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ALICIA WALLACE: Lessons we could learn from MLK

Monday, 19 January, 2026 was Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

KDK REPORT: Innovation making modern times in The Bahamas most promising for medicine

THE START of a new year carries with it the promise of opportunity.

INSIGHT: Time to make your own list of issues, as the clock ticks down to elections

THE START of the year in The Bahamas is always a strange time. You barely get in your stride after New Year when suddenly there is another holiday – Majority Rule. It almost seems as if every year has a delayed start.

DEREK SMITH: Corporate resilience means risk more than compliance

In the 2025 Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report, 33 percent of companies faced fines that damaged their financial health, while 30 percent reported reduced business performance and 29 percent experienced higher costs due to customer notifications resulting from cyber-related risk exposures.

ERIC WIBERG: The "other" history of wrecking in The Bahamas

HISTORIAN Jim Lawlor points out in his 2021 study “Wrecked Emigrant Ships in The Bahamas: The Wreck of the Barque William and Mary,” in the Bahamas Historical Society’s International Journal of Bahamian Studies, that Bahamian wreckers are often depicted as rapacious, greedy, and ruthless.

FRONT PORCH: The luminescence of Patricia Glinton Meicholas

IN LIFE and death Patti Glinton Meicholas was luminescent.

STATESIDE: Midterms, the president, and ducks: what does the future hold?

WE'RE soon going to become much more familiar with the term ‘lame duck.’

ALICIA WALLACE: When help is needed, understand the forms of bystander intervention

THERE is a video recording of what appears to be sexual assault that has been circulating over the past few days.

Op-Ed: Bahamian-born lawyer fighting scourge of human trafficking one victim at a time

The Month of January has been recognised as National Human Trafficking Prevention Month in the US

DIANE PHILLIPS: Saying goodbye was a beautiful thing

On Monday, the sea that had a slight chop only a little while earlier laid down flat, like a turquoise blanket as if to open its arms for what it was going to receive, the ashes of two family members.

200 years of wrecks across the north central Bahamas (especially the Devil's Backbone!)

INNUMERABLE wrecks have occured in the north-central Bahamas, from the Berry Islands to Eleuthera and the Exumas. Here are a sample across roughly 200 years.

Fraternity's Clean Slate 100 initiative unlocking economic reintegration

FOR the Delta Epsilon Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., the launch of Clean Slate 100 represents more than just a social justice initiative.

KEITH ROYE II: Clear eyes critical on business automation

Business automation has become the ‘buzzword’ of the day among Bahamian entrepreneurs, promised as a silver bullet for efficiency and profitability.