Thursday, September 11, 2003
WHAT IS MINISTER SEARS DOING?
The public education system of The Bahamas must have a dedicated, visionary, focused and hardworking minister. There are doubts that it has such a minister today. For all his fine qualities, The Hon. Alfred Sears has proven over the last fourteen months that either the burden of the Attorney...
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Monday, August 18, 2003
THE PLP LEGALIZED PRIVATE SEX BETWEEN SAME-SEX PARTNERS
Before 1991, it was illegal for persons to engage in homosexual activity in The Bahamas. This had been the law from time in memorial with the offence carrying a harsh penalty of twenty years in prison for anyone found guilty. On August 2 nd, 1991 the PLP government brought to Parliament and...
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Thursday, July 24, 2003
The Untouchables [Bahamas]
Bishop Samuel Green, president of the Bahamas Christian Council, has stirred up quite a controversy over his pledge to be “the first live Guy Fawkes” should The Bahamas attempt to follow Canada in making gay marriages legal. For his remarks, the Bishop has been labeled “homophobic”, “unchristian”,...
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Thursday, July 10, 2003
30 Years and The Best Little Country on God’s Earth
Almighty God has blessed me with the privilege and pleasure of traveling to many parts of the globe. My feet have walked on five of the continents on planet earth. My eyes have beheld the natural and man-made wonders of countries like China, Japan, Malaysia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy,...
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Friday, June 27, 2003
A MESSAGE TO THE 2003 GRADUATES OF THE BAHAMAS
I had the honour of addressing the graduates of Queen’s College on June 20 th, 2003. It was the occasion to which Prime Minister Christie referred in the House of Assembly on that same day, as he was in attendance to observe his daughter graduate. What follows are excerpts from that speech....
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Thursday, June 19, 2003
Budget Review - A final Note
Government budgeting is a challenging business I am certain that Prime Minister Christie has discovered, as did the Finance Ministers before him, that preparing the Budget is not easy. In the first instance revenue forecasts, which heavily influence expenditure, depend on variables the government...
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Thursday, June 12, 2003
Fiscal Constraints No New Reality
Talk of “fiscal constraint” lately makes it seem like a new reality for government budgeting in The Bahamas. It is not. Every government of The Bahamas from the UBP, to the pre-1992 PLP, to the FNM had to cope with it. The most developed countries like the USA must deal with it, as does developing...
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