate”. He dismissed FNM House Leader Loretta-Butler Turner as the “Queen’s candidate”.

EDITORIAL: Who’s naughty, who’s nice...

It’s the holidays and that means we get to rub our hands together, scratch our chin, ponder awhile and pronounce who’s been naughty and who’s been nice in 2016.

EDITORIAL: Put your country first, Dr Minnis

FROM TIME to time, one hears the suggestion that the Westminster system of government does not suit The Bahamas. In our opinion, the only reason that it doesn’t suit The Bahamas is because we don’t understand it and have, over the years, bastardised it.

EDITORIAL: Will the European Union collapse?

RECENT events affecting the European Union must be causing concern in Washington.

EDITORIAL: Is the era of Minnis now over?

“THE era of Ingraham is over,” declared a self-satisfied Hubert Minnis who inherited the FNM leadership from former prime minister Hubert Ingraham, who resigned his North Abaco seat after serving as prime minister for 15 years – three terms.

EDITORIAL: Govt’s due diligence of CTFE must be thorough

AS a Bahamas government delegation jetted to Hong Kong over the weekend, to meet with and conduct a due diligence investigation of the conglomerate that wants to purchase Baha Mar, it would seem by announcements being made in Nassau that the trip is only a formality.

EDITORIAL: Time to pull the plug on BPL deal

ON SUNDAY, as hundreds shouted and cheered the sailing at the Best of the Best Regatta at Montagu Park and as others revelled in the elite world of Albany with golf greats like Jordan Spieth, Bubba Watson and Tiger Woods vying for a $3.5 million purse, the Bahamas must have seemed from the outside to be idyllic.

EDITORIAL: The passing of a dictator

TO BE instantly recognisable worldwide by one’s first name or initials is a unique testament to fame or notoriety.

EDITORIAL: Bahamas Police Force needs help with crime

IN 2010, the Cayman islands brought in British police to tackle a rise in gang-related crime that business leaders feared could hurt the territory’s image as a safe financial and tourist destination.

EDITORIAL: After the march, what next?

ON Friday, November 25, history was made in The Bahamas.

EDITORIAL: Fred Mitchell now confronts a new political duck

WHILE Prime Minister Perry Christie attempted to extend a hand of cooperation to the many Bahamians who have lost faith in his government, his arrogant Foreign Affairs Minister, in an audio recording released on social media only hours before the organised demonstration was to begin, forbade his party’s supporters to attend. Despite this warning three Cabinet ministers did attend.