Nassau, The Bahamas -- The widest and most comprehensive consultation is necessary to affect the changes and reforms anticipated, said Ms. Ruth Bowe-Darville, president of the Bahamas Bar Association and chairman of the Bar Council, while addressing the Bahamas Constitutional Commission on Monday, Feb. 25.

She said that the Bahamas Bar Association is ever mindful of the Preamble to the Constitution and reveres the same in that it provides for "the establishment of a free and democratic sovereign nation, founded on spiritual values and in which no man, woman or child shall ever be slave or bondsman to anyone or their labour...