Another feel good, looks good in church law.
Will this be yet another ballyhooed effort with no force of will? No fruition?
A grand commission of oversight that never meets, is never enforced?

And don’t tell us all about this hiring of social workers, etc., for we have the same laws, the same officials and officers that pretend to guard and enforce the rights of our children.
Yet the cases of parental laxity fill our media: neglect, malnutrition, abuse, incest and pedophilia, government “care homes” are filled to over capacity.

If we lack the will and the means to prosecute the parents, grandparents, and relatives of the children they refuse to acknowledge let alone support, how can we hope to do the same for our vulnerable elderly?

The next time one reads the columns-long lists of relatives in the obits of the dearly departed ask yourself why is it that when a child is in danger of harm and/or abandonment the list of the ‘dear ones’ is nonexistent?

We need to enforce the rights of our most vulnerable children by disenfranchising the ties of those who abandoned them, thus allowing adoption by responsible parents.
Force them to pay for their care, their needs?
Hopefully this might allow space to house the elderly also so abandoned because that’s the other gaping hole in this bill, forcing folks who would refuse a child to care for their aged.

What’s going on here?
Animal Control euthanized the dog immediately after the attack last Wednesday, but a week later the criminally reprehensible owner is still running around at large??

Perhaps it shouldn’t be astonishing for the local OIC of GB Animal Control to report they normally receive 3-4 calls per day reporting dog attacks given the attitudes we’ve witnessed from so many owners.

Some have excused bad behaviour citing that what folks normally see as pets are considered ‘nothing but livestock’ a commodity by some, however most of the successful farmers, owners of breeding stock, and kennels ensure the health and control of said ‘livestock’.

When I was a child our Malinois was a fierce guard dog and my best friend, neither characteristic must be exclusive. There are no bad dogs only bad owners.

How could the Minister of Education declare he knows nothing of this issue, one that obviously gravely impacts the quality of teaching in his own schools?
Is it a studious ignorance?
Goodness knows that’s been his pattern in every portfolio he’s been assigned..

Shouldn’t he be able to ascertain the undue burden this would have on every teacher?
Every student, whatever language they speak?

The Bahamas supposedly runs a “Public School” system, their mission to provide an equal opportunity for every child here. So it follows that if a child cannot speak english then this must afforded to her/him.

So it’s taken them 3 years to attain 30% of this project’s completion?
That puts substantial likely…by 2033 right?!

About the same time you posted this ‘atta boy’ for Bahamian rescue efforts the Lamar family announced they’d recovered one deceased family member’s body.
A few hours later they announced the recovery of all their dead relatives, pulling their bodies from the sea themselves.

Yes there were localized storms at Bahamas Air Traffic lost contact with the plane just after 11AM but these storms didn’t last all day.
Moreover videos show the family setting out to search from the Bahamas in calm conditions Monday evening.

So the questions are: why did the Bahamas wait 3 hours after the plane had presumably went down to call the US Coast Guard?
Why did the rbdf & rbpd which have far larger ships to ride out “deteriorating conditions” than these family members used not continue (or start?) searching?
How were they able to make this recovery in the same area supposedly being searched by Bahamas authorities?

And lastly what does it say about the dedication to their mission, and ability of Bahamas official government rescue ops to carry out that mission?
That the same day that their Father’s, their Grandfather’s plane disappeared they launched their own rescue mission?
What propelled them to set out themselves, appeal directly to boaters, pilots & fishermen (presumably in the absence of any from Bahamian authorities) and hire private rescue ops to assist in their recovery of their family members?

Makes one shiver to think of any reliance we might need…

What else is new….

It’s heartening to read that Justice Delancey’s finding that marriage is defined as a partnership between both parties of which each contributes.

And that Mme Justice acknowledges the difficulties and income limitations facing divorced women (especially those of middle age) returning to the workforce after years of absence.

Not in any official capacity.

So Eric Wilson the guy supposedly elected to safeguard the jobs of his fellow members of BEWU & ensuring their needs are met is in fact one of the main recipients who’ve profited from this corrupt overtime scheme.
And since by virtue of the power he’d possess over his union’s members, he’d also be in a position to leverage that power in a corrupt scheme for he & his mates to receive $600,000 in no-show “overtime”.

Yet he has not been suspended and/or charged?