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Wikileaks Bahamas secret cables cover 2004-2010
December 30, 2010
Wikileaks Bahamas secret cables cover 2004-2010
Nearly all of the secret United States State Department cables on The Bahamas in the possession of online whistleblower Wikileaks date from the period 2004 to 2010, according to data compiled by the German news magazine Der Spiegel.
Wikileaks turned over the more than 250,000 cables to Der Spiegel, the Spanish paper El Pais, the French paper Le Monde and the British paper The Guardian. The Guardia...
Local group gains rights to Wikileaks Bahamas files
December 09, 2010
Local group gains rights to Wikileaks Bahamas files
A local advocacy group has gained the rights to have first access to all the files relating to the Bahamas in the 250,000 US Embassy Diplomatic Cables released by the whistle-blower website, Wikileaks.
While the website's founder Julian Assange was arrested yesterday and denied bail over sexual assault allegations, sources close to the local group claim they have been in contact with persons cl...
December 07, 2010
Is WikiLeaks founder a high-tech terrorist or freedom fighter
By LARRY SMITH
WHEN Tough Call was a yoot-man, the incredibly destructive and morally disturbing US intervention in Vietnam's civil war was the burning issue of the day - bar none - sparking widespread disaffection in America and across the world.
There was always "light at the end of the tunnel" until, in 1971, the New York Times published a secret government war study that proved the governmen...
The Bahamas mentioned in Wikileaks document
December 16, 2010
The Bahamas mentioned in Wikileaks document
The Bahamas has received a passing mention in a United States government cable leaked by Wikileaks, displaying frustration by Cuba with Jamaica's efforts to combat drug trafficking in the region.
The cable, dated August 11, 2009, was titled government of Cuba frustration increases over lack of Jamaican counternarcotics co-operation.
According to the cable, the U.S. Coast Guard Drug Interdiction Sp...
December 22, 2010
Wikileaks Cable: PLP, FNM not serious about Turks Caicos union
The United States Embassy in The Bahamas expressed the view in 2009 that The Bahamas was not seriously interested in forming a federation with the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), according to a secret cable released by Wikileaks.
The cable was dated September 3, 2009, classified by Charge d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Nassau Timothy Zuniga-Brown. It was published by the British newspaper The G...
December 23, 2010
Wikileaks: Mitchell reinforced view of 'fractured' Turks and Caicos politics
Confidential dispatches released to the public through the Wikileaks diplomatic cables leak reveal that former foreign affairs minister Fred Mitchell told US Embassy officials in Nassau that the lack of a "serious" CARICOM effort to prevent direct UK rule over Turks and Caicos was a result of a "surprising ambivalence" among TCI government and opposition officials.
The cables emanating from the...
WikiLeaks: Anna Nicole 'havoc' in the Bahamas
December 23, 2010
WikiLeaks: Anna Nicole 'havoc' in the Bahamas
The turbulent time spent in the Bahamas by the late model Anna Nicole Smith was compared to Hurricane Betsy in leaked US cables from the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.
In a 2006 US cable, then ambassador John Rood documented the series of scandals that surrounded former Playboy model and reality TV star's Bahamian residency application and the death of her son.
Mitchell critical of Americans over WikiLeaks cables
June 01, 2011
Mitchell critical of Americans over WikiLeaks cables
Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell was critical yesterday of U.S. Embassy officials responsible for certain information contained in diplomatic cables obtained by The Nassau Guardian through the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks.
Mitchell said the Americans accepted "propaganda lines" about the Progressive Liberal Party.
"It strains credibility to me that U.S. professional diplom...
December 17, 2010
FRUSTRATION OVER FLOW OF DRUGS TO US, BAHAMAS REVEALED IN WIKILEAKS RELEASE
A US cable leaked by the whistle-blower website Wikileaks revealed that Cuban officials have expressed their frustration over Jamaica's lack of effort in stopping the flow of illicit drugs to the United States and the Bahamas.
The cable, written on August 11, 2009, by Jonathan Farrar, the US chief of Mission in Havana stated the "prevailing concern and significant frustration on the Cuban side is...
Christie's WikiLeaks remarks appropriate
June 15, 2011
Christie's WikiLeaks remarks appropriate
Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) leader Perry Christie was wise and measured in his response to the United States Embassy cables being published by The Nassau Guardian via WikiLeaks.
In an interview with this newspaper published yesterday, Christie said, "This kind of exposure that we're getting now is more to give Bahamians an understanding that these things happened and perhaps at the end of the ...
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