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Minnis: Party was blindsided by Lightbourn 'tube tying' comments
FREE National Movement Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis told parliamentarians yesterday that the party was blindsided by Montagu MP Richard Lightbourn's controversial proposal for the state-sponsored sterilisation of women.
MP who joked about abusing woman says Lightbourn is in the Stone Age
TALL Pines MP Leslie Miller yesterday said he was ?shocked? to learn of Richard Lightbourn?s ?tube tying? comments, as he criticised the Montagu MP, insisting that to make such a proposal revealed the inner workings of an ?evil and twisted mind?.
Statement by Glenys Hanna Martin on Richard Lightbourn's comments at FNM Convention
Mr. Speaker, I rise to make a communication on behalf of all members on this side of this Honourable House in response to recent official utterances made by the Member for Montagu at the FNM Convention on 29th July, 2016 at the Melia Hotel Resort, West Bay Street.
Lightbourn 'must resign' after sterilisation proposal
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party women MPs have called for the resignation of Montagu MP Richard Lightbourn over his contentious proposal for state-sponsored sterilisation of women as an anti-crime initiative.
Lightbourn under fire for 'tube tying' comments
Lightbourn under fire for 'tube tying' comments
TWO local advocacy groups have condemned Montagu MP Richard Lightbourn's proposal for the state-sponsored sterilisation of women as "archaic, barbaric and dangerous", charging that the suggestion is "frighteningly reminiscent" of sterilisation policies used against black people internationally in the 1960s.
BWW condemns Lightbourn's dangerous and archaic sterlization proposal
Bahamas Women?s Watch strongly condemns the statement by Member of Parliament Richard Lightbourn who suggested a policy of state enforced sterilization as a means of controlling the fertility of unwed Bahamian women with two or more children.
Women's groups condemn Lightbourn's 'dangerous and archaic' comments
In the wake of Free National Movement (FNM) MP Richard Lightbourn's recent suggestion to sterilize unwed mothers with more than two children, two women's groups have called the suggestion "frighteningly reminiscent of the policies" used in during Jim Crow and apartheid.
UPDATED: Lightbourn proposes sterilising mothers
UPDATED: Lightbourn proposes sterilising mothers
UPDATE: Richard Lightbourn has released a statement apologising for his remarks.
DNA: Lightbourn's comments spineless
DNA: Lightbourn's comments spineless
Several Democratic National Alliance (DNA) female candidates yesterday shot down Free National Movement (FNM) MP Richard Lightbourn's comment's about forced sterilization of mothers during a speech at the FNM convention on Thursday, as "utterly disgraceful".
Lightbourn apologizes
Lightbourn apologizes
Hours after his suggestion that The Bahamas should consider tying the tubes of unwed mothers with more than two children triggered a national outcry, Shadow Attorney General Richard Lightbourn yesterday issued an apology, particularly to Bahamian women for his comments, which he said, "in no way or form reflects the position of the Free National Movement (FNM)".