27th October
Over 900 Attorneys Now in The Bahamas
By Sasha L. Lightbourne
As scores of family members, friends and well wishers looked on, 33 new attorneys were called to the Bahamas Bar yesterday bringing the total number of lawyers nation-wide to over 900.
http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=14612
The new attorneys were welcomed to the bar by President of the Bahamas Bar Association, Wayne Munroe and by Justice Estelle Evans on behalf of the bench.
27th October
Undermining Potential
This is a very troubled place. Take for example the fact that in one instance this week a gaggle of these poorly socialized youth stoned a convoy of police cars sent to patrol the environs of their so-called school.
http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=128&a=14618
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Few Bahamians remember that there was once a time when a Cabinet Minister was killed. Here the reference is to the late Charles ‘Chuck’ Virgil who was murdered in February 1997.
Sensibly and properly, this man is remembered by many, inclusive of his colleagues, his neighbours, his family and his multitude of friends.
We also remember that it was agreed and accepted in those times that the problem of crime was not one that should be politicized.
It was also agreed and accepted that the problem of crime in the Bahamas was one that merited nothing less than a national consensus as to the way forward.
This is still the way to go.
That is why we decry any and all efforts made by anyone to pin the blame for crime on any one party in today’s Bahamas, that is why we disagree with the Rt. Hon. Hubert Ingraham when he claims that, “It was a national disgrace that the Progressive Liberal Party spent five years in office and left the judicial system in the mess that it is in today.”
As the record shows, the Free National Movement –in office for a decade- did have its own fair share of crime-related problems.
The same applies to a Progressive Liberal Party that was in office when Mr. Ingraham himself happened to be a member of the high command in that party.
Today crime’s bloody beat continues.