Front Porch Pandering to bloodlust: The politics of capital punishment

The politics of capital punishment is the politics of fear, an empty and unimaginative response to the country's deep-seated anxieties about crime and our collective failure to stem violence and reduce a frighteningly high murder rate. We are angry and afraid. We are desperate to [...]

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Police promotions on merit not politics

AN audit underway of manpower in the Royal Bahamas Police Force will end the need for prescribed promotion dates set by politicians, Minister of National Security Marvin Dames has announced...

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The politics of immigration

The positions that Opposition Leader Philip Brave Davis and Shadow Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell are taking on illegal migration are unhelpful, silly and wholly hypocritical. If we did not know better, we would think that Haitian sloops landing on our shores is something new. It [...]

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Davis 'will encourage more women into frontline politics'

THE Progressive Liberal Party's newly elected leader will give women the encouragement they need so more of this demographic enters politics, former PLP MP Philip Galanis believes, adding the rough nature of the profession deters many women from entering.

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New FNM chairman wants different approach to politics

With the backing of Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis, former Free National Movement Deputy Treasurer Carl Culmer Jr. won the two-man race for party chairman by a landslide on Thursday night. He got 104 votes to Howard Grant's 18 votes. Reacting to his victory yesterday, [...]
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'Patients won't die over politics'

Firing back at Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Bradley Roberts' claim that he is in violation of the Code of Ethics for Cabinet ministers, Minister of Health Dr. Duane Sands said yesterday he still performs surgeries at Rand Memorial Hospital in Freeport for free, and [...]
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Politics, legacy uncertain fates

Former Prime Minister Perry Christie left office three months ago with a legacy tarnished by his failure to ensure the highest standards of probity among his ministers, questions surrounding the management of public funds and a failure to demonstrate a sincere commitment to transparency.
Now he sits in retirement presumably with a lot of time to think.
He must also be deeply pained by the recent a...

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Five things I've learned since politics

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Gomez: Comments were based on compassion, not politics

Retired Anglican Archbishop Drexel Gomez yesterday sought to clarify that when he agreed with Senior Pastor of Mount Tabor Baptist Church Bishop Neil Ellis about the "inhumane" treatment of former Minister of Labour Shane Gibson, he did so out of a "human interest" and not a political one.
Gomez and Ellis said they believe Gibson was treated "inhumanely" when he was escorted into court last week t...

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Pastors in politics

People go to church after a challenging week to hear a word of hope that reaches them at their individual positions with the assumption that what is said comes from the Bible. It was with this in mind that Commonwealth Mission Baptist Church senior pastor Bishop Arnold Josey admitted that the recent election season left him concerned, with the number of senior pastors that had emerged into frontli...

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