THE KDK REPORT: Beside the dilly tree
TIM spent summers with his grandparents on the island of Andros during some of the happiest times of his life. He recalls as a child awakening to a warm, bright sunlight that boldly danced across the island sky and wrapped it in a deep red and golden yellow hue.
INSIGHT: The long walk to freedom for women in The Bahamas
THE pomp and ceremony of Parliament was on full display last week – but for the best of reasons.
WORLD VIEW: Fearless fight for climate fairness
SHOWING all the frankness that he demonstrates in his domestic politics, Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, marched fearlessly like Daniel in the Lion’s Den, when he made several demands in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt where COP 27 is being held.
THE KDK REPORT: Four feet below
WHEN obligations conflict with one another, whether it’s work versus family or friends versus other demands, it may start as little more than a slight irritation or hurdle to overcome and then quickly mushroom into what feels like an insurmountable mountain. Sometimes trying but failing to climb that mountain leads to a gut punching sense of failure where you begin to feel like there’s no way out and you’re being sucked under by quicksand. The farther you sink into the unknown, the more you feel like death is closing in and you’re drowning, just four feet below the surface.
INSIGHT: Was the House of Assembly misled?
HERE’S a name you thought might have disappeared from the political map of the world – Boris Johnson. Bear with me, though, this isn’t just about what happened in faraway Britain.
INSIGHT: Fyre, FTX and the harm to our nation
A YOUNG entrepreneur, out of his depth, losing a ton of money and injuring the reputation of The Bahamas along the way. I could be talking about Sam Bankman-Fried, whose company FTX has combusted so spectacularly in the past week or so – and I will – but let’s take a trip to the past first.
WORLD VIEW: America’s Democracy not trumped in mid-term vote
IN my commentary last week entitled, US Mid-term elections: a defining moment for the World, I pointed out that no less a person than Joseph R Biden Jr, the President of the United States of America, proclaimed that democracy is at stake in his country.
WORLD VIEW: US Mid-term elections - a defining moment
DEMOCRACY is at stake in the country that proclaims itself as the world’s bastion of democracy.
THE KDK REPORT: A Warbler in the prairie
FOR over a century, The Commonwealth of The Bahamas has been revered across the globe as a tropical paradise.
THE KDK REPORT: A Warbler in the prairie
FOR over a century, The Commonwealth of The Bahamas has been revered across the globe as a tropical paradise.
INSIGHT: Murder rate soaring - so what will we do?
I’LL be honest – I don’t really understand what the government’s strategy is when it comes to tackling crime.
THE KDK REPORT: Something in the tea
GROWING up on a remote family island with limited access to traditional western medicine led many indigenous Bahamians to find alternative natural cures for their medical ailments.
INSIGHT: Another chance for Davis to press case on climate
IT has not been a good week for the PLP government.
INSIGHT: Don’t keep your partners in the dark
AMID a falling-out between government and retailers, Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis offered a rallying cry for grocers to “partner with me”.
THE KDK REPORT: A chocolate on Sundays
THERE are certain, remote, sections of The Bahamas that are so serene and untouched that the sheer beauty of this sun-kissed landscape is utterly breathtaking.
