Humes doesn't know what he's talking about. If he did a little research, he'd see that presidents of U.S. colleges that operate under similar conditions to COB make nowhere near that kind of money, that even $200K would be overpaying this Copy & Paste candidate.

Same-sex marriage is currently not allowed because of the Marital Causes Act. If the government wanted to introduce same-sex marriage, all they would need to do is change that ordinary act in parliament. No constitutional amendment needed. No referendum needed.

If anyone believes that this is their secret agenda, think again. Why go through the hassle of a referendum, if you can do it without one?

Did Fred just call being a woman "an accident of biology"?

Can we please change the headline to "DNA Leader is just talk."

“It’s their dollars, they can do what they want to do.” Funny that this government uses this phrase as a justification for removing discrimination against foreigners, but somehow really doesn't care that a Bahamian's dollar apparently isn't his, so he must continue to be discriminated against.

Is he quoting that same PLP constitution that mandates that the party must have an annual convention, that the party's leader must be elected - or reelected - annually at said convention?

Sadly, this story is not quite accurate, and the truth is even worse. Minister of Educational Genius Fitzgerald "affirmed the recommendation of the College Council to appoint Dr. Rodney Smith as President of The College of The Bahamas." The next step, before Dr. Whosespeechisthat becomes president, are contract negotiations. Surely, this government of lookoutforyourbuddies is going to ensure that he'll fleece the already broke, underfunded institution before the appointment becomes official.

May I suggest that the Tribune refuse to print stories about BEC officials, whatever their capacity, claiming that there'd be no more power outages? If you need to fill newspaper space, I can send over my neighbour's toddler, and let him play with the keyboard to produce some random gibberish instead.

According to the 2010 census, there are 70,222 households on New Providence. If the average NP household owed, as Miller states, $5,000, then the receivables from residential accounts alone would amount to around $351 million - not $185 million. Clearly the BEC chairman does not know what he's talking. And this is reason #47896052436 why it's time for him to resign immediately.

Amazing how our government can hire foreign consultants for every crap, probably to decide on what to order for dinner, too, but when it comes to educational programmes, they can't even be bothered to read readily available research:

"Interventions that embody ‘therapeutic’ philosophies, such as counselling and skills training, were far more effective than those based on strategies of control or coercion, i.e. surveillance, deterrence, and discipline. In fact evidence suggests that programmes that mainly focus on deterrence or discipline can actually have the opposite effect and lead to an increase in offending behaviour. For example, programmes that employ shock tactics, such as ‘scared straight’ programs, where young offenders are taken to maximum security prisons and told of the horrors and difficulties of life in prison by the inmates, have been linked with increased offending." (From: "Prevention and Reduction: A review of strategies for intervening early to prevent or reduce youth crime and anti-social behaviour." https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s…)