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Apostle Says Resurrection Is a Fact, Not Just a Matter of Faith
A prominent Christian religious leader, Apostle Dr. Stephen Andrews, has delivered a forceful argument for the historical authenticity of Jesus Christ’s resurrection during the funeral service of former Senator Cheryl Mary-Clare Hurst, framing the core Christian doctrine as an established fact rather than a purely symbolic article of faith. As the central spiritual component of the service held at SJPC House of Restoration Ministries, Andrews anchored his sermon to Apostle Paul’s framing of death as “the last enemy,” arguing that the power of death was permanently broken through Jesus’ rising from the dead.
Speaking directly to mourners gathered to honor the former senator’s life and legacy, Andrews laid out three lines of evidence he says confirm the resurrection as a historical event: the biblical account of Jesus appearing to more than 500 individual followers after his crucifixion, the well-documented empty tomb in Jerusalem, and the radical transformation of Apostle Paul, who converted from a violent persecutor of early Christians to one of the faith’s most impactful foundational leaders after encountering the risen Christ. “The scripture emphasizes the fact that through Christ, this enemy has been defeated, stripped of its power, and will one day be utterly destroyed,” Andrews stated, urging attendees to cling to the hope of eternal life beyond physical death.
Andrews’ unapologetic stance reignites one of the longest-running debates in religious and academic scholarship, touching on Christianity’s most central theological claim. While the overwhelming majority of secular and religious historians agree that Jesus of Nazareth was a real historical figure who was crucified by Roman authorities in Jerusalem, a large share of secular scholars reject the argument that existing evidence confirms a bodily resurrection. Critics of the historicity of the resurrection note that the four Gospel accounts were written decades after Jesus’ death, contain minor discrepancies in narrative details, and cannot be corroborated by independent external sources. Some argue that the reported appearances of Jesus were likely subjective visions or shared spiritual experiences among early followers, rather than evidence of a physical return from death.
A separate line of academic reasoning holds that historical methodology is inherently ill-equipped to verify supernatural events. Scholars in this camp argue that historians can confirm that early Christian communities believed Jesus rose from the dead, but cannot draw definitive conclusions about whether a miracle occurred.
Andrews pushed back against this widespread skepticism, reiterating that the event was witnessed by hundreds of people and remains the unshakable foundation of Christian confidence in eternal life. “The enemy is defeated because of the resurrection of Jesus,” he emphasized.
The sermon served as a thoughtful shift from tributes celebrating Hurst’s life of public service to a broader reflection on mortality, faith, and the Christian promise of life after death. For believers in attendance, Andrews’ message brought comfort and reassurance that physical death is not the end of human existence. For critics and skeptics, the address once again highlighted a debate that has persisted for nearly 2,000 years: whether the resurrection of Jesus should be understood as a matter of faith, a provable historical event, or a combination of both.
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Video shows the extent of oil “leak” and efforts to contain it
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Small craft advisory for Antigua, Barbuda, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands…
The Antigua and Barbuda Meteorological Services has issued an urgent small craft advisory, warning of hazardous sea conditions across open Atlantic waters surrounding four major Eastern Caribbean island groups through the first half of this week. The alert, which was published at 5:45 p.m. local time on Monday, June 1, 2026, impacts open ocean areas extending 20 nautical miles off the Atlantic coastlines of Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, and the British Virgin Islands.
Each affected region faces slightly different timing for the rough conditions, with dangerous seas expected to arrive pre-dawn and persist through midday Thursday for Antigua and Barbuda. For Anguilla, the hazardous conditions will kick in at midnight Tuesday and continue through Wednesday afternoon, while the British Virgin Islands will see the threat from pre-dawn Wednesday to midday the same day.
Meteorologists attribute the unsafe conditions to a system of moderate to fresh east-southeast winds churning up a dangerous combination of wind-driven waves and swells across the region. Current wind readings over open waters range from 24 to 35 km/h (13 to 19 knots, 15 to 22 mph), with strong gusts reaching as high as 56 km/h (30 knots, 35 mph). Significant wave heights measure between 1.4 and 2.1 meters (4 to 7 feet) on average, with occasional local swells climbing to near 2.7 meters (9 feet). Dominant wind wave periods fall between 6 and 9 seconds, consistent with unstable sea conditions that meet small craft advisory thresholds.
A small craft advisory is triggered when wind speeds reach 17 to 21 knots, or when wave heights hit 7 feet or higher – conditions that are either already present or imminent across the affected areas. Forecasters have categorized the current threat level as moderate, noting that it carries the potential for significant impacts to mariners and marine-related activity. Key risks include loss of life at sea, personal injury, vessel capsizing, damage or total loss of watercraft and marine equipment, and unexpected financial losses for local industries. The hazardous conditions are also expected to disrupt commercial and small-scale fishing operations, which could lead to temporary scarcity of local fish products, as well as delays and disruptions to regional marine transportation.
In line with standard safety protocols, officials have issued a clear caution: inexperienced mariners, and all operators of smaller recreational and commercial vessels, should avoid navigating through the warned areas for the full duration of the advisory. The alert was issued by on-duty forecaster Letitia Humphreys.
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Can a lawyer serve 2 masters?
As Managing Partner of K C Legal Consultancy, Kevon K K Charles draws on years of frontline legal practice to unpack a growing tension at the heart of modern transactional law, particularly within the Caribbean legal landscape. For legal practitioners, scenarios that demand navigating conflicting duties are far from uncommon: a client brings a clear, straightforward transactional instruction, expecting their attorney to advance their goals, yet independent of the client relationship, a separate set of binding legal obligations requires lawyers to step beyond their role as a mere advocate for the client’s agenda. This conflict, Charles argues, is where the modern attorney’s most persistent professional challenge begins.
The core identity of the legal profession has long been anchored to four non-negotiable foundational principles: unwavering loyalty to a client’s interests, strict protection of client confidentiality, preservation of independent professional judgment, and upholding legal professional privilege. These are not hollow theoretical concepts; they form the bedrock of trust that allows clients to speak openly to their legal advisors, disclose sensitive information, and seek guidance without fear of exposure. In recent decades, however, this traditional framework has been layered with an ever-expanding web of regulatory compliance obligations, most acutely felt in transactional work spanning property transfers, corporate structuring, and cross-border or domestic fund movements.
Regulators now expect attorneys to conduct due diligence, ask targeted questions about transaction origins and intentions, and in some cases report suspicious activity to relevant authorities – obligations that do not stem from a client’s retainer, and that often exist in tension with traditional duties of loyalty and confidentiality. In practice, this conflict is rarely black and white. A transaction may appear fully legitimate on its face, the client may be a longstanding contact the attorney has worked with for years, and the corporate or property structure may be entirely conventional. Still, a subtle red flag can demand that an attorney pause, step back from advancing the transaction, and conduct further inquiry – a position that is rarely comfortable for either the practitioner or the client.
This tension creates a two-pronged reality that all modern transactional attorneys must grapple with. First, practitioners are bound by strict rules of professional conduct laid out in the Legal Profession Act, which require attorneys to act with integrity, maintain independent judgment, and avoid facilitating unlawful or improper conduct. This means an attorney is never simply a passive conduit for a client’s instructions; they bear an independent responsibility to assess whether a transaction is legally proper, not just whether it can be executed.
The second core consideration, and one that lies at the heart of public trust in the legal profession, is client confidentiality. For legal practice to function, clients must be able to speak freely and openly with their attorneys about every detail of their affairs. Without this guarantee of trust, an attorney’s ability to provide thorough, accurate legal advice is fundamentally undermined. The challenge of modern regulation, Charles explains, is that growing compliance expectations now operate alongside this longstanding principle. These new rules do not eliminate the protection of legal professional privilege, but they do demand that attorneys develop a far clearer understanding of where privilege ends and regulatory obligations begin.
Many clients naturally ask: can information shared with my attorney still remain confidential? Charles confirms the answer remains yes – but it is no longer an unqualified absolute. The attorney-client relationship is still rooted in trust, but it now operates within a regulatory framework that imposes enforceable duties that extend beyond the bilateral client-lawyer relationship.
In the Caribbean context, this balancing act is uniquely delicate. As Charles notes in his ongoing series of articles on wealth, property and regulation in the region, many Caribbean transactions grow out of decades-long personal and professional relationships, often built on informal arrangements and legacy structures that have evolved organically over generations. Information and arrangements that are universally understood within a family or local community do not always easily translate into the documented, verifiable proof that modern compliance frameworks require. This does not make the transactions improper, but it does demand a level of due diligence and care that was not required of Caribbean attorneys in decades past.
Charles concludes by addressing the core question this tension raises: can attorneys truly serve two competing sets of obligations, or must the profession adapt to a new normal? Contrary to the framing of this conflict as serving two masters, Charles argues that modern practice simply requires attorneys to accept that both sets of obligations now exist side by side, and that the role of the contemporary attorney is to navigate this balance carefully. While this is rarely an easy position to occupy, it is one that is becoming increasingly familiar across the Caribbean legal sector, as regulation evolves to meet global standards.
This analysis forms part of a continuing series examining the evolving intersection of wealth, property ownership, and regulatory compliance across the Caribbean. NOW Grenada notes that it is not responsible for the opinions and statements shared by contributing authors, and invites readers to report any abusive content via official channels.
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Auction Sale
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Dominican Archbishop invites Pope Leo XIV to visit the Dominican Republic
Between May 22 and 28, Carlos Tomás Morel Diplán, Coadjutor Archbishop of Santo Domingo, carried out an official working visit to Vatican City, headlined by a closed-door private meeting with Pope Leo XIV in the Pontiff’s private office on May 25. This gathering marked the first official face-to-face meeting between the two church leaders since Morel received his appointment to the senior archdiocesan role.
The half-hour conversation centered on two core topics: the current state of pastoral work and church operations across the Dominican Republic, and the key priorities of Morel’s ongoing leadership mission within the Dominican Catholic Church. Notably, the meeting aligned perfectly with the Vatican’s launch of *Magnifica Humanitas*, Pope Leo XIV’s debut encyclical. This landmark papal document tackles the pressing ethical and social questions raised by rapid artificial intelligence advancement, with a central focus on upholding and protecting fundamental human dignity in the fast-evolving digital technological age.
As a key part of his packed Vatican schedule, Morel took part in multiple church-led gatherings and official events organized to coincide with the release of the new papal encyclical. During his private discussion with Pope Leo XIV, the archbishop also extended a formal invitation for the Pontiff to undertake an official visit to the Dominican Republic. Early reports indicate that Pope Leo XIV responded positively, sharing that he holds clear interest in traveling to the Caribbean nation at a future date.
Morel’s week-long visit wrapped up with a series of additional working meetings that brought together senior Dominican diplomatic representatives and senior Catholic clergy based in Rome, including Víctor Valdemar Suárez Díaz, the Dominican Republic’s ambassador to the Holy See. Beyond his official diplomatic and ecclesial engagements, the archbishop also led Eucharistic services and gathered with Catholic community groups from the Dominican Republic based in Rome during his stay in the Italian capital.
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And The 2026 Nominees For Best (New) Local Product Are… (Part 2)
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Weather Advisory: Tuesday, 26 May (7:30 am)
The Grenada Meteorological Service has issued an official public advisory confirming it is actively tracking a large plume of Saharan dust that has traveled thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean to reach the Eastern Caribbean. This moderate-to-dense cloud of dust originates from the Sahara Desert in North Africa, carried westward by persistent trade winds across the Atlantic basin. According to official forecasts, the dust plume will continue to impact air quality and atmospheric conditions across Grenada and neighboring Eastern Caribbean islands from the current date through Thursday, May 28, 2026. Based on continuous readings from satellite imagery and cutting-edge atmospheric modeling data, the national meteorological agency confirms the dust layer will remain in place for the duration of the advisory period. Air quality across the island is projected to stay at moderate levels throughout this timeframe. Officials have outlined the two most significant expected impacts from the dust event. First, the suspended particulate matter will lead to reduced horizontal visibility across the island, which may pose risks for ground transportation and air travel operations. Second, public health officials are urging extra precaution for vulnerable populations, specifically individuals living with chronic respiratory conditions, who may experience worsened symptoms when exposed to the dust. The Grenada Meteorological Service has committed to maintaining constant surveillance of the dust plume’s movement and intensity. Updates will only be issued if atmospheric conditions deteriorate beyond current projections, or if new information requires adjustments to the existing advisory. This official notice will remain in effect through the end of the advisory period on May 28. A disclaimer from local outlet NOW Grenada notes that the outlet is not liable for opinions or content shared by contributing agencies, and invites residents to report any content that violates community guidelines through official reporting channels.
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JCI Antigua Earns Top Regional Awards at 2026 Conference of the Americas
The 2026 JCI Conference of the Americas has drawn to a close in Antigua and Barbuda, leaving a landmark legacy for the host nation while delivering a major milestone for JCI Antigua, which walked away from the closing award ceremony with multiple top-three finishes across key award categories. Hosted by JCI West Indies on the Caribbean islands, this year’s regional gathering wrapped up with the traditional ceremonial flag handover, officially passing the hosting responsibility to JCI Brazil ahead of the 2027 conference.
JCI Antigua, the local chapter of the global youth leadership organization, celebrated its strong performance in the conference’s annual awards program. Two of the chapter’s community projects earned top-three placements: the initiative “Aspire to Inspire” was recognized in the Best Local Growth and Development Project category, while “A Day of Duty & Giving” secured a top-three spot in the Best Human Duties Project category. Beyond organizational accolades, individual JCI Antigua member Jawan Jackson also earned regional recognition, named one of the conference’s Most Outstanding New Members for his contributions over the course of the event.
The closing ceremony marked the formal conclusion of the 2026 gathering, with the ceremonial flag transferred from JCI West Indies representatives to the JCI Brazil delegation. This symbolic act officially kicks off the countdown to the 2027 Conference of the Americas, which is scheduled to take place from April 28 to May 1 next year in Florianópolis, Brazil, as the regional JCI network prepares for another cycle of leadership development and collaboration.
Reflecting on the years of preparation and the successful execution of the event, JCI Antigua framed the 2026 Conference of the Americas as a “historic reality” for the small island nation. The organization publicly extended its gratitude to Conference Director Shenella Govia and her core organizing team, highlighting their three years of unwavering dedication, personal sacrifice, and relentless hard work that made the landmark event possible. JCI Antigua also shared appreciation for the broader network of stakeholders that supported the conference, including hundreds of volunteers, sponsoring organizations, community partners, and the hundreds of international delegates who traveled to Antigua and Barbuda for the gathering and embraced the nation’s hospitality during their stay.