ONE ELEUTHERA: Honouring our ancestors’ botanical legacy
SUMMER Temperatures have eased, and the days are getting shorter. Hurricane threats are lessening, and our beautiful waters are regaining their mesmerizing turquoise hue as algal blooms associated with summer heat dissipate. These occurrences can only mean one thing – we must be in November! The month is marked by one of the quintessential American holidays, which we as a nation have somewhat adopted for the celebration of its gastronomic pleasures. It is widely held that the first American Thanksgiving was a harvest feast shared by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people, an indigenous North American Tribe, in 1621. The feast consisted of indigenous game, vegetables and fruit of the Americas – turkey, cranberries and pumpkin to name just a few.
STATESIDE: The wealthy and their impact on elections
Wealth. It’s all around us in The Bahamas. It’s a key part of our nation’s basic business plan. No secret there. On New Providence, there’s wealth north, south, east and west. Private investment in this country is critical to support infrastructure and government services.
FRONT PORCH: Win or lose, Harris ran a remarkable campaign
Win or lose, US Vice President Kamala Harris has run a remarkable and near flawless campaign to become her country’s 47th and first female president. It is easy to forget how far she has come so quickly in her national public career generally, and in her brief 13-week campaign for president.
ALICIA WALLACE: Match words with actions
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) was held last week in Apia, Samoa, drawing delegations from 56 countries. This meeting, held every two years, provide an important space for Commonwealth countries to plan, exchange knowledge, and make commitments around the set themes. This year, the theme was “One Resilient Common Future: Transforming our Common Wealth”. Through CHOGM, the Samoa Communiqué of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting was produced.
FACE TO FACE: Tribune to outstanding media professionals
This special edition of Face to Face pays tribute to outstanding media professionals who received their National Honours on National Heroes Day, Monday, October 14, presented by Governor General Cynthia A Pratt. Often, journalists, reporters, videographers and photographers spend so much time gathering the news that they are overlooked, and their work taken for granted. But this year, the National Honours Committee recognised several media professionals. Today, we celebrate some of them:
PETER YOUNG: Monarch travels on to Samoa
After King Charles’ visit to Australia last week, the royal retinue moved on a few days ago to Samoa in the Pacific for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting known as CHOGM. As noted in my last column, the King was due to preside over the summit as head of this voluntary association of 56 countries. The CHOGM two-day meeting is held biennially by different member states.
WORLDVIEW: Safeguarding human rights requires more than words
IN the councils of the Organization of American States (OAS) and at least two of its associate institutions – the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Inter-American Court of Human rights (IACtHR) – much is spoken about the importance of human rights. But the words are not backed by financial support.
Baha Mar court case - and what it means for us all
OVER the past week, the story of what happened at Baha Mar in the dispute between developer Sarkis Izmirlian and contractor China Construction America (CCA) have hogged the headlines.
ERIC WIBERG: ‘Pops’ Symonette’s yacht Thelma Phoebe wrecks off Long Island, NY
In 1921, Roland Theodore Symonette, whose second wife was named Thelma, purchased a lovely, large and fast yacht and renamed her Thelma Phoebe. Later the first Premier of The Bahamas, Sir Roland (Pop) was an expert at maximising return on vessels.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Counting down to 300 years of our Parliament
IN five years, the Bahamian Parliament will be 300 years old, one of the oldest in the Western Hemisphere. (Virginia General Assembly established in 1619 was actually the first, but, unlike The Bahamas, did not remain as a consistent drumbeat of national lawmakers).
Clubs & Societies October 25, 2024
October 25, 2024
Hitting the Wall: Overcoming Mental Blocks in Performance
IN the journey toward achieving fitness or athletic goals, mental blocks often prove just as challenging as physical plateaus.
FRONT PORCH: The inability and necessity to offer mercy and forgiveness
The inability or ability to move beyond our own inner rage or anger in order to forgive another often says more about our own inner and spiritual state than it is does about those who require or need our forgiveness.
STATESIDE: If Harris wins, it will be because of Trump
This arrived in email-boxes all across the US on Monday and Tuesday, after Donald Trump worked part of a shift at a MacDonalds restaurant:
ALICIA WALLACE: Domestic abuse - time for change
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and there has been little attention to it in The Bahamas.
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