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A New Kind Of American Gothic
2008-07-04 08:58:00
A different kind of American Gothic:
By JAMMAL SMITH, Guardian Business Desk -
Nassau, Bahamas:
New reports suggest an increasing number of American baby boomers are watching their life savings evaporate as the stock market and indeed the economy tank. It's a phenomenon that threatens to rob them of their dreams of a home in the sun and our second home market of their once-sizable investment power.
In a new survey conducted by the American Association of Retired Persons, more than 50 percent of Americans between 55 and 64 have had to cancel their travel plans due to the downturn in the economy. That's to say nothing of any plans to buy a home in the Caribbean.
Another research study is sending just as powerful a message our way. It reveals that more than half of retired Americans cut down their 1Q spending because of worsening economic conditions. The upper-class is by no means immune, as 21 percent of wealthy 60-year-olds are also canceling, shortening or otherwise postponing v ...
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God's Work And A Multiplying Church In The Bahamas
2008-07-03 14:28:00
Splitsville—When war erupts in the church:
By KARAN MINNIS, Guardian Lifestyles Reporter -
Nassau, Bahamas:
As the saying goes: All is fair in love and war, but what about when that war strikes inside the church?
Over the years there have been countless stories of in-fighting among church leaders and the rifts that take place, which eventually leads to a split, not only in the church's hierarchy, but also amongst its members, resulting in a number of new churches being formed.
But do these breakaways end up being successful?
According to Bishop Delton D. Fernander, at New Destiny Baptist Church, Blue Hill Road, for him it has.
"I am a man of God, and over the years I have come to understand that God does things to show you better sometimes," he says. "Sometimes He does things to show you that its time to move on or to say, hey you're not seeing where I'm trying to take you. But today I am sure that it was God's will for me to create, and be the Bishop of New Destiny Bapti ...
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Grateful or Hateful?
2008-07-02 08:44:00
Time to think—Grateful or hateful:
D. Paul Reilly, For The Guardian -
Nassau, Bahamas:
As I have written about on many occasions in the past, life is all about one's 'Attitude' toward literally everything. We can all look upon anything that is happening to us at any given moment in time, it either a positive or negative way....it's a choice. This even applies to events which take place, which may appear at first glance, to actually be most detrimental to us. I guess, that it's all about our perception, how we as individuals choose to see what is actually taking place each day, as we relentlessly pursue our goals and objectives on the never-ending road to success.
As an extreme example; I recently heard a prominent Minister of Religion, who happens to be of African decent, state, and I'm quoting his exact words here "Thank God for Slavery". He was of course referring to The FACT, that he personally was very grateful that his forefathers came to The Bahamas where he was privileged ...
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Salvador Allende: His Example Lives On
2008-07-01 15:28:00
Reflections of Fidel:
HE was born one hundred years ago in Valparaiso, in southern Chile, on June 26, 1908. His father, a middle-class lawyer and notary, was a member of Chile’s Radical Party. When I was born, Allende was already 18 years old. He was pursuing secondary studies in high school in his native city.
In his senior years, an old Italian anarchist, Juan Demarchi, introduced him to the works of Marx.
He graduated with top grades. He liked and practiced sports. He enlisted for military service voluntarily, joining the Cuirassiers of Viña del Mar Regiment. He asked to be transferred to the Lancers Regiment of Tacna, a Chilean enclave in the dry and semi-deserted north, a region later returned to Peru. He completed his service as an Army reserve officer. By then, he was already a man of socialist and Marxist ideas. He was not a weak or characterless young man. It was as though he sensed that he would one day fight to the death in defense of the convictions that were alrea ...
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Bahamas Government Wants Up To Life Imprisonment [Tougher Legislation] For Child Rapists
2008-06-30 10:15:00
Gov’t Wants Stiffer Penalties For Child Rapists:
By NAVARDO SAUNDERS -
Nassau, Bahamas:
The government wants to amend the law to give judges the power to sentence child rapists to life in prison, according to Attorney General Claire Hepburn.
Speaking at the recent Chamber of Commerce 2nd Annual "Meet the Ministers Forum", Senator Hepburn said the government wants amended the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Act.
"The law as it is now, the judges are only able, where there is a first offence, to sentence up to seven years and we are now proposing to amend that so that the courts would have jurisdiction to give up to life imprisonment," she said.
"But of course not that they would get life imprisonment, but so that the maximum penalty is that and the court will have to take into consideration all of the facts of the case to determine what ought to be the proper penalty."
The government believes that in many instances the seven-year maximum sentence is insufficient, consid ...
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The United States, Europe and Human Rights
2008-06-29 09:15:00
Reflections of Fidel:
The discredited way in which the European Union suspended its sanctions on Cuba on June 19 has been reported in 16 international press dispatches. It has absolutely no economic effect on our country. On the contrary, the United States' extraterritorial laws and, thus, its economic and financial blockade are still fully in effect.
At my age and given my state of health, one cannot be sure of the time one has left to live. Nevertheless, I want to express my contempt for the immense hypocrisy of that decision. Such hypocrisy is made all the more evident by the brutal European measure to expel illegal immigrants from Latin American countries, some of which have populations which, in their majority, are of European origin. Immigrants are also the fruit of colonial, semi-colonial and capitalist exploitation.
In the name of human rights, Cuba is asked to grant impunity to those who would bind the feet and hands of the homeland and its people and hand them over to i ...
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Truth and Diatribes
2008-06-28 08:57:00
Reflections of Fidel:
We know that people living in industrialized and wealthy countries spend, on average, 25% of their income on food. Those who live in nations which were condemned to economic underdevelopment by the former devote up to 80% of their income to this end. Many go physically hungry and endure immense social disparities. Unemployment rates are usually two to three times higher; infant mortality rates are even higher, and life expectancy is as little as two-thirds that which is reported in rich countries. This system is simply genocidal.
In the reflection I wrote three days ago, I stated: "Our country has demonstrated that it can stand up to all pressures and help other peoples”. Could Europe affirm the same thing?
A UNESCO report published yesterday, June 20, states that a 2-year study conducted with over 200,000 children from 16 countries places Cuba as Latin America's number one country in terms of third grade mathematics and reading and sixth grade mathematics ...
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Bahamian Parliamentarians Updated On The Bahamas Government’s Position To The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) With The European Union (EU)
2008-06-26 20:44:00
Parliamentarians Get EPA Update:
By Sasha L. Lightbourne -
Nassau, Bahamas:
However, some – including members of Bahamians Agitating for a Referendum on Free Trade (BARF) – have argued that it amounts to The Bahamas giving up its sovereignty.
Minister of State for Finance Zhivargo Laing explained to members of parliament during a luncheon at British Colonial Hilton Hotel on Wednesday what the government’s position is on the EPA.
"We are trying to brief parliamentarians on the development, the history, the status of the Economic Partnership Agreement to date," he said.
"We need to have them understand what the consultation process is with the Trade Commission, to understand what the structure of the agreement is, to understand what the commitments and obligations The Bahamas might have in the agreement, what the commitment and obligations on the part of the European community will be, and also to try to speak to some of the concerns and fears that Bahamians may have express ...
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Alan Greenspan Spurs Concerns About Bahamas Tourism
2008-06-25 03:04:00
Greenspan spurs concerns about Bahamian tourism:
By INDERIA SAUNDERS, Guardian Business Desk -
Nassau, Bahamas:
WASHINGTON, DC — The Bahamas may have missed out on the Caribbean's most bullish tourism market ever, with no one other than Alan Greenspan telling industry insiders a record numbers of Americans headed south in March — the same month Nassau saw a decrease in the number of visitors.
Still the most revered man to hold the U.S. Federal Reserve's top post, the economist told Caribbean leaders Monday that the latest American flight data shows the highest level of traffic to the Caribbean in history.
The news came as quite a surprise, he admitted, considering the decline in the U.S. economy and the tightening effect it's had on the purse strings of Americans.
"We don't publish the data within [specific destinations in] the Caribbean, but the suspicion is its dispersing over the wide Caribbean," Greenspan explained. "I was surprised to see latest data shows it's only ...
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The Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) Extended Two Years... It Will Ultimately Be Replaced With A Reciprocal One In Keeping With World Trade Organization (WTO) Standards, Forcing Caribbean Nations To Lower Or Remove Duties On U.S. Goods
2008-06-24 06:15:00
PM—CBI extension won:
By INDERIA SAUNDERS, Guardian Business Desk -
Nassau, Bahamas:
WASHINGTON, DC — Bahamian exporters can now breathe a sigh of relief with Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham announcing a two-year extension to the Caribbean Basin Initiative, likely just enough time for the creation of a reciprocal trade pact to replace it and satisfy South American countries calling for a level-playing field.
In an interview with Guardian Business yesterday, Ingraham said last week's Caribbean Heads of Government meetings with Charlie Rangel, chairman of the House of Representatives Ways and Means committee, were quite productive. Anxiety the CBI would fail to win that extra time has apparently now been eased ahead of the U.S. elections in November.
"It's been extended (and) the (change in) administration will not affect it because it's an act of Congress," he said. "CARICOM and The Bahamas continue to seek to get improvement to the benefit, but the existing arrangement will ...
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God And The Homosexual
2008-06-23 07:43:00
God Loves The Homosexual:
Homosexuals are human beings and certainly, without a doubt, God loves them all. God does not like homosexual practices, but he did come to earth to die for all, including the homosexual. John 3:16 says "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."
God's love to us is unconditional. However, we must accept his love and allow the transforming power of his love to make a difference in lives. I love the way God deals with sinners and hurting people. He accepts us where we are, then empowers us to transform our lives. In other words, God's unconditional love is not transforming until we open our hearts and minds to Him. God will never force us to do or be anything. Yet, he still loves us.
Over the years I have dedicated this column to the healing of individuals and families. I am writing about homosexuality because there are many homosexuals and lesbians in our co ...
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The Elephant and The Ant
2008-06-19 14:24:00
REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL:
IT would seem there's no topic worthy of addressing that would not bore our patient readers, after the “Round Table” program of June 12, which dealt with the new edition of a book published in Bolivia 15 years ago, featuring now a prologue I wrote. During this program, an introduction was also read written at a later date by Evo Morales and a message from the prestigious Argentinean writer Stella Calloni, to be included in an upcoming edition. I had carefully chosen the information I used for that prologue.
A powerful internationalist spirit, which had its roots in the broad contingent of Cuban combatants who participated in the anti-fascist struggle of the Spanish people and made the best traditions of the world worker's movement its own, had developed in Cuba in the first years of the Revolution.
We are not in the habit of publicizing our cooperative efforts with other peoples, but it is at times impossible to prevent the press from mentioning it. Our c ...
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The Plague Of Prostitution In The Bahamas And Caribbean
2008-06-18 07:49:00
Prostitution rings a growing problem:
By JASMIN BONIMY, Guardian Staff Reporter -
Nassau, Bahamas:
More than two dozen illegal immigrants have been arrested and deported in the past six months for suspicion of prostitution, but officials admitted yesterday that it is just a glimpse into a much larger problem.
Director of Immigration Vernon Burrows told The Guardian that his department has received reports about non-Bahamian nationals participating in local prostitution rings.
"There is not a significant number," said Burrows. "The Department of Immigration has made some arrests ourselves of some 31 females, not all at once, but over a period of time, who might have been involved in prostitution. There is no significant number but we believe there is far more than we detected."
In the past year, two major busts involving prostitution dens that specialize in supplying 'johns' with non-residents have occurred in the capital. Most recently, a brothel on West Bay Street was shut ...
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Bahamas: 9.3% of the country’s population represent the face of Bahamian poverty
2008-06-16 22:02:00
Poverty On The Rise:
By Candia Dames -
Nassau, Bahamas:
More and more Bahamians are buckling under the weight of the rising cost of living and slipping below the poverty line in The Bahamas, a senior government official has confirmed.
The worrying situation comes amid ongoing concerns about food and fuel prices, which continue to climb.
Minister of State for Social Development Loretta Butler Turner told the Bahama Journal that her ministry has updated the 2001 Bahamas Living Conditions Survey, which showed that an estimated 27,000 people or 9.3 percent of the country’s population represent the face of Bahamian poverty.
The 2001 report determined that the minimum amount of money needed to purchase adequate low-cost meals with allowances for non-food needs was estimated at $7.84 per person.
This translates into an annual poverty line of $2,863 per person.
Mrs. Butler Turner said more people are slipping below this line, which is why the government increased its allocation fo ...
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CHE IN 1959
2008-06-15 19:27:00
• From 1959, the heroic guerrilla became one of the central leaders of the revolutionary process as a result of his proven determination, versatility and abilities and because of the dynamic of the tremendous events resulting from the aggression against Cuba • Héctor Rodríguez Lompart recalls Fidel Castro’s strategy for combating the blockade that is now more than 45 years old, and the role played by Che, who would have been 80 years old on June 14
BY GABRIEL MOLINA:
• THE Cuban Revolution has always been forced to defend itself from the hostility of the U.S. government, as far back as the days of the Sierra Maestra.
As early as March of ’59, just three months after the triumph of the armed struggle, then-Vice President Richard Nixon left a meeting he had held with Fidel in Washington and convinced President Eisenhower that action had to be taken to overthrow him.
That same year, the United States persuaded the British government to cancel a sale of Hunter fighter pl ...
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The Bahamas Christian Council Has Done, or Is Doing Very Little In The Way of Providing Moral and Spiritual Initiatives for The Uplifting of the People of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas
2008-06-14 20:06:00
Is the BCC failing?
By SHAVAUGHN MOSS, Lifestyles Editor -
Nassau, Bahamas:
The recent abrupt change in leadership, and the silence of the Bahamas Christian Council (BCC) on major social issues facing the nation is cause for grave concern to its effectiveness, according to Reverend J. Emmette Weir, serving pastor at Our Saviour Lutheran Church, East Sunrise Highway, Freeport, Grand Bahama.
"The Christian council has done, or rather, is doing very little in the way of providing moral and spiritual initiatives for the uplifting of the people of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas," says Weir, a former BCC president.
"What are the reasons for the deafening silence of the council on the major and most serious moral, social and spiritual issues now?" he asked. According to Weir, the BCC is the major ecclesiastical body in our young nation, charged with the sacred responsibility to safeguard the moral and spiritual moorings of the community.
Sudden change in leadership
According to ...
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The Promised Universal Catastrophic Health Insurance Scheme For Bahamians
2008-06-13 11:03:00
Catastrophic health insurance:
By KRYSTEL ROLLE, Guardian Staff Reporter -
Nassau, Bahamas:
The government intends to introduce a universal catastrophic health insurance scheme, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham announced yesterday in the House of Assembly.
The scheme will benefit all Bahamians who are inflicted with a serious illness and require major surgery or medical attention.
"You should have national insurance coverage in The Bahamas with no exemptions for all persons -- fat people, skinny people, sick people, well people, those with diabetes and those with high blood pressure, etc., whoever they are, to be able to ensure that if there is a catastrophic illness, you can have medical care taken care of by a national insurance scheme," said the PM.
While he did not give a time frame when the initiative would be brought into force, Ingraham said the government will begin to work on it as soon as they implement the National Drug Fund.
Last week, Health Minister Hubert Minni ...
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Bahamas Seek Alternatives For Imported Food Staples
2008-06-11 22:50:00
Alternatives Sought For Imported Food Staples:
By Tameka Lundy -
Nassau, Bahamas:
As the price of staples like wheat, corn and rice balloon in some cases out of the reach of the world’s poor, agriculture and fisheries officials have been huddled in talks about how to use another starch as a substitute for local consumption.
Planners are now advocating that the cassava can become a crucial food item as the government attempts to address the matter of food security, an issue that has dominated worldwide attention.
Agriculture and Marine Resources Minister Larry Cartwright is backing efforts to bolster a viable cassava industry.
"This is not a new crop, but we can do so much more with it," he said. "As a nation, we face the unfortunate reality of our major staples being imported products such as wheat, corn and rice. Cassava is ideally suited as a substitute for these products, both for human consumption and for animal feed."
Cassava can be used to make chips, flour and pan cak ...
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Profile Of The Bahamas' Prison Population
2008-06-10 22:28:00
Prison Report Details Population Makeup:
By Macushla N. Pinder -
Nassau, Bahamas:
A profile of the inmate population at Her Majesty’s Prison reveals that nearly 2,560 people were admitted to the Fox Hill facility last year, the majority of whom were on remand.
According to the prison’s 2007 annual report, 1,741 or 68 percent of the 2,556 people sent to the prison were on remand.
The remaining 815 people (32 percent) were sentenced.
Thirteen percent of those sentenced were sentenced for the first time. Nineteen percent were recidivists.
The majority of prison inmates are assessed within 24 hours of arrival, according to the report.
Upon completion of an inmates’ initial assessment – which may include but is not limited to their academic proficiency testing, special skills assessment, psychological screening and also ascertaining their vulnerabilities and weaknesses – an appropriate sentence plan is produced if the inmate is sentenced.
A breakdown of offenses and in ...
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Bahamas: Minister Rejects National Lottery Suggestion To Fund Education In The Islands
2008-06-09 11:44:00
Education Minister Rejects Nat’l Lottery Suggestion:
By Viraj Perpall -
Nassau, Bahamas:
Minister of Education Carl Bethel has denied that the government plans to establish a national lottery over the next 10 years to fund education in The Bahamas.
The statement that the government will establish a national lottery is contained in the latest draft of a new plan for education, which the Bahama Journal has obtained.
Mr. Bethel confirmed that the Ministry of Education is completing a 10-year education plan but indicated that he is not aware of any plans to fund education through the means of "legalized gambling."
"As minister of education I have no knowledge of this," Mr. Bethel said.
"When I got to Education I met discussions in the Department of Education about the development of a 10-year plan that had been going on for at least 10 years. I set up a strategic group within the ministry and they are now in the process of engaging internal focus groups with stakeholders, with t ...
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The empire’s hypocritical politics
2008-06-07 13:38:00
Reflections of Fidel:
IT would be dishonest of me to remain silent after hearing the speech Obama delivered on the afternoon of May 23 at the Cuban American National Foundation created by Ronald Reagan. I listened to his speech, as I did McCain’s and Bush’s. I feel no resentment towards him, for he is not responsible for the crimes perpetrated against Cuba and humanity. Were I to defend him, I would do his adversaries an enormous favor. I have therefore no reservations about criticizing him and about expressing my points of view on his words frankly.
What were Obama’s statements?
"Throughout my entire life, there has been injustice and repression in Cuba. Never, in my lifetime, have the people of Cuba known freedom. Never, in the lives of two generations of Cubans, have the people of Cuba known democracy. (…) This is the terrible and tragic status quo that we have known for half a century – of elections that are anything but free or fair (…) I won't stand for this inju ...
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The Bedroom Business Of Christians
2008-06-06 11:52:00
What Christians do in their bedroom is their business:
By Nadine Thomas-Brown, Guardian Lifestyles Reporter -
Nassau, Bahamas:
Jamaican Dancehall artist Charmaine "Macka Diamond" Munroe says that what people do in their bedrooms is their own business.
This comes a couple of months after she spoke to church members at City of Praise Church, Ajax St., at the invitation of Pastor Arthur Duncombe to speak at a seminar entitled "Angels By Day, Monsters By Night".
Pastor Duncombe had to defend his actions on Joy FM's "Joy In the Morning" show with Kevin Harris, when he said he was helping wives to keep their husbands from being enticed away.
Harris had taken exception to a secular artist being brought into what they viewed as sacred grounds. However, Duncombe's congregation, more specifically the women who had attended the conference, quickly jumped to the pastor's defense. "We have a lot of Christian marriages which are falling apart and sex is a very important part of marriage," s ...
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Bahamian Pastors: Legalizing gambling in The Bahamas would only cause more impoverishment and would add to the nation’s social ills
2008-06-04 22:26:00
Pastors Scoff At Plan For Nat’l Lottery:
By Viraj Perpall -
Nassau, Bahamas:
A group of pastors on Tuesday scoffed at a bid by education officials to fund education’s future needs through a national lottery.
The most recent draft of a new plan for education – which was obtained by the Bahama Journal – says the government will over the next 10 years fund education through a national lottery.
It’s an idea many religious leaders have long rejected.
"Wherever a national lottery is introduced crime goes up and there are social problems you have to address," said Lyall Bethel, senior pastor at Grace Community Church.
He said it is the church that would have to come to the rescue of the people detrimentally affected by a national lottery.
"It irritates me when people say that we are just concerned about the tithe being lost, but nothing can be further from the truth," Pastor Bethel said.
"We know that it’s us who are going to fix those families that will be destroyed. M ...
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Bahamas To Establish A National Lottery To Fund Education
2008-06-03 13:06:00
Bid For Nat’l Lottery:
By Candia Dames -
Nassau, Bahamas:
Education officials have completed the latest draft of a new strategic plan for education, saying the government will over the next 10 years establish a national lottery to fund education in The Bahamas.
"The bulk of monies in education’s budget is allotted to personal emoluments," the plan says.
"This trend will continue as it reflects the need to reward our human resources with the salaries they deserve for the import duties performed. However, for the education system to improve on a consistent basis, efforts must be made to seek legitimate and creative sources of funding which will be needed for the construction of educational facilities, the further development of instructional programmes and the purchase of tuition supplies."
Education officials also say the government will address funding issues in education by working closely with CARICOM countries to address common education challenges, thereby reducing costs. ...
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The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) With The European Union: "... holds no benefits for The Bahamas"
2008-06-02 16:01:00
Union boss weighs in on EPA proposal:
By KEVA LIGHTBOURNE, NG Senior Reporter -
Nassau, Bahamas:
Less than a week after scores of Bahamians participated in a peaceful demonstration in the city's center in protest of the government's proposed signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union, a leading trade unionist yesterday called for more consultation on the move.
Bahamas Public Services Union president, John Pinder, said the labor organization had gone on record to the government that the country was not ready for such a move, "as it holds no benefits for The Bahamas".
"We have to now get some more consultation with them on the EPA before anything happens," said Pinder, who was a guest on Island FM's radio talk show "Parliament Street".
The EPA is designed to open up trade between Caribbean and European countries. The Bahamas has not signed any part of the EPA agreement to date.
Among the concerns are provisions under the services portion of th ...
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The Christian Fight
2008-06-01 15:41:00
You must be perfect:
By KARAN MINNIS, Guardian Lifestyles Reporter -
Nassau, Bahamas:
You should not get angry. You should always be patient and always unassertive. You should not dance nor attend parties or drink.
You should not do any of these things because you're a Christian!
Stop — let's back up a minute.
These are not any of God's Commandments, but rather some of the rules that the world has placed upon the Christian population, because they profess belief in God, and is something many believers struggle to overcome as they too are human — just like non-Christians.
"I like to call this the Christian fight [because] Christians have always been held to unrealistic values," says Danielle Curry, 42, a believer who attends Faith Temple International Ministries, Madeira Street, Palmdale.
"The world has its idea of what a Christian should be and so does God, but the difference is that God understands that we are human and that we are not prefect, while society doesn't. ...
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The Need To Have Bahamians Informed About The Economic Partnership Agreement [EPA] Between Caribbean and European Countries
2008-05-31 17:25:00
Laing rejects EPA criticism:
By JASMIN BONIMY, Guardian Staff Reporter -
Nassau, Bahamas:
The minister of state in the Ministry of Finance has shot down claims that the economic partnership agreement (EPA) will shrink the local job market if The Bahamas becomes a signatory.
The EPA is designed to open up trade between Caribbean and European countries. The Bahamas has not signed any part of the EPA agreement to date.
In a recent interview with The Guardian, State Minister for Finance Zhivargo Laing denied claims that the EPA would allow foreign workers to easily enter the Bahamian job market.
"I absolutely refute it," said Laing. " I mean there are a large number of areas which we reserve in this economy now for Bahamian participation and those are areas for the most part will be reserved for Bahamian participation. It is absolutely untrue that any straw vendor, retailer, or wholesaler has to be concerned about an economic partnership agreement allowing any foreign participat ...
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USAID Reveals Its Plans For Subversion In Cuba
2008-05-30 09:03:00
Mercenary NGOs meet in Washington
• José "Pepe" Cárdenas and officials in charge of attacking Cuba have brazenly revealed in Washington how they are to squander the $45 million assigned to subversion in Cuba via "experienced" institutions, preferably European and Latin American ones
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD—Granma International staff writer—
• IN its new plans for destabilizing Cuba, the USAID is to promote the clandestine dispatch of electronic materials to the island via European and Latin American intermediaries, which will undertake the dirty work that it cannot legally do: to send agents into the country under cover of so-called humanitarian licenses in order to make on-the-ground evaluations, and to guarantee their collaborators that their activities will never be divulged, over and above the Freedom of Information Act.
Forced by the General Accountability Office to fabricate a certain image of decency in the distribution of taxpayers’ money that it has squandered to ...
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British Government Warns British Nationals About Bahamian Water Sports
2008-05-27 22:06:00
British Gov’t Warns About Bahamian Water Sports:
By QUINCY PARKER -
Nassau, Bahamas:
A top government official is issuing assurances in the face of a warning by an arm of the British government about the Bahamian water sports industry – that warning goes so far as to advise British nationals new to water sports not to rent water sports equipment.
A top government official is issuing assurances in the face of a warning by an arm of the British government about the Bahamian water sports industry – that warning goes so far as to advise British nationals new to water sports not to rent water sports equipment.
The Ministry of Tourism estimated that around 499,000 British nationals visited The Bahamas in 2006.
While the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said that most visits to The Bahamas are trouble-free, the body has warned British nationals travelling to The Bahamas about the water sports industry, which it says is "poorly regulated."
The FCO is the arm of the ...
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Martí’s Immortal Ideas
2008-05-25 20:55:00
Reflections of Fidel:
JUST a few days ago, a friend of mine sent me the text of a report from Gallup, the well-known U.S. opinion pollster. I started to leaf through the material with the natural lack of confidence given the lying and hypocritical information usually used against our nation.
It was a survey on education in which Cuba was included, although it is usually ignored. It analyzed the situation in four regions of the world: Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America. A number of Caribbean nations were included in some aspects.
First question: Are children in your country treated with dignity and respect? Positive answer: Asia 73%, Europe 67%, Africa 60% and Latin America 41%. If the Caribbean countries are included, Gallup states that in Haiti, only 13% of those surveyed responded affirmatively to that question.
Second question: Do children in your country have the opportunity to learn and grow every day? In Asia 75% answered yes; in Europe, 74%; in Africa, 60%; in Latin Am ...
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