7 articles in this issue
Erik Rolland
It is a pleasure for me, as the second President of University of The Bahamas, to write a few words to welcome and to extend well-wishes to Bahamian, Caribbean, and international scholars.
Raymond Austin Oenbring
Editorial for Volume 28, 2022
Anica G Bowe,Chenson L Johnson
This study examined characteristics of Bahamian fathers’ involvement with schooling using data from a comprehensive study on parent involvement within one Bahamian community. We triangulated data from parent survey (N = 91 males, N = 278 females) and comm... see more
William J. Fielding,Virginia C. Ballance
Corporal punishment is a common means of disciplining children in Bahamian homes. Previous studies in The Bahamas have linked the justification for its use with religious beliefs. An Internet survey employing a snowball sampling method resulted in 1,570 p... see more
Shamel Yvonne Rolle Sands,Christine Covell,Vera Caine
Nurse turnover can affect the accessibility of healthcare services, quality of patient care, and nurse well-being. Various individual and contextual factors have been found to predict nurse turnover. A growing body of evidence now suggests the emergence o... see more
Kristen Welsh,Clare Bowen-O'Connor,Mark Stephens,Zoi Dokou,Anne Imig,Tara Mackey,Andrew Moxey,Efthymios Nikolopoulos,Arno Rein,Amber Turner,Amano Williams,Layla Al Baghdadi,John Bowleg,Henrique Leite Chaves,Ancilleno Davis,Gil Guberman,Danielle Hanek,Sophia Klausner,Dmitry Medlev,Nivea Mazzoni,Ingeria Miller,Latonya Williams,Remington Wilchcombe
The catastrophic impact of Hurricane Dorian in September 2019 was unprecedented for the island of Grand Bahama. Flooding in the western portion of the island damaged pine ecosystems, inundated the soil and groundwater with salt water, and disrupted potabl... see more
Rape has been a concern in The Bahamas and the law recognizes rape outside of marriage as being a criminal offence. However, the so-called “marital rape exception” means that rape within a marriage is not treated as a crime. This has resulted in several n... see more