IMAGINE living in a world where a drug-free fix for HIV/AIDS existed, or a cure for cancer, blindness, Parkinson’s, diabetes, heart disease, even Lou Gehrig’s disease. Advocates of stem cell research are driven by this vision. They say the promise of stem cell therapy is the birth of a new medical paradigm more revolutionary than the advent of the internet. …
The Circus Comes To Town
ON ONE side of the stage, dozens of volunteer actors dressed in red flaunt their enthusiasm, jeering and cheering slogans, chants and insults, across the way. On the other side, there are yellow volunteers, equally adept in their jesting and equally inflamed. The array of colour is completed with spots of green. Centre stage is set with an imaginary red …
Who Is The Best Man In Nassau Village?
A FEW WEEKS ago, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham personally distributed the Free National Movement (FNM) manifesto to each of the 38 FNM candidates on stage at a mass rally. He wanted everyone to have a manifesto in hand, because it represented the plan by which they would be guided and should adhere. I wanted to think it was ceremonial, but …
DNA makes impressive showing at mass rally
For In-Depth Review: http://www.tribune242.com/news/2012/apr/23/dna-hammers-opponents-at-mass-rally-an-in-depth/?opinion A Brief Review of the DNA Mass Rally Talkin Sense says: I must hand it to Branville McCartney BambooTown, he gave a rousing and impressive political speech tonight at the first DNA mass rally. As far as political speeches goes (which means, empty, even outlandish, promises aside, because there were lots of those) it was a …
Overcoming The Party Allegiance
I STARTED this campaign cycle annoyed by the fact that Perry Christie and Hubert Ingraham’s faces were plastered all over my constituency, considering I live far from North Abaco and far from Centreville, where these men, both leaders of their respective political parties, are offering themselves as candidates in the May 7 general election. I was fighting hard to hold …