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PETER YOUNG: How China spread its wings over the world - including the Caribbean
A FRIEND has kindly lent me a new book about the business activities of the Sassoon and Kadoorie families in China and Hong Kong during the last century. Entitled “The Last Kings of Shanghai”, it is written by British journalist and author Jonathan Kaufman, and was published earlier this year. Impressively comprehensive and evidently well researched, it is billed as the story of rival Jewish dynasties that helped create modern China.
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'Informal economy': 75% of SMES at disadvantage
Some 75 percent of small Bahamian businesses face a persistent competitive disadvantage because they are up against rivals in an "informal economy" that generates up to 30 percent of Bahamian GDP.
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EDITORIAL: What a difference a week makes
THIS week started with optimism from Tourism Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar about an October reopening. It ends with the grim reality that the doors of one of our megaresorts, Baha Mar, will not likely open until Christmas at the earliest.
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INSIGHT: Uncovering the early childhood traumas that lead to violence
MANY of the adolescents who are brought before the courts for minor infractions suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a pilot study conducted by leading psychiatrist David F Allen and local colleagues.
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INSIGHT: Marchar Jean was her school’s star pupil - today she’s trapped by a nonsensical system which is a stain on our nation
Sadly, unnecessarily and illegally, the life of an innocent young Bahamian in waiting is in limbo!
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Marley called it mental slavery
American hegemony and cultural domination looms large all over the world, nowhere more so than here in the Caribbean.
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PLP criticises Minnis for island selection
MEMBERS of the Progressive Liberal Party chastised Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis for not allowing Exuma, Eleuthera and San Salvador to resume normal commercial activity like many other Family Islands without COVID-19 cases.
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Still-closed Family islands bewildered
Exuma’s Chamber of Commerce president last night said he was baffled that the island has not been included among those allowed to fully re-open their economies despite having no COVID-19 cases.Pedro Rolle told Tribune Business: “No explanation was gi
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FRONT PORCH: It’s hard to hear truth in an echo chamber of whining negativity
Last weekend, the video of a young lady who had just returned home and was in government-sponsored quarantine at Breezes Hotel quickly went viral as she whined and complained about everything including the snack she was given prior to the dinner she received later.
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EDITORIAL: We must concentrate on the victims, not the politics
TODAY’S developments in the allegations against Canadian businessman Peter Nygard make shocking reading.
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INSIGHT: ‘Respect the rule of law’ - they say it but simply don’t do it
The irony of the November 2014 immigration policy launched by Fred Mitchell is that it largely targeted people who had never committed any offence under the Immigration laws.
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Gibson - victim or simply a crook? Lawyers give their final summaries on corruption charges
PROSECUTION and defence lawyers painted competing portraits of Shane Gibson yesterday, asking jurors during closing arguments to view the former minister as either a corrupt politician or a victim of nefarious plot.
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The Bahamas continues to be a nation that victimises and abuses the human and constitutional rights of people of Haitian ethnic origin
Leading human rights lawyer Fred Smith has strongly rejected the government’s response to complaints by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights about The Bahamas renewed deportation of undocumented migrants.
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INSIGHT: Lessons from the Equinor oil spill
EQUINOR, formerly Statoil, operates the old Burmah Oil storage facility at South Riding Point in East Grand Bahama.
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A PM who is as unfit for office as Mr Symonette
In the run up to the 2017 General Election, the media and the public at large were whipped into a frenzy by a supposed conflict of interest that was exposed in email exchanges between then Education Minister Jerome Fitzgerald and Sarkis Izmirlian, the original Baha Mar developer. In the emails, Mr. Fitzgerald enquired after his father’s company’s application for a contract with the resort.
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Bahamas economic model ‘upside down’
The Bahamas’ has an “upside down” economic model that is the “complete reverse” of what exists in most progressive countries, a former attorney general has charged.
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Supreme Court judge tours Bahamas Department of Correctional Services
A Supreme Court judge on Friday toured the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services as part of a prominent attorney’s bid to prove that a magistrate’s inability to grant bail is unconstitutional and results in “hundreds” of people having to endure an “inhumane” and “degrading” experience on remand.
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Son who beat mother, 81, to death loses appeal
A MAN is to continue serving his 35-year sentence for murdering his 81-year-old mother four years ago, then recording a video and taking pictures of her bedroom floor instead of immediately calling for help.
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Food for thought
Kindly afford me space in your respected columns to comment on what seems a preferred, politically perverse and pervasive public lie relative to our inability to achieve some semblance of self-sufficiency in national food production.
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Rape is violence, do not be mistaken!
Art instillation explores devastation caused by forced sexual encounters
The lingering impact of violence is long and cross-generational.
