From a political standpoint it makes it worse if Pintard only "alleged ". How can you be asking for explanations and clarity on the one hand and you making allegations and innuendo on the other? What color did the pot call the kettle? Ok then.

If you have any comprehension of the English language you cannot conclude that the first and second statements contradict each other. They are simply saying that even if gay marriages are not allowed to be performed in the Bahamas, same sex couples who marry elsewhere and travel to the Bahamas will have to have the rights of their union extended to them. You use various pen names to extend your varying points of view. But by trying to contradict what I am saying you actually confirm what I said. No one is suggesting the denial of equal rights as it already exists in the Bahamas de facto. My clear observation was that when you attempt to put it into law, then it will encompass other things such as gay rights and the recognition of gay marriages. When you say man and woman are equal in all aspects, then you also say a man has just as much right to marry a man as he has to marry a woman. It is intertwined with equal rights of the sexes and you cannot separate it (gay marriage). To do so then yes you are attempting to deceive. That was my premis. The Christain teaching is that God created man first and made him the ruler of the earth and the head of his household. Same sex marriages will have to rewrite that law. Rather than going off on irrelevant tangents about who is educated and who is not, I challenge you to prove that I am wrong.

How will the I outcome of this case impact another matter that is being investigated? We so will see

Many people think because these girls are skimpily dressed store attendants think they cannot shoplift. So let this be a lesson. They also use children as a distraction or to go in areas of the store where adults can't go. Some even access the cash register or employees handbags

They stilldi not charge him with being involved in gang activity despite Keith Bell saying that gang violence is one of the biggest contributors to murders.

Despite what they tell you, the equal rights bill will open the gateway for same sex marriage in the Bahamas. While the bill itself may not allow for gay marriages, per se, to happen in this country, it will mandate that these marriages will eventually have to be recognized here. the reason why : The Bahamas has at least 5 million tourist visiting each year. Lets assume that 5% of them are gay. That's a population of at least one quarter million people. So what the gay or "human" rights groups are saying is that if two fellas decide to get married in California, or two women in Minnesota, they have to be treated like 'husband and wife' when they come to the Bahamas. Breezes cannot deny them a stay because they only cater to (traditional) married couples and if they check in to Atlantis the maid cannot refuse to clean their room because 'they like that.' The waiter cannot refuse to go back to the room because, 'them fellas was looking at him funny and he aint on they run," and the dj in the club will not be allowed to cut the music off because he see two man or two woman dancing together. Spousal laws on inheirtance and spousal rights will also be tampered with. But since most churches in the Bahamas are of the Christain faith and preach from a bible that teaches that marriage is a sacred union between a male and a female then they cannot be forced to participate in these same sex unions and must have the right to keep them out of their churches. Of course some pastors will follow the money instead of the scripture and you know what will happen next.

Didn't' the PM say that this will be dealt with in the next session of the house? There were to be some amendments.

Come to think about it, the US elections are 1 year before we own. And thus far all the Republicans is promising to do is repeal ObamaCare and undo a number of economic plans the president has put in place. Unemployment in the US is at its lowest in 10 years and many states are reporting crime to be at its lowest level in a decade. And oh yes, they did go after Hillary Clinton and try to shoot down her creditability even before she announced that she was running. Maybe that's just politics.

@Cobalt : why are you so blue in the face? Even slaves use to sing and dance after working 13 hour days in the hot, sweltering sun and eating pig's guts and chicken feet for Christmas dinner. Some even got lynched.

A few years ago I gave the opinion that the economic and social direction the country was taking was not one in the best interest of ithe country or its (native) people. What we have done basically is snatch all the people off the family islands and crowd them ion New Providence. The lure was good paying jobs in the hotels or secure jobs with government. This worked for many persons who were willing to change their lifestyles, better their education or compromise themselves but it left a large segment of the population, mostly males, excluded. They were, by natiure, blue collar workers or field hands and even after a few try's at it they did not fit in in the hotel or corporate setting. So they created a sub-society where they engaged in the drug trade, gambling and other illegal activities to sustain themselves. These activities paid a pretty penny, and even though many of these men spent most of their lives before the courts or in and out of jail, they had respect for life and our murder rate was less than half of what it is today. Now Today, some two and a half decades after the mass exodus from the family islands began, we are faced with the second and third generations of this sub-society. To make matters worse they have now been intermingled with the Haitian-Bahamian sub-culture, gang warfare has been introduced into the mix. Many come from single parent homes, some whose fathers have been killed or are in jail and they feel more isolated from the rest of society than ever before. The drug trade and other activities that their fathers engaged in are no longer lucrative and jobs are even more scarce than before. These people are angry, many feel lost or betrayed and still many are economically desperate and socially empty. They are the ones who will kill in the blink of an eye and until we address this monster that was created over the pass thirty years we may as well start packing our bags now. It will consume us. The problem is too big for Urban Renewal 2.0 alone to fix