Editor:

Just when we thought the current political landscape in The
Bahamas could not immediately become more rife with notable (and infamous)
precedents, the PLP government has announced it is now a born-again believer in
equal rights for Bahamian women. And to put works to this new faith, it says it
plans to bring a referendum to remove gender discrimination from the
Constitution as it pertains to a Bahamian woman passing her citizenship onto
her child.

Now lest we forget, this is the same Constitutional
amendment Prime Minister Perry Christie and the PLP while in Opposition told
the Bahamian people to vote "no" to in 2002 (even though he and his colleagues had
already voted "yes" to the same in Parliament.)