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Christianity translated into rules for society
Christianity translated into rules for society
Members of the legal community were reminded that Christianity is the root and foundation of Bahamian society and of how Christianity was translated into rules for society and systems of governing for thousands of years by Reverend Laish Boyd, bishop of the Anglican Diocese of The Bahamas and The Turks and Caicos Islands during a service to mark the opening of the legal year.
Boyd told the lawyers...
Curfew rules are lost in translation for Spaniard
Curfew rules are lost in translation for Spaniard
A SPANISH man was fined $400 yesterday after he claimed he violated the recent weekend lockdown because he was not aware of the emergency orders and saw people jogging outside. He was among several people who appeared before Chief Magistrate Joyann
COVID-19 Emergency Measures translated into Creole
COVID-19 Emergency Measures translated into Creole
COVID-19 Emergency Measures translated into Creole
VAT removal from insurance premiums has not translated into more insurance business
The government’s removal of value-added tax (VAT) from insurance premiums has not translated into more insurance business, several insurance company executives said yesterday, adding that homeowners also now need to ensure that they are not underinsured...
The translation conversation
The translation conversation
There is a very specific kind of uneasiness in black Bahamians as we try to translate our blackness when we move into other spaces, and it is most felt and visceral when we emigrate. While the African diaspora is very much real and very much alive, there's often this unspoken but palpable sense as Bahamians - given our history - that we can't quite always tap into our blackness when we're placed e...
Haiti and Trans-Caribbean Literary Identity, newly translated to French
GREAT BAY/MARIGOT, St. Martin
- House of Nehesi Publishers
(HNP) has just been published the French translation of the book Haiti and Trans-
Caribbean Literary Identity by Emilio Jorge Rodri?guez.
The new French edition, Hai?ti et l'identite? litte?raire trans-caribe?enne, complete
with classic photos of distinguished Haitian authors such as Fernand Hibbert and Jacques
Ste?phen Alexis, i...
Tour company providing translation service for Spanish-speaking tourists
Simone Johnson's Spanish-speaking clients will never be lost in translation, once they hit the shores of The Bahamas.
In May 2010, Johnson started her Spanish tour operating business, Bahamas A Sus Ordenes, after scores of tourists complained to her about how not enough people are able to communicate with them.
Despite being bilingual for more than 20 years, she told Guardian Business in this week...
Remarks by Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham - Sybil Blyden Centre Opening
I am very pleased to participate in the official opening and naming of the Sybil Blyden Centre here at the Stapledon School. I wish to extend sincerest thanks to The Bahamas Association for the Mentally Retarded led by Mr. Lowell Mortimer and other generous donors who embraced Mrs. Blyden?s dream of a centre to provide vocational training and instruction for the students of the Stapledon School.
The Hubert Minnis disaster: It's time for a new FNM leader
Nearly two years into his tenure as Leader of the Opposition Dr. Hubert Minnis has proved an unimaginable failure. Disturbingly, he is the most inarticulate and incoherent opposition leader since the post was created.
The country has overwhelmingly turned against the PLP with Bahamians hungry for new and vibrant leadership. Correspondingly, the FNM has an extraordinary record in office and indiv...
Domestic private sector investment 'under mobilized' says Central Bank Governor
NASSAU, BAHAMAS — The Bahamas remains significantly under-mobilized in domestic private-sector investment, according to Central Bank Governor John Rolle, who also noted that this nation has robust monetary policy safeguards and ample economic capacity to address any needed corrections in public finances. During his address at the CFA Society (Bahamas) Investment dinner, Governor Rolle noted ...