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ACCORDING TO ME: The Cuban fiasco's biggest abuser

THE Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas spoke this week on the current Cuban detainees controversy, telling the country he leads that he is both “worried” and “concerned” about our nation’s reputation – a reputation that has once again become tarnished in large part by the actions of one of his Ministers – Ministers he ought to keep in check as head of the Cabinet.

ACCORDING TO ME: War against our wallets

SEVERAL days ago, a single mother walked into a tyre shop in search of a used tyre.

ACCORDING TO ME: Rules broken, rights stolen

KILLARNEY MP Dr Hubert Minnis can return to the Monday, August 12, scheduled sitting of Parliament and be within the rules of Parliament in doing so – and that is because contrary to what everyone is being told, the Speaker failed to follow House rules regarding the naming and suspension of a Member, and thus in fact failed to have the Member suspended from the Parliament.

ACCORDING TO ME: None of our business

WHEN you hear the phrase “the business of the House” as it pertains to parliament, that business refers to our business – the people’s business.

ACCORDING TO ME: 'I spend, you owe'

WITH all the reports swirling about payola by political supporters, government compromise and the fallout over the same, it is a good time to make this a teachable moment for the average Bahamian about why the subject of government corruption matters to you and your family.

ACCORDING TO ME: Misusing national symbols

I’VE ALWAYS believed that “national pride” without knowledge about and esteem for the codified symbols of one’s nationhood is not national pride at all, but simply an emotion of form over substance draped in national colours – colours that for us are too often the incorrect ones at that.

ACCORDING TO ME: 'What can we do?'

AS Bahamians prepare to observe 40 years of nationhood, much of the focus has been on what has happened over that time period.

ACCORDING TO ME: Enemy of our state

WHEN governments identify a citizen who they allege has committed crimes against the nation, that person is referred to as an enemy of the state. Well for this column I invite you to broaden your scope of thought about that term of reference, because in a different sense here in The Bahamas, many of us are identifying the enemy of our state – our state of being, that is.

ACCORDING TO ME: Pride interrupted

I AM a Bahamian whose national pride has been interrupted. It’s been interrupted by a group of persons commonly referred to as the government, who in just 13 short months, has managed to set our country back many years.

ACCORDING TO ME: Millions for smoke and mirrors

THE 2013/2014 fiscal budget is supposed to be presented in Parliament in less than two weeks.

ACCORDING TO ME: Our children are dying while we are lying

The worst crime levels in The Bahamas are not of murder, attempted murder or armed robbery. And the worst assault taking place in our communities is not at the hands of street thugs or gangsters.

Forget 2017 – the time is now

THIS week was a particularly frustrating one for me.

ACCORDING TO ME: Politics, race and work permits

It is about time the government of the day is called out about the shameless and dangerous charade it is playing with the Bahamian people and economy regarding expatriates, work permits and the role of foreign labour in our country.

Lift up your heads

WE all know the words of our beloved national anthem penned by Timothy Gibson. But have you ever stopped to truly pay attention to those words? If you have, you may have noticed that those words hold a key to unlocking doors we have yet to open as a nation. That golden key is cut with four words: lift up your heads.

ACCORDING TO ME: Lies, damned lies and statistics

Lord Courtney’s quote refers to the twisting of information including statistics for one’s advantage. Over the past few months, the Bahamian people have been dealt one of the most untenable forms of dishonesty and disrespect their government could spin – the consistent insistence that the country’s very serious crime problem is not as bad as we and they know it to be.

Force and the police force

THE Royal Bahamas Police Force is in the spotlight following the recent police custody deaths of Jamie Smith and Aaron Rolle. Neither man died of natural causes. When it comes to discourse about police brutality and cover-ups, it is very easy to discuss the subject in terms of the usual generalisations and popular notions about policing and the Police Force.

Diary of a hurt Bahamian

I STRUGGLED to decide on how to approach this week’s column. Writing for me comes very easily, but this week it was a challenge.

ACCORDING TO ME: The Mid-Year Budget that wasn't

I BEGIN by pointing out that the government says it spent $956 million in fixed and capital costs in five months, between the period of July and December 2012.

ACCORDING TO ME: Suicide, depression and some facts

YOU woke up this morning, not that you really wanted to. It’s another day, and already you’re exhausted without rolling over yet. Sure the sun is shining outside, but all you see is gray...

ACCORDING TO ME: 50 unanswered questions

SINCE the start of the current administration’s term in office, a preponderance of unanswered questions continues to mount...

ACCORDING TO ME - Crime: we love it, so we're letting it kill us

I BEGIN with this truth – we as Bahamians say we want crime to decrease, but what we really mean is we only want certain crimes to decrease, while at the same wanting to be otherwise free to ignore the rule of law whenever doing so provides us personal benefit or pleasure.

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