SUPER Bowl XLVII was orchestrated as a contest between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers, however that contest was not the only showdown taking place. The global advertising war games were simultaneously staged during the championship event. Interest in the tradition of Super Bowl commercials has grown to such an extent that it almost overshadows interest in the …
Forging A ‘Caribbean Connection’
LAST month the Bahamas National Youth Council, a non-profit organization representing youth voices in the country, commemorated Caribbean Youth Day with a youth march and forum. President of the council Tye McKenzie publicly associated himself with rational and bold albeit unpopular positions on Caribbean integration and I salute him for doing so. It made me think, regionalism is not dead …
Loretta Butler-Turner For 2017?
EVER since May 7 when the mighty Free National Movement (FNM) came tumbling down, the name Hubert Minnis, former Minister of Health, has been floated as the inevitable next leader of the Free National Movement (FNM). The final tally left the FNM with only three members of parliament with parliamentary experience: the dinosaur Edison Key, who, safe to say, health …
Voices Of Women Must Be Heard
DURING the most recent general election in the United States of America, I came across an interesting online flyer captioned “The Republican Party Rape Advisory Chart”. It listed a set of talking points on the seven types of rape in the minds of a “Republican rape apologists.” The “Gift-From-God Rape” was aptly described by Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock: “When …
Issues Surrounding Gambling Referendum
THE referendum questions are out, and as predicted they are giving rise to more questions than answers. Do you support the regulation and taxation of web shop gaming? And, do you support the establishment of a national lottery? As I said before, no question is completely objective, and many people have observed, the web shop question contains certain assumptions that …