Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jun 26, 2008	Bahamian Parliamentarians Updated On The Bahamas Government’s Position To The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) With The European Union (EU)
Parliamentarians Get EPA Update: By Sasha L. Lightbourne - Nassau, Bahamas: However, some – including members of Bahamians Agitating for a Referendum on Free Trade (BARF) – have argued that it amounts to The Bahamas giving up its sovereignty. Minister of State for Finance Zhivargo...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jun 16, 2008	Bahamas: 9.3% of the country’s population represent the face of Bahamian poverty
Poverty On The Rise: By Candia Dames - Nassau, Bahamas: More and more Bahamians are buckling under the weight of the rising cost of living and slipping below the poverty line in The Bahamas, a senior government official has confirmed. The worrying situation comes amid ongoing...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jun 14, 2008	The Bahamas Christian Council Has Done, or Is Doing Very Little In The Way of Providing Moral and Spiritual Initiatives for The Uplifting of the People of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Is the BCC failing? By SHAVAUGHN MOSS, Lifestyles Editor - Nassau, Bahamas: The recent abrupt change in leadership, and the silence of the Bahamas Christian Council (BCC) on major social issues facing the nation is cause for grave concern to its effectiveness, according to Reverend J....... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jun 13, 2008	The Promised Universal Catastrophic Health Insurance Scheme For Bahamians
Catastrophic health insurance: By KRYSTEL ROLLE, Guardian Staff Reporter - Nassau, Bahamas: The government intends to introduce a universal catastrophic health insurance scheme, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham announced yesterday in the House of Assembly. The scheme will benefit all...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jun 4, 2008	Bahamian Pastors: Legalizing gambling in The Bahamas would only cause more impoverishment and would add to the nation’s social ills
Pastors Scoff At Plan For Nat’l Lottery: By Viraj Perpall - Nassau, Bahamas: A group of pastors on Tuesday scoffed at a bid by education officials to fund education’s future needs through a national lottery. The most recent draft of a new plan for education – which was obtained...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jun 3, 2008	Bahamas To Establish A National Lottery To Fund Education
Bid For Nat’l Lottery: By Candia Dames - Nassau, Bahamas: Education officials have completed the latest draft of a new strategic plan for education, saying the government will over the next 10 years establish a national lottery to fund education in The Bahamas. "The bulk of monies in...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jun 2, 2008	The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) With The European Union: "... holds no benefits for The Bahamas"
Union boss weighs in on EPA proposal: By KEVA LIGHTBOURNE, NG Senior Reporter - Nassau, Bahamas: Less than a week after scores of Bahamians participated in a peaceful demonstration in the city's center in protest of the government's proposed signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  May 31, 2008	The Need To Have Bahamians Informed About The Economic Partnership Agreement [EPA] Between Caribbean and European Countries
Laing rejects EPA criticism: By JASMIN BONIMY, Guardian Staff Reporter - Nassau, Bahamas: The minister of state in the Ministry of Finance has shot down claims that the economic partnership agreement (EPA) will shrink the local job market if The Bahamas becomes a signatory. The EPA...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  May 25, 2008	You only get to Negro nationalism after you pass intelligence and universal knowledge. That is what we have lost touch with. That is the Marcus Garvey that we have ... almost erased...
The 'secret Garveyism': By THEA RUTHERFORD, Guardian National Correspondent - Nassau, Bahamas: UCLA professor and prominent Caribbean scholar, Robert Hill, introduced an audience on Thursday to a Marcus Garvey that perhaps many of us have never known. For decades after his death in...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  May 23, 2008	Bahamas Trade Unions Stand Divided
Unions Still Divided as Labour Day Approaches: By TOSHEENA ROBINSON-BLAIR - Nassau, Bahamas: While nixing the idea that the country’s two umbrella unions would finally unite to stage one major Labour Day march, leaders affiliated with the Trade Union Congress (TUC) unveiled plans on...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  May 16, 2008	The Situation of The Bahamian Youth in The Bahamas
A State of Crisis: Growing Problems Facing Youth: By Sasha L. Lightbourne - Nassau, Bahamas: The country is in a state of crisis due to the situation of its youth, Chairman of the Juvenile Panel Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans asserted Wednesday night. "The future is at risk and so we...... [view]