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PART 2 OF 3. The Hunter Biden Files Hunter Biden and his business partners were involved in discussions about possible deals in dozens of foreign countries, often corrupt backwaters, at times invoking official channels like ambassadors, emails reviewed by The Daily Wire show. While most attention has focused on Ukraine, where a gas company paid the now-president’s son tens of thousands of dollars a month while he was in deep crack addiction, and China, Hunter and his partners at a consultancy called Rosemont Seneca were eager to do business in a vast array of other places. The map below highlights...

Apostle of the Indies, Bartolome' de Las Casas, died JULY 17, 1566. In 1502, he left Spain for the Caribbean, which was called the West Indies, where he became a hacendado of an encomienda (plantation) and a slave owner of native Americans. He participated in slave raids and military expeditions against the native populations of Hispaniola and Cuba. But in 1511, six years before Martin Luther started the Reformation, the life of Bartolome' de Las Casas took a dramatic turn. He heard a church leader, Dominican friar Antonio de Montesinos, speak: "I am a voice crying in the wilderness ......

he Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies has issued an orange alert for the underwater volcano Kick’em Jenny, after strong and sustained signals were recorded in the early hours of this morning suggesting than an eruption could occur with less than 24-hours notice. Instruments monitoring the volcano, located 8km north of Grenada (12.3000° N, 61.6400° W), recorded strong, continuous activity between 1:25 a.m. and 3.am. Grenada, as well as St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago are particularly on alert. “Signs of elevated seismicity began on July 11 and continue to present....

THOSE CRAZY birthers who insist that Barack Obama is from a foreign country are not completely lunatic. The America of Obama's youth is not the mainland United States (US). And it's not mainstream. Hawaii, Obama's state of birth, was not admitted into the union until 1959. That's almost two centuries after the American declaration of independence from Britain, and only two years before Obama was born. The most absurd 'fact' I've heard about Hawaii is that it has the highest racial minority population of any state in the union - 75 per cent, according to US census figures. How can...

A Supreme Court spokeswoman says Justice Stephen Breyer was robbed last week by a machete-wielding intruder at his vacation home in the West Indies. *** Arberg said the intruder took about $1,000 in cash and no one was hurt.

AN ad by KFC Australia showing a man giving fried chicken to West Indies fans has been labelled racist in the US. In the "cricket survival guide" ad, an Australian fan named Mick asks viewers "Need a tip when you're stuck in an awkward situation?" after being surrounded by cheering West Indies fans. He then shares a bucket of KFC chicken with fans around him to calm the situation. The video has caused a huge stir in the US after it was posted on YouTube. The ad has been seen by some in the US as a reference to racial...

West Indies v Pakistan, Group D, Jamaica Smith and Bravo come to the fore The Bulletin by Will Luke March 13, 2007 West Indies 241 for 9 (Samuels 63, Sarwan 49) beat Pakistan 187 (Malik 62, Smith 3-36, Bravo 3-42) by 54 runs The West Indies shrugged off any early-tournament nerves with a convincing 54-run win over Pakistan in the opening match of the World Cup at Kingston in Jamaica, with a notable allround performance from Dwayne Smith. It was an impressive win, not least for their ability to absorb the expectation of hosting their first World Cup. Furthermore, the...

WINDIES XI MAKE CLEAN SWEEP OF US PROMOTIONAL SERIES by CMC 10 July 2006 20:38 BROOKLYN, New York - A star-studded West Indies XI made a clean sweep of their two-match series against the United States with contrasting wins over the weekend at the Floyd Bennett Cricket Field. While they snatched a narrow five-run win in the first game on Saturday, they powered their way to an emphatic six-wicket victory on Sunday, with captain Brian Lara and Chris Gayle hammering half centuries. Batting first in the opening 40-overs game, West Indies made 214 for six which was due largely to...

Agreement for 'aggressive expansion' in North America India and West Indies to play in USA Cricinfo staff May 11, 2006 The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has announced that it has signed an agreement with the Indian board which will see the two countries work together to exploit the lucrative US market. The USA is home to more than 10 million expats, many from the subcontinent and the Caribbean, of which more than 200,000 are said to be dollar millionaires. The WICB said that the first major project would be to host three to five one-day internationals in the USA...

According to a late BBC report, a bomb explosion in central Port-Of-Spain, Trinidad, has injured 13 people, two critically. It appears to bear the hallmarks of an Al-Qaeda attack, or at least one in sympathy with recent Islamist atrocities in London and elsewhere. With extensive Trinidad and Tobago experience, allow me to build a case for Islamo-fascism as the cause, even if local police aren't yet saying so.

Passengers on a gay cruise were greeted by more than 100 protesters as they stepped off their chartered ship Friday in the Bahamas. The protesters, led by Christian pastors, gathered in a square in front of the cruise terminal and chanted, "Gay Ways are Not God's Ways!"

Conservatives losing patience with liberals Number: 5718 Date: May 20, Hopes to avert a schism in the Anglican Communion appear to be disappearing after one of the Primates charged with finding a solution to the sexuality crisis has warned that conservatives are questioning calls for restraint. The Archbishop of the West Indies, the Most Rev Drexel Gomez, has challenged Archbishop Robin Eames, the chair of the Commission set up to hold the Communion together, to apply the same censure to liberals as conservatives. In a sign of increasing tension at the heart of the Commission, Archbishop Gomez has written a...

The Realignment: A Summary Update By The Editor REPORTS OF FALLOUT at home and abroad from the U.S. Episcopal Church's embrace of an openly gay bishop and optional same-sex blessings just keep coming. "The implications are staggering. Hardly a day goes by without international mention of more consequences," said Archbishop Gregory Venables of the Southern Cone of America—one of the latest Anglican provinces to declare broken or some form of impaired communion with the Episcopal Church's liberal leadership. Provinces in that category now number 11 (out of 38), and represent nearly half of all Anglicans worldwide. In addition to the...

BAHAMAS PRIMATE SAYS COMMUNION AT CRITICAL CROSSROAD By The Most Rev. Drexel W. Gomez The following was an address the Archbishop delivered to the ACI Conference in Charleston, SC on January 8, 2004. Recent events in North America have placed the entire Anglican Communion into a state of crisis. We are, as Anglicans, at a critical crossroad in our pilgrimage as a Communion. I refer of course to the actions of the Bishop and Synod of the Diocese of New Westminster in Canada where same sex blessings were officially endorsed and authorized by the Synod and subsequently implemented as a...

WEST INDIES PRIMATE LASHES OUT AT ECUSA PRESIDING BISHOP "You sir are duplicitous…you have repeatedly spun the truth" AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with the Archbishop of the West Indies, The Most Rev. Drexel Gomez. By David W. Virtue The following interview took place at the new Anglican Communion Institute conference (formerly SEAD the Society for Ecumenical Anglican Doctrine which was formerly SEAD the Scholarly Engagement with Anglican Doctrine) in Charleston, SC. VIRTUOSITY: Archbishop, are you in impaired communion or broken communion with the Episcopal Church? GOMEZ: We are in impaired communion with ECUSA, which is the official position of the Province...

Address Given by Archbishop Gomez at the Anglican Communion Institute Conference The Most Rev. Drexel W. Gomez January 9, 2004 This address was given by Archbishop Gomez (Primate of the West Indies) at the Anglican Communion Institute's Future of Anglicanism Conference held in Charleston, SC on January 8-9, 2004. The Most Rev. Drexel W. Gomez Archbishop of the Bahamas ACI Future of Anglicanism Conference Charleston, South Carolian January 8, 2004 Recent events in North America have placed the entire Anglican Communion into a state of crisis. We are, as Anglicans, at a critical crossroad in our pilgrimage as a Communion....

Statement from the House of Bishops and the Standing Committee (Church of the [Anglican] Province of West Indies) We, the Bishops and Members of the Standing Committee for the Church in the Province of the West Indies, meeting at St John’s Antigua from November 11-13 extend greetings to you, the faithful, in the Name of the Triune God. We meet at a time of great anxiety throughout our Province and the Anglican Communion. This anxiety has arisen from developments in the Diocese of New Westminster, Canada, which has authorized a Public Rite of blessing for persons in committed same sex...

Gomez challenges U.S. church Risks funding over gay bishop By VANESSA C. ROLLE Guardian Staff Reporter The majority of Anglicans are willing to put finances on the line rather than accept to consecration of a homosexual American bishop, vows Archbishop Drexel Gomez. The church's Provinces of the Global South, he said Monday, are prepared to suffer the consequences should the American church pull its significant financial support over the debate. "America does make the largest contribution to the world-wide Anglican Communion. That's a matter of fact," said Bishop Gomez. "As much as we need the money, the gospel must come...

Church 'to split in a week' over gay bishop By Andrew Johnson 26 October 2003 Implacable statements from two of the Anglican church's leading archbishops yesterday put the Church of England on a seven-day countdown to a permanent split. The comments from the Archbishop of the West Indies and the Archbishop of the Southern Cone - a slice of South America from Peru to Argentina - came in the wake of equal determination from the gay bishop-elect at the centre of the controversy not to give way. Canon Gene Robinson, who will become the church's first openly gay bishop on...

Jul 6, 1:16 AM EDT Caribbean Leaders Plan EU-Like Economy By STEVENSON JACOBS Associated Press Writer MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP) -- Caribbean leaders agreed to establish a commission like the European Union to oversee their 15-member, single market economy, allowing the free movement of goods, services and professional workers. Leaders adopted the plan at the end of the annual summit of the Caribbean Community which ended Saturday. It would create the regional bloc by 2005. "We have to get a firm foothold in a changing world environment," Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson said at the end of the four-day summit...