Former Speaker of the House of Assembly Rome Italia Johnson (right) greets a participant of the Flamingo Gardens Urban Renewal Centre s Women in Service Post-Majority Rule Day event, as Cyke Greenslade (left) of the Flamingo Gardens Urban Renewal Centre looks on. (URC PHOTO)
NASSAU, BAHAMAS Officials at the Flamingo Gardens Urban Renewal Centre ended the month of January with a focus on Women in Service, during which time the “varied and vast contributions” of Bahamian women, past and present, at the national and community levels were recognized and celebrated.
The Post-Majority Rule Day event was held under the patronage of Rome Italia Johnson, the first woman speaker of the House of Assembly (from 1997 to 2002). Prior to that, she served as deputy speaker from 1992 to 1997; and she currently serves as chairperson of the National Council for Older Persons.
Misreading the tea leaves
Dear Editor,
What do the Democratic National Alliance (DNA), The People’s Movement, Bahamas National Coalition Party, Bahamas Democratic Movement, Bahamas Constitution Party, Vanguard Nationalist and Socialist Party, Workers’ Party and the Coalition for Democratic Reform all have in common?
They’re all fringe political parties that have all failed miserably to make a significant difference on the political landscape of The Bahamas, unlike the Free National Movement (FNM) and the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) the two political dinosaurs that have staying power, like the Democratic Party and Republican Party in the United States.
With the political pendulum swinging between the FNM and PLP each election cycle since 1997, this has reinforced the age-old consensus that The Bahamas is a two-party state.
By Allyson Maynard-Gibson
“In the moment of a national crisis, a moment of great danger…a people must decide: ‘Who shall we be?’” Archbishop Michael Curry, January 2021
The words of Archbishop Michael Curry, uttered in response to the horrific events at the US Capitol this week, applied to voters in the former Colony of The Bahamas in 1967, as it applies today to Bahamians as citizens of a sovereign nation.
As Curry stated, those words also applied to Americans at many points in their nation’s history.
The COVID-19 pandemic reminds us that they also apply to every member of the human race.