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WikiLeaks: CIA has targeted everyday gadgets for snooping

Maybe the CIA is spying on you through your television set after all.

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STATESIDE: Just how far can you push the rules and get away with it?

JOAN and her friend Marilyn were in her New York City kitchen, warding off the unseasonable chill outside with steaming mugs of coffee. They were talking about the world’s current number one bogeyman.

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Big finish for beauties at brunch

THE FINAL installment of Cia Monet’s Beauties at Brunch series wrapped up a year long women’s empowerment blitz by event organiser Patricia Chatti.

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Abaco women touted at Beauties at Brunch

TAKING Beauties at Brunch to the island of Abaco, event organiser Patricia Chatti of Cia Monet Designs said the overall turnout of the recent event was the best series to date.

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Rutherford to be honoured for her work for women

FREEPORT - Grand Bahama resident Geneva Rutherford will be honoured as a community builder and for her contribution to the well-being of women. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of women's suffrage,

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Fashion comes to life for a purpose

PATRICIA Chatti of Cia Monet said she learned about the women's suffrage movement through articles published in the 2012 telephone directory.

Military link to today's data mining

After world war 2, Fredrick Terman became head of Standford University School of Engineering. He brought personnel that work with him at Harvard University that created technology used in World War 2. The office of Naval Research gave the Stanford University Engineering Department their first contract. (microwave research). In 1951 he created the Stanford industrial park. The Stanford Industrial Park which eventually became Silicon Valley leased land to companies such as Lockheed Corporation, Hewlett Packard, General Electric, and other important technology companies.

EDITORIAL: Another chance to be presidential and Trump blows it again

When the US Postal Service delivered over a dozen potentially lethal pipe bombs to public figures last week, Americans were immediately reminded that all of these intended victims, from former President Barack Obama to former CIA director John Brennan, have been frequent targets of the demagogic rhetoric of Donald Trump.

EDITORIAL: Trump and the damage to the FBI

IT IS hard to know how to respond to the outrageousness that the Trump administration in the United States has become. This foolish president continues to insult the leaders of the nations who have stood beside America for nearly 75 years and assault the foundations of an American foreign policy that has made major contributions to world peace and prosperity for most of that same period. His rudeness and haughty behaviour on his recent trip to Europe cannot be excused.

Cuba: Exports of goods and services $9bn in 2011

HAVANA (AP) -- Cuban exports of goods and services generated about $9 billion in income in 2011, a senior government official said, as the island is diversifying and relying less on established sectors such as nickel and sugar. Antonio Luis Carricarte Coro

Get things under control, Minister

THERE are Ministers who can’t go a day without being on the news. So often they appear, usually they talk absolute rubbish as one did last week. Upstaging more senior ministers is a no-no.

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Mario's goes pink to fight cancer

DOZENS of people put their best pink foot forward as Mario’s Bowling played host to a ‘Painting The Lanes Pink’ fundraiser at the weekend.

Hopefully the end of NATO

Since 1989, NATO has had no good reason to exist.

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Ladies night at the movies

Rave reviews from patrons is the reason “Ladies Night” will become a monthly occurrence at the Fusion Superplex.

Inequality in Haiti

THE administration of President Jovenel Moise struck a raw nerve with the Haitian people when it announced that fuel prices would be increasing.

TOUGH CALL: The story of HMBS Flamingo

THIRTY-TWO years ago this month, four Defence Force marines were killed when a 103-foot Bahamian patrol boat was sunk by the Cuban air force less than six weeks after the formation of the RBDF.

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The weird and wonderful worldwide web

THE world of the world wide web is a big one – so where to start for the fun and cool websites out there? Here’s a few pointers.

Policing concerns

Please print the attached open letter to the stated parties in one of the editions of your publication.

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Young activists carry mantle

WHILE many believe that gender equality has been achieved and fully established in the Bahamas, there are young empowered women who know the fight for women’s rights is far from over.

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Bahamas used to test US spy planes

THE US has been testing unmanned spy planes over the Bahamas.