Standing from left: Freedom of Information Commissioner and retired Supreme Court Justice Keith Thompson; Attorney General Carl Bethel; former Assistant Director of Legal Affairs (ADLA) and Deputy Freedom of Information Commissioner Shane Miller; and Permanent Secretary in the AG’s Office and the Ministry of Legal Affairs Cecilia Strachan. (BIS PHOTO/ULRIC WOODSIDE)
NASSAU, BAHAMAS Attorney General Carl Bethel yesterday named retired Supreme Court Justice Keith Thompson and former Assistant Director of Legal Affairs (ADLA)Shane Miller as the first Freedom of Information Commissioner and Deputy Freedom of Information Commissioner, respectively.
The announcement is a major step towards the enforcement of the Freedom of Information Act, which successive governments have tried to implement.
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Rejection of Meghan by the royal establishment and its public supporters is rooted in the pillage of resources and psychological conditioning of people in the global south. It is the latest in the British empire’s history of denial, gaslighting and control doled out on foreign lands for centuries. Meghan’s interactions with the institution recall the disenfranchisement of British subjects from the Caribbean, west Africa and south Asia who moved to England after the second world war only to be met with chilled air and closed doors. The colorism of questioning the potential darkness of her son Archie’s skin is the legacy of racism that flourished during the slave trade and plantation slavery, twinned bounties reaped by the British empire. Moreover, the participation of people from these same former colonies in attacking Meghan and Harry – often with racist and sexist undertones – in attempts to defend Buckingham Palace is evidence of the dissonance created under the so-called
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