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No to an increase in House seats - The Nassau Guardian


No to an increase in House seats
Members of Parliament in the House of Assembly. FILE
The Bahamas Constitution provides for a House of Assembly with 38 members. That number may be increased by a constitutionally sanctioned process including recommendations from the Parliamentary Constituencies Commission.
The minority government of The Bahamas, pre-1967, has been accused of gerrymandering boundaries of constituencies by including disproportionate numbers of supporters of the main opposition party in large constituencies in New Providence and creating numerous, sparsely populated constituencies in the Family Islands: Abaco, Eleuthera and Harbour Island each had three seats, Cat Island, Exuma, Long Island and Andros each had two seats; Acklins, ‘Crooked Island and Long Cay’, Grand Bahama and Bimini, and ‘San Salvador and Rum Cay’ each with one seat. ....

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Op-Ed: Legal opinion on the resignation of the speaker, the honorable Halson Moultrie


By Dion Smith
Introduction
By way of introduction and experience, my name is Dion D Smith. I am an attorney-at-law having been called to practice in the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas in the year 2001. I have over 20 years’ experience practicing in the Magistrates’ Court, the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal and also preparing applications for the Privy Council.
From May of the year 2012 to May of the year 2017, I had the pleasure to be elected as member of Parliament and the deputy speaker of the House of Assembly of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. During my time in office, I was also appointed the chairman of Bahamas Road Traffic Department (RTD) and the executive chairman of the Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation (BAIC). ....

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