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IN AN increasingly interconnected world in which information can be instantaneously and continuously transmitted across time zones at the click of a computer mouse, it comes as no surprise that globalisation continues to grow at a bewildering pace.
LAST WEEK, Archbishop Patrick Pinder urged the government to abolish the death penalty. Instead, in a pastoral letter from the Bishops of the Antilles Episcopal Conference, it was recommended that government should concentrate on the rehabilitation of the offender.
IN 1973, when Timothy Gibson penned the national anthem of the newly-independent Bahamas, ‘March on, Bahamaland’, the words had a hopeful ring.
“THE BAHAMAS has a proud record of press freedom and deserves our highest commendation in that regard. Public discourse, vigorous and open discussion are essential to the preservation of your thriving democracy.
WHILE THE world’s attention remains focused on the US presidential election and its immediate aftermath, another issue of international significance - the process of putting into effect Britain’s departure from the European Union (EU) - continues to cause concern and controversy.
WE agree with former National Security Minister Tommy Turnquest that it is a “waste of time” — and we might add money — for the Boundaries Commission at this late date to consider increasing the constituencies for the 2017 general election.
AFTER local authorities constantly ignored their complaints that their lives were in danger, five members of the Grand Bahama Human Rights Association turned in desperation to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights with the request that it urge the Bahamas government to “adopt precautionary measures to prevent irreparable harm to their lives.”
THE PAST week’s crime news was so disturbing it could give goose bumps the shivers.
“Ain’t yinna do it first? Den why yinna poking yer finger in my eye and blamin’ me fo‘ what yinna dun do?”
AMONGST so many superlatives, the description of Donald Trump’s victory in Tuesday’s US presidential election as one of the most extraordinary days in American political history was perhaps the most extreme.
BEFORE US Secretary of State John Kerry left for New Zealand yesterday he instructed his staff to be “as helpful as possible” to the incoming administration.
TENNYSON Wells, who could see only the financial gain, not the destruction of long line fishing to our fisheries when he was Agriculture Minister in the early nineties, seems to take the same view of the controversial $2.1 billion proposal to invite the People’s Republic of China to partner with Bahamians in our fishing industry. To facilitate this the Bahamas government pledged the lease of 10,000 acres of Crown Land at Andros for the venture.
BAHAMIANS are as protective of their waters as they are proud to be Bahamian.
IT SEEMS that the Christie government is now playing hide-and-seek with the Bahamian people in a proposed China-Bahamas Agriculture and Fisheries Initiative.
DESPITE many naysayers and critics who deride everything American, it is widely accepted that the United States of America is generally a force for good as the undisputed leader of the free world.
“THE story appearing in The Nassau Guardian under the headline ‘China in $2 bil. deal proposal – Govt eyes agri-fishery plan with Chinese in Andros – Project calls for lease of 10,000 acres of crown land’ is utterly false.
ON OCTOBER 14, one week after Hurricane Matthew cut a swath of devastation across the northwestern Bahamas, Prime Minister Perry Christie, acting in his capacity as Minister of Finance, signed an Exigency Order intended to make rebuilding
THE public is burdened today with more of PLP Chairman Bradley Robert’s superficial thinking and truth bending. In a news release issued yesterday, he warned former Baha Mar director Dionisio d’Aguilar about mixing politics with his former role as a hotel developer.
LAST week in this column, we referred to a court hearing in London about parliamentary sovereignty in face of the British government’s decision to start the process of leaving the European Union (EU) following the nation’s referendum in June.
IN 1962, the movie, The Manchurian Candidate, spurred fears that far outlasted its popularity and gave rise to a remake in 2004 starring Denzel Washington. The title character in the original version was played by Laurence Harvey, and through hypnosis and other means his mother (Angela Lansbury) and other sinister characters manipulate him to favour the interests of an unfriendly foreign power.
ALTHOUGH Bahamians have been given an assurance that there will be no politics in hurricane rebuilding, already complaints are starting to come in that — at least on Andros — the PLP are now first in line.
FOR more than a century, the word union conjured up images of valuable, even life-saving protection.
ALTHOUGH the cost of hurricane damage by Matthew is estimated at $600m, Prime Minister Christie’s administration has negotiated a $150m loan with the banks to get reconstruction started. Mr Christie specified that the condition of the loan was “that the funds would be exclusively used for the reconstruction effort”.
IN The Bahamas, we enjoy a vigorous democracy inherited at independence in 1973 from Britain as the former colonial power, we need always to be vigilant in protecting it in an uncertain world. It is all too easy to take for granted our liberty and constitutional rights guaranteed by the rule of law and judicial system which, despite its lack of efficiency and need for reform works reasonably well.
FOR five years, with lips sealed on serious matters that affect the future of the Bahamas, this government has sat on the Freedom of Information Act. If ever this Act was needed it is now.