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Minister of National Security Edmund Dillon delivers an address during the formal opening of CARICOM Counter-Terrorism Strategy two-day conference held at Hyatt Regency Hotel yesterday. Looking on, from second left, are United Nations Resident Coordinator & UNDP Resident Representative T&T Richard Blewitt and CARICOM Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer Ambassador Irwin Larocque. PHOTO: SHIRLEY BAHADUR. Caricom clampdown on returning Isis fighters Minister of National Security Edmund Dillon delivers an address during the formal opening of CARICOM Counter-Terrorism Strategy two-day conference held at Hyatt Regency Hotel yesterday. Looking on, from second left, are United Nations Resident Coordinator & UNDP Resident Representative T&T Richard Blewitt and CARICOM Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer Ambassador Irwin Larocque. PHOTO: SHIRLEY BAHADUR. An article by Gail Alexander published Tuesday, June 13, 2017, confers much o...

    SHAMANISM AS A GLOBAL CULTURAL VALUE SYSTEM vs APOSTOLIC CULTURE. This Is Ixchel, Mayan Goddess Of Heavens & Birth And The Last Figure In Dresden Codex ~ Artist Unknown. In the book I delve into Shamanism from a biblical perspective and I deconstruct the contemporaneous narrative, that Rastafari and similiar cultures are bible based. Rastafari and other cultures like it are shamanic nature cultures that deify nature and humanbeings  as sacred. The Bible in contrast or Apostolic Culture is the antithesis of Shamanism, since shamanism incorporates nature worship, ancestral worship and ancestral spirit possession, all of the previously enumerated are diametrically oppossed to what is taught in the bible, which is a monotheist messianic document, detailing the fall of man and his redemption through the death burial and resurrection of Jesus the Messiah.     A Shaman is defined, as per their own explanation as the following: Shaman 'Shä-m...