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Selling to China
SINCE we are supposedly hoping to unload BEC, B’Air and beautiful downtown Nassau onto our Chinese comrades, why not also hand over the RBPF in this fire sale?
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A reminder of childhood
THE recent predicament of the open travel to USA with unrestricted return within 72 hours reminds me of a childhood rhyme:
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Sexual violence
WHEN Reverend Hall spoke out against homophobia, people were shocked.
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Munroe: 8,000 police cannot subjugate 400,000 people
ATTORNEY Wayne Munroe, QC, has accused the competent authority of “playing games” with Bahamians’ liberty, as he suggested the country could be on the brink of upheaval over the issuance of a new emergency proclamation.
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WORLD VIEW: The Privy Council and its history with slavery
RACISM was the bedrock of European colonialism in the Caribbean. The subjugation, oppression and exploitation of African people as “sub-human” was justified by colonial powers based on race and colour.
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Violence, disempowerment and inequality
We have witnessed yet another act of awful violence against women captured on camera and then posted to social media without so much as a thought for what this says about the society we live in.
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Don’t trivialise the issue of rape
I have been struggling with the weekly column Politicole since it became a part of The Tribune. Given the name of the column, I thought there was a slight chance that readers would get thoughtful, challenging views on the political state of the country. Wrong.
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INSIGHT: Good hair, bad principles
THE Principal’s office isn’t simply for guidance and discipline anymore. In one Nassau school, for one female student, the principal became the beautician and the beast, stirring up much ire after she suggested that the young’s girl’s hair, in its natural state seemed “unkempt”.
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WORLD VIEW: Not a Caribbean man?
TENSION is developing toward the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) from some quarters in Jamaica. This was exemplified by a column in the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper written by an Immigration Attorney, Mr Ronald Mason.
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Bishop is not the right choice
As a devout Christian and a man of deep faith, with no political affiliations or agenda, I have been sickened by the repeated innuendos that our honourable prime minister may in fact be considering a bishop for the position of governor general.
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THE WATCHWOMAN: Myles Munroe's dangerous doctrine for women
A sermon delivered by Dr Myles Munroe, president and founder of the Bahamas Faith Ministries International (BFMI), has been making its way around the social sphere generating a lot of debate.
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FRONT PORCH: Our celebration of independence should not be confused with the birth of our nation
TRITE and simplistic cliches on Bahamas nationhood are enemies of history, memory and myriad freedom struggles and movements for equality, including the fight for majority rule and women’s rights.
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EDITORIAL: Will reparations talk ever be more than just talk?
Has the time now come for serious discussion about reparations?
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The price of war
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An invading army can win all the battles and still lose the war. The objective of a military occupation, especially one driven by imperial ambitions, is to neutralise armed resistance and secure control of the centres of power, ultimately aiming to conquer the hearts and minds of the occupied.
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Human Rights Committee resolution passed in HOA
ELECTED officials passed a resolution in the House of Assembly yesterday to establish a Human Rights Committee to monitor and protect the enforcement of human rights in The Bahamas.
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GB 'breaks ranks' on Chambers deal
The Grand Bahamas Chamber of Commerce will today ‘break ranks’ with its fellow bodies and decline to sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) designed to foster greater co-operation between all Chambers in the Bahamas.
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The Bible and LGBT rights
THE discussion between popular preacher Dr Myles Munroe and Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell has been an interesting one. Interesting only because it is fascinating watching someone with a bigoted position attempt to maintain their civility while still holding fast to their bigotry.
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Beating children is our sport
IN all my many years of buying and reading the dailies, both The Tribune and The Nassau Guardian, I have never seen anything as ridiculous and nauseating as an editorial letter written to this very newspaper.
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Davis dismisses claims of conflict of interest over Rodney Moncur appointment
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis questioned how Rodney Moncur’s appointment as a “violence interrupter” in the Ministry of National Security could be considered a conflict of interest, adding he viewed the talk show host as someone who understood inner-city communities.
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Govt insists it took right decision over Baha Mar
A DAY after former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham called the Christie administration’s push to have Baha Mar liquidated a bad move, the government hit back saying provisional liquidation “was the only sensible option available”.
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