either give up on this vote, or just pass the legislation. retarded. and until now bahamians have said they want to remain inequal. retardeaded.

The references below to Sean McWeeney and his brother Paul McWeeney are all we need to know about the McWeeney family. Articles published in The Punch in December 2013 informed the Bahamian public that Bank of The Bahamas (BOB) had made the following loans and advances connected to political friends and cronies of Perry Christie:

• $28 million to Leslie Miller and/or entities owned by him and/or members of his immediate family.
• $3.5 million to Obie Wilchcombe & Pleasant Bridgewater re. Universal Distributors Bahamas Ltd., a company apparently now defunct for all intents and purposes.
• $8 million to another senior PLP cabinet minister, rumoured to be pudgy with short stubby grubby dirty sticky fingers.
• $6.3 million to PLP business woman Patricia Mortimer who purportedly is a best friend and business partner of Lady Poodling and the owner of several shops at Nassau International Airport.
• $2.3 million re. GEMS Radio Station which at the time was owned by Debbie Bartlett and Cyprianna McWeeney, the latter being the wife of PLP lawyer Sean McWeeney who is the brother of Paul McWeeney.
• $4.5 million to enterprises owned/controlled by Edward Penn.
• $4.6 million to Phil Lightbourne re. Phil's Food Services (Phil Lightbourne was the front man and spokesman for Ben Frisch who owned Bahamas Food Services up until the PM allowed the Frisch Family to sell it to Sysco Foods (a large U.S. public company) in April 2013.

Keep in mind that BOB is majority owned and controlled by the Bahamas government; accordingly its overall affairs fall directly within the portfolio of Christie as both PM and Minister of Finance. Most, if not all, of the loans and advances mentioned above had to be fully provided for by BOB, and likely have since been either written off by BOB or transferred to Bahamas Resolve at great cost to hard working honest Bahamian taxpayers. Small wonder that, notwithstanding the mega millions in taxpayers’ funds required to bail out BOB, Perry Christie was only too quick to come to the defense of Paul McWeeney (brother of Sean McWeeney) for having so handsomely rewarded the PM's political friends and business cronies!

well mudda sick jhed

Comrades any of the politically connected from both sides House isles who have NOT repaid or repaying their Bank of Bahamaland loans "as contractually agreed to" - should have their bank records forensically examined for any tell-tell signs, where and to whom the millions of taxpayers loans monies were disbursed to and for what reasons.
Amazing what it is possible to reveal once you trace the monies.
The same should be done for the bank records of the alleged criminally charged BEC $600,000 bribe receiver.

I completely agree! I think the perfect time would be after the Bahamar opening, sometime between the PLP convention and carnival. Couldn't ask for better timing, people still drunk.

Thisisours you are still holding out hope that Bahamar is going to be opened?

I guess I have a Pollyanna complex, I thought carnival would make money too...sigh...(I'm disabused of the second notion...not gonna happen for YEARS "at best", and that's IF they get it right)

Great, so we continue to live in a backward nation that does not value equality for all. I sure would hate to be the wives, mothers and daughters of all those men in charge of getting this referendum presented. Where are the voices of outrage? Where are the women of the Bahamas? And all the nonsense about using the referendum to usher in a new age of gay rights is just that -- complete and utter nonsense. Don't hide behind the issues!

bey they out there voting no jhed. The funny thing is they decriminalized gayness in 1992 and i think alot of people ein even kno that yet. They kno they couldn't vote on that, so they just do it. But womans rights? ya bey lets just throw it around when we want attention but keep dem as second class citizen

This criminal government could change the laws tomorrow if they had the balls but we all know they are about votes, power, and money before anything close to good governance. They proved this with the numbers racket, they can change the law if they want, but PGC ain't getting paid for this so he won't touch it.

January is the Christmas season.
February has Lent.
March has Easter.
April has Palm Sunday and Passover.
May has Pacha and Pentecost.
June has Ramadan, another Pentecost, and All Saints.
July has St. Benedict’s Day and the birthday of Emperor Haile Selassi.
August 15 is the Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary.
September 8 is the Nativity of Virgin Mary and has an equinox.
October has St Francis Day, The Blessing of the Animals, Yom Kippur, and Diwali.
November begins with All Saints Day, and on the 27‘th, Advent begins.
December has Christmas.
2017 anyone?

It is imperative that any future Government MUST investigate its predecessor Government. This shit has to end. We all know it but we sit at home and protest and no-one hears our voices cause we are all in the choir except **birdie** !

With political favoritism now on full public display, why has Graham Thompson allowed its once much respected integrity and reputation to be compromised by the McWeeny Brothers?!?

With this issue leave it alone ,I declare utter damnation . We all no what you are trying to go with this. Leave It Alone. If you know a man is headed for his death, then why do you follow?