Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 16, 2008	THE POWERLESS POWERS
Reflections of Fidel: THIS is a serious subject. The summit meeting of leaders of the eight most highly industrialized powers on the planet took place July 7-9 at a mountain retreat on the banks of the Toyako, a lake formed inside a volcanic crater located in the north of the island of...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 8, 2008	AES Corporation Pushes For Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Regasification Plant At Ocean Cay In The Bahamas
AES Pushing For Deal: By QUINCY PARKER - Nassau, Bahamas: AES Corporation remains committed to pursuit of its proposal to construct a liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification plant at Ocean Cay in The Bahamas, and has pledged to pay $1 million on the day the agreement is signed with...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  May 22, 2008	Bahamian Religions
Owning your religion: By Nadine Thomas-Brown, Guardian Lifestyles Reporter - Nassau, Bahamas: If Bahamian religion could be seen as a fabric it would probably be Androsia cotton with little if any room for Gabardine or Kente Cloth. Usually when one thinks of religion in The Bahamas,...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  May 5, 2008	Child And Adult Pornography Appear To Be Growing In The Bahamas
Police Sound Alarm Over Growing Pornography: BY VANESSA C. ROLLE - Nassau, Bahamas: Some 15,000 Bahamians have paid membership in adult Internet sex groups, according to Assistant Superintendent of Police Paul Rolle, who added that child pornography in the country has also become an...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Feb 29, 2008	CUBA SIGNS INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AGREEMENTS
Sovereign decision of a government that is not acting under pressure • Emphasizes Foreign Minister Pérez Roque, adding that the U.S. blockade and hostility constitute the main obstacle to the Cuban people’s enjoyment of the rights covered by those agreements UNITED NATIONS. —...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Feb 22, 2008	Reflections of President Fidel Castro: The Republican Candidate - (Part Three)
YESTERDAY, I said that while Bush was speaking to Congress, McCain was being honored at the Versailles Restaurant of Little Havana. It was there that most of the fiercest enemies of the Cuban Revolution and their families took up residence, Batista’s followers, the big landowners, owners of...... [view]

Posted By:  ewajesu Posted On:  Sep 3, 2007	World and Opposite
The International Youth Forum in Sham el Sheikh organized by Susan Mubarak’s Women’s International Peace Movement, brought together young people from over 100 countries around the world and certain things became obvious. In Africa, root problems of leadership and poverty has eaten deep...... [view]

Posted By:  ewajesu Posted On:  Sep 2, 2007	My desert Experience
On the 31st of August l left lagos Nigeria for Sham el Sheik for the International Youth Conference and the first thing that struck me about egyptians is their jovial nature. Right from the crew members of Egypt air in Nigeria to the ones in cairo it was a beautiful encounter all through which...... [view]

Posted By:  Fi Posted On:  Aug 7, 2007	Spreading the word
Like many Kiwis, I was deeply upset by the recent case of little Nia. What I find so deeply depressing is that this, like youth suicide, is a really difficult issue to tackle because at the core of it, it requires attitude change not legislative change. While I have had some problems with these...... [view]

Posted By:  cherrie Posted On:  Jul 28, 2007	Grief, Loneliness and Exploitation
Grief vs Bereavement (The Death, The Letter) According to Wikipedia [ link ], there is a clear distinction between grief and bereavement, which is interesting. It also talks about the various stages of grief. I'm not advocating for 'binning' human emotion into such boxes, but let's say I'm...... [view]

Posted By:  cherrie Posted On:  Jul 20, 2007	Like An Idiot
Well I feel like an outright idiot. Or a horrible person. Or an outright idiot and a horrible person. Probably the third choice. I'd been stressing over certain things lately... you know, things happen and I always tell myself, well, if I were different or if I could be better... and I...... [view]