Emac, you find it difficult to believe that some Bahamians are humane. There were some white people who march with Martin Luther King and also there were whites who supported majority rule. They too were label niggers or nigger lovers. Its amazing how history repeats itself.

I have been a Bahamian at the very least as long as you. Before then a British subject like everyone else. Well you got me on the latter. I am an admirer of anyone who fight injustices. I have pictures of Mandela and Martin Luther King openly displayed. Just like Fred Smith both men were hated and ridicule by the side opposite but loved by the people they fought for.

Not wasted money at all. Its a plus when the constitution of the Bahamas is defended and upheld. I hope Fred Smith takes on police brutality. We as a society have come to accept that killing and beatings by the police is normal.

You are 100% right sheeprunner. I went to the Registrar Generals office for a copy of my birth certificate and my mothers name was spell wrong. I was fortunate to have a handwritten one from the 1970's or else they would have required me to get an affidavit sign by someone who is older than my eighty-two year old mother. Imagine that.

I just saw the lack of procedures last month. I pickup a relative from the hospital after she give birth and all they give her was a paper with the doctors signature and the hospital stamp indicating that she had a baby boy. They also gave her a birth registration form.

...the challenge was to name one. Better still, if the police was to arrest you and beat you and tell you they made a mistake, who would you call.

Registration of birth is a huge problem in The Bahamas. Why not have a Registrar General officer at the hospital to take the babies finger print before the child goes home. That will go a long way to solve the problem

Hats off to Fred Smith. If I ever need a lawyer, I will definitely look him up. Could anyone name another lawyer in The Bahamas as passionate about the causes he has champion over the years. The guy is tenacious.

He must register at the nearest embassy. If he didn't register there is nothing for him to renounce thus the narrative of statelessness.

There is an expectation of sex once a person get married. The expectation is actually enshrine in law that sex (consummation) is part of the marriage been sealed. In fact, in some countries if a would be husband learn on his marital bed that someone else consummate before he did the marriage is null and void. With that been said marriage creates a right to sex by either party. I am sensitive to the fact that abuse could exist in a marriage. There are adequate assault laws to remedy such occurrences.