BY ROGAN SMITH Haitian Chargé d’ Affaires Dorval Darlier is completely out of order. There’s no other way to put it. Earlier this week, the outspoken diplomat said he didn’t believe Haitians convicted of “minor immigration offences” should be sent to prison. Instead, he told Attorney General, Carl Bethel that they should be taken to […]

BY ROGAN SMITH The United Nations has some nerve. Last week, the Office of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called on the Minnis administration to suspend deportations to Haiti following Hurricane Dorian. Apparently, the international body has concerns about the government’s immigration policy and the way undocumented Haitian migrants are being treated […]

BY ROGAN SMITH In life, it’s not enough to just say the right thing. You must also do the right thing. Case in point. Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis said all the right things during his climate change speech on the floor of the 74th United Nations General Assembly. He, like his two immediate predecessors […]

By Rogan Smith If we’ve never listened to environmentalists before, I think we need to listen to them now because, as we have learned, ignorance comes at a price. It’s been three weeks since Hurricane Dorian blew six tank roofs off of Equinor’s oil storage facility at its South Riding Point terminal in East Grand […]

By Rogan Smith I don’t know about you, but I love horror movies. Absolutely love ‘em. The thing about horror movies is that 95 percent of them are predictable. You can tell what’s going to happen. We know that the hot teen girl who wanders off into the woods alone is going to be killed, […]

Activist Dispels Rumours Haitians Being Arrested BY ROGAN SMITH Haitians from Marsh Harbour, Abaco and Grand Bahama are now faced with the terrifying task of rebuilding their lives with no money, no support system and the complete annihilation of some of their communities. Heightened xenophobia has forced many of them to remain behind in what […]

BY ROGAN SMITH NASSAU, BAHAMAS- The strike is over and the doctors have returned to work. Good. Now, they can get on with the business of taking care of people instead of holding them hostage and making unreasonable demands of the government. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court granted an injunction that compels the junior doctors […]

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. […]