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PETER YOUNG: COVID’s here to stay and it may be we’ll just have to learn to live alongside it

Some people consider that so much has been written about the coronavirus pandemic that there is little further to say.

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FACE TO FACE: A lifetime’s mission to redress the wrongs of slavery and explore a people’s African roots

August is the month that commemorates the emancipation of Africans in the Western world. The people of the Rastafari movement never let Emancipation Day pass without impassioned calls for the freedom, redemption and repatriation of African descendants throughout the Diaspora. It has been decades since the calls first began.

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WORLD VIEW: Diplomats hamstrung as COVID drives them to the computer screen

THE COVID-19 pandemic is severely limiting the work of diplomacy. It could have a lasting adverse affect on international relations if finding a vaccine continues to elude global researchers for much longer.

EDITORIAL: Hearing nurse Rolle shows reality of the COVID-19 fight

AS she fought a losing battle against COVID-19, nurse Bernadette Rolle recorded a voice note detailing her struggle.

EDITORIAL: The long arm of the law has a heavy hand

WHEN Deon Duverny set off to drive his cousin home, he did not expect the journey would end in a prison cell.

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A COMIC'S VIEW: Is there a plot to jettison Minnis? His advisers are not making him look too hot

Let me open this week by saying, as a professional comedian with 23 years in the industry, you can’t write the comedy of errors that unfolded before our eyes this week any funnier.

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DIANE PHILLIPS: Once I was lost, now I am found

Once upon a time, a family took a long vacation by van, exploring the backwoods and places they had never been before. Though taking the lesser known route came with some risk, it was a chance to unite, to be together and what an adventure it would be, creating memories to last a lifetime.

EDITORIAL: Does the Prime Minister have a plan?

IN just four words, former Health Minister Dr Duane Sands shows the problem with our current approach to tackling COVID-19: “What is the plan?”

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PETER YOUNG: Those who live in a democracy must be on permanent guard

A month ago, I wrote about the thorny and controversial subjects of ‘wokeness’ and the ‘cancel culture’ - and I return to these today because there is growing evidence that people in the UK are fighting back against these strange phenomena, which are loosely defined as demanding adherence to a new orthodoxy about social and political justice together with attacking and ruining the lives of any who do not submit to such demands.

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STATESIDE: Biden may have cracks, Trump’s loathed but can be masterful - for the US it is what it is

Were you watching the first couple of evenings of the Democratic national convention in the midst of a Bahamas lockdown as COVID-19 tried to secure a tighter grip here? Most of the convention was actually quite worth watching.

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STATESIDE: Biden may have cracks, Trump’s loathed but can be masterful - for the US it is what it is

Were you watching the first couple of evenings of the Democratic national convention in the midst of a Bahamas lockdown as COVID-19 tried to secure a tighter grip here? Most of the convention was actually quite worth watching.

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FACE TO FACE: Fighting the odds since infancy, MJ keeps smiling - and winning

While many are facing tough times due to the pandemic, there are those whose struggles are exacerbated by medical issues and the subsequent cost of getting proper care. That’s the fight that Michelo McKenzie Sr must overcome for the sake of his son, Michelo Jr.

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ALICIA WALLACE: One man cannot deal with this crisis on his own. Minute-by-minute decisions are not going to get us through this

Some of us do not seem to matter. There is little consideration to people living with illnesses and in need of medication, people experiencing poverty, elderly people, unhoused people, women, or children.

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DIANE PHILLIPS: Mario’s mad as hell and isn’t going to take it anymore

It’s funny how people spend their lives doing one thing, get really good at it, make a name for themselves, and suddenly they turn up doing something so different you’d think it must be someone else with the same name.