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Citizenship gender inequality concerns highlighted at IACHR session
GENDER inequality regarding the transfer of citizenship could be remedied by taking the matter before an international court.
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Government’s indifference over inequality and rights
THE latest ridiculous statement by the prime minister quickly made the rounds at the end of last week, drawing responses indicative of disbelief, annoyance, and confusion.
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DIANE PHILLIPS: Creative solutions needed to address society’s inequities
A MAN sleeps in his car, hoping it will not rain tonight so he can keep the windows open. Not far away, a few miles along the coast, another man writes a cheque for $3.2m for a beachfront condo he will use six weeks of the year.
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Referendum could create further inequality
While the June 7, 2016 referendum has been framed as a “Gender Equality Referendum”, there is the real possibility that it will create further inequality by taking away from unwed mothers a citizenship passing right they have enjoyed for the past 42 years, while at the same time granting a new right to Bahamian men to pass citizenship to their children fathered out of wedlock with Bahamian and foreign women, at home and abroad.
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PM commits to correct gender inequality issues
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis yesterday restated his administration’s commitment to “correct” issues regarding gender inequality in the transference of citizenship, as promised in 2017.
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Students hear about plans for constitutional reform
SENIOR high school students in Grand Bahama received a tutorial on the four Constitutional Reform Bills that are currently before Parliament at the Sir Charles Hayward library in Freeport on Friday.
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Seventh-day Adventists encourage participation in gender equality referendum
THE Seventh-day Adventist Church said it believes and advocates that all Bahamians have the right to exercise with equality their privileges and freedoms as citizens.
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Considering race/ethnicity and gender today
IN THE wake of the recent church shootings in South Carolina, race is certainly on the radar. The apparent thinking is that the world has moved beyond racism and the inequality that race is used to reinforce.
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Blackness and the unbeauty
We often talk about beauty as if it were an unnatural thing that has a particular commercial value. We tend to measure women against this unnatural, commercially-valued beauty. If they do not measure up, as no woman can naturally, according to the media, then she is an unbeautiful and socially unacceptable, especially among the youth who wear this badge as if it were their life.
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ALICIA WALLACE: There are no excuses left, it is time to end discrimination in nationality laws
YESTERDAY, I attended the Global Summit on Gender Equality in Nationality Laws, held at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland, and streamed for the hundreds of online registrants.
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Income inequality widens in the Bahamas
INCOME inequality is widening in the Bahamas and poverty rates have increased in all age categories under 65 during the past decade, the state of the union report by the National Development Plan Secretariat says.
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Fintech can ‘help reach those without banking’
FINTECH can help “promote greater financial inclusion” and provide a banking solution for those without accounts in the region, said Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis yesterday.
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Middle class facing 'consistent assault'
The FNM’s deputy leader yesterday warned that the Bahamian middle class was under “consistent assault” from job losses and increased taxes, with this country fast becoming “a nation of haves and have nots”.
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Campaigners back end to gender inequality
ORGANISERS of a global campaign to “eliminate” gender discrimination in nationality laws yesterday applauded the government’s commitment to ending gender inequality, but added that a strong public education campaign is critical to any referendum on the issue.
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Davis: Cabinet still considering amendments to Nationality Act
AS many mark March as Women’s Month, it remains unclear when the Davis administration will amend the law to equalise citizenship access for men and women, although Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said yesterday that Cabinet is reviewing amendments from the Office of the Attorney General.
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TOUGH CALL: Putting politics aside is essential in a time of crisis
Why it that in this time of turmoil, inequality, political dysfunction and apparent decline, a few countries are nonetheless thriving?
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EDITORIAL: Honour women by bringing equality to all
THE long delay in bringing in laws to provide equal rights in passing on citizenship seems little closer to a resolution.
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EDITORIAL: Citizenship ruling that truly matters
THOSE who have never been tangled up in issues over citizenship may not immediately grasp the scale of the impact of yesterday’s Privy Council ruling.
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EDITORIAL: Now that celebrations are over, what’s next?
The celebrations are done. The nation is 50. The road to 50 has at times seemed as if it has been long. The flag has been carried from island to island. Our anthem has been sung – though never too often. We have certainly worn our laurels this golden jubilee year, now we must make sure we do not rest on them.
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Bahamians invited to participate in One Run Global Challenge
BAHAMIANS are being invited to participate in the One Run Global Challenge on December 10.
