On August 23, former Governors General, H.E. Sir Orville Turnquest and H.E. the Hon. Arthur Hanna were formally installed as members of the Order of the Nation. Right thinking Bahamians celebrated the long overdue award. These gentlemen had spent the better part of six decades contributing to the development of our nation. However, there was […]
The children of Bain and Grants Town were all smiles on Saturday as they were treated to a fun-filled back to school Jamboree by Member of Parliament for the area Travis Robinson. Robinson partnered with private corporations to donate school supplies to thousands of children during a block party on the Sir Milo Butler park […]
During a recent encounter with a former colleague and friend, I was saddened to learn that she was mourning the passing of her young grandson. Tragically, as the boy made his way to school, his life was ended by a gunman firing shots in a suspected drug deal gone wrong. The innocent child was simply […]
Worrywart: a person who worries too much, who worries about things that are not important, or a person who is inclined to worry unduly. ~ Merriam Webster Dictionary Imagine going to a bank to take out a loan to pay a debt that you are unsure will ever come. Doesn’t seem like a sensible […]
If you are among the living on planet earth, chances are that, at some point in your life, you have faced opposition to accomplishing goals that you believed to be noble. Perhaps you were promoted or assigned a task at work and have had a difficult time completing it, owing to uncooperative co-workers. Or maybe you […]
The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas’ (NAGB) controversial “We suffer to remain” exhibition came to a close Sunday, with a moving rendition of Sonia Farmer’s poem ‘A True and Exact History’. Eleven cultural champions loaned their voices to the stirring performance. Artists and collaborators in the project said, they were left feeling “stunned and angry” by the British […]
“Into each life some rain must fall.” This well-known quote is taken from a poem entitled “The Rainy Day” written by American poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. At the outset, the tone of the three-verse poem appears to be rather gloomy. The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is […]
Baby Boomers will fondly remember Mork and Mindy, the sitcom of the late 70s and early 80s, which brought then-unknown Robin Williams to national fame. The late comedian starred in the series as Mork, an alien from the planet Ork, who comes to earth to learn more about human behavior. Although they looked like us, […]
There is an adorable video making the rounds on social media of a little African-American girl who has been discovered by her mother with crumbled pretzels in her hair. After a lengthy discourse aimed at talking her way out of punishment, the kindergartener finally admits to her mother the reason she did the deed. She […]
“Excuses are tools of incompetence built on monuments of nothingness and those who indulge in their uses are seldom capable of anything else.” I first heard this poem while pledging for the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. It was customary for our big sisters to give us seemingly impossible tasks to complete, and we were not […]
There are five basic questions that rule the world. These questions control what we do when we wake up in the morning, and why we go to work or enter an educational program to gain degrees. They control our environment, economy, and everything we seek to achieve. The same questions control the man in the […]
Has anyone noticed how costly it is to travel with excess baggage these days? Airlines facing financial pressure to offset the cost of rising fuel prices have resorted to charging excess baggage fees to passengers wishing to check one or more pieces of luggage. Nowadays, some are even charging for carry-ons. While many airlines will […]
