Op-Ed   The joy of mercy Easter is the joy of mercy. The Passion of Christ from Maundy Thursday to Easter dawn is the summit revelation of Divine Mercy in Christianity. Jesus soothes the feet of apostle companions whom he knows will deny, betray and abandon hi...     The conversion of Bill Clinton President Bill Clinton, the world’s president, may have taken a vow to improve his health to continue his mission of saving this world after his two mandates as president of the United States. He has engaged lately in a rigorous diet that excludes...     Holy Week promises hope Today marks the third day of Holy Week. As many Bahamians are aware, Holy Week is observed on the Christian calendar every year commemorating and focusing on the travails as well as eventual death of Jesus Christ. It marks the culmination of the Le...     Consider This: What might have been Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time re-written every line? – Barbra Streisand   In some respects, the story of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) closely parallels that of The Bahamas. As part of The Bahamas until the mid...     Export-led growth? Who will lead in the Caribbean? A huge burden is presently placed on the private sector in the Caribbean. In the midst of steady economic decline of many Caribbean countries, governments have turned to the private sector to continue to earn foreign exchange, to keep down prices fo...     We will remember Hugo Chavez I saw Hugo Chavez in action when I visited Venezuela in April 2010 for the ninth ALBA summit and to participate in that country’s celebration of 200 years of independence. Two hundred years before my arrival in Caracas, a gentleman called Simon Bo...     Christie and PLP cannot be trusted on oil Imagine this two-part scenario, the very implausibility of which makes it even that more instructive. During a British general election, it is revealed that the leader of the opposition and the deputy leader of the opposition party served in some co...     Industrial production of hemp I recall reading several articles in the St. Lucia Press advocating the cultivation of hemp as an economic enterprise.  I do not know what progress has been made in this regard, but suspect that it has been mistakenly caught up in the crusade ag...     Belief in Bahamians and the immigration policy Public debate has been sparked since minister of foreign affairs and immigration made his statement during the mid-year budget communication.  The media, political opposition, private enterprise and citizens alike have expressed their views eith...     Reforming our taxes, pt. 4 In part one of this series, we considered whether the time had come to reform our tax system in The Bahamas in light of record high fiscal deficits of the last two years, the rapidly increasing national debt required to fund those deficits and the ne...     «StartPrev12345678910NextEnd» Page 5 of 15