Reform for whose profit?
WITH the Labour Department’s shocking release of proposed changes to the labour laws of The Bahamas, it is really tough to see where the unions end and the Labour Department begins: they seem to be one and the same! The unions dictate the show and the Labour Department asks: “How high do you want us to jump?”
Failing in support for teachers
EACH time I think that we are making a few steps forward in correcting simple issues in our education system I am quickly put in my place by the debacle that is our public service system.
Justice is under attack
Before I start this letter, I plead ignorance – ignorance of the facts of the case, but not of the judicial principles.
Being gay is not a choice
Isn’t it awful how often gay people just flat-out lie? Hundreds of thousands of them say they didn’t choose to be gay. Didn’t choose to risk being beaten by some passing yahoo. Didn’t choose to risk being cut off from their families.
Following PM to ruin
The Progressive Liberal Party will have its convention in November.
Christie’s compassion
Last Sunday I attended the Induction Service of the Bishop/President Theophilus Rolle at Wesley Methodist Church, Malcolm Road. The service was loaded with tributes and congratulations and was attended by a cross section of the cloth, foreign and local dignitaries, notably the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, The Rt. Hon. Perry Gladstone Christie, Minister of Tourism, Hon. Obie Wilchcolme.
Root of problem must be tackled
In response to MP Richard Lightbourn’s suggestion to the nation’s problem that is a result of irresponsible sexual behaviour or habits. To enact legal rights for tubal ligation for a single woman with two children, not to allow her to have any more children.
Chinese sovereignty
Re: PM: China’s call to seal records (September 1).
Hypocrisy of Loftus Roker
Nothing could “yuck up yuh vexation” faster than to suffer through the hollow words of an avowed hypocrite.
Baha Mar staff’s fate
I am writing reluctantly today as I, along with some, if not all other Bahamian employees are uncertain of our fate with the company once a new investor takes over.
Home security steps
The recent attacks on senior citizens in their homes in our country is evidence that criminals are concentrating on this new target.
The political currency of Butler-Turner
The fall out from the letter that was supposed to have been delivered to the Governor General expressing displeasure and lack of confidence in Hubert Minnis, leader of the FNM by the six FNM members of parliament, has begun in earnest.
Govt failures
FINANCIAL Disclosures of elected MPs - Senators... seems to be totally malfunctioning and one must question the why the Chair and the Disclosure Committee is not insisting for compliance with the law?
Bank choices
IT IS appreciated that Mr Rolle has been left with a half baked chicken but he was in Finance Ministry when the Government double-crossed the people on gambling.
Population and family planning
SURELY the Study of Population - Birth rates must come with Economic National Planning, we can’t sweep yet another all-important issue under the table.
