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ALICIA WALLACE: Just plain wrong from every perspective, Mr Commissioner
THIS week, the Commissioner of Police reported there were 11 suicides in 2020, up from eight in 2019. He said this was due to people — men, in particular — being “weak”. The suggestion is absurd, offensive and incorrect.
PETER YOUNG: How free is our speech?
IN the context of ‘wokeness’, which I wrote about in a recent column, there were two interesting developments in Britain last week. One was a speech by a Cabinet minister about the Conservative values of equality and individual responsibility while the other was a report by a leading think tank about the importance of free speech in universities. These are significant issues in modern society that can affect many people – even indirectly – so they are, perhaps, worth examining further.
10222020 OBITUARIES AND RELIGION
Thursday, 22nd October, 2020.
FRONT PORCH: Don’t dare relax - behave like fools and we’ll pay a deadly price
In one of his most ominous warnings since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pleaded with world leaders and the international community:
DIANE PHILLIPS: A sporting icon from an age of real stars
Amid the obsession with lives in peril, saved or lost as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the passing of a legend who once stood for the finest in extreme sports, performance and glamour in Nassau nearly went unnoticed.
Police need our support
Can you imagine going to work each day and not being sure you’ll survive your shift and see your family again?
Tributes paid to Tennyson Wells
FAMILY, friends, and members of Parliament gathered at Christ Church Cathedral yesterday to mourn the death of Tennyson Wells, a former Cabinet Minister and BAMSI's Chairman.
Tributes paid to Lachino
A BLUE urn held the remains of little Lachino Anton Dean on Saturday as distraught relatives gazed on, trying to make sense of a life cut short.Amid the utter destruction of Hurricane Dorian in Abaco, the eight-year-old boy was one of the monster sto
‘Don’t sweep our boys’ deaths under the carpet’
THE family of Blair John, one of the two young men found dead in Italy last month, has raised concerns that authorities initially attempted to sweep the investigation into their deaths “under the carpet”.
Brother of fallen marine delivers blistering attack on RBDF
“A NATIONAL disaster” is how the brother of slain Royal Bahamas Defence Force Petty Officer Percival Philip Perpall described the circumstances surrounding his brother’s murder, as he delivered a blistering attack on the RBDF yesterday during Perpall’s military funeral.
What if?
Have you ever thought for just one moment about God’s mercies? What if God wasn’t a kind God? What if God wasn’t a good God? What if He was a maniacal despotic God? What if God relished mankind’s ineptitude in achieving success because of sin and unrighteousness? What if God wasn’t a God of love?
Beware of life in the fast lane
True biblical Christianity at it’s finest is the real deal, and offers what no other worldview offers: an empty tomb. Mohammed is dead! So much for Islam. Siddhartha Gautama is dead! So much for Buddhism. Confucius is dead! So much for the adherents of Confucius. But Jesus is alive!
Teacher walkout at SC McPherson
A RUMOUR involving the tragic death of a boy in Dairy Queen last weekend has plunged the SC McPherson school into crisis, prompting a teacher walkout Friday and a vow not to return until authorities get a handle on the conflict.
Farewell Monsignor
DURING his funeral service at St Francis Xavier Cathedral yesterday the late Monsignor Preston Alexander Moss Jr was described as a gifted preacher, great citizen, and “priest of rare gifts and tremendous talents” by Archbishop Patrick Pinder.
The CPSA's shakedown of the Minnis administration
SENIOR doctors of the Consultant Physicians Staff Association (CPSA) and the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) remain in stalemate. Notwithstanding the assurances of CPSA doctors, the ongoing industrial action has the potential of exposing gravely ill Bahamians who depend on the Princess Margaret Hospital to unnecessary risks. Most Bahamians do not have the option of going to Doctors Hospital or other privately owned health institutions, simply because they cannot afford to.
Tributes paid as Bradley Roberts laid to rest
MOURNERS filled St Francis Xavier Cathedral on Friday to celebrate the life of former Cabinet minister, parliamentarian, and Progressive Liberal Party Chairman Bradley Roberts.
PM pays tribute as Chief Justice Stephen Isaacs laid to rest
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis praised Chief Justice Stephen Isaacs as a jurist who “demonstrated a balanced and even temperament” as he was laid to rest on Friday.
FACE TO FACE: Teenage twins on a mission for ‘everyone’s grammy’
Deaconess Esther Elizabeth Neely-Brown left such an indelible mark on the lives she touched that her legacy lives on even though she died in November 2016.
