The decision to ban sugary drinks in our public schools is a step in the right direction, but sadly that alone will do very little to curb obesity and prevent children from developing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes and hypertension. According to the Bahamas Government, 42 per cent of children are either overweight or obese. […]
I don’t know about you, but I don’t like people telling me what I want to hear. I like to hear the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Even if it hurts. In the past few months, officials at Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) have been doing just that – telling us […]
By Rogan Smith Hearing Loretta Butler-Turner admit that female politicians don’t receive the same level of respect as their male counterparts regardless of what they bring to the table didn’t surprise me at all. But, it sure did hurt to hear it nonetheless. The former Opposition leader, who has experienced firsthand what life in politics […]
Here we go again. Leslie Miller is back in the news. It seems his time away from frontline politics has not dimmed his ambition, his temper or his threats. The former Tall Pines MP, who lost his seat in the 2017 General Election, recently blasted the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) for its decision not to […]
It’s difficult and incredibly painful to witness the current state of affairs over at the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC). The company, which once sat atop the utility food chain, has been dying a slow death ever since it lost its mobile monopoly. The move paved the way for BTC’s competitor, Aliv to enter the market […]
Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) is really coming across like the electric company version of rapper P. Diddy. Because when it comes to these power outages, it’s a clear case of can’t stop, won’t stop. I think by now every New Providence resident is fully aware of what is going on with BPL. Talk shows, […]
Discussions About Pride Event Prove The Bahamas Is Changing By Rogan Smith I never thought the day would come when The Bahamas would be seriously considering a gay Pride parade. Times have certainly changed. Transgender activist, Alexus D’Marco announced this week that a working group called Pride Bahamas has been formed to stage lesbian, gay, […]
NASSAU, BAHAMAS – A man was killed and a child hit by a car during a drive-by shooting in an inner-city area yesterday afternoon. Two days before that,14 people, including minors, were sprayed with bullets at a birthday party in Montell Heights, and two days before that, two men were shot to death execution style. […]
By Rogan Smith If ever we needed a reminder that The Bahamas is a developing country, we got it this past weekend after thousands of New Providence residents were left in the dark and forced to contend with the sweltering heat conditions due to Bahamas Power and Light’s (BPL) load-shedding. Residents were somewhat hopeful that […]
To avoid mishaps, the London Underground has long provided “Mind the Gap” visual and auditory warnings to passengers to be careful when crossing the gap between the station platforms and the trains. Is this relevant to The Bahamas? It should be. We would do well to identify and mind the gap or gaps that can […]
Definitions of “national interest” appear to be as numerous and varied as grains of sand on a beach. In the fast-paced, heavily contested, climate, terrorist, arms-race, greed-challenged 21st century, the “national interest” is a political and personal football that is being kicked about to the point of irreversible deflation. In the national interest game, the […]
I read recently with delight that the Bahamas’ Public Hospitals Board (PHB) had invited the renowned Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM), a formidable name in health care, to explore the possibility of partnership, which would bring to bear JHM’s “wherewithal, experience, talent and resources to elevate the operations, infrastructure and environment of the public hospital institutions […]
My family on both sides were out island people—Long Island, Eleuthera and Cat Island. The island I got to know best was the latter. My maternal grandfather, George T. Smith, an Eleuthera man and a headmaster, was posted at Port Howe, Cat Island for 17 years. Over time, my elder sister and I would be […]
In The Bahamas, for the first time since the global financial meltdown of 2008, we are beginning to see the first buds of real forward movement in development programmes, particularly in areas where it has been lacking in crucial areas of our economy and society. None but the most giddily optimistic could have said that […]
I was honoured to be a guest on a new radio show on 2019’s International Women’s Day (IWD). I was even more gratified to be in the fine company of the woman host and the two other guests—another woman and a man, all of whom were highly knowledgeable and engaged. Better still, it was clear […]
Did you ever play the board game “Snakes & Ladders”? I did. What I remember best about it is feeling exhilarated at one moment and teeth-grinding frustration the next. You see, the object of the play, as with all board games, is to get from the start to the destination before all other players and […]
Evolution, transition, conversion, transformation, revision, alteration, adaptation, modification—all these are words that speak of change—changing from one situation, form, state, system, method to another. We do so by an infinite variety of ways—making new laws, amending existing ones, effecting a revolution in mindset for the most part. If we break it down to bare bones, […]
Just last week Japanese Olympics minister, Yoshitaka Sakurada, was forced to apologize for being three minutes late to a parliamentary meeting. According to news sources, the minister’s lateness was not well received by his colleague ministers, who considered the act “disrespectful.” While Sakurada is no stranger to controversy, the public nature of what seems to […]
