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Don't be pressured to buy Christmas gifts
Don't be pressured to buy Christmas gifts
While it is important so share love and appreciation year round and especially during the Christmas season, it is also imperative that one not be pressured to purchase gifts relative if you really do not have the money to do so.
Committee will probe BTC deal
Committee will probe BTC deal
MORE than five years after a deal was inked by the previous Ingraham administration to sell the Bahamas Telecommunications Company Ltd. (BTC), the government yesterday moved a resolution in Parliament to establish a select committee to probe the controversial sale to Cable and Wireless.
Zonta Launches Say 'No' Campaign to End Violence Against Women
The Zonta Clubs of The Bahamas have joined with clubs around the world this week to launch its annual ?Say No To Domestic Violence? campaign along with 16 days of activism dedicated to raising community awareness on violence against women and children.
It is time to end the death penalty
It is time to end the death penalty
We agree wholeheartedly with the Catholic bishops in their call for an end to the death penalty. This newspaper has held that position for some time.
Gov't seeks to modify measures aimed at protecting activists
THE government will seek to have the precautionary measures set by the Organisation of American States' human rights arm for the protection of five Bahamian environmental lobbyists modified or lifted on the grounds that the men misrepresented and sensationalised their allegations to gain international attention.
Bahamas Government Responds to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
On Wednesday, 8 November 2016, the Government of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, received, via its Permanent Mission to the Organization of American States (OAS)/Embassy of the Bahamas, Washington, D.C., a letter dated 4 November 2016, enclosing a Resolution of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granting protective measures in respect of five Bahamians associated with the Save ...
The Place of Art
The Place of Art
Art is always unique to a place and art also has a unique place in culture. As Jackson Petit and Peggy Herring illustrate in their capturing of local color, the disparities are real. Herring?s ?Five Children at a Water Pump? painted in 1984, a part of the NAGB?s National Collection, and Jackson Petit?s ?The Home We Share? 2015, a part of the D?Aguilar Art Foundation, articulate a 3-decade differen...
Voter apathy countrywide
Voter apathy countrywide
As the Parliamentary Registration Department continues to observe sluggish movement in the number of people registering for the 2017 general election, registration in the Family Islands lags far behind that in New Providence and Grand Bahama.
Powerade Supports Breast Cancer Awareness!
Powerade Supports Breast Cancer Awareness!
This October, Caribbean Bottling Company (CBC) the local producers of Coca-Cola products, launched its first ?Think Pink?, Breast Cancer Awareness promotion. This month long promotion is designed as a give-back based on CBC?s sales of the popular Powerade brand.
Caught off guard
Caught off guard
Bernard Louis and his family woke up yesterday morning to a water soaked bed and a flooded floor as rain from severe weather seeped through the roof of their home on Horseshoe Drive in Oakes Field.