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Sterilisation, birth control, violence and gender inequality: Are these related?

Progress is often sold as a package that takes something from someone else.

Time to face the problem raised by Richard Lightbourn

THERE was understandable outrage in the community to Montagu MP Richard Lightbourn’s recent suggestion in the House of Assembly that to solve today’s social ills legislation should be introduced that unwed mothers of more than two children should have their “tubes tied”. He quickly apologised for his indiscretion.

Priest who fought for civil rights to speak at banquet

FATHER George Clements, the world renowned and most decorated priest of all time, is expected to be one of the featured guest speakers at the annual R E Cooper Sr Meritorious Service Award Gala Banquet later this year.

Emancipation still comin’

SHACKLES are still holding us; Lord, we continue to pray for deliverance, total deliverance. Let’s sift through some of these.

TOUGH CALL: Reviving Downtown is more talk, less action

A recent comment by veteran columnist Nicki Kelly is worth repeating.

No murders in July - and police credit team effort

THERE have been no reported murders for the entire month of July, with a senior police officer attributing it to a “consistent” policing effort by members of the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

Bahamian economy ‘as low as it can go’

The Bahamian economy has “gone as low as it can go”, with the Chamber’s chief executive yesterday conceding that progress on improving the ‘ease of doing business’ was not happening “as fast as we’d like”.

F.N.M. Convention: Day one as it happened

Get all the news from the FNM Convention right here with live updates starting today.

‘Golden Girl’ Debbie turns coach for Rio Olympics

After making her debut at the Olympic Games as a member of the women’s 4 x 100 metre relay team in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996, sprinter Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie is back for her sixth straight appearance at the four-yearly global competition.

Fertility tracking bracelet unveiled

THERE’S a wearable for just about everything these days - including one designed to help women trying to get pregnant.

Boat thefts in Abaco

I am a business owner in Hope Town, Abaco. My family and I have been a part of this community for the past 60 years.

Bran’s ‘living nightmare’ over Tax Certification

The DNA’s leader yesterday said “the living nightmare” of business in the Bahamas was brought home when the National Insurance Board (NIB) effectively tore up the contract with his family’s pharmacy via its Tax Compliance Certificate (TCC) demands.

YOUR SAY: Fighting to save the Bahamian economy

There has been much recent discussion of Bahamian dollar devaluation. At this stage, is seems that it is not a matter of if The Bahamas will suffer devaluation, but when.

A ‘Fun Night’ to remember

An iconic staple in the Bahamas’ basketball culture, the 29th edition of the Jeff Rodgers Summer Basketball Camp concluded with traditional “Fun Night” at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium.

Lynden Pindling said ‘tell the truth’ - that includes Baha Mar

“GET up and get going or you will be gone!” was the swift kick in the pants that the late Prime Minister Sir Lynden Pindling gave his MPs on the last night of the PLP’s 35th national convention.

28-member Team Bahamas named for Rio Olympics

Against the backdrop of a $125,000 sponsorship from BTC, the Bahamas Olympic Committee announced a 28-member team to represent the Bahamas at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

YOUR SAY: Including all Bahamians the key to moving forward together

AN economy that leaves no one behind is the only way we as a nation can move forward, together.

Doctor in rape case says abortions against beliefs

DR GERALD Forbes insisted that he does not perform abortions at his Grand Bahama clinic because it is against his religious beliefs as a Catholic and has denied writing a prescription for abortion tablets, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.

Doctor admits to sex and drugs but denies rape

DR Gerald Forbes told a Supreme Court that he and a woman who has alleged that he raped her were involved in an intimate sexual relationship and that she allegedly inserted abortion tablets into her vagina after becoming pregnant, possibly with his child.

The ‘millionaire’ promise at the root of today’s social problems

IN THIS column yesterday we confirmed Mr Richard Lightbourn’s statement in the House that students, caught up in the get-rich-quick euphoria of the drug era, were writing essays on how they wanted to become drug dealers like some of their family members and friends.

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