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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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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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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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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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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 – 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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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.
