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Haiti a failed state since start

EVER since, if not before, it successfully declared its independence in 1804 following her defeat of a contingent of the Napoleonic army, Haiti has been and remains to this very day, the classical case of a ‘failed state’.

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Bahamas must turn and repent

This is a somewhat different version from the usual and laden with a series of promises by the Almighty God for the citizenry of The Bahamas, if they fail to repent and be returned to Father God, a message that I have no choice in delivering.

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Human crisis if no govt plan

The government of The Bahamas risks causing a humanitarian crisis if they do not have appropriate provisions in place to shelter and support the hundreds of people, including many children, who will be made homeless through its shanty town eviction policy.

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Campaigners warn 'world is watching' ahead of shanty home demolitions

HUMAN rights campaigners have warned that “the world is watching” as the government prepares to start demolition work on shanty homes.

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PETER YOUNG – Arab-Israeli conflict: History and background

THE media coverage of last week’s horrific atrocities in Israel committed by Hamas terrorists who penetrated the country from Gaza has been so extensive that it would be superfluous to add to it today. This outrage of unparalleled ferocity and evil that left 1,300 people dead, including children and babies, was the worst single loss of Jewish lives since the Holocaust in the Second World War, and it has shocked the rest of the world.

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WORLD VIEW: UN action needed urgently to end Israel-Hamas violence

THE attack by Hamas on civilians in Southern Israel on 7 October 2023 was as stupid as it was cruel, brutal and inhuman.

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PETER YOUNG: In the short term, the country’s energy security comes first

HAVING written as recently as August in some detail in this column about climate change, I only refer to the subject again today because it has hit the news in Britain following approval last week of a new offshore oil and gas development in the North Sea called Rosebank.

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FRONT PORCH: Mercy, rehabilitation and restorative justice

A reprinting of an article about the late former Commissioner of Police, Paul Farquharson

TODAY’S column, a reprint from 2021, is in memory of former Commissioner of Police Paul Farquharson, who died last week. He served as a police officer for most of his professional life, eventually becoming High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

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PETER YOUNG: Events in Sudan matter to the rest of the world

International alarm bells have been ringing, but the press headline on Sunday revealed all – “Special forces airlift US diplomats from Sudan”. President Biden had just announced that the US military had evacuated by helicopter diplomats and their families from the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Britain has also evacuated its diplomats amongst reports of similar action by other Western countries.

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Online civil registry disabled to help ‘protect data integrity’

The Attorney General has revealed online access to the civil registry at the Registrar General’s Department was shut down “to preserve the integrity of the data” that it holds.

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THE KDK REPORT: A Warbler in the prairie

FOR over a century, The Commonwealth of The Bahamas has been revered across the globe as a tropical paradise.

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THE KDK REPORT: A Warbler in the prairie

FOR over a century, The Commonwealth of The Bahamas has been revered across the globe as a tropical paradise.

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THE KDK REPORT: If the school bell cries

AT any given moment, our lives can change forever. Just the notion of how split-second fast it can happen is frightening.

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FACE TO FACE: The women of Sankofa Flamingo

SANKOFA Flamingo is a unique and purposeful group. It comprises Bahamian men and women with a passion for Africa. They have made it their life’s mission to connect the dots between Africa and The Bahamas. For centuries, blank spaces in the history of the black people of The Bahamas have existed.

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Religion and medicine

Ancient Medicine was practised by religious and spiritual leaders throughout the history of mankind and shows a connection between mind and body.

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PETER YOUNG: A dictator who is a threat to the world

ALL too often during a major world crisis a plethora of information and divergent opinion in the international media soon reaches saturation point. This has happened in the case of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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FRONT PORCH: The Lure and Exercise of Political Power

What Lord Acton actually said in a letter to an Anglican Bishop is: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Acton, an English Catholic, was a politician, historian and writer with extraordinary insight into political power.

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Common sense over COVID

This Covid-19 pandemic, which seems intent on cleansing an over populated planet, has presented many problems for humanity.

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Ships’ waste processor in $15m Freeport facility

A Freeport-based processor of ships’ liquid waste is planning to invest $15m in constructing a plant capable of treating 150,000 metric tonnes per year, it has been revealed.

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Fiasco in Afghanistan

The decision of great powers have exacting and long lasting effects upon other nations and their populations in the world. They always have.

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