And that is the point of freedom of speech--everyone has the right to it, everyone pays for fora like this to exist. So again---it doesn't matter what "the public who doesn't support that crap." thinks. There is a public who very much supports it all. Y'all are free to complain, but it will not prevent those professionals from speaking on matters they should be expected to speak on.

It doesn't matter what the public or the Christian Council thinks. Academic freedom is legally enshrined in the University of the Bahamas Act : “the freedom to exercise critical thinking, engage in innovation, research and teaching." As long as the faculty member violates no law or institutional regulation and does not proselytize or cajole, the faculty member is free to speak in his or her academic capacity as he or her feels. This talk is a sociological one. If UB faculty cannot speak on issues like this when they are supposed to concern themselves with knowedge about anything imaginable about the Bahamas, who can?It is notable that the University is the only place in the country where sexual orientation has some protection by law. it is supposed to be an inclusive institution.

"No person shall be excluded by reason of religious beliefs, political opinions, sexual orientation, disability, age, race, ethnicity, national origin or gender from admission as a professor, associate professor, assistant professor, research professor , lecturer, librarian, or such other staff, student, or employee of the University or from office or employment therein or to pursue any course of study therein or to receive any degree or other qualification awarded by the University or from any advantage or privilege"

It doesn't matter what the public thinks. Academic freedom is legally enshrined in the University of the Bahamas Act : “the freedom to exercise critical thinking, engage in innovation, research and teaching." As long as the faculty member violates no law or institutional regulation and does not proselytize or cajole, the faculty member is free to speak in his or her academic capacity as he or her feels. This talk is a sociological one. If UB faculty cannot speak on issues like this when they are supposed to concern themselves with knowedge about anything imaginable about the Bahamas, who can?

You all really believe he resigned? If so, I have a bridge to sell you.

this is a dumb take. Tourists were not flying, nor would we have wanted the country open to bring in the disease in overwhelming numbers before we had established protocols to best protect our health. All Caribbean islands are suffering these same problems of restarting; everyone did the same thing, which has been praised by global health authorities. Minnis does many stupid things but his actions during this pandemic were warranted.

It's always of priority. LGBT issues are socioeconomic issues: if you can't get a job in this economy because you're LGBT, if our hotels and tourism officials are not trying to get their slice of the "pink dollar" by engaging the loyalty of LGBT tourists, who often have high amounts of disposable income, if during this lockdown LGBT youth are more in danger because they are forced into shelter with homophobic and transphobic relatives. etc etc.

They should charge the full dollar. Buy your reuseable bags one time and stop using plastic period. People saw for a year there was going to be a ban on import of plastic and then ban on distribution of plastic. Business have been giving out free reusuable shopping bags -- I have a bunch from Lowe's and Solomon's I never pay a cent for. Why did people not get them? and if you didn't get them then, get them now. By the time you pay 25 cents for one month of shopping with plastic bags you might as well get your cloth shopping bag one time.

Read Bahamas, read! The mother was born in the Bahamas. That is not illegal entry. When you are born in a country, no matter how your parents enter, you yourself are not breaking any laws, nor are you an undocumented immigrant--you neither overstayed, nor entered the borders illegally. She was entitled to apply for a Bahamian passport because she was born here, applied at 18 and our government, which has absolute say on the matter, decided, after years of processing, she should get Bahamian citizenship.

There is NO language in the constitution that discriminates between legal and illegal immigrants when it comes to application for citizenship. That would have to be inserted by referendum. The minister/Cabinet can apply whatever criteria they want to decide whether to award citizenship, but the constitution does NOT forbid the person born here from applying for or gaining citizenship based on the legal status of the parents. Show me the language that stipulates that the applicant's parents MUST be legal residents! You cannot find it. It is in the discretion of the Minister/Cabinet. It would require an constitutional amendment to mandate it. That is why Branville McCartney promised a referendum on the matter when the DNA was first running.

What the hell are you talking about? @licks2? The mother met the deadlines...which is why she has a Bahamian passport now. Miss Ginette Caty, Taranique's mother, was born in the Bahamas to non Bahamian parents. She had the right to the citizenship of her parents AND the right to apply for Bahamian citizenship, which she did according to the rules and was granted. Taranique, who has a Bahamian father, not married to Miss Ginette Caty, was born before the Bahamian citizenship was granted to her mother. Even though the mother was Haitian at the time of the child's birth, because she was not a native born Haitian she could not transmit citizenship to her child. She is not the same as native-born Haitians who refuse to go and register her child with the Haitian embassy. That is a different case. The child Taranique was also not able to access the Bahamian citizenship of her father because mother and father were not married. If we had changed the constitution in the last referendum like we should have he would have been able to give his citizenship along with his name to his own child and we would not have this problem. Every Bahamian man should have an interest in this case-- as he is not able to pass on citizenship to all his children automatically.