THIS week Renardo Curry will take his seat in the House of Assembly as the newest Member of Parliament for North Abaco. His ascendency concludes an uninspiring campaign process that produced a voter turnout of 86 per cent, down from 91 per cent in May’s general election. The outcome was hardly any surprise. The Free National Movement fielded an amateur …
How Do You Plan To Be Great?
LAST month I reluctantly attended a prayer breakfast for the 73rd annual meeting of the Bethel Baptist Association. I went as a guest of the Royal Bank of Canada, which hosted media personalities at the event. I intended to honour the invitation, but dip in and out of the event, because I had a busy Sunday planned. Thankfully, all did …
Oral History Project Celebrates Women of Wisdom
THE wisdom of Africa suggests: “Every time an elder dies, we lose a library”. Recognising this ancestral truth, the Island Stewards Camp and Spelman College participated in a joint oral history project to document the personal histories of eight women of wisdom in the Bahamas. Over the course of four days, starting on March 15, 2012, seven young Bahamians, stewards …
Female Team give Mandate to Lead
WHEN news broke that three of the four women who were elected to the House of Assembly were put in one ministry, Transport and Aviation, some observers were perplexed, myself included. I could not understand the thinking of Prime Minister Perry Christie. I suppose all’s well that ends well, because the release, issued by the government’s information service on Friday, …
Tangible Strategy for Courting Women
AT the final Free National Movement (FNM) rally on Saturday, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham made an overt pitch to women voters, particularly mothers, asking them to vote for the ‘FNM Delivery Team’. In discussing the road improvement project he compared the tangled utility wires found underground with the jumbled up wires women often find in the back of their televisions, …