More than just one purpose and among them s to not have babies having babies. To ensure that those who engage in sex are prepared mentally and financially for parenthood. Also to avoid grown men or (women) from invading the homes of minors and creating havoc on n a family. Once a person reaches the age of consent and chooses to have sec, then they are fully responsible for all their actions and any consequences from it.

Obviously the minister was referring to the age of accountability. When a child comes to know right from wrong. But obviously laws ar needed to protect children and the vulnerable. Some who cannot comprehend the full consequences of their actions.

Then after the slave trade there was barely little for a person to do after reaching child bearing age except get married and start a family. Most family islands did not have high schools and even for economic reasons, parents would give consent for their daughters to get married at The age of 14-15-16 years old. And it was acceptable and considered ‘normal’. but today! a fourteen year old is still considered a child by any stretch of the imagination. She is not considered physically or mentally mature enough to be engaging in sex and it is flesh crawling disgusting to be having sex with someone three times her age. There is college and university and careers and career building and requirements for flexibility and mobility that will be severely hampered by an absent father child clinging to her skirt. Her whole life is ahead of her and she destroyed it not just by having sex but by becoming impregnated by an older dude. So it’s time to fix the law. Society frowns on this type of sexual activity and these types of relationships. Lock up the perpetrators and throw away the keys even. Will that be a deterrent or will there be more single parents with fathers behind bars

Because they are attempting to explain the naked and undressed facts of the law to people who are full of emotions and have caught feelings on the matter. Yes, it is grossly disgusting to think of a 40 year old man having sex and establishing a sexual relationship with a 14 year old girl but only the laws on the books can apply. Does it mean now that the laws have to be changed or upgraded? And any parent ( fathers at least) finding that a ‘big rusty man’ was sexually involved with his 14 year old daughter, would become blood thirsty. Wayne Munroe was try to explain the difference between forced rape and consensual rape and also the diff between an underage person who was already sexually active and one who was a virgin being the victim. These all have bearing on the penalty given for rape. And if the sentence for forced rape is seven years and the convict in this instance was given four years prison time, plus two years probation then that is within the sentenc norms. What the public is probably crying out for is the overall increase in the penalties for rape. And this must be measured under two parameters as opposed to modern day Bahamas, where the act now seems so perverted and has enraged many. Firstly under slavery, it was a common practice for slave owners or members to f his family to deflower young, virgin slaves, and many below the age of consent. Back then, this behavior was justified on several fronts: Firstly that the slave master owned the slave girl and had all rights and full access to her. Secondly it was considered an economic activity. The quicker a slave can become active and start to breed, the greater the financial gain for the owner. After all he had to feed and clothe her.

law does not have emotions!! And Wayne Munroe and his deputy prosecutor is getting beaten up on.

Bahamians must now start to benefit from the wealth of their nation and stop being penalized for Being Bahamian with higher taxes when all the tax breaks and concessions are going to foreigners. Stupid thinking governments over decades have been enriching foreigners whilst disenfranchising Bahamians. And so now the majority of wealth of the country is owned by foreigners. And whilst the country is still in the wake of a pandemic and many Bahamians are drowning in debt this unconscionable government is hounding home owners and property owners for taxes. Who is siccin this thoughtless government on Its peoples? This country has enough wealth that every Bahamian should be receiving a dividend check form it’s government at least twice a year. But the wealth of the country is being frittered away by foreigners. Time for Bahamians to stop being hoodwinked and bamboozled. The way government is allowing this country to be raped and pillaged by foreigners is no better that when every Black person here was a slave. Stop it!

With the economy fully open compared to being 30-40 percent last year, would you expect anything different?

ninety percent of the energy consumed in the average Bahamian household can be from solar and at no cost to the Bahamian home owners. Most homes are empty during the day. Solar panels can collect energy and store them in efficient batteries. And can even return energy to the grid during the daytime. Then use minimal energy from BPL at night. BPL must change its operations from a power production and distribution company to a power production, distribution and management operation. It can reduce its consumption of fossil fuels by 50 percent or more. But O the politics

Maybe he was still referring to the discrimination part of it.

What does ‘The PM stopped short of saying there was wrong doing by those responsible for those who volunteered for the program…’ means?