Impeachment investigators today released additional transcripts from three witnesses including testimony from laura cooper the Deputy Assistant secretary for defense for russia, ukraine, and eurasia. Cooper said upon hearing that the aid to ukraine was frozen, quote, deputies immediately began to raise concerns about how this could be done in a legal fashion. There was not an understanding how this could legally play out. She says they got no clarification of why the aid was frozen. But she learned from Ambassador Kurt Volker the ukrainians were aware of the freeze by mid august before it was publicly reported. She testified volker told her he was engaged in an effort, quote, to see if there was a statement that the government of ukraine would make. And she said the path that volker was pursuing to lift the halt would be to get them to make this statement. Im joined by Nicholas Burns former u. S. Ambassador to nato and former under secretary of state anita kumar, White House Correspond
Dear Editor, In recent weeks, North Abaco MP Kirk Cornish and Central and South Abaco MP John Pinder have both sounded the alarm over the explosive growth of the Haitian population on Abaco in the post-Dorian era. Despite the destruction of Pigeon Pea and The Mudd, with sheer determination and grit, the Haitian community continues
The numbers of undocumented Haitians living on Abaco are “closing in” on the Bahamian population on the island, Central and South Abaco MP John Pinder warned yesterday, while calling for stiffer fines for people who employ undocumented migrants. “It has been growing for many decades and it is only growing more,” Pinder told The Nassau
There are 150,000 Haitians living in The Bahamas, Haitian Chargé d’Affaires Anthony Brutus has claimed, though he provided no basis for his estimate. “There are persons who are here illegally and about 20-plus years in this country,” said Brutus, speaking through a Creole translator. “The persons who are here legally could have a better relationship
The bodies of five of the 17 people who recently died in a failed human smuggling operation have been identified, according to Public Hospitals Authority Managing Director Aubynette Rolle. “As it relates to the 17 deceased bodies that are housed in the morgue, we are happy also to report that the processing of that did