Palmerston North, May 1, 2019 A Palmerston North Church is considering introducing security measures after it and another Church were targeted with anti-Muslim propaganda. Attendees of All Saints’ Church and the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit found the crudely written pamphlets on their windscreens after Sunday services. Distressing Pamphlets Reverend Andy Hickman from All Saints’ Anglican Church said that the…
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Wellington, May 1, 2019 Police have launched an investigation into how the names of people on a watchlist drawn up after the Christchurch terror attack were leaked to the media. While the information leaked was not top secret as claimed, a Police spokesperson said that the matter was being treated very seriously. Media reported on Sunday that more than 100…
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Michael Wood I want to express my deep sorrow and solidarity with the Sri Lankan community in New Zealand in the wake of the horrific terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. The death toll which was said to be over 350 people has now been revised by the Sri Lankan government to about 250. Several hundreds were injured…
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Asoka Basnayake On the pious Easter Sunday, I heard about a bomb blast in a luxury hotel in Sri Lanka and quickly found out about the atrocious massacres that had unfolded in the country of my birth. The nightmare continued for the next few days. I want to dwell on how my fellow Sri Lankans in New Zealand dealt with…
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Priyanca Radhakrishnan On Easter Sunday (April 21, 2019), in a series of coordinated bomb blasts in Churches and luxury Hotels across Sri Lanka, lives of about 250 people were taken and many hundred more were injured. It was yet another targeted, violent attack on people who were on holiday and at places of Worship on what was arguably the Holiest…
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Venkat Raman Even as the Island Nation mourns the death of more than 250 people following bomb blasts that turned Easter Sunday bloody, claims that warnings and signals received ahead of the tragedy were ignored are beginning to shake the very establishment in Sri Lanka. Suggestions have been made over the past ten days that terrorist activities have been ‘active’…
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Venkat Raman A cross-section of the Wellington community gathered at St Peter’s Church on Willis Street on Friday, April 12, 2019 to pay homage to the victims and their families of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre that was executed in Amritsar City Punjab on April 13, 1919. The Centenary was observed all over the world to remember those killed at Jallianwala…
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Venkat Raman Thousands of New Zealanders paid tribute to the brave soldiers who fought and perished at Gallipoli during the First World War. New Zealanders remember New Zealand and Australian soldiers who have sacrificed, sometimes with their lives, in war and serves as a reminder of the tragedy of such conflict. April 25, 2019, observed as ‘Anzac Day,’ was the…
Read More‘Blooming Buds’ a tribute to early Croatian settlers in Waitakere Venkat Raman A new Childcare Centre aiming to make a difference in Early Childhood Education has just been opened in West Auckland. Located at 371-373 West Coast Road in Glen Eden, ‘Blooming Buds’ is the brainchild of Nomita and J P Singh, who has developed the property as ‘A Castle…
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Supplied Content Three Indian students who were caught up in immigration fraud and subsequently faced deportation have been granted a reprieve on compassionate grounds by the Government. Associate Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi has determined the students can stay in New Zealand with open work visas for a year. The three students had engaged the services of an education agent in…
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