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LONG Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner said the low voter turnout for gender equality referendum’s advance poll was a “clear and frightening” indication that the majority of the Bahamian electorate is either “confused or disengaged” because of the many “different stories” associated with the vote.
WITH less than a week left before the June 7 referendum on gender equality, prominent Freeport attorney and human rights activist Fred Smith, QC, is urging Bahamians to end discrimination between men and women in The Bahamas by voting “yes” to all four referendum questions.
FRUSTRATED unionists may campaign against the Progressive Liberal Party ahead of the next general election, Trade Union Congress President Obie Ferguson suggested yesterday.
TWO men must continue to wait before they are sentenced concerning their roles in the disappearances and murders of an Immigration Department officer and his girlfriend in Andros.
POLICE are on the hunt for man who allegedly threatened to “kill Chinese” persons living in the Bahamas and “wage a war” on the Royal Bahamas Police Force and Royal Bahamas Defence Force.
A RECENT spike in the number of Chinese housed at the Detention Centre is due to these immigrants being apprehended after their human smuggling schemes have gone awry.
EMPLOYEES at the Department of Land and Surveys yesterday protested working conditions at the government building, calling for immediate action to address a mould infestation.
AN UNFINISHED roadwork project in Grants Town is causing issues on the busy Lewis Street thoroughfare for area residents, who have now drawn The Tribune’s attention to the problems.
A CYCLIST was killed in a traffic accident in New Providence Wednesday.
HUMAN rights activist Erin Greene said yesterday she does not believe the fourth constitutional amendment will pave the way for same-sex marriage in the Bahamas but she said it will give members of the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender community the “rights” they deserve.
THE deputy director of the Bahamas Crisis Centre yesterday called for peace and tolerance after she said the constitutional referendum debate has turned into “an intolerable hate fest.”
THREE men who were convicted of the murder of American sailor Kyle Bruner during his attempt to prevent a robbery of two visitors were spared the death penalty yesterday.
MAURICE Moore, regarded as one of the Free National Movement’s founding fathers, has strongly rebuked the six opposition members of Parliament who threatened to have FNM Leader Dr Hubert Minnis constitutionally removed, insisting that their actions “are not becoming” of people who want to be leaders.
FORMER Court of Appeal President Dame Joan Sawyer has claimed that the Christie administration is using the upcoming gender equality vote as a “ruse” to implement lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in order to conform to international human rights policies.
BAHAMAS Christian Council President Rev Dr Ranford Patterson yesterday said he is “unequivocally” voting against the fourth Constitutional Amendment Bill, charging that a ‘yes’ vote would eliminate the need for “Parliament to ever come back to the Bahamian people to do anything as it relates to marriage”.
MICAL MP V Alfred Gray said the fourth constitutional referendum bill has been “hijacked by the religious community.”
A WOMAN accused of killing ZNS radio broadcaster Scott Richards and stealing his iPhone during a gunpoint robbery was arraigned in Magistrate’s Court yesterday afternoon on murder and armed robbery charges.
THE FREE National Movement yesterday accused the government of “cajoling” Bahamians to support the upcoming referendum instead of truly educating them on the proposed changes to the Constitution. In a statement, the party also defended its leader Dr Hubert Minnis against criticisms over his lack of involvement in the referendum despite his support of the four Constitutional Amendment Bills in Parliament.
THREE Bahamians, with 28 Chinese and one Colombian, were taken into custody on Sunday evening by Bahamian authorities in connection with a suspected human smuggling operation in Grand Bahama.
MICAL MP V Alfred Gray said yesterday that the fracture in the Free National Movement is “too deep to mend,” predicting that the party will “self-destruct” and feature an “almost permanent” split regardless of the outcome of its current debacle.
THE first phase of a potable water project in West Grand Bahama is nearly complete and residents will soon no longer have to install their own individual pump and well at their property.
Constitutional Commission Chairman Sean McWeeney, QC, replies to Pastor Dave Burrows, of Bahamas Faith Ministries International, seeking to quell concerns about the Constitutional Referendum.
POLICE arrested a 42-year-old man early yesterday morning in connection with the murder of a veteran ZNS radio broadcaster last week.
LONG Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner admitted yesterday that the Free National Movement is “not as strong as it should be so close to the next general election” but said she hopes an early convention can bring “unity”.
THREE men appeared in Magistrate’s Court yesterday accused of sexually assaulting three minors, a boy and two girls, in separate incidents.