DURING the most recent general election in the United States of America, I came across an interesting online flyer captioned “The Republican Party Rape Advisory Chart”. It listed a set of talking points on the seven types of rape in the minds of a “Republican rape apologists.” The “Gift-From-God Rape” was aptly described by Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock: “When …
Issues Surrounding Gambling Referendum
THE referendum questions are out, and as predicted they are giving rise to more questions than answers. Do you support the regulation and taxation of web shop gaming? And, do you support the establishment of a national lottery? As I said before, no question is completely objective, and many people have observed, the web shop question contains certain assumptions that …
The Clock’s Ticking On Referendum Question
When the government postponed the gambling referendum, originally proposed for December 3, it bought itself time to put the legal structure in place to conduct a consultative referendum, to properly educate the Bahamian public on the issues and the questions which would be the subject of the referendum. So far it has successfully accomplished one of the three tasks. With …
The Right Choice – Now Let’s Debate
WITH wrangling over the gambling referendum threatening to kill the government’s winning momentum, Prime Minister Perry Christie did the politically prudent and most intelligent thing: postpone the referendum. It truly would serve no one to have the public voting amidst so much confusion and entanglement. But the Prime Minister had few others to blame for his unforced errors: the most …
Is The Gambling Referendum Worth The Time?
THE upcoming referendum is really yucking up my vexation. I join the chorus of Bahamians encouraging the government to put a proper referendum forward; one that is worth suffering the inconvenience of going out to vote. There is no shame in doing the right thing. My concerns, however, do not echo some of the popular discourse. I for one believe …