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FRONT PORCH: Fragility and Potential Resilience of Democracy
FROM ancient Greece, with its limited democratic franchise, to the present, democracy has always been an idea, a set of principles and values, often codified into law, equally a set of conventions and traditions defined and crafted over centuries, observed and adjudicated by flawed and biased human beings.
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FRONT PORCH – Hubris: Wavering between reality and fantasy
Years ago in a high school English literature class reading and studying Macbeth, many of the students were surprised that the eponymous leading character constantly refused to heed the warnings of his impending doom as he vaingloriously pursued his bloody ambitions.
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‘COVID SURGE HAS HIT THE BAHAMAS’: Death toll hits 800 - and 200 new cases so far this month
HEALTH officials yesterday confirmed that the country is in another surge of COVID-19 infections after more than 200 cases were confirmed so far this month.
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Victims named as police probe Exuma deaths
POLICE Commissioner Paul Rolle said investigators looking into the deaths of three Americans at Sandals Emerald Bay in Exuma are probing what the victims may have eaten as well as whether any “contaminants” were present in the separate rooms where they were found.
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Autopsies on tourists complete but not released
THE autopsies of three American tourists who were found dead at Sandals Emerald Bay resort in Exuma last week have now been completed, Acting Prime Minister Chester Cooper revealed yesterday.
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Larson a victim of fragility?
I must confess from the outset that I too had joined the chorus of irate Black Bahamians subsequent to revelations in Parliament by Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis that the former Free National Movement (FNM) government had paid Susan Holowesko-Larson $1,750 per week to chair the National Food Security Taskforce.
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Bran’s law firm receives $62.5k on Gibson case
The Democratic National Alliance’s (DNA) former leader yesterday accused Adrian Gibson of “costing the Bahamian people an extra $22,500” after the Water & Sewerage Corporation settled the full amount of his law firm’s claim out-of-court.
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Thriving with diabetes
New course provides information and support for those living with condition
SINCE there is still no cure for diabetes, those diagnosed must consider an overhaul in lifestyle practices to ensure proper management and control of the condition.
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Strachan beats Fraser-Pryce in 200m
SPRINTER Anthonique Strachan and quarter-miler Steven Gardiner were both in fine form as they led a contingent of elite and collegiate athletes in action in various meets in the United States and Jamaica over the weekend.
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‘Foolhardy’ if BISX to neglect digital assets
The Bahamas International Securities Exchange (BISX) is “actively pursuing opportunities” in digital assets, its chief executive disclosed yesterday, adding: “We’d be foolhardy to do otherwise.”
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Delancy named SIAC player of the year
IN what has been an impressive debut season with the Benedict College Tigers men’s volleyball team, Bahamian Ras Jesse Delancy was named the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) Player of the Year.
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THE KDK REPORT: My solemn vow
WHEN two people choose to marry and unite their lives into one, they make a legally binding contractual commitment to be together and love one another from that day forward, in sickness and in health. It is a solemn vow that they pledge in front of a priest or wedding officiant and a congregation of friends and family. But I often wonder, if people could look into the future and see the trials that they’ll endure as a couple, if they could see the sickness as well as the health, would they still be as readily forthwith in reciting those very same vows.
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Make the family great again
THE singing career of Grammy Award Winner Marvin Gaye, ended in tragedy on April 1st, 1983. He was shot to death by his own father. He and his father never got on. Gaye’s close friend David Ritz, wrote Gaye’s biography a year later, he called it “Divided Soul”.
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Deliverance from a terrible catastrophe
MARK Twain wrote a story called “The Great Catastrophe”. It concerns a group of people who get trapped in a tragic situation. They are doomed to die. They have no way to escape. They are, indeed, on the verge of a terrible catastrophe.
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PETER YOUNG: A fine British tradition
AS always, it was an impressive display of pomp and circumstance. In the grand surroundings of the House of Lords chamber in the Palace of Westminster in London, the State Opening of Parliament took place last week to mark the ceremonial start of the parliamentary year.
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PETER YOUNG: United Nations’ growing involvement in Ukraine
THE capacity of the United Nations to take meaningful action in dealing with a world crisis is all too often hampered by the veto system in the Security Council. After examining this in a recent column and discussing the need for UN reform, it may be helpful now to follow up with information about two new developments concerning the organisation’s involvement in Ukraine.
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