The plane flew through the thick white Caribbean clouds with relative ease as it approached the green hills that adorn the coast of Venezuela. I look out the window as the plane begins to make its descent into Aeropuerto Internacional Simon Bolivar (or Maiquetia as its commonly referred to). It’s been two years since I […]
The Emerson Hotel Reopens
Mount Pleasant, New York, March 16, 2007– Over 110 people thronged the reopening of the Emerson Hotel at Catskill Corners in Mount Pleasant on Friday, March 16, despite a major snowstorm. I entered the hotel with Brian Powers, publisher of [The Phoenicia Times]. Bob Cross, Town Supervisor of Shandaken, lifted a narrow glass of red […]
The Top 15 Nigerian Scams you should stay away from.
The Top 15 Nigerian Scams you should stay away from. 1.Invitation to visit the country. Sometimes, victims are invited to a country to meet real or fake government officials. Some victims who do travel are instead held for ransom. In some rumoured cases they are smuggled into the country without a visa and then threatened […]
Britain behind Gukurahundi massacres
A former Zimbabwean freedom fighter who, himself, was a victim of Gukurahundi says Britain and not South Africa was behind the 1980s massacres that left nearly 30 000 innocent civilians from Matabeleland and the Midlands dead. Douglas Moyo* says South Africa was just a front. Britain was the brains behind the massacres. All it […]
The story of place: Discovery Roman Bathhouse Changes Understandings of Nazareth’s History
The ancient bathouse in Nazareth is an impressive archeological site that includes inside it treasures from more than one era, leading to disagreements about its origins. It was discovered by accident by a couple under their commercial shop in the city centre, and is beside one of the most sacred and historical places in Christianity, […]
A TIME TRIP TO THE ERIE CANAL
ERIE CANAL VILLAGE…. FIFTEEN MILES ON THE ERIE CANAL Just a few miles south of Rome, NY a short steel-railed bridge crosses an anonymous stream. It runs East-West, straight as an arrow, as if nature had played a trick on itself. It did not. Men in fact built […]