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Understanding intimacy
Understanding intimacy
Are you and your spouse intellectually intimate? First of all, what is intimacy? Intimacy in marriage is often misunderstood and most times limited to what couples do in the privacy of their bedrooms. Intimacy is both intensely private and public. If intimacy in your marriage is limited to the four walls of your bedroom, then as a couple, you are not totally intimate. I have observed that many Bah...
Sister lost to Dorian on Abaco vacation
Sister lost to Dorian on Abaco vacation
NEARLY two years ago Rose Lubin travelled to Abaco to visit her family on a two-week trip but was never heard from again after Hurricane Dorian destroyed the community where she was believed to have stayed, a Coroner's Court heard yesterday.
Uriah McPhee students benefit from donation of Child Protection guide books
Officials of the National Child Protection Council (NCPC), the Child Protection Month Committee and the Free Town Urban Renewal Centre recently teamed up with Administrators, Staff and Fifth-Grade students of Uriah McPhee Primary School to commemorate Child Protection Month.
The collaboration resulted in almost 100 of the NCPC’s “Say No, Then Go” Colouring Books being donated to the stud...
Tackling autism: Evans family refuses to let fear paralyze their son achieving his potential
Tackling autism: Evans family refuses to let fear paralyze their son achieving his potential
Parents of children diagnosed on the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are urged to not let fear paralyze them from getting the help they need for their child, according to parents Shervin Sr. and Tamara Evans, whose son Shervin Jr. has been diagnosed on the spectrum.
Historic Bahamian Appointment to Human Rights Commission
Dante Bazard Jr to serve three-year term as Commissioner of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Dante Bazard Jr’s confirmation this month to the Prince Edward Island Human Rights Commission is not only a first for a Bahamian, but for black people in the province.
At 27, he is the youngest appointee named by the Legislative Assembly of the Canadian province. He will serve a term of three years.
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‘Father of Bahamian Psychology’ brought a holistic approach to treating mental illne
Infusing a cultural and spiritual approach to the psychological treatment of mental illness in The Bahamas, could go down as one of Dr Timothy McCartney’s greatest contribution to his field...
Statement by Prime Minister Minnis on the Passing of Dr. Timothy Osborne McCartney
I was saddened to learn of the death of Dr. Timothy McCartney, who passed away this morning in Florida. Born in 1933, Timothy McCartney was an exuberant, generous, kind-hearted man who excelled as a teacher and as a counsellor...
Dr Timothy McCartney dies from COVID virus
Dr Timothy McCartney dies from COVID virus
THE psychiatric community is mourning the loss of Dr Timothy McCartney, who died yesterday in Florida from COVID-19. He was 87 years old...
Vulnerable girls
Vulnerable girls
The socioeconomic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have rendered a silent group - girls in conflict with the law - even more vulnerable to exploitation. According to psychologist Dr. Valerie Knowles, society cannot afford to forget them, especially "parentified" girls who, at the expense of their own childhoods, have had to function as caretakers from ...
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Vulnerable Girls
Vulnerable Girls
COVID-19 exacerbates their exploitation...The socio-economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has rendered a silent group – girls in conflict with the law – even more vulnerable to exploitation...