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Pamela Burnside: Da new beginning dun end - Oct 13, 2018 - 7:08:22 PM
 As I prepared to write this letter I serendipitously clicked on one that
was written in May 2017 which expressed the sense of optimism and
anticipation I felt for the new beginning following the election that,
sad to say, has been short lived. That 2017 positive energy is draining
away - I am so fed up of being fed up when one gubment tends to be as
disappointing as the last!
I have asked myself why this is so,
and reckon it is due to several reasons, the main being that we continue
to use the same formula of relying solely on foreign direct investment –
a form of beholden servitude – and expecting a new result. It won’t
happen – we are still stuck in the rut of same story, different day!
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Crazy Rich Asians - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Oct 5, 2018 - 6:46:31 AM
When a young woman visits the foreign land of her parent’s birth to meet
her boyfriend’s family on the occasion of his best friend’s wedding,
she is caught off-guard on learning significant details about his status
in that part of the world. She soon learns that being on his arm puts a
target on her back where local socialites are concerned and the
disapproval of his mother complicates matters in ways she never
imagined...
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The Predator - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Sep 30, 2018 - 12:27:39 PM
When a lethal hunter from outer space brings its battle with a
genetically upgraded version of itself to Earth, it takes a ragtag
collection of soldiers deemed mentally unfit for duty and a renegade
scientist to prevent an escalation of violence capable of engulfing the
entire human race.
Quinn McKenna is a former Army Ranger who made
contact with a Predator and was able to escape its clutches with some
of its weaponized alien technology which he mails to a different
location before his government captures him.
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28,000+ Signatures for preservation of Lighthouse Point - Sep 23, 2018 - 3:47:36 PM
 28,000+ Signatures Cry Out for Preservation of Lighthouse Point, Asking
to Give Island Jewel Away is Like Asking Me to Hand Over a Child
I am a man and I cry. There, I have said it.
I
cry for the inhumanity of human against human. I cry for all the parts
and parcels of The Bahamas that Bahamians do not have access to.
Please, please do not make Lighthouse Point one of them.
Every
time I learn of a little piece of this beautiful archipelago that is
being developed without kind and gentle care for its future, I am torn
between wanting to scream and shedding another tear. Like others who
support Save The Bays, I am not anti...
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Predator - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Sep 16, 2018 - 10:20:03 AM
The leader of a team of military special forces operatives is sent with
them on a covert mission to rescue another group which was sent to
assist in a nefarious government plan in the jungles of a foreign
country. While there he encounters a former military buddy who is now
working with a government organization to squelch a joint effort of
foreign and local armies operating in the area. After the elite team
dispatches the entrenched armed force, they soon find themselves being
picked off by a camouflaged opponent with weapons not of this world...
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Pamela Burnside: Are we ready to ‘be who we is’? - Sep 2, 2018 - 12:13:35 AM
As I sit here at the beginning of a new month and reflect on the
newspaper articles of the past several weeks, I can but shake my head in
frustration and ‘bogglement’ as our country appears to be settling into
the same ol, same ol formula of leading us nowhere fast!
A
dearth of inactivity is descending upon the new government, blanketing
the promise of change and hope that accompanied them on their arrival
into office. It appears sadly that this government is on its way to
also turning into a ‘gubment’ - thus leading me to take pen to paper
once again to try, and try hard, to ask them to please ‘see what dey
lookin’ at’. We have answers to some of these challenges staring us
right in the...
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The Darkest Minds - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Aug 21, 2018 - 7:58:23 PM
When a virus kills 98% of the world’s children, the remaining 2%
discover they possess super human abilities. After escaping one of the
camps that the government has placed the young people in, a teen joins a
group of runaways searching for a rumored safe haven. They soon realize
that running is not yielding the desired fruit of their labor and
decide to wage a resistance by using their combined powers to take back
control.
Ruby Daly is a teen with the power to control the minds
of people, who escaped a government run concentration camp and is now
part of a small group of runaways searching for a rumored sanctuary...
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Aug 7, 2018 - 2:00:40 PM
The entire Impossible Missions Force is shut down under implications
of involvement in a global terrorist plot that could lead to a new
world war. Ghost Protocol is initiated and a small unit of the disavowed
IMF agents must find a way to clear the organization's name and, with
limited resources, stop the threat that framed them. If they fail, the
landscape of the globe could be changed forever.
Ethan Hunt is
the leader of the rogue team of disavowed IMF agents who must put aside
his personal demons to take point on a mission that could mean the
obliteration of the world's super powers in global nuclear war...
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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation- Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Aug 5, 2018 - 5:58:44 PM
After the disbanding of an international espionage organization by its
government of origin an agent of that now disbanded organization must
now face off against a network of highly skilled operatives from a rival
espionage organization while trying to prove that organization's
existence to his superiors. To do this the agent must assemble the
scattered members of his former team as the rival espionage organization
attempts to establish a new world order through an escalating series of
coordinated terrorist attacks.
Ethan Hunt is an Impossible
Mission Force agent who finds himself 'out in the cold' when the
organization is absorbed by the Central Intelligence Agency due to the
outcome of a Senate oversight committee hearing and must now prove the
existence of The Syndicate with limited resources...
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Mission : Impossible - Fallout - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Aug 4, 2018 - 9:11:07 PM
After a mission goes awry, an operative for a top-secret government
organization must rally his team in a race against time to recover
components that could be used to make weapons of mass destruction. As
the team goes about their business of fixing their mistake, they must
deal with an operative from the parent organization of their division
monitoring their activities and reporting their actions to a superior.
Ethan
Hunt is the field leader of an Impossible Missions Force team that has
lost three plutonium cores to a terrorist group of former spies known as
The Apostles and must now take extreme measures to get them back.
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Mission : Impossible 2 - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Aug 4, 2018 - 12:34:38 PM
A trusted operative of a top-secret government organization is tasked
with retrieving a deadly synthetic virus from a rogue operative of the
same organization. In order to successfully accomplish his mission he
must recruit the former lover of the operative to infiltrate his team,
but during the course of the mission he falls for her and must decide if
her life is worth the potential death of millions...
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Mission: Impossible - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Aug 4, 2018 - 11:23:13 AM
An operative of an espionage organization embarks on a daring scheme to
clear his name after he is framed for the death of several colleagues
and falsely branded a traitor. He forms a team of similarly disgraced
former operatives to retrieve data that can be used to flush out the
true traitor in their midst.
Ethan Hunt is the point man of an Impossible Missions Force team who is
the only member left alive and blamed for his team’s death which forces
him to find a way to clear his name & uncover the real culprit
behind the mission’s failure...
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Sicario: Day Of The Soldado - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Aug 2, 2018 - 3:44:01 PM
When a terrorist bombing is linked to drug cartels trafficking migrants
illegally across a border, a government agent persuades a mysterious
colleague to join his elite team tasked with escalating the war between
cartels on the other side of the border. When the team kidnaps a
kingpin’s daughter and new information comes to light about the terror
attack, she becomes a liability in the minds of the officials who
sanctioned the kidnapping leaving her fate between the two enigmatic
men.
Alejandro Gillick is a former lawyer whose family was killed
by a cartel and is now a hitman with ties to the Central Intelligence
Agency as an operative in the campaign of the war on drugs...
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Sicario - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Aug 1, 2018 - 8:01:40 PM
An idealistic federal agent is enlisted by an elite government task
force official to aid in an escalating war against drugs in a lawless
border area between two countries. Led by an enigmatic consultant with a
shady past, the squad sets out on a covert assignment that forces the
federal agent to re-evaluate her belief structure in order to make it
back to her former job alive.
Kate Macer is an agent for the
Federal Bureau of Investigation who has been chosen to join a Black Ops
Task Force on a clandestine mission that will challenge her core beliefs
in justice & security...
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Jurassic World : Fallen Kingdom - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Jul 31, 2018 - 7:30:20 PM
Three years after the theme park & luxury resort of cloned
dinosaurs was shut down due to a containment breach, the island’s
dormant volcano roars back to life and threatens to kill the remaining
dinosaurs on the island. A former dinosaur wrangler and the current head
of the campaign to stop the re-extinction of dinosaurs must team up on
an expedition to rescue as many dinosaurs as possible from the dangerous
land mass. As they work with a team of outside crusaders, a conspiracy
emerges that could lead to a version of the world not seen for millions
of years...
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Kirkland H. Bodie: Show us the money - Jul 25, 2018 - 1:48:11 PM
 Hello again my Bahamian citizens, another year has gone by, and it
baffles me that there is still not one word being said in any quarters
about our thirty million, plus, dollars ($30,000,000+) that was spent,
wasted or pocketed on the so-called Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival.
I
am still waiting on the forensic report to be tabled in the House Of
Assembly concerning their fiasco of a ‘carnival’ for the past three
years of 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Firstly, let me break this down, most of us broke Bahamians cannot
fathom what a million dollars is, so let’s make this as simple as
possible...
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Equalizer 2 - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Jul 23, 2018 - 9:05:25 PM
A former government agent, thought dead, has resurfaced to bring
unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed who are fortunate
enough to come to his attention. When someone close to him is in need of
such justice he goes above and beyond the call of duty to make sure
those responsible pay for their heinous crime.
Robert McCall is a
former C.I.A. operative who now works for Lyft and deals in vigilante
justice for those who have no one to defend them, but he surpasses his
previous efforts when it is for someone he loves. Susan Plummer is a
friend of McCall and an investigator for the Central Intelligence Agency
who is called out of semi-retirement to consult on a murder-suicide in
Brussels involving an asset...
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The Equalizer - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Jul 23, 2018 - 9:58:56 AM
The tagline for this movie: What Do You See When You Look At Me? A man
who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated
himself to a quiet new life, soon meets someone in need to whom he is
drawn to help. With his hidden skills, he decides to mete out vengeance
to anyone who makes it a point to brutalize the helpless. If someone has
a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere
else to turn, he will come out of his self-imposed retirement for
justice.
Robert McCall works at a hardware store and lives a
somber life until the crime & corruption around him awakens a side
of himself he thought he had buried with the talents of a covert
military operative...
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Pam Burnside shocked by appointment of new Minister of Youth, Sports & Culture - Jul 15, 2018 - 6:01:17 PM
The Power of Art - I was totally shocked by the recent appointment of the
new Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture! Having smiled with relief
when Minister Pintard was appointed, confident that his Ministry would
benefit from his firsthand knowledge and appreciation for art and
culture, I must now disappointedly admit that the machination of
‘politricks’ leave me speechless!
I have no knowledge whatsoever
about the newly appointed Minister’s cultural or artistic attributes and
can but live in hope for a positive future in this regard, but having
read comments stating that a Minister need not be proficient in any
particular area in order to perform effectively at his or her job, I beg
to differ. This country has been saddled with a litany of Cabinet
Ministers with mostly legal backgrounds for the past several decades who
have exhibited little to no knowledge of, nor appreciation...
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Incredibles 2 - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Jul 2, 2018 - 7:43:34 PM
The mother of a super-powered family is chosen by a wealthy benefactor
to change the public’s perception of superheroes in a bid to legalize
them. When a new villain hatches a plot that could end the goodwill she
has fostered, her family and friends must work together to make the
world safe for powered & non-powered individuals.
Helen Parr
is the former Elastigirl who has been selected to be used in a campaign
to get the public behind the idea of a world with super-powered people
legally helping keep it safe again...
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