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Fox Hill gang ‘wars’ prompt Olympics star charged town meeting WITH the people of Fox Hill caught in the middle of warring gang factions, a town meet- ing was held last night at St Paul’s Baptist Church by MP Fred Mitchell to address this sharp rise in shootings in the community. With people having with assault on boy been shot, stabbed, and homes fired upon in recent weeks, the police f

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i ing place in and around T Johnson, Adderley, and FORMER Olympian and Street, appeared visibly Reeve’s streets with the celebrated Bahamian ath- upset as he was led out of majority of the reports lete Andrew Tynes has been the courtroom. He was he said being blamed charged with indecently granted $6,000 bail with one on an ongoing feud assaulting a 16-year-old boy. surety. Tynes appeared at Magis- He was also ordered to SEE page eight trates Court yesterday and stay away from the com- pled not guilty to the charge plainant and witnesses in before Chief Magistrate the case. Rigby: Christie Roger Gomez. The 37-year-old track star should demand It is alleged that Tynes is a former national 200 assaulted the boy between metres record holder and Wilchcombe steps August 1 and August 27, has represented the coun- 2009, during his capacity as try at the Carifta games, down as chair of a physical education teacher CAC Championships, Pan at the C C Sweeting Senior Am Games, World Cham- PLP convention High School. FORMER PLP Chair- Tynes, of West Bay SEE page eight man Raynard Rigby has called on Opposition leader Perry Christie to Chinese planning large demand that Obie Wil- chombe step down as chair scale farming in Abaco of the party's upcoming convention. A CHINESE concern is planning to carry out large scale farm- Mr Rigby challenged Mr ing in Abaco. Christie to live up to recent Edison Key, executive chairman of the Bahamas Agricultural statements he made about and Industrial Corporation (BAIC), hailed the move as a “tremen- the "consequences" peo- dous boost” for the agricultural sector. ple would face if they oper- Mr Key took Yiqing Sun, director of the Shandong High-speed ated beyond the rules of Quila Construction Group, National Stadium Project, and inter- preter Baoquo Xing on an exploratory tour of what is being the organisation. offered in Abaco. He added that as long as The team also included BAIC general manager Benjamin Rah- Mr Christie allowed Mr ming, and assistant general manager (agriculture) Arnold Dorsett. is pictured leaving court yesterday. Wilchcombe to retain his “We enjoyed our visit and we are very satisfied with the land con- ANDREW TYNES position, while running for ditions for agricultural development,” said Mr Xing. “You have the deputy leadership post, the party would remain SEE page 10 President Obama includes Bahamas among divided. "I must assume that the rules which he refers, Caribbean countries in major narcotics list whether written or by cus- tom, address the issue of PRESIDENT Barack The Bahamas is recog- transparency, accountabil- Obama has included the nised as being a major drug- ity and fairness in the elec- Bahamas and three other transit country because of toral process," Mr Rigby Caribbean countries in a its location between drug- said in a statement yester- major narcotics list present- producing nations in South day, referencing comments ed to the United States America and the United Mr Christie made earlier Congress. States, and was also includ- this week on a radio talk Jamaica, Haiti and the ed in the major narcotics show. Dominican Republic were report last year. also named on the 2009 list, A spokesman for the US "He (Mr Christie) must along with 16 other coun- Embassy in Nassau said the also assume, rightly, that tries around the world Bahamas government has those members of the Par- determined to be major pro- also been commended in the ty that do not support the ducers of illicit drugs or key report for its efforts to crack candidacy of Obie Wilch- transit points for the sub- combe for deputy leader stances. SEE page eight SEE page eight BARACK OBAMA (AP)

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LOCAL NEWS Should the prime minister of the Bahamas be a married man? 3

LESLIE FRENCH (1) the top office of prime minister “In the Bahamas today, should be married, it makes many problems start from the them look more responsible home with the family structure. and they'd be sensitive to fam- STREET If you want to lead a country, ily issues. A perfect example you should lead by example. would be to look at all the The prime minister, in my scandals surrounding our opinion should be married unmarried politicians. We need because he needs to send the someone who has a family and TALK right message.” can respond to the needs and understand what's going on in COLMAN DARVILLE, the family.” 1 2 BROKER (2) “Yes, I believe that the CARSON HEPBURN, 51, minister should present the prime minister should be mar- SOLOMON’S MINES (4) image of a stern, firm family ried. How can he lead our “As a married man the 7 man.” country without any family prime minister would com- experience?” mand more respect from soci- SHAWN BUCHANAN, 25 ety. You have people depend- (6) KIKI, 52 (3) ing on you and a greater sense “I wouldn't say it's necessary “I think anyone running for of responsibility. It makes you but it looks better for the com- more striving and stronger, munity that he’s a married man especially if you have children. and has a family.” This will give you a deeper love of people and society. An ISAAC LEON ROKER, 56 unmarried man might be think- (7) ing ‘Who cares? Its just me’.” “It would show me that he has a sense of responsibility, WILLIAMS, 60, TAYLOR that he has a family. I think INDUSTRIES (5) 456 that should be one of the “I agree because the prime requirements.”

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LOCAL NEWS Government responds to complaints over new school

By TANEKA THOMPSON Tribune Staff Reporter [email protected]

GOVERNMENT is working on addressing a litany of complaints from parents, teachers and staff about the less than stellar state of the newly-construct- ed Anatol Rodgers High School. The school’s parking lot is dotted with large muddy puddles and pot holes, and contractors are busy installing drainage wells – creating an eyesore for both stu- dents and teachers. Minister of Education Carl Bethel said he understands why people are frustrat- ed over the school's external appearance but added that government has faced with circumstances beyond its control. Mr Bethel said the construction work was complicated by a discrepancy between the estimated contract price and the actual cost of building the school to fit certain necessary design changes, which led to cost overruns. He explained that the additional funds needed to carry out the repairs had to be approved by Cabinet before they could be released. "At the end of the day it's all been reviewed by Cabinet which has approved the extra funding. . . That was one of the reasons that caused some delay," said Mr Bethel. He also explained that the site of the school – which had already been chosen when he assumed office in 2007 – is a low lying plot in southwestern New Prov- f f a

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work, coupled with recent rainy weather, T has created the muddy puddles lining during the school hours at Anatol Rodgers High School. the school's parking lot. WORK GOES ON He added that contractors have drilled tion of the school's sports facility – are which first opened its doors in Septem- eight of the 12 wells needed at the school. expected to be completed by January, ber, 2008 – have performed at above- He said this process has been hampered 2010. average levels. because contractors can only drill on the Mr Bethel explained that the school The cost to build the school was orig- weekends, when students are not in opened on time this fall semester, in spite inally pegged at $8.5 million but design school. of outstanding aesthetic challenges, to changes and additional work has pushed The other four wells will be drilled accommodate the influx of nearly 3,000 the price-tag to an estimated $14 mil- over the next several weeks and out- new students into the public school sys- lion, Mr Bethel told the media at a press standing jobs – including pipe and park- tem. conference at the school's campus yes- ing lot light installation, and construc- He also said students of the school – terday. Bahamas promotion in Mariah Carey album features in fashion magazine IN ADDITION to being showcased to petition to win a five-day trip for two to the millions of people around the world in the Cove hotel in Eleuthera. booklet of Mariah Carey’s upcoming The booklet for the album, titled “Mem- album, the Bahamas is also being promot- oirs of an Imperfect Angel”, is a co-pro- ed in the popular fashion magazine Elle. duction with Elle Magazine that will fea- In the October 2009 edition, the maga- ture advertisements for the Bahamas, Eliz- zine reproduced some of the pages of the abeth Arden and Le Métier De Beauté CD’s booklet in the form of a special insert cosmetics, Angel pink champagne and Car- for its readers. men Steffens shoes from Brazil. An entire page in the publication is ded- At a cost of $35,000, this new way of icated to promoting a competition to win a promoting the Bahamas has been hailed as trip to Eleuthera, where the superstar a “great idea” by former Minister of singer celebrated her wedding to televi- Tourism Obie Wilchcombe. The West End sion presenter Nick Cannon in May last and Bimini MP said he believes the return year. on the investment could be significant. In the ad, Eleuthera is named Mariah Mariah Carey’s last album sold over Carey’s favourite island in the Bahamas. It 430,000 copies in the first week, and Elle is described as an unspoiled vacation par- Magazine said its American edition reach- adise with breath-taking beaches and crys- es 5.1 million readers. tal clear turquoise waters. The magazine’s October edition is on Elle readers are asked to go to newsstands now, while the album will be www.Bahamas.com/Mariah to enter a com- released on September 29. Jamaican men get 30 months for drug charges TWO Jamaican men were sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to charges stemming from the seizure of nearly half a mil- lion dollars worth of marijua- na. Curtis Marsden, 33, and Delroy Brown, 44, both of Jamaica, pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of con- spiracy to posses, conspiracy to import, possession with the intent to supply and importa- tion of 488 pounds of mari- juana. The drugs were contained in sacks, packages and buck- ets found in bushes not far from the sea in Scrub Hill, Long Island, on May 5, 2008. Following investigations, Marsden and Brown were arrested in Simms, Long Island. The two men had initially pleaded not guilty to the charges and stood trial. On Tuesday, before Magistrate Carolita Bethel delivered her ruling in the matter, both men pleaded guilty to the charges. Marsden and Brown were sentenced to 30 month impris- onment each.

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PAGE 4, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 THE TRIBUNE EDITORIAL/LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Tribune Limited Jacinta Higgs NULLIUS ADDICTUS JURARE IN VERBA MAGISTRI Being Bound to Swear to The Dogmas of No Master LEON E. H. DUPUCH, Publisher/Editor 1903-1914 is definitely SIR ETIENNE DUPUCH, Kt., O.B.E., K.M., K.C.S.G., (Hon.) LL.D., D.Litt .

Publisher/Editor 1919-1972 Contributing Editor 1972-1991 ‘Super Woman’

EILEEN DUPUCH CARRON, C.M.G., M.S., B.A., LL.B. Publisher/Editor 1972- in Fox Hill Published Daily Monday to Saturday

Shirley Street, P.O. Box N-3207, Nassau, Bahamas EDITOR, The Tribune. head up high with pride. Insurance Management Building., P.O. F-485, Freeport, Grand Bahama Sentiments that can only Please allow us some space in LETTERS come from a Senator, Member WEBSITE your most valuable column to of Parliament or Prime Minister share on a meaningful, enlight- [email protected] that has walked this path before www.tribune242.com – updated daily at 2pm ening and true story that took identifying with the pain, joy place in Fox Hill just a few days and $700 cash to assist with oth- and accomplishments of a peo- ago. er bills that were already accu- ple they truly live amongst and We really don’t know who mulated at this time. The chil- desire to be a servant too. Have a nice day Karen White was singing to dren were able to have the best We don’t know if our MP when she denied being some- programme in its 12 years of Minister Mitchell has to give one’s super woman, but we Applied Materials is one of the most outside the U.S.,” said Splinter. “Our biggest existence and have yet to an account to the Prime Minis- here in the Fox Hill community receive any sort of sponsorship ter, but the New Breed Sports important U.S. companies you’ve probably U.S. customer is a German-owned company can truly say that Senator Dr never heard of. It makes the machines that in Oregon. We sell them pieces of equip- from the MP Minister Fred Club placed bleachers on Fox Jacinta Higgs is our “Super Mitchell in cash or otherwise Hill Park and the bleachers make the microchips that go inside your ment.” Woman”. computer. The chip business, though, is If you read some of the anti-green com- showing interest in our young need a proper roof over it for It all started before now, the boys in Fox Hill, not even with shelter from the elements when volatile, so in 2004 Mike Splinter, Applied mentary today, you’ll often see sneering ref- president of the New Breed Materials’ CEO, decided to add a new busi- erences to “green jobs.” The phrase is usu- an ice cooler for the children hosting outdoor events. Sporting Club went out in to have cold water. Like other communities, Fox ness line to take advantage of the company’s ally in quotation marks as if it is some kind of search of sponsors for the Fox nanotechnology capabilities — making the liberal fantasy or closet welfare program We have no one to blame but Hill children deserve some love Hill summer youth programme. ourselves. from the government as well. machines that make solar panels. The other (and as if coal, oil and nuclear don’t get all The response came quickly day, Splinter gave me a tour of the compa- kinds of subsidies). Nonsense. In 2008, more We voted these strangers in While Senator Higgs can be from the Fox Hill MP Fred thinking they would understand seen assisting us Fox Hill con- ny’s Silicon Valley facility, culminating with silicon was consumed globally making solar Mitchell that there was no mon- a visit to its “war room,” where Applied panels than microchips, said Splinter. our plight and do well for our stituents even with little back ey to support any programme children’s future and turned our to school supplies with seem- maintains a real-time global interaction with “We are seeing the industrialization of of this sort in Fox Hill. all 14 solar panel factories it’s built around the solar business,” he added. “In the last 12 back on our own, may God ingly little or no help from any At this time we did not help us. government, our MP is said to the world in the last two years. I could only months, it has brought us $1.3 billion in rev- receive any word from Senator laugh because crying would have been too enues. It is hard to build a billion-dollar Our Summer programme be collecting but neglecting Higgs only that she was deal- came to a successful end and what is really needed in Fox embarrassing. business.” ing with some historical pro- Not a single one is in America. Applied sells its solar-panel factories for just when we were about to Hill. ject. part, we got a call from Senator We have scrapped to make Let’s see: Five are in Germany, four are in $200 million each. Solar panels can be made The children were made to Higgs who included us to par- one of our dreams, the Fox Hill China, one is in Spain, one is in India, one is from many different semiconductors, includ- believe that this government ticipate in the cleaning up of community Heritage Tour, a in Italy, one is in Taiwan and one is even in ing thin film coated onto glass with nan- don’t care about them in Fox three of the historical sites (the success and hope that both gov- Abu Dhabi. I suggested a new company otechnology and from crystalline silicon. At Hill and that if they wanted to ocean/blue holes, Judge Sandi- ernments and Mr Mitchell will motto for Applied Materials’ solar business: Applied, making these complex machines be a part of the government lands and Pa Bey home sites) of get on board and the Ministry “Invented here, sold there.” requires America’s best, high-paid talent — summer programmes they The reason that all these other countries people who can work at the intersection of the Fox Hill Heritage Tour that of Tourism would keep its word needed to find their way down was to be launched on Fox Hill are building solar-panel industries today is chemistry, physics and nanotechnology. to the sports centre or some in rendering the necessary sup- because most of their governments have put If we want to launch a solar industry here, day in a joint effort with Mrs other facility, despite the other port and assistance as promised. in place the three perquisites for growing a big-time, we need to offer the kind of long- Portia Sands of the Fox Hill programmes being sponsored In closing, on behalf of the renewable energy industry: 1) any business term certainty that Germany does or impose Urban Renewal Centre and the by government as satellite pro- New Breed Sports, all Fox or homeowner can generate solar energy; the national requirement on our utilities to Ministry of Tourism. We gladly grammes all over the Bahamas Hillian’s and proud Bahamians 2) if they decide to do so, the power utility generate solar power as China does or have accepted the contract, wow a on a annual basis. everywhere we say, thank you has to connect them to the grid; and 3) the the government build giant solar farms, the chance to be a part of Fox Hill’s Not being one to give up on Senator Jacinta Higgs, for all utility has to buy the power for a predictable way it built the Hoover Dam, and sell the history while making some our children and being denied a the love you have given and we period at a price that is a no-brainer good electricity. money for school supplies. Sen- sty pin by the ministry of sports also thank your family, for gen- deal for the family or business putting the OK, so you don’t believe global warming ator Higgs you are the best. this year, using his club as a erously loaning you to us for solar panels on their rooftop. is real. I do, but let’s assume it’s not. Here is To be brief, just before satellite programme for the such a time as this, especially Regulatory, price and connectivity cer- what is indisputable: The world is on track to school opened Senator Higgs people of Fox Hill to have a your husband, Mr Higgs. tainty, that is what Germany put in place, add another 2.5 billion people by 2050, and assisted one of Nassau’s top sporting venue, Coach Davis We hope that the Govern- and that explains why Germany now gener- many will be aspiring to live American-like, three basketball guards, a then targeted the private busi- ment would see that they have ates almost half the solar power in the world high-energy lifestyles. In such a world, young Fox Hill boy, live out his ness’s in the community. Feel- a gem in you and realise that today and, as a byproduct, is making itself renewable energy — where the variable cost childhood dream in sending ing disappointed in both lead- we in Fox Hill are daily learn- the world-center for solar research, engi- of your fuel, sun or wind, is zero — will be in him off to school in the United ing political party representa- ing to appreciate our own and neering, manufacturing and installation. huge demand. States. tives and with a few minor sup- hope we can some day see they With more than 50,000 new jobs, the renew- China now understands that. It no longer This boy is the first person port and his own finances, his do as well. able energy industry in Germany is now sec- believes it can pollute its way to prosperity in his family to go off to any annual six week programme Continue on your steady ond only to its auto industry. One thing that because it would choke to death. That is the school in the United States and started on schedule. course, because He who has has never existed in America — with our most important shift in the world in the last in the words of Senator Higgs Just when it looked like the begun a good work in you is fragmented, stop-start solar subsidies — is 18 months. she can identify with his excite- club would have to close early, faithful to complete it. certainty of price, connectivity and regulation China has decided that clean-tech is going ment seeing that she too was the children from the New Jacinta, all promotions come on a national basis. to be the next great global industry and is the first person in her family to Breed Sports Club received a go off to college. from Jehovah God, have a bless That is why, although consumer demand now creating a massive domestic market for surprise visit from Mrs Claus She reminded him that he week. for solar power has incrementally increased solar and wind, which will give it a great in the person of Senator Jacin- will not only be an ambassador here, it has not been enough for anyone to export platform. ta Higgs who paid for the entire for Fox Hill, but for the MINISTER S DAVIS have Applied Materials — the world’s In October, Applied will be opening the summer programme, including Bahamas and that no matter Nassau, biggest solar equipment manufacturer — world’s largest solar research center — in summer books, club team shirts what he was to always hold his September, 2009. build them a new factory in America yet. Xian, China. So, right now, our federal and state subsidies Gotta go where the customers are. So, if for installing solar systems are largely paying you like importing oil from Saudi Arabia, for the cost of importing solar panels made you’re going to love importing solar panels It’s wonderful to read The Tribune online in China, by Chinese workers, using hi-tech from China. manufacturing equipment invented in Amer- EDITOR, The Tribune. I am to have you guys to go! Thanks. ica. (This article appears courtesy of THOMAS online. The pictures are Have a nice day. L. FRIEDMAN Hi, wonderful and the articles LONEICE “About 95 percent of our solar business is c.2009 New York Times News Service) Just like to say how happy are great. Florida, USA I live in Florida and really September, 2009. appreciate being able to read The Tribune online. Trust in the Lord with all When I lived home I pur- your heart and lean not on chased the Tribune daily. your own understanding. In It is great that readers are all your ways acknowledge given the opportunity to him and he shall direct your comment on articles. Way path (Proverbs: 3:5-6).

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LOCAL NEWS Mitchell still prepared to run for PLP leader By PAUL G TURNQUEST bid is not a realistic conduct these elections over the last year, and I think bility of the party losing funding Tribune Staff Reporter one and cannot be will determine what that message can go forth. It is or support if Mr Christie is [email protected] seen as anything our image is for the just that the internal democracy returned as party leader during more than a future in people’s eyes. has to be organised in a way the convention, Mr Mitchell said OPTING not to outright “protest.” “We have to con- where everybody believes it is that it is his view that whoever declare that he is throwing his “My view is that nect with indepen- fair - and that applies to every the leads the PLP, the party will hat in the ring for the party’s top someone who is not dents. We lost inde- office,” he said. be “well organised and well fund- post at this time, Fox Hill MP in the parliamentary pendents by 12 per- When asked if there is a possi- ed.” Fred Mitchell maintains he is still group can’t realisti- centage points in the prepared to run for the leader- cally be leader of the last campaign and that ship of the Progressive Liberal PLP, because he is the target group in Party (PLP) at the upcoming con- can’t under the Con- addition to our target vention in October. stitution be leader of FRED MITCHELL base that we have to Noting that there is still “a lot the Opposition. So win over when the next of time” between now and nom- what you would see there can election takes place. So there is ination day, Mr Mitchell told The only be a protest of candidacy. going to be a very skillful set of Tribune yesterday in an exclu- And while I appreciate the enthu- ideas and programmes have to sive interview that he wants the siasm which he brings to it, I be put together to be able to delegates and the public to know don’t think there is a realistic pos- attract the independents and to that his running is still very much sibility of anything more than a keep the base. And it has to be a a “live issue.” protest. So it has to be someone very skillful campaign and it has “Obviously you can’t choose in the parliamentary group in my to be well-funded and focused,” yourself. You need to know what view,” he said. he said. kind of support there is for it, Mr Mitchell said there are any There is essentially only little and what direction the party will number of persons within the over a month for a leadership take. The leader has made some party’s parliamentary group who candidate to launch their cam- statements, so I am examining could be leader. However, with a paign and to speak with delegates those statements to see what the party which does not welcome around the country. But Mr forward movement of the party the idea of change, Mr Mitchell Mitchell questioned whether or will be,” Mr Mitchell said. said he hopes that if there is a not it is even necessary to “cam- To date, only one candidate, leadership battle it will be over paign”, as all of the prospective Paul Moss, has officially launched the different ideas and visions for candidates are already “known his campaign to challenge cur- the Bahamas’ future. quantities” within the party. rent leader Perry Christie. “The other important point is “The point is everyone knows While acknowledging that he that given the way the world has everyone and it is just the com- fully appreciates the enthusiasm evolved, the country is looking peting visions that have to be put that Mr Moss brings to the con- at the PLP to see how it conducts (forward) and there is a long pub- test, Mr Mitchell said that this these elections, because how we lic record of what has been said GB YMCA basketball facility fully restored By DENISE MAYCOCK he said. Tribune Freeport Reporter “As you look around today you [email protected] can see the benefits of this partner- ship. We thank Mr Holden and Sean FREEPORT – The basket- McShane of Basketball Travellers ball facility at the YMCA has because without their efforts and been fully restored and will commitment this would have not soon be used as the venue for been possible.” major basketball tournaments The gymnasium has received new on Grand Bahama. basketball flooring, rims, scoreboards The Grand Bahama Port and bleachers. This year, Basketball Authority partnered with Bas- Travellers will bring 12 American ketball Travellers of the United teams to Grand Bahama to compete States in restoring the basketball in a major basketball tournament. gymnasium, which was severely The company has been bringing damaged by the hurricanes in teams to the Bahamas for many 2004. years. This is its seventh year in Ian Rolle, GBPA president, Grand Bahama. Neil Holden of Basketball Trav- GINGER MOXEY, president of Port Mr Holding said Basketball Trav- ellers and Karen Pinder-John- Group Limited, holds court in the YMCA ellers was founded 24 years ago and son, executive director of the has been organising tours to the YMCA, brought brief remarks at a press conference Bahamas for the past 10 years. They have brought yesterday. 20 to 30 teams to New Providence. Mr Rolle said he hopes that the facility will once The organisation started doing tours to Grand again be the venue of choice for basketball tourna- Bahama after a visit to the island seven years ago. ments as well as other community events here on the Since then, the company has been partnering with island. the Ministry of Tourism to promote the Junkanoo “We all are aware that the storms of 2004 com- Jam tournaments abroad. pletely destroyed the basketball facility at the Y, and “We came here and loved what we saw and we during the month of April we partnered with Bas- have been having the tournaments here,” said Mr ketball Travellers to bring life back into this facility,” Holding.

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LOCAL NEWS Two tourist swimmers drown at Florida Beach PENSACOLA, Fla. riptides. Firefighters found a 46- year-old man on the shore, but PERDIDO Key firefighters say CPR couldn’t revive the man. Organisation seeks support in two Louisiana tourists drowned at Meanwhile, Escambia Fire-Res- Perdido Key beach and 11 swim- cue Lt. Daniel Akerman says a 62- mers were rescued off Pensacola year-old man was found dead and Beach, according to Associated floating in the Gulf. Press. Lifeguards rescued 11 other bid to rehabilitate ex-convicts Authorities say they received a swimmers from the rough surf. call Tuesday afternoon of swim- Reports say the swimmers were ATIONAL EADERSHIP STEEM BILITY AND ISCIPLINE NSTITUTE mers tangled in the beach’s strong not injured. N L , E , A , D I A NEW organisation which seeks suffered in the confines of an over- to rehabilitate ex-convicts and repeat crowded, and under-resourced cor- offenders is asking the public’s sup- rectional facility,” Mr Clarke said. port. “It is also no secret that ex-convicts Earlier this month, the National are ostracised because of the stigma Leadership, Esteem, Ability, and Dis- attached to having been imprisoned. cipline (LEAD) Institute was offi- As a result of these problems, many cially launched under the patronage are disillusioned, angry and embit- of National Security Minister Tommy tered. The end product then is that Turnquest. many become repeat offenders, mis- The institute aims to serve as a takenly believing that it may be better half-way home with programmes for in prison than in a society that has no post prison/correctional facility place for them. As proof of this, Her inmates. Majesty’s Prison here in Nassau boasts Founder Troy Clarke, who has an of having one of the highest rates of Associate’s degree in Law and a TOMMY TURNQUEST repeat offenders in the Caribbean.” Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Jus- The National LEAD Institute, Mr tice, said the institute works on the Clarke said, is requesting prayers, premise that everyone deserves a second chance financial donations, technical support and any to correct past mistakes and must be assisted assistance that members of the public can pro- when the will to reform is present. vide. “One of the most vexing problems in Bahami- “It is our belief that all men fall sooner or lat- an society is our inability to effectively re-inte- er, but the good ones and the great ones will grate and re-socialise those who have paid their always get back up,” he said. debt to society through the penal system. This sad Well-known church leader and best-selling reality leads to the additional suffering of men author Dr Myles Munroe has also declared his and women who in many cases have sufficiently support for the institute.

THREE CAR PILE-UP ON EASTERN ROAD EVERYONE involved managed to avoid injury after this three car pile-up which took place yesterday. The accident hap- pened at around 4.15pm on Eastern Road.

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THE TRIBUNE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009, PAGE 7 LOCAL NEWS )8):<5-6<.7::-6< Claims of violence QV+-6<:->144- $UH\RXWLUHGRIWUDI¿F" by Immigration :RUNLQWKH3DOPGDOHDUHD" 7ZR  EHGRQH  EDWKDSW officers spark RII0RQWURVH$YH $YDLODEOHDVRI2FWWK online debate 8QIXUQLVKHGFHQWUDO$&ZDWHU DPRQWK CLAIMS of violence and wrote: “The Bahamas is the Arawaks left intimidation on the part of most cultureless country in the anymore, last time )LUVWODVWSOXVVHFXULW\GHSRVLW Immigration officers during a West Indies / Caribbean. I checked, so let's be clear – detention exercise in Abaco Haitians / Jamaicans are an nobody has a claim to "own" sparked a heated debate on asset to the Bahamas. When- this land TO THE EXCLU- THE COMMENTS appeared on tribune242.com, with several ever I come to the Bahamas SION OF ALL OTHERS. The Tribune website - which can &DOO foreigners expressing outrage for business, the Bahamians Tanya, for "Haitian" why don't be found at tribune242.com and vowing to never return to are crass, rude, and you get youSep-Sale-Ad:Layout try a history lesson 1 8/26/09 and 11:14 AM Page 1 the Bahamas. this sense that they feel they insert ‘former slave’?” The visitors’ angry com- are owed something . . . for ments were posted in response what? Haitians and Jamaicans to a story in Tuesday’s Tribune are pleasant, approachable, in which it was claimed that WORKING, ethical and have officers carried cutlasses, a rich history. threatened children with guns “Rosemarie, without and used violence as they Haitians and Jamaicans the detained at least 165 Haitians Bahamas would be an over- of all ages and separated them priced bush. God forbid that from their families at around a Bahamian would have to do 4am on July 30. yard work. I mean . . . with the Sources told how children average student getting Ds were left behind as their par- they should all be entitled to ents were sent to Haiti, and jobs in high finance and man- Bahamians born of Haitian agement, right?” parents were forced to bid In a tribune242.com poll yes- farewell to relatives and terday, readers were asked if friends, some of whom had Bahamian authorities should lived in the Bahamas for treat people better during raids decades. and detention exercises. “Graham Russell” wrote: “I More than 100 people will not take my holiday in the responded, 65 agreeing that, Bahamas ever again! The way “Yes, all people deserve you treat people is disgusting respect”, while 36 said “No, and you will never see any of they shouldn't be here in the my tourist money again. I'm first place”. Half-Price boycotting the Bahamas and Conchy Joe said: “No Doubt encouraging my friends and about it, everybody should be family to do the same based shown respect. The question on your treatment of Haitians. is, how much respect was You people are terrible.” shown to the officers by these A Bahamian calling herself Haitians as they were being “Rosemerie” responded, com- rounded up? I speak from menting that the Immigration experience, Haitians show Department has to do “some- great disrespect to Bahamians thing about the Haitians”. in Abaco. If indeed the offi- SALE She wrote: “These Haitians cers were inhumane, were they have invaded our country and reacting to the actions of the are taking over. Their vast people they were trying to cap- on all items numbers will easily outnum- ture? You can't just accept as ber Bahamians in just a few fact what Haitians say hap- years. Bahamians better stand pened. They may be trying to up now for our country or we gain sympathy by claiming on display severely regret it later on. abuse. “I am tired of seeing “My question to Bahamians Haitians everywhere you turn is, do you realise what is going and hearing that Creole all on in our country? There has over the place. This is the been an invasion underway for DAYS Friday 18th September Bahamas, for Bahamians, not decades. The first wave of Haiti!!! Haitians were mild mannered, “They need to be sent a hard working people, for the Saturday 19th September clear message: Stay away, most part. Those that were ONLY don't come here! Good job able to stay here have had chil- Immigration! And there is no dren. Haitians believe in edu- such thing as Bahamians born cation, they make sure their of Haitian parents. You are children get as good an educa- 2 Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm Charlotte Street what your parents are, no mat- tion as is possible. By compar- ter where you born; check the ison most Bahamian "parents" P.O. Box N-4845, Nassau, The Bahamas laws. Bahamians should have don't demand the best from 242-322-4862 email: [email protected] www.coinrealm.net Bahamian blood, not Haitian their children’s schoolwork running through there veins. because they themselves place Haitians do not love our coun- little worth it a good educa- try and are only using it for tion. So we have a situation there financial gain.” where immigrants are quickly Her comments sparked a surpassing Bahamians in edu- long response from a com- cation / employability. The day mentator who described him- is soon coming, if not already self as “Esai Ambo, Superior here, when Haitian-Bahami- Court Ambassador”. ans will be rising to the top Under the title, “Modern while Bahamians will be forced Civilization. We are all human to do the very jobs (manual beings,” he wrote: “Rose- labour) their forefathers were merie, whatever planet you allowed to stay here to do.” are from, you need help. I vis- Tanya warned that Bahami- ited the Bahamas at least four ans “better wake up before we times a year; the last time I turn in Haiti”. was there would be the last “It does not matter to me time you'll see my tourist dol- what any foreigner says about lar. we treating Haitians inhu- “I understand that the laws manely, this is my Bahamas! I of your country need to be live here and I see my coun- respected, but human rights try being invaded and taken and human dignity are at risk over by Haitians. I don't even here. The United Nations and recognise this country any- Geneva Convention on more. America doesn't want Human Rights need to inves- Haitians over there, so why tigate the inhuman and cruel should we put up with them treatment against Haitians in here? Haitians hate Bahami- the Bahamas. The Bahamian ans and want to take over this government should be investi- country, they will say anything gated for crimes against to make us look bad. Bahami- humanity and gross violations ans you better ignore these lib- against human rights.” eral, bleeding hearts and stand He said that all democratic up for your country, before we nations must respect the UN become Little Haiti! How Universal Declaration of would you like a Haitian prime Human Rights, and quoted minister? You better watch several Articles including: out, its coming! It ain’t long Article 3 – Everyone has the now! Think about that, and right to life, liberty and secu- how are they going to treat rity of person. Bahamians then.” Article 5 – No one shall be Robert P, responded, say- subjected to torture or to cru- ing: “I imagine they would el, inhuman or degrading treat us just as bad as we treat treatment or punishment. them – and we would deserve Article 9 – No one shall be it. This is not about whether subjected to arbitrary arrest, we should let all illegals stay detention or exile. or whether we should get rid of Article 14 – Everyone has them, but HOW we go about the right to seek and to enjoy getting rid of them . . . If we in other countries asylum from treat them inhumanely we are persecution. no better than animals and as Article 15 – Everyone has such, have no right to claim a the right to a nationality. No country for ourselves. Humans one shall be arbitrarily populate countries, not cruel deprived of his nationality nor beasts.” denied the right to change his Leo also responded to nationality. Tanya, asking: “What is ‘Your He also noted that the Bahamas’? This desperate Bahamas Constitution states search for national identity that a person born in this when your land is made up of country after July 9, 1973 of former loyalists, former slaves, foreign parents is entitled to and immigrants from countries apply for citizenship after his as diverse as Haiti, Jamaica, or her 18th birthday. Canada, the UK, and sundry Another commentator other countries. There are no

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LOCAL NEWS Fox Hill gang ‘wars’ prompt town meeting FROM page one President Obama includes the Rigby: Christie down on drug-trafficking by Bahamas among Caribbean shootings in and around the should demand FROM page one area. He is described as being working with the US govern- slim built, clean cut, around ment and Haitian authorities. countries in major narcotics list between two “warring” fac- Under the Foreign Rela- Wilchcombe 6ft tall, and in his late 20s to reflect its counternarcotics a waiver for listed countries if tions. early 30s. tions Authorisation Act, the Among the concerns are President is required to noti- efforts nor does it reflect its he determines that continued steps down as This suspect, whose name cooperation with the United assistance from the United reports that individuals are is not being released, is fy Congress of countries he randomly firing gunshots in determines to be major illic- States.” States is in the national inter- chair of PLP reportedly well known to the The designation can est of the US. the air, frightening the law- police and was recently it drug-producing countries abiding people people who or major drug-transit coun- reflect a combination of geo- President Obama issued a convention released from Her Majesty’s graphic, commercial, and national interest waiver for live in the area. Prison. tries on an annual basis. Since these initial reports, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, economic factors that allow Bolivia and Venezuela so the FROM page one The public is advised to drugs to be produced and/or United States may continue the police are now searching not approach the suspect as Colombia, Ecuador, for a man who many be the Guatemala, India, Laos, trafficked through a country to support civil society pro- will recognise the possi- he is said to be armed and despite its own best efforts. grams and small community catalyst for much of the dangerous. Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, ble advantages (whether Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and When a country does not development programs in real or fanciful) that may Venezuela are also listed. live up to its obligations Venezuela, and agricultural under international coun- development, exchange pro- accrue to him as long as Of the 20 nations, Presi- he continues as Conven- dent Obama said Bolivia, ternarcotics agreements and grams, small enterprise conventions, the President development and police tion Chair and they will Burma and Venezuala, thereby become hard- “failed demonstrably” over determines that the country training programs among has, “failed demonstrably.” others in Bolivia. ened in their view that the last 12 months, to adhere the electoral process was to international counter-nar- Such a designation can lead Even without such a waiv- cotic agreements and take to sanctions. er, humanitarian assistance clothed in unfairness and counter-narcotic measures In compiling the list, the and counter-narcotics assis- favouristism. set forth in US law. President may also execute tance may continue. "Given these percep- However, the Department tions and Mr Christie’s of State also pointed out that, sentiments, he must “a country’s presence on the Olympics star charged with assault on boy recognise that as leader list does not necessarily he must be seen as the FROM page one ‘unifier’ and therefore should not either engage pionships and the Olympics. in or be a party to any act He also co-holds the Bahamian record in the 4x100 which sends a perception metres relay, achieved with teammates Renward Wells, that he favours one can- Dominic Demeritte and Iram Lewis. didate to the disadvan- After the hearing, Tynes' attorney Ramona Farquharson tage of the others. Or, said he intends to aggressively fight the charges against that one candidate can him. consistently break the "He's asked me to convey to the entire Bahamian com- rules of the organisation munity, in particular his family and friends, his former stu- without fear of penalty. dents and their parents that he is absolutely innocent of "The same ‘rules’ of these charges," Ms Farquharson told the media outside the organisation that Mr the courtroom. Christie speaks, demand "He's asking for them to continue to keep him in their that the leader address prayers and I have been instructed to vigorously defend this the obvious conflict that matter. exists with the serving “He takes very seriously his position and standing in the convention chair also community. His role as a role model, he does not take that running in the election lightly. for the post of deputy "He is quite moved and distressed by these charges but leader.” again he is confident that he is going to be victorious," Ms Mr Rigby stressed that Farquharson added. he was not attacking Mr Tynes, who is on administrative leave, will return to Wilchombe's integrity court on September 21 to fix a trial date. but added that the issue created "the appearance of a conflict of interest". "This appearance of conflict between duty and self interest in the posi- tion of Convention Chair will undermine public confidence in the Party as a fair and democratic organisation, as well as reinforce the political propaganda that the PLP is a corrupt organisation," said Mr Rigby. "It is always my view and belief that leaders should act at the highest level of accountability and should always demand transparency and maturity in their political organisations, and this must equally apply when it comes to the election of party offices. DOCTORS HOSPITAL “The public must be assured that the PLP is DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES prepared to do what is right. On this occasion we have thus far failed. "I trust that the leader THIS MONTHS TOPIC: would now do what he knows is the right thing and demand for Mr

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THE TRIBUNE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009, PAGE 9 LOCAL NEWS The Bahamas set to take part in 5(*,675$7,21 '($'/,1( 5HJLVWUDWLRQ LV QRZ LQ SURJUHVV IRU WKH IROORZLQJ VXEMHFWV International Coastal Cleanup Day ‡ &ROOHJH 0DWK ‡ +XPDQ 5HVRXUFHV 0DQDJHPHQW VOLUNTEERS through- LAST YEAR hundreds of volun- ‡ $VVRFLDWH 'HJUHH //% out the Bahamas are prepar- teers gathered on several islands in ing to take part in the Ocean the Bahamas to take part in Inter- ‡ 4XLFNERRNV Conservancy’s 24th Annual national Coastal Clean-up Day. All ‡ %*&6(  0DWK(QJOLVK trash collected was sorted and filed International Coastal Clean- &RXUVHV DSSURYHG E\ 0LQLVWU\ RI (GXFDWLRQ DQG 'HSDUWPHQW RI 3XEOLF 6HUYLFH up Day this Saturday. by type. The data was sent to the International Coastal Ocean Conservancy which tracks Cleanup Day is the world’s global marine debris. ,QVWLWXWH RI %XVLQHVV DQG &RPPHUFH   largest one-day volunteer event aimed at stemming pol- lution of the marine environ- ment. Last year, nearly 400,000 volunteers from 100 countries cleared 6.8 million pounds of trash from oceans and waterways and recorded every piece of trash collected. The initiative started as a local programme in Texas and gradually expanded to “We are pleased that Coastal Clean-up coordina- include every major body of Bonefish Pond National Park tors for Abaco, together with water in the world. As such, has been chosen as the site the Ministry of Tourism it not only makes a powerful for New Providence. It is an Office in Abaco, have organ- statement about global con- important marine nursery ised events including beach cern for the environment, it area for the island, provid- clean-ups. also empowers local commu- ing a protective, nutrient rich nities to do something about habitat for juvenile stocks of In Grand Bahama: pollution. fish, crawfish, and conch. On Saturday, under the “Last year record numbers This area also supports a theme “Keep Grand Bahama of volunteers came out to wide variety of waterfowl and Beautiful”, volunteers will clean up shorelines and an important variety of clean up 12 beaches and waterways in the Bahamas Bahamian flora. The wetland shorelines from 8am to 1pm. on International Coastal itself provides critical pro- Ministry of Tourism, Sunny Clean-up Day,” said Tanya tection for storm surges to Isles Water and Juice, Moss, education assistant for communities along New Caribbean Bottling Company Dolphin Encounters on Blue Providence’s southern (Bahamas) Ltd, and local Lagoon Island and national shore.” government councils are coordinator of the initiative International Coastal sponsoring the refreshments in the Bahamas. Clean-up Day will also take for the volunteers. The Min- “Volunteers collected place on other islands. istry of Tourism Office in 14,431 debris items in New Grand Bahama serves as the Providence alone and that is In Nassau: Grand Bahama coordinator a tremendous achievement. Dolphin Encounters – Pro- for International Coastal This year we have chosen ject BEACH will host Inter- Clean-up. Bonefish Pond National Park national Coastal Cleanup as the inland waterway to be Day on Saturday, September All Other Islands cleaned in New Providence. 19, from 9am to 2pm at Contact Tanya Moss at It is the Bahamas National Bonefish Pond National Park Dolphin Encounters for Trust’s 50th Anniversary – off Cowpen Road. information packets on form- year and in honour of their The public is invited to vol- ing your own clean-ups for commitment to our environ- unteer and attend. Please International Clean-up Day. ment our focus will be to wear closed in shoes, sun- removing debris from one of screen and gardening gloves. The Caribbean Bottling the National Parks entrust- Project BEACH will also Company which produces ed to their care.” be hosting month-long Beach Coca-Cola in the Bahamas is Janeen Bullard, parks Buddies and Project Green the major sponsor of the planner and community offi- programmes with local stu- event providing refreshments cer of the BNT, said: “The dents. for volunteers both in Nas- Bahamas National Trust has sau and Grand Bahama. always supported and partic- In Abaco: Coke is the global sponsor ipated in International Clean- Friends of the Environ- for International Coastal up Day in the Bahamas. ment, the International Clean-up Day.

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LOCAL NEWS Chinese planning to do large scale farming in Abaco FROM page one he said. relating to the climate and The delegation was shown rainfall which we will supply. 10,000 acres of the old sugar By October they will send in a plenty of farmland and you plantation properties south of team of experts to do a study have plenty of water.” the New Spring City, and of the land and assess the pos- A further study of the con- 3,000 acres of the former Key sibilities.” ditions in Abaco by agricul- and Sawyer/Bahama Star farm This coincides with a BAIC ture experts is scheduled for in North Abaco. food production initiative in next month after which an Mr Key said: “They have Abaco which, he said, has agreement is to be prepared, asked for certain information attracted “a huge interest by the young people”. BAIC has already subdi- vided thousands of acres into five and ten-acre plots which are leased out to Bahamians for farming. “We are moving in the right direction because the Chinese have the technology and they have the expertise,” said Mr Key. “I see this as a very pos- itive step in the right direc- tion.” Mr Key also said he is look- ing forward to this project being the impetus for the con- struction of canneries and fac- tories in the islands “where we can start processing food and put the product of The Bahamas on the shelves. This is the beginning”. He said Mr Sun was impressed with the available acreage and the quality of the soil. “This would create a tremendous employment opportunities for Bahamians.” he said. “We would also be able to produce a lot of the food products we import.”

TOP: Chinese officials, Yiqing Sun (right) and Baoquo Xing, of the Shandong High-speed Quila Construction Group look at available acreage in Abaco for agriculture.

ABOVE: Yiqing Sun, Director, Technical Team (left) and Baoquo Xing (right), examine the soil with BAIC’s Assistant General Man- ager Arnold Dorsett

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SPORTS Darling undergoes successful surgery by RENALDO DORSETT ful surgery yesterday to repair a Seahawks. With the severity of recover from,” Darling said in a to come into his own this year, He caught 18 passes for 326 Sports Reporter torn Anterior Cruciate Liga- the injury the Chiefs placed press release following the and had the confidence of the yards, including a nationally [email protected] ment which left him sidelined Darling on injured reserve list injury, “I will undergo surgery new coaching staff behind him, televised breakout performance for the 2009-10 season. shortly thereafter on Septem- to repair the damage and take evident in his three consecutive against the Cleveland Browns National Football League The fifth year wideout for ber 1st. the necessary steps towards a postseason starts. when he recorded a career high wide receiver Devard Darling the Kansas City Chiefs sus- “It saddens me to say my sea- full recovery. I am confident I After playing sparingly in his four receptions for 107 yards took the first step towards a tained the injury, August 29th, son has officially come to an will be able to return next sea- rookie and sophomore seasons and one touchdown. long recovery yesterday. in the second quarter of a pre- end. A torn ACL is a serious son with the same speed and with the Baltimore Ravens, Darling thanked his supporters Darling underwent success- season game against the Seattle injury, but not one I can’t explosiveness you have seen Darling's play in his third year and well wishes for their sup- from me in the past. sparked interest from franchis- port in the roughest segment The fifth year vet was expected es around the league. of his career thus far. Golfing duo get prepared FROM page 15 period, featuring “Best Ball” and “Alternate Shot” formats. The pair emerged from a field of nine golfers who fin- ished in the top two positions at a qualifying event hosted by Lyford Cay Golf Club last this summer. Turnquest shot a com- bined score of 151 to lead the group, while Gorospe shot 154. Since the qualification more than two months ago, Turn- quest and Gorospe have worked diligently towards the Nations Cup a qualifier for the Omega Mission Hills The event, hosted Septem- ber 21-25 at the Caracas Coun- try Club, with spots for the Omega Mission Hills World Cup on the line. Turnquest is a former Bahamas Professional Golfers Association National Champi- on, and has a resume which includes being a multi junior national champion, represent- ing The Bahamas at previous World Cup event, former mem- ber of the Hoerman Cup team and playing on the collegiate Lemon Gorospe Keno Turnquest scene for five years. Goropse is also a former junior national champion, with this time we have to work them have a wealth of experi- Hoerman Cup team member, together and work on our ence so it is not like they are former junior college champion weaknesses I think it will make going into uncharted territory, in North Carolina and he has all the differences in year's they know what to expect and I played for years on the pro cir- past." think they should perform pret- cuit. Both golfers will be mak- The “Best Ball” format will ty well,” he said, “Should they ing their third trip to the World record the lowest score from advance to the World Cup it Cup Qualifying event, and have either team member while the would be a great accomplish- previously teamed up in 2007. “Alternate Shot” format will ment, they would compete all Gorospe qualified for the feature members taking alter- of the top countries in the tournament in 2008 with BPGA nate shots with the same ball world at this event.” President Chris Lewis. until the ball is holed up. Both players gave special Turnquest said his third tour- Gorospe who plays on sev- recognition to the team’s spon- nament qualification looks to eral global tours, said the tour- sors for the event, J.S. Johnson, be the most effective thus far nament’s format is one that FML Group of Companies and because of the extended prepa- lends itself to a lengthy prepa- FT Consultants/Chartered ration time the team has head- ration process. Accountants. ed into the event. “With this format you need "It was a very good feeling. I to get used to playing with the think we have a strong team person you are partnered with,” Volleyball tournament this year and for one of the first he said, “The format is so dif- times we have time and an ferent we do not play this for- to open school opportunity to practice and ful- mat regularly. The alternate ly prepare ourselves for com- shot is something different he sporting year petition and the preparation has to get used to the way I play was vital for us ,” he said, "In the course and I have to do the by RENALDO DORSETT the past we have never really same with him so its a benefit Sports Reporter had time to work together we prepared well in advance. ” [email protected] which if crucial because it is a Lewis, President of the team event. We get to work on Bahamas Professional Golfers’ With school sports set to our games together, develop a Association, said the team will begin in a few weeks, volley- team chemistry, work on how field the best possible team for ball will be the first discipline to we compliment each other. One the event. be featured with a highly antic- person can not win and it obvi- “These guys are well pre- ipated pre-season tournament. ously has to be a team effort so pared for this event. Both of The 2nd Annual Tom “The Bird” Grant High School Invi- tational Preseason Volleyball Tournament will open the school sporting year, scheduled for September 24-26 at the Sir Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium. With the tournament open- ing during active school days, play on the Thursday the 24th and Friday the 25th will begin at 3:30pm while the final day will begin at 9am. The tournament will feature a total of 10 teams including, the C.I Gibson Rattlers, Dame Doris Johnson Mystic Marlins, R.M Bailey Pacers, Govern- ment High School Magic, C.V Bethel Stingrays, and C.C Sweeting Cobras from the pub- lic sector and Mt.Carmel Cava- liers, Teleos Cherubims, St. John’s Giants and Prince William Falcons from the pri- vate sector. Tournament organizer, Tom Grant Jr, said the tournament should feature a high level of play with teams gearing up for the regular season. “This year we are focusing on the senior division,” he said, “We are expecting a lot of progress and we expect to see alot of exciting and spirited play. That following Monday is the start of the volleyball season in the GSSSA so this would give teams a good headstart.” Grant said the tournament looks to expand in the near future featuring a greater num- ber of teams, including those from the family islands. “It will have a regular sea- son and playoff atmosphere while giving coaches an oppor- tunity to see what they have and fine tune anything they need to for the upcoming sea- son ahead,” he said, “We would like to see more schools get involved, especially more pri- vate schools and hopefully we would like to expand to the family islands so we would have a better selection of teams to play.” The Technical meeting for the tournament will take place Tuesday, September 22nd at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium. TO DISCUSS STORIES ON THIS PAGE LOG ON TO WWW.TRIBUNE242.COM

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SPORTS MARK KNOWLES, of the Bahamas, returns a ball to Lukas Dlouhy, of Mark Knowles – he keeps the Czech Repub- lic, and Leander Paes, of India. Watching is his partner Mahesh going, going and going Bhupathi. of India.

By BRENT STUBBS doubles as well as the best around at the IAF/VTB Bank team record of 9-5 with Roger World Athletics Final over STUBBS Smith. the weekend. HEN • Hosted the Mark Almost a month after their American Knowles Celebrity Invita- dreams of winning medals in author and tional at Atlantis on Paradise their respective events at the humorist Island from 2001. 12th IAAF World Champi- MarkW Twain penned these • 2002 Australian Open onships in Athletics in Berlin, words: “Age is an issue of Grand Slam title with Daniel Germany in August was mind over matter. If you don’t Nestor from Canada. crashed, both Brown and mind, it doesn’t matter,” he • ATP Player Council Sands produced second place must have had his namesake Member from 2002-2004. finishes in the year-ending Mark Knowles in mind. • 2004 US Open Grand meet. Knowles, who turned 38 on slam title with Daniel Nestor In Thessaloniki, Greece, September 4, is still playing from Canada. Brown trailed only world as if he’s still in the prime of • 2007 French Open Grand champion LaShawn Merritt his illustrious 20-plus year Slam title with Daniel Nestor from the United States in the rather than going into his twi- from Canada. men’s 400 metres to collect a light. • 2007 Tennis Masters Cup final paycheck of $20,000. After more than two doubles title with Daniel And on the same day, decades on the international Nestor from Canada. Sands soared to a second scene, the 6-foot-3 right-han- • 2009 Wimbledon Grand behind Cuban Arnie David der seemed to be like the slam mixed doubles title with Girat in the men’s triple jump energizer bunny: He keeps Ann-Lena Groenefeld from to also pick up $20.000. going and going and going. Germany. Both Brown and Sands When the St. Andrew’s • A career singles win-loss could have easily folded up graduate decided to abandon record of 42-77. and retreated to their train- a promising collegiate career • Highest singles ranking ing camps in the United with the Bruins at the Uni- OPINION of No.96 on June 24, 1996. States after missing out on a versity of Los Angels at Cali- • A career doubles record spot on the medal podium in fornia (UCLA), he also made of 687-328. Berlin. one of the smartest move that • Highest doubles raking of But neither of them wanted has prolonged his longevity No.1 on June 24, 2002. it to end that way. They in the sport. out just as much as his figure. • Career doubles titles – 52. regrouped and regained their He decided to concentrate Here’s a snap preview of what • Current career prize mon- composure and were able to more on the then less publi- he has achieved: ey - $6,546,740.00. turn things around in Thessa- cized doubles competition • Five-time Olympic • Married to the former loniki. And both have indi- rather than the vigorous sin- Games appearance from 1992 Dawn Davison and the proud cated that it has given them gles competition, which may in Barcelona, Spain to 2008 father of two sons, Graham the incentive to go into train- not have allowed him to enjoy in Beijing, China. and Brody. ing camp with renewed vigor the success for as long as he • A 14-year span in 29 ties The only thing missing from for the 2010 season that will has. in Davis Cup competition for Knowles’ list of achievement include the Commonwealth Today, that move has the Bahamas from 1989-2008 was an individual recognition Games in India a year from enabled him to amass an with a total team high 41-32 from the Bahamas Govern- now. incredible resume that stands win-loss record, inclusive of ment. Hats off as well to veteran 23-25 in singles and 18-7 in Add the Mark Knowles sprinters Chandra Sturrup Week from September 13-19, and Debbie Ferguson- as proclaimed by Prime Min- McKenzie, who continued to ister Hubert Ingraham on prove that is age is only a Monday night, along with a number,’ a quote that was citation from Governor Gen- coined by author Lexi Star- eral Arthur D. Hanna at Gov- ling. At age 38 and 33 respec- ernment House. tively, Sturrup and Ferguson- All things considered, McKenzie withstood the chal- whenever Knowles decides lenge from their younger foes that age does matter over and they performed excep- mind and he calls it quits, tionally well again this year. there should be more recog- It was definitely a year for nition coming his way. all of them to remember. How about his name on a monument of national stadi- um or maybe even a highway like West Bay Street. If Tonique Williams-Darling can get a highway for winning 7YPUJLZZ4HYNHYL[/VZWP[HS back-to-back Olympic and World Championships titles, (**0+,5; ,4,9.,5*@+,7(9;4,5; Knowles surely could get one for his achievement. How about a honor from the Queen. Sir Mark Knowles surely sounds good. Just some food for thought as we celebrate Mark 38%/,& Knowles Week.

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SPORTS Sixteen-year-old Geno Bullard Jr is Canada-bound

By BRENT STUBBS More as multiple primary holding his own as a Giant for career as he travels all the way Senior Sports Reporter school athlete in 2005, he was two years at St. John’s College to Canada to join Ripley Col- bstubbs@tribunemedia,net projected to emerge into a high before he ended up as a Diplo- lege where he is expected to school superstar. mat the past two years at West- continue his athletic pursuits, WHEN Geno Bullard Jr. Four years later, Bullard Jr. minster College. particularly basketball. completed his successful reign has certainly lived up to those Today, at age 16, Bullard Jr. “When I went from primary with the Sparks at St. Thomas expectations and even more, will be take a step further in his school to high school, I noticed that the game was quite differ- ent,” Bullard Jr. pointed out. “In primary school, it was more fun. When we reached to high school, we had to step it up because everybody was coming for you. “So you had to play hard every game because whatever competition you put out, that was the competition that was coming back at you.” GENO BULLARD SR AND JR Throughout his tenure in high school, Bullard Jr. has been able to excel as a forward on the junior national team and he also competed in the long jump at the BAAA’s Nation- als. But what stood out the most was his achievement in basket- ball where he was able to secure a spot on the junior national team this past summer. An injury, however, pre- vented him from making the kind of impact that he had anticipated. But Bullard Jr. said he was quite pleased with his GENO BULLARD JR accomplishments. “I knew the level was going “My father pushes me every Bahamas Association of Inde- to be higher, but when I got day and he keep telling me nev- pendent Secondary Schools’ into grade seven, the guys were er to give up in practice,” basketball title. able to push me further,” Bullard Jr. said. “He keeps That came last year when he Bullard Jr. said. “So I think that reminding me that if I work and his father made history at was what helped me to get bet- hard, I can be the best athlete Westminster by winning the ter and better each year.” that I can be.” BAISS senior boys title. As he look ahead to the tran- Bullard Sr. said this is a day As he get set to climb the sition from high school to col- that he longed awaited and now ladder in a new horizon in col- lege in Canada, Bullard Jr. said it’s finally here. lege, Bullard Sr. said he’s con- he know that it’s going to get “I know this day was going to fident that his son will succeed. even more challenging for him. come, so I’ve been preparing “The thing is, he won’t be But he feels as though he’s myself,” said Bullard, who had new to the environment ready to “make my country the opportunity to coach his because he’s already been to proud and my country proud. son during the last two years. the school on our college tour, It’s a big prestigious school in “Sixteen years I have been so he’s familiar with the school, Canada and they have high preparing myself. I know this the administration, the coaching expectations for me, so I will day was going to come. He now staff and even the players,” do my best when I go there.” have to spread his wings and Bullard Sr. noted. Although he’s not ruling out try to soar to another level.” “So he should feel right at a professional basketball career Although he will be leaving home. This a brand new situa- or even possibly a chance to one year ahead of graduating tion for him and he will have represent the Bahamas at the from high school, Bullard Sr to take his time getting adjusted Olympic Games in track and said his son has accomplished to it, but as far as his athletics is field, Bullard Jr. said he would all of the goals that he had set concerned, I’m confident that really like to become a Sport- out as a youngster playing bas- the sky is the limit for him.” caster or a Pastry Chef. ketball, soccer and track and Like he did here at St. Looking back at his career, field. Thomas More, St. John’s and Bullard Jr. has credited his After trying for three years, Westminster, Bullard Sr. said father, Geno Bullard Sr. as the Bullard Jr. finally added the he’s just looking forward to his driving force. one missing piece to his script, a son excelling at Ripley College.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 PAGE 13 • Mark Knowles just keeps on going NATION’SReady CUP, VENEZUELA: September 19-26to come out swinging! Bahamian duo Keno Turnquest, Lemon Gorospe vie for World Cup berths f f

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THE TRIBUNE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009, PAGE 23 ‘Love MyLOCAL NEWS Body’

DEPUTY Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Brent Symonette and Minister of Health Dr Hubert Minnis (far right) view local produce at one of the booths erected at the Ministry of Health, Meet- ing Street. Also shown is Camille Johnson (far left), permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health... Photos by Kris Ingraham/BIS) Bahamas marks Caribbean Wellness Day

By LINDSAY THOMPSON

THE Bahamas joined the rest of the Caribbean this past Saturday in celebrating Caribbean Wellness Day under the theme “Love My Body”. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Brent Symonette officially opened a wellness fair at the Ministry of Health, encourag- ing Bahamians to reduce the rate of non-communicable dis- eases through healthy living. Caribbean Heads of Gov- A NUMBER of people, including Deputy Prime Minister and Minister ernment, in response to the of Foreign Affairs Brent Symonette and Minister of Health Dr Hubert “heavy burden” of non-com- Minnis (far left) check out one of the booths... municable diseases on its citi- zens, issued the Port of Spain Declaration in September inception of the Healthy strong partnerships to assist in 2007, “Uniting to Stop the Lifestyles Secretariat in 2005, its fight against chronic non- Epidemic of Chronic Non- he said. communicable diseases. The Communicable Diseases” and Health fairs are being Pan American Health Organ- declared that the second Sat- offered more frequently by isation has continued to part- urday in September be cele- employers and churches and ner with us in this battle, pro- brated each year as Caribbean other non-governmental agen- viding financial and technical Wellness Day. cies. assistance along the way,” he Illnesses such as heart dis- “We actively seek to said. ease, stroke, cancer and dia- improve the health status of Minister of Health Dr betes are said to be the leading the population,” Mr Symon- Hubert Minnis also encour- causes of premature death ette said. aged Bahamians to live amongst Caribbean people. Moreover, in 2001, the healthy lifestyles. Health statistics show that South Beach Health Care “Many of these diseases obesity remains a challenge in Centre opened and holds a share common risk factors; the 31 to 60 year old age weekly nutrition clinic for at- combined with uncontrolled group, where more than 30 per risk obese school children. blood pressure, raised blood cent of the population is obese. The deputy prime minister sugar and elevated cholesterol, “However, measurable encouraged Bahamians to (they) pose a major threat to achievements are being made incorporate some form of the well-being of our citizens, as well. One only has to look healthy living into their daily resulting in loss of life and dis- at the number of people that routines by exercising, park- ability during the most pro- are out exercising in the morn- ing a distance and walking to ductive years of life. With ings and evenings. Walking is their office, cutting back on changes in lifestyle, 40 to 80 becoming more common as a unhealthy foods, drinking alco- per cent of these diseases can form also by you as individu- hol in moderation, eating be prevented,” he said. als. You must also remain smaller portions and consum- Scores of Bahamians came committed to reversing these ing more vegetables and fruits. in support of the event at the trends within our nation,” Mr The Port of Spain Declara- Ministry of Health on Meet- Symonette said. tion reinforces the gains made ing Street. They were given The Bahamas and the by the Caribbean Commission first-hand information of region have made progress in on Health and Development healthy living through the var- the fight against chronic non- and the Caribbean Coopera- ious booths and sporting drills. communicable diseases. More tion in Health, the minister The Royal Bahamas Police than 100 Healthy Dozen Clubs said. Force Pop Band led the enter- have been formed since the “The Bahamas has forged tainment segment.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 SECTION B • [email protected] $27.5m Concern over judgment Harbour Dredge ‘more treatment of bid against than one-third complete’ restructured marina bank loans owner is By NEIL HARTNELL As an example of ready” when the Genesis class cruise Tribune Business Editor this, Dr Deveaux ship, the Oasis of the Seas, makes its first said Boskalis had call on Nassau on December 15, 2009. Central Bank said to want rejected ore than one-third of Nas- completed dredging Boskalis is having to remove some restructured loans treated sau Harbour’s dredging an area in front of 10,000 cubic yards of fill per day to meet has been completed to the British Colonial its completion target, with the excavated as non-performing for six By NEIL HARTNELL date, a government min- Hilton’s beach, material being taken by pipeline to months, raising concerns Tribune Business Editor isterM yesterday confirmed to Tribune where it had to Arawak Cay. Some 1.4 million cubic Business, adding that the company con- move much debris yards will be used to extend Arawak Cay on bank balance sheet A FINANCIER has lost its tracted for the project has “given no indi- from the ocean 1,000 feet to the west, where the new and earnings impact bid to obtain a $27.5 million cation that they will not meet” the floor. Having accom- container shipping terminal will be locat- summary judgment against November 14, 2009, completion date. plished this, it then ed, with 600,000 cubic yards of fill stored the owner of the Port Lucaya Dr Earl Deveaux, minister of the envi- moved its pipes and on the cay itself. By NEIL HARTNELL EARL DEVEAUX Marina and Grand Bahama ronment, said of the work being per- excavation equip- Current arrangements for the Arawak Tribune Business Editor Yacht Club, plus their princi- formed by Dutch-based Boskalis Inter- ment to the area and Cay port will see it owned 40 per cent by pal investor, the Supreme national: “Based on what is coming to dredged it overnight, thus ensuring the the Government and 40 per cent by the THE Central Bank of the Court finding yesterday that me, they are going extremely well. They operation did not disrupt incoming cruise private sector, with 20 per cent in public Bahamas has been pushing to the issues raised required a have completed more than one-third of ships and mail boats. hands via an initial public offering (IPO). standardise how Bahamian single trial before a judge. the actual dredging to date. The minister added that Boskalis was It is understood, though, that the Gov- commercial banks treat Justice Estelle Gray-Evans, “They have experienced some delays scheduled to “be completed on or around ernment and shipping companies - chiefly restructured loans, wanting ruling on T. G. Investments’ in respect to the volume of debris in the November 14, and they’ve given no indi- the 19 investors that comprise the them placed into the non-per- application for summary judg- harbour, and have had to send divers cation that they will not meet that”. Arawak Cay Port Development Com- forming category for six ment against New Hope down to remove tyres, steel. That has The Nassau Harbour dredging project pany - have yet to finalise the details of months, a development Holdings and Danish investor, led to some delays, and they have lost was commenced to widen the turning their Memorandum of Understanding. sources said has caused some Preben Olesen, said the evi- eight hours, but beyond that, though, basin, so that the port could accommo- Dr Deveaux told Tribune Business concern in the industry. dence before here “lends sup- they are extremely well organised. date the world’s largest cruise ship class, that talks between the shipping compa- Tribune Business under- port” to the defendants’ argu- “They can readily make up those eight which is just being brought into service by nies and the Government were being stands that while no directive, ment “that there is more to hours when working 24 hours a day. RoyalCaribbean. handled by the Prime Minister’s Office, stipulating that Bahamian the matter than simply the They’re moving at full capacity, and are Dr Deveaux added that there was commercial banks ‘must’ treat promissory notes” that the very efficient.” “nothing to so far indicate we won’t be SEE page 4B restructured loans as non-per- plaintiff had based its appli- forming for six months, has cation on. been issued by the Central Setting out the case, Justice Bank, its guidelines do prod Gray-Evans recalled how T. them to adopt such a treat- G. Investments, the invest- Developer sells 60% of phase one condos ment. ment vehicle for US investor However, informed sources Tom Gonzalez, had demand- have told Tribune Business ed via its September 30, 2008, By CHESTER ROBARDS unfettered, despite the down- room condominium offering are preparing to surface their that the Bahamian commer- statement of claim some Business Reporter turn in the economy. Mr 1,855 square feet of living tennis courts. cial banks privately harbour $22.375 million in damages, [email protected] Chappell said the poor eco- space with a grand master There has been minimal several concerns regarding plus $2.544 million in interest nomic conditions caused the bedroom suite, an additional protest about the property, such a move, as it would on that sum. CAVES Heights revealed project to slow late last year. bedroom and large living/din- which has been built above impact both their balance Special damages of $2.65 yesterday that it have sold 60 However, he added that ing area with a deep balcony what some consider one of sheets and income statements million and interest on that per cent of the units in the since that period, the project offering superior views,” the more unique natural - potentially reducing profits sum were also being sought first phase one building for has moved full steam ahead. according to the company's attractions in New Provi- and increasing losses. As a by T. G. Investments, along its condominium develop- Phase one is expected to be website. dence. result, there are fears that it with a Supreme Court order ment atop the caves on West finished by May 2010, but Mr And the Monaco is a The natural caves were would act as a disincentive to requiring New Hope Hold- Bay Street. Chappell said the developers “three bedroom, three-and- formed centuries ago, accord- restructure loans made to ings to deliver it a first charge Simon Chappell, the pro- will not begin phase two a-half bathroom ocean view ing to geologists, with visitors troubled borrowers. debenture, including a mort- ject’s vice-president, said development before there is condominium with 2,439 and locals alike exploring Currently, industry sources gage, over its properties and interest in the property had more buyer interest in the square feet of luxury living them regularly. said the banks were all using assets - the two marinas and been high, with a balanced property. He suggested, how- space, including a panoramic, Resident became con- “different criteria” when it Grand Bahama Yacht Club, group of Bahamian and for- ever, that it could begin by 43 foot balcony overlooking cerned last week when rain came to the accounting clas- plus associated parcels of land eign investors purchasing the year-end 2010. the ocean”. water run off from the devel- sification applied to restruc- in the area of Freeport known ocean and lake-view condos. Caves Heights’ first build- Mr Chappell said the pool opment created a plume of tured loans, meaning those as the Bell Channel. “Agents have been coming ing number has only three of decks have already been put milk water in the ocean across loans and credit advances T. G. Investments had sued, around,” said Mr Chappell. its Capri -tyle condos left for in, and the asphalt for the dri- the road from the develop- whose terms had been rewrit- Justice Gray-Evans said, on “There has been a lot of pos- sale, and five Monaco-style ves and parking areas will be ment. ten to enable borrowers - the basis that it held two itive feedback.” out of a total 20 units in that poured in four weeks. Despite the dissent, Mr struggling with unemploy- promissory notes issued to it Caves Height has been one building. According to him, they are Chappell said the property ment and reduced incomes as of the few developments in The Capri is a “two bed- still awaiting final proposals has seen an upswing and SEE page 4B the Bahamas to moved ahead room, two-and-a-half bath- form landscaping firms and increase in foot traffic. SEE page 9B Recovery ability ‘diminished’ by excessive costs

By NEIL HARTNELL * Failure to align wages Tribune Business Editor with productivity, and THE high cost burden public sector cost burden, imposed upon the Bahamian means Bahamas’ economy by public sector cor- porations, and the failure to recovery and long-term align wages with productivi- competitiveness will be ty, will prevent this nation from rebounding from the much reduced in recession as rapidly as others, comparison to others a senior accountant told Tri- * But nation lacks union bune Business yesterday, as well as harming long-term and political leadership competitiveness. to address the issue Raymond Winder, manag- ing partner at Deloitte & Touche (Bahamas), said the with productivity. Bahamian economy’s ability The Bahamian economy to recover rapidly from the was going through a period current recession, and com- similar to the early 1990s pete for foreign direct invest- when the world was also ment and tourism, was being embroiled in recession, and “diminished” daily by a cost Mr Winder recalled how he structure that was out of line and other members of the Government’s Council of Economic Advisers prepared a report on the strategies needed to enhance this nation’s competitiveness. “We haven’t done a whole lot of following through on some of the strategies that were recommended,” Mr Winder told Tribune Busi- ness, “and we never really $4.2568 moved to align salaries and $4. wages with productivity$4.29 and efficiency. That was the key one. That is one of the hall- The information $4.16 marks of a competitive econ- contained is from a 51 omy...... $4.29 third party and The “To get this thing back in Tribune can not be $4. held responsible for line, we have to hold the line errors and/or on wages and salaries, and omission from the $4.2669 become more productive.”$4.29 daily report. Pointing to the difference $4. between the Bahamas and US The information contained is from a third inflation rates, the latter party and The Tribune can not be held responsible for errors and/or omission from the daily report. SEE page 8B

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GlobeComm executives meet with IP Solutions International’s president and chief executive, Edison Sumner. Pictured L to R: Mike Cothill, IPSI consultant; Jonathan Feldman, Globecomm; Mr Sumner; and Richard Beckley, Globecomm. Not pictured: Gary Hutchens, vice-pres- ident of IPSI. Start-up enjoys ‘succesful’ meet with suppliers

IP Solutions International The meetings related to the meetings to solidify infra- (IPSI), the Nassau-based architecture and construction structural design and con- company aiming to deliver a of IPSI’s triple-play infra- struction. ‘multiple-play’ bundle of ser- structure. Tomorrow, IPSI will unveil vices via the Internet, has “What was especially inter- its platform to prospective described a recent round of esting was to see how enthu- investors and businesses at an meetings with supply-side siastic such major players exclusive invitation-only partners in New York as were about joining forces with meeting at the British Colo- “very successful and highly IPSI, because they could see nial Hilton. productive”. the potential immediately of In addition to Sir Orville “We met with industry pio- our becoming a regional and Mr Sumner, directors of neers in what is rapidly provider and even beyond,” the Nassau-based company becoming the new Internet Mr Sumner added. include Virginia Damianos, platform protocol, the tech- IPSI unveiled its board of Fritz Stubbs, Gary Hutchens, nology driving how we get our directors, headed by former Brian Quinn and Owen news and entertainment, and Governor-General Sir Orville Bethel. how we conduct our personal Turnquest, earlier this month. The Nassau-based company and our business affairs,” said That announcement followed is set to bundle a total net- Edison Sumner, IPSI’s presi- the introduction of legislation work of telephone, television, dent and chief executive. that will open up the Bahami- entertainment, gaming, Inter- “Those meetings were an telecoms and communica- net and closed circuit TV ser- extremely successful and high- tions sector to competition. vices via an Internet protocol ly productive.” Days later, directors left for platform.

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THE TRIBUNE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009, PAGE 3B Planning BUSINESSBill set for October House debate

By NEIL HARTNELL ber to architect and engineer- subdivision without full gov- part of October. Tribune Business Editor ing firms in a bid to obtain ernment approval. “The Prime Minister gave last-minute feedback and see The new legislation appears notice to Parliament that the THE Government’s Plan- whether it could be incorpo- to be codifying this, but Dr Planning and Subdivisions Bill ning and Subdivisions Bill, rated in the legislation. Deveaux said the Govern- will be done in October, and which aims to reform the “We received something ment had reassured these law that’s what I’m preparing planning and development from two architect and two firms that the Bill’s provisions for.” processes in the Bahamas, will law firms, which we have applied only to new subdivi- be debated in Parliament next been able to address, but very sions proposed after it was month, the minister respon- little has come in in the way of passed into statute, not to sible said yesterday, adding comment and postings to the existing ones. Existing subdi- that the legislation’s provi- website,” Dr Deveaux told visions were provided for. sions would not be made Tribune Business.” “The requirements laid INSIGHT retroactive. The Government was due down in the Bill ensure any- Dr Earl Deveaux, minister to meet with one major thing after it takes effect must For the stories of the environment, said his Bahamian law firm on the Bill be in compliance to have legal ministry and the Government this week, he said, adding that standing,” Dr Deveaux said. behind the news, had received “very little” the concerns voiced by attor- “Those existing subdivisions read Insight feedback from professionals neys to date were “primarily will be considered non-con- who might be impacted by the concerned with the effect of forming legal entities.” on Mondays new legislation, such as con- this Bill on Justice Lyons’s With the Bill having been tractors, realtors, attorneys, ruling”. tabled in Parliament just after architects and engineers. That ruling, connected to the Budget debate, Dr The Ministry of the Envi- the Oceania Heights subdivi- Deveaux said: “It is scheduled ronment, he added, was plan- sion in Exuma, found that for debate as soon as we com- ning a final “call around” dur- under the existing 1965 law it plete the Prescription Drug ing the last week of Septem- was illegal to sell land in a Bill, which is to be the first LYFORD CAY, E.P. TAYLOR DR. Cottage Lot With Private Beach FOR SALE Great investment opportunity in a safe environment. Best price ever on E. P. Taylor Drive! Exclusively offered by Mario Carey Realty at US:$1.5 million Web Listing # 8377 Share Mario A. Carey, CRS, CIPS, CLHMS your President & CEO MCR Tel:242-677-825 Cell: 357-7013 Mario Carey Realty news [email protected] It’s about you... Let’s talk. The Tribune wants to hear www.mariocareyrealty.com from people who are making news in their neighbourhoods. Perhaps you are raising funds for a good cause, campaigning for improvements in the area or have won an award. If so, call us on 322-1986 and share your story.

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PAGE 4B, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 THE TRIBUNE

BUSINESS $27.5m judgment bid against marina owner rejected

FROM page 1B Grand Bahama-based assets. argued that the notes did not [Duane] Crithfield and [Mr by New Hope Holdings, plus T.G Investments further fall under the Bills of Oelsen, whereby Mr Gonza- a debenture charge that was alleged that Mr Oelsen Exchange Act, and were lez would use his balance assigned to it by First- induced it to advance a fur- “conditional/contingent” on sheet to secure financing in Caribbean International Bank ther $580,000 in working cap- their face. the sum of $12 million to fund (Bahamas). The two promis- ital to fund the business oper- In addition, they alleged New Hope’s operations and sory notes were designed to ations of the Grand Bahama that Mr Gonzalez “had development.” secure the $22.375 million Yacht Club and Port Lucaya agreed that repayment of the The judgment recorded advanced by T. G. Invest- Marina, and that it was “con- loans secured by the notes that the oral agreement was ments to New Hope. tinually pressed by creditors’ would be postponed while he intended to bind the three However, T.G. Investments demands for payments of and his companies, including parties and the companies alleged that New Hope had [New Hope’s] debts, which [T.G. Investments], had not they controlled, and “that it defaulted on the principal and demands it has endeavoured procured funding in the sum was the failure of Mr Gonza- interest payments under the to meet in the effort to stave of $12 million, which Mr Gon- lez and/or his companies, two notes, and demanded off action by the said credi- zalez had agreed to provide” including T. G. Investments, payment in a letter sent to the tors”. to fund New Hope’s opera- to provide the $12 million as latter and Mr Oelsen on However, arguing that the tions. promised that resulted in the August 29, 2008. It also affair was more complex than New Hope and Mr Oelsen first defendant not being able claimed that it had been T. G. Investments had let on, also alleged that Mr Gonzalez to make the payments under forced to protect its interest Mr Oelsen and New Hope had promised not to make a the notes.” by paying $2 million to First- countered by arguing that the demand, or place Ocean Justice Gray-Evans agreed Caribbean to cover New notes were part of two sepa- Resort Group into default, for that New Hope may have an Hope’s $1 million overdrawn rate agreements entered into lack of payment. arguable defence on the issue credit facility, in order to pre- by Ocean Resort Group, New “The defendants [New of the promissory note, given vent the bank from seizing the Hope’s parent company. They Hope and Mr Oelsen] con- that since there was a dispute tend that the notes form part over whether it or Ocean of a series of transactions Resort Group should have involving business partners,” made the notes, there were the Supreme Court judgment questions of whether it could said. “They say that this case be enforced against New 3KDUPDF\7HFKQLFLDQ is not merely about the notes Hope. but that a vital part involves This was the same conclu- an oral agreement, the out- sion that she reached on many line of which is embodied in a other aspects of the case, lead- &RXUVH letter of understanding, ing her to reject the applica- %HÀUVWRQO\$PHULFDQ between Mr Gonzalez, tion for summary judgment. &HUWLÀFDWLRQ([DP Harbour Dredge ‘more $SSOLFDWLRQDYDLODEOH than one-third complete’

but his understanding was that the share structure and size of 5HJLVWHU1RZIRU2FWREHU6HVVLRQ the port’s acreage had been agreed - although he had seen nothing in writing. A Traffic Study, Economic and Social Impact Study and Environmental Impact Study have yet to be completed, with &DOO+HSVRQDW proposals by architects Lambert Knowles giving life to what engineering consultants, Halcro, had proposed in relation to the port’s size and engineering aspects. “I don’t think there is any major impediment to be over-  come,” Dr Deveaux said.

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THE TRIBUNE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009, PAGE 5B BUSINESS

SHOWN (l-r): Reece Chipman, president of BICA; Gari Chrisie, BICA’s student education committee member; Remelda Moxey, chair, School of Business at COB; Zelma Wilson, chairperson, BICA’s student education committee; and Margaret Smith, BICA’s student education committee member. Accountants visit COB school chair

THE Bahamas Institute of Chartered Accountants (BICA) president, Reece Chipman, along with members of the organisa- tion’s student education committee, have moved to enhance the exposure and knowledge of student accountants at the Col- lege of the Bahamas (COB). They met with Remelda Moxey, COB’s School of Business chair, on Mon- day to discuss ways in which both organisations can work together to achieve this goal. BICA members dis- cussed the quality of the Accounting programme offered at the College of the Bahamas, the creation of BICA’s young accoun- tants club, and BICA assisting in the curriculum review, as well as students participating in Accoun- tants Week this Novem- ber and becoming part of the Technical Updates in the accounting and audit- ing profession. BICA also encouraged the College of the Bahamas and its account- ing students with regards to research and ethics, and to become think- tanks in the world of stan- dard setting for the accounting and reporting of financial information. INSIGHT For the stories behind the news, read Insight on Mondays

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THE TRIBUNE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009, PAGE 7B BUSINESS

Banque Privee staffer passes Series 7 exam

A staff accountant at Banque Privee Edmond 6 $ 7 35(3$5$7,21 de Rothschild, Michelle E. Reckley, has passed &/$66(6 the Series 7 exam in the $7 .,1*6:$< $&$'(0< US after studying with the Nassau-based Securities Training Institute (STI). Ms Albury, STI’s %HJLQQLQJ 6DWXUGD\ 6HSWHPEHU  WKURXJK 6DWXUGD\ course administrator, 'HFHPEHU   .LQJVZD\ $FDGHP\ ZLOO KROG said: “We are committed to the development of the 6$7 3UHSDUDWLRQ &ODVVHV IURP  DP WR Bahamian capital mar- kets, in advancing the  QRRQ FXOPLQDWLQJ LQ WKH ZULWLQJ RI WKH 6 $ 7 Securities Training Insti- tute as a vital force in fos- ([DPLQDWLRQ LQ -DQXDU\ 7KH FRVW LV  SHU tering the education of SHUVRQ DQG LQFOXGHV DOO PDWHULDOV Bahamian financial pro- fessionals, promoting eth- ical standards of conduct, and in establishing pro- ,QWHUHVWHG SHUVRQV DUH DVNHG WR FRQWDFW WKH grammes to encourage continuing professional %XVLQHVV 2IÀFH DW WHOHSKRQH    development.” RU WKH *XLGDQFH &RQVHORU DW  RU 

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PAGE 8B, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 THE TRIBUNE

BUSINESS Recovery ability ‘diminished’ by excessive costs

FROM page 1B to “hold the line” on wage ing for the eventual recovery impact this had on business tackle the cost competitive- influence in co-operation with increases, and enhanced pro- and pulling this nation out of revenues, profits and plan- ness/productivity issue result- that island nation’s govern- ductivity, “we’re going along trouble. And this was exacer- ning, meant it would “take ed, Mr Winder said, from a ment, supporting wage standing at virtually zero with as if no adjustments need to bated by the excessive cost the Bahamas longer to catch lack of interest and under- restraint and selling econom- this nation’s at around 4 per be made”. burden imposed on the busi- up” with other economies in standing among the general ic policies to their members cent over the last 12 months, With salaries and labour ness sector by the public cor- the medium and long-term, Bahamian population, plus a when necessary, as opposed Mr Winder said that in the force productivity out of line, porations and utilities. as well as in a short-term lack of political leadership to strikes and militancy. Bahamian case “the entire Mr Winder said the Bahami- “We’re not only suffering recovery. and will to address the issue. And with 90 per cent of the increase in inflation has been an private sector was “in a from the recession, but are “Our competitiveness as a In addition, the Bahamas income generated by Bahami- primarily caused by wages really weak position” when it also suffering from the fact nation, to compete, to attract did not have the private and an per annum gross domestic and salaries”. came to not only combating that our productivity, the lev- foreign direct investment, is public sector trade union product (GDP) consisting of While the US had managed the recession, but also prepar- el we’re getting for each dol- being diminished,” Mr leaders who could “demand wages and salaries, it is not lar put out, is not putting us in Winder told Tribune Busi- that kind of sacrifice” from hard to understand why the good standing to attract for- ness. their members, when it came workforce has been hit so eign direct investment and “On a short-term basis we to accepting reduced wages hard by redundancies and lay- /HJDO 1RWLFH tourists once the hotels open really have some challenges, and lower labour costs in offs. Labour is the major cost back up,” the Deloitte & especially when you think that return for higher productivity. component for most busi- 127,&( Touche managing partner most of the public sector is Mr Winder contrasted the nesses, and with productivity said. going to be agitating for wage Bahamas’ trade union model out of line with salaries, it was 127,&( ,6 +(5(%< *,9(1 DV IROORZV The gap between produc- increases during this period.” with that of Singapore’s, not hard for companies to go tivity and wages, and the The Bahamas’ inability to where unions exercised their this route. D +$//(7 /,0,7(' LV LQ GLVVROXWLRQ XQGHU WKH SURYLVLRQV RI WKH ,QWHUQDWLRQDO %XVLQHVV &RPSDQLHV $FW 

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DATED THIS 9th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, A.D. 2009 CHARLES MACKEY & CO. Chambers BSB House West Bay Street Nassau, Bahamas Attorney for the Petitioner

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THE TRIBUNE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009, PAGE 9B ConcernBUSINESS over treatment of restructured bank loans

FROM page 1B tured loans could, according and rising unemployment to one source, “have a phe- continue to exact a toll, with a result of the recession - to nomenal effect” on banking $902.5 million commercial meet lower repayments and balance sheets by increasing bank loans in arrears. lesser obligations. the level of non-performing A further $64.7 million One banking industry loans. worth of loans fell into arrears source, speaking to Tribune This, in turn, would require during July 2009, marking a Business on condition of Bahamian commercial banks 7.7 per cent increase in the anonymity, said that while no to keep an increased level of number that were past due. directive had been issued by capital reserves set aside to Total loans in arrears, in rela- the Central Bank, the banking cover potential loan losses, tion to the total number of industry regulator had been and increase loss provision loans outstanding, increased “looking at standardising” levels - something that will by 0.8 per cent to 14.5 per how restructured loans were impact earnings levels. cent. treated. Such developments, some Non-performing loans, “It’s something that’s been have told Tribune Business, those which are more than 90 brought forward,” one bank- would act as a disincentive for days past due and regarded ing industry source told Tri- banks to restructure their bor- as more critical by the com- bune Business of the six rowers’ existing loans. These mercial banks, as they have month non-performing treat- sources also argued that it was stopped accruing interest, rose ment proposal. unnecessary to have a pre- by $31.3 million or 6.7 per “Some of the banks are scriptive approach to the cent in July. Non-performing doing exactly what the Cen- issue, given that Bahamian loans now account for 8.1 per tral Bank is looking for, and commercial banks generally cent of all loans issued by the even if loans are restructured treated all restructured loans Bahamian commercial bank- they are not brought current, as non-performing for a peri- ing system. being treated as non-per- od, until they became confi- Meanwhile, loans in the forming for six months. dent that borrowers could delinquent category - that is, “It’s a more conservative meet their new obligations. 31-90 days past due, also approach. You’d several Total non-performing loans increased by $33.4 million in months of experience, that made by Bahamian banks to July to $401.4 million, taking these people are meeting the the private sector breached those loans to 6.5 per cent of new terms and conditions, the $500 million mark in July all credit issued to the private and have the ability to pay.” 2009, with the increasing sector by commercial banks. Wendy Craigg, the Central strain the recession is placing The Central Bank said the Bank’s governor, could not on businesses and households July arrears increase was gen- be contacted for comment exposed by the fact that the erated by a $30 million, or 8.2 despite numerous Tribune only consumer lending cate- per cent, hike in mortgage Business calls to her office gory showing growth was debt delinquencies to $396.1 mil- yesterday. However, she told consolidation - an almost-$38 lion, while commercial loans this newspaper in a recent million increase since the New in default grew by $28.5 mil- interview that the banking Year. lion or 14.5 per cent to $224.4 sector regulator was keeping a The Central Bank, in its million - likely putting this close eye on restructured monthly economic and finan- over 20 per cent, meaning that loans, and was in regular con- cial developments report for more than one in every five tact with the banks on the July, showed a combination business loans is in default. issue. of slumping credit demand Consumer loans in arrears However, ‘setting in stone’ and defaults on existing loans, increased by$6.3 million, or how the banks treat restruc- as the contracting economy 2.3 per cent, to $282 million.

Interested parties may obtain a complete copy of the Consolidated Financial Statements from the local office of the Entity at State Bank Of India, Saffrey Square, Suite 201, Bay Street, Nassau, Bahamas.

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Box N-3017 0.54 0.20 RND Holdings 0.35 0.40 0.55 0.001 0.000 256.6 0.00% Colina Over-The-Counter Securities 41.00 29.00 ABDAB 30.13 31.59 29.00 4.540 0.000 9.03 0.00% Nassau, The Bahamas 0.55 0.40 RND Holdings 0.45 0.55 0.55 0.002 0.000 261.90 0.00% Labelled: RFP- Her Majesty’s Prisons Electronic Monitoring BISX Listed Mutual Funds 52wk-Hi 52wk-Low Fund Name NAV YTD% Last 12 Months Div $ Yield % NAV Date Solution 1.4038 1.3344 CFAL Bond Fund 1.4038 3.72 5.20 31-Aug-09 3.0350 2.8952 CFAL MSI Preferred Fund 2.8990 -1.39 -4.16 31-Aug-09 1.4867 1.4105 CFAL Money Market Fund 1.4880 3.79 5.49 4-Sep-09 3.6090 3.0941 Fidelity Bahamas G & I Fund 3.0941 -8.61 -13.59 31-Aug-09 13.0484 12.3870 Fidelity Prime Income Fund 13.1136 3.93 5.87 31-Aug-09 All submissions will be opened at 10:00 am on 101.6693 100.0000 CFAL Global Bond Fund 101.6693 1.10 1.67 30-Jun-09 100.9600 93.1992 CFAL Global Equity Fund 96.7398 0.35 -4.18 30-Jun-09 1.0000 1.0000 CFAL High Grade Bond Fund 1.0000 0.00 0.00 31-Dec-07 Tuesday 6th October, 2009 at the Tenders Board 9.4075 9.0775 Fidelity International Investment Fund 9.3399 2.69 -1.41 31-Jul-09 1.0707 1.0000 FG Financial Preferred Income Fund 1.0707 3.38 5.14 31-Aug-09 meeting, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Ministry of 1.0364 1.0000 FG Financial Growth Fund 1.0319 -0.11 2.05 31-Aug-09 1.0673 1.0000 FG Financial Diversified Fund 1.0673 2.89 4.93 31-Aug-09 MARKET TERMS Finance, Cable Beach. 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Pastors of Prayer call church demolition “Darkest Day” By REUBEN SHEARER he received information through a Tribune Features Reporter phone call that somebody came with a bulldozer and tore down his church. He was in shock, and drove to the site. THE demolishment of When he got there, he said he started Canaan Baptist Church last rubbing his eyes in disbelief--he thought it was a dream.” week is being labeled as an Members of the church and commu- event that marked the “dark- nity were said to be visibly confused, est day” in the history of the disturbed and angered by the move to church in the Bahamas. destroy their place of worship as they Ian Brathwaite, president of the gathered at the site that afternoon. Pastors Of Prayer-a unit of 15 pastors It is alleged that the pastor under- from 6 denominations that unite via stood the court order but didn’t expect teleconferencing to pray for each them to tear it down so quickly. other- questions why individuals According to Mr Brathwaite, Mr “would even fathom to demolish a Bastian is in good spirits now, and is house of worship.” “leaving the situation in God’s hands.” Pastors of Prayer was founded and The decision to demolish the church organised in 1998 by Bishop Ian came out of a ruling by Justice Cheryl Brathwaite, Pastor of Holy Dove Albury, who found Arawak Homes Baptist Church. The fellowship was Limited to be the rightful owner of lots inspired to bring together a group of on Charles Saunders Highway on pastors who wanted to live holy and which the church was built in June who firmly believed in the uncompro- 2006. mising word of God.” The court found that church pastor “By the moral fiber of our nation, Eugene Bastian had been served with you shouldn’t destroy the church under a writ in August 2006 after Arawak any terms,” Mr Brathwaite said. “The Homes Ltd took action. But Mr church is known as a place of rescue, Bastian told the court he had bought and a safe haven. Something else the land from Jorol Limited before could’ve been worked out. We are not commencing construction of the speaking as lawmakers but as the spir- church. itual conscience of the Christian nation However, Justice Albury found the were are built on. defence put forward by Mr Bastian The tearing down of the church in and members of the church to be Sir Lynden Pindling Estates came "without merit and unsustainable" in unexpectedly to his good colleague light of the decisions in Supreme Court Eugene Bastian, pastor of Canaan actions that displaced any claim of title Baptist Church, who was phoned dur- to the church's purported predecessor. ing the ordeal by a concerned member Justice Albury ordered the defen- that the church was being destroyed, dants to cease construction of any he said at a recent press conference. buildings on the lots in Sir Lynden Mr Brathwaite told Tribune Religion Pindling Estates. that he has stayed in contact with Mr She further ordered for the build- Bastian since the incident, and ings to be demolished and removed, describes Mr Bastian’s personal for the defendants to be restrained account the morning when he discov- from entering the lots, to pay the costs ered that his church was being reduced incurred to Arawak Homes Ltd, and to rubble: pay damages for trespass in respect of “On the morning of the demolition, the lots. Arawak Homes was given Pastor Bastian said he had just passed possession of the land with immediate the church at 9.30 that morning. It was effect. the first time that he had pulled on the For the meantime, members of side of the church, and really took in Canaan Baptist Church have relocated what God had done through his min- above the Great Commission Ministry istry. on Wulff Road, at Bishop Walter “When he got home around 10am, Hanchell’s invitation. BISHOP Ian Brathwaite, president/founder of the group ‘Pastors of Prayer’.

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MEDITATION In the flesh FOR the past few years we have been inundated with sexual- ly related controver- REV. ANGELA sies. C BOSFIELD First, there were PALACIOUS issues in The Church (which still continue unabated) about the the- ological support for homosexual practices, ordained leaders who engage in them, and revisions to the definition and understand- ing of marriage and partnership. We have had serious allegations and convictions of sexual misconduct of various kinds in the settings of church, school, after-school civic activities, as well as in the home. All of this makes the world a very unsafe place for too many little ones of all ages. Now we have entered a period of intensely emotional debate about the concept of spousal rape, and the role that law-makers should be allowed to play in its prevention. We have yet to see the outcome of all of these discussions. There also continues the concerns of Christ in culture and Christ against culture in the form of disagreements over the more vigorous sexually related movements by some (not all) of the Junkanoo dancers, and the place of ring play. The documen- tary on children engaging in ring play, captured on film some moves that left little to the imagination. When I want to determine what my comfort level should be as a Christian when it comes to any of these discussions, I ask myself: “What do I think Our Lord and Saviour would have to say if He were present?” Then prayerfully, I seek to discern God’s will for me as an individual and in my capacity as one who offers guidance to others. In order to avoid the temptation of straying too far from our Great Commission to make disciples for the Lord, The Church has to remind her people to remain “in the Spirit” as we debate about things “of the flesh.” Every encounter has the potential of being a pastoral moment. Every statement makes possible the pronouncement of a prophetic word. Each dis- cussion can broaden the “In order to avoid minds of our people to engage together in the temptation of prayerful theological reflection where we pause straying too far from for God’s guidance rather than losing our tempers our Great with one another. Commission to If we use this time as a time to teach our children make disciples for about human rights and freedoms, about responsi- the Lord, The bilities and restrictions, about God’s grace and Church has to mercy, forgiveness and healing, and about prayer remind her people and praise, then they too to remain “in the will see God in the midst of all the struggles. It is Spirit” as we for us to seek to be of one accord, and in situa- debate about things tions when we fail to do so, let us agree to dis- “of the flesh.” agree until God gives us clarity.

The Tribune RELIGION Thursday, September 17, 2009 • PG 29 The Real Pageant Plan B ACCORDING to the Webster says in Prov 29: 18. Where there is no Dictionary the word pageant means: An vision, the people perish: ALLISON elaborate spectacle show or procession. Listen! The lack of vision by leader- MILLER I don’t want to take anything away PASTOR ship to invest in and help to develop its from the recent Miss Universe or Miss MATTHEW people will by far and large always hurt Bahamas pageants, but I have to won- ALLEN and be detrimental first to the people. der what the vision and monetary full- Every grassroot person in this country is "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought fillment of our government is as it not as fooled / stupid as our leaders may for your life, what ye shall eat, or relates to pageants. think. There's an old saying that says what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, If the vision and the monetary fulfill- these murders and other serious crimes “You can fool some of the people some- what ye shall put on. Is not the life ment of these pageants were somehow a are being committed against the local time, but you can't fool all the people all more than meat, and the body than rai- small fraction of the vision of our gov- Bahamians and not on Paradise Island. the time” ment?" ernment to 1) help provide gainful It seems as if prioritising matters of As a people, we may not say much; MATT 6:25-33 employment for the hurting Bahamian national importance that will help in but we do know that every foreign developing and advancing the grass- families, 2) Send a clarion, zero-toler- investor that is allowed to invest and IN an article some months ago, I ance message to the criminal mind-set; roots is of no urgency to the powers that start a new business in the Bahamas be. The deterioration of our once highly shared that we as Christians do not really via swift justice and punishment, and 3) either at the beginning or somewhere "trust" God totally. We put in place, provide an urgent expediting of a diver- educational system is at an all time low, down the line; one way or another had the ancient PMH and the Rand hospital "Plan B" just in case God doesn’t work sified economy then the slogan “It's to render some kind of favour or kick- out or He takes too long. We have a plan. in Freeport will be with us until the Lord Better in the Bahamas” as it relates to back to the powers that be. Therefore So many of us, if we are honest with our- comes; as hundreds of thousands of dol- the small Bahamians, would be true. when it comes to governments standing selves will admit that when we take mat- What the Bahamas is seeing today lars will continue to be wasted on cos- up and blatantly defending the rights of ters into our own hands, we mess things and will continue to see in the coming metic repairs of these dinosaurs. exploited employees by foreign up. years, is what I call “Healthy As a nation, we are proficient at host- investors; these thugs / government have The Bible tells us that, "It is in God Distractions.” As good and as promo- ing events that paint a beautiful external to remain silent or speak under their that we live, move and have our being." tional as the Miss Universe Beauty picture; meanwhile internally the mass- breath. How is it that we think that we can do Pageant and the other pageants that will es are suffering. When it comes to Then also there are some foreign anything in and of ourselves? We per- follow will be for the country, they are investing in and developing our people investors of integrity who refused to suade ourselves that we can do anything all healthy distractions. to become shakers and movers in the give into the demands of our corrupt all by ourselves when in actuality, we can The true beauty of this nation cannot business world both locally and interna- leaders and their friends in high places; do all things through Christ who gives us be found in an event held at the high tionally our leaders show very little many of these investors have taken their strength and nothing in of ourselves. priced Atlantis; but rather this beauty is interest. investments to other countries. I went to a funeral last month and the found within the common people of Comparing the Bahamas today with This ancient corrupt practice happens bishop said that he had to use his hand- whom various governments have failed that of the Bahamas of 1960's from a to be the foundation of which many of gun to scare an intruder off his property. miserably. technology development perspective, our existent establishments and systems Now there is somethig very wrong with Do you want to see this government we're like an un-opened gift that's left throughout the length and breath of the this picture. How is it that a bishop, a man both (administration and opposition) under the Christmas tree; whereby all of Bahamas were built upon. who is over a number of churches resort- tremble in fear and immediately put the our present day leaders are afraid of Think about this! Why is it that no ing to a hand gun? Didn't God say cast brakes on the country's increasing mur- opening and assisting in the develop- PLP or FNM government is able to your cares upon Him because He cares der rate and other serious crimes? ment of the gift. On the other hand, the bring relief to the island of Grand for us? Had it been that two or three of these foreign investors sees the gifts and Bahama / Freeport? The Bible also tells us that our warfare murders occurred on Paradise Island / immediately invests time and money in is not carnal. Why is it then that we are Atlantis where the true leader of both developing the gifts which yields hun- Watch this! taking matters into our own hands with the present and former government sits, dreds / thousands-fold return on their The BEAST of Grand Bahama (The weapons such as guns? What would that I can assure you that the prime minister, investment. After some ten to twenty Grand Bahama Port Authority), from bishop say if he had actually shot the the leader of the opposition and the years of exploiting these gifts; the the time of Sir Lynden to this present young man in his yard. minister of national security would have investors often move onto other areas day has financially contaminated the As the church we have to be careful a total different outlook on capital pun- leaving the people crying out to their Bahamas' political, legal and religious what we open doors to. Another pastor ishment; and immediately resolve the powerless governments for justice. system; thereby gaining full authority said that he travels with a cutlass under judicial mess in the court system. Here's what the Bible doesn’t say: to do as it pleases. the driver’s seat of his car. When he was But then again; for the most part “Where there is no vision, the leaders It's a fact that Grand Bahamians asked why, by the person cleaning his car, he said it is because he was “ a man of perish” No, but rather here's what it enjoy being swung by eloquent speak- God. ing, compromising politicians, lawyers What example is that for the world? If and weak religious leaders concerning we who call on God don't believe He can the true future of Grand Bahama; as protect us, how can we expect anyone Share your news their heritage is being stolen and sold else to believe God? Simply put we born right in their faces. again believers have to get rid of our But then again, their heritage doesn’t The Tribune wants to hear from people "Plan B" and just trust God. I know that matter to them; for all they really want can be diffcult (trusting God) when you who are making news in their is political rhetoric and promises. neighbourhoods. Perhaps you are need things to happen and it seems like (Ain't Long Now, The Storm is Over; nothing is. raising funds for a good cause, It's a Matter of Trust) yeah right ! Guess what? God ‘gat’ you He always campaigning for improvements in the did. He has to do what He says He will area or have won an award. do. God's word can’t return to Him void, If so, call us on 322-1986 and share your • For questions or comments contact us via it has to do what it was set out to do. He story. E-mail:[email protected] or Ph.1- may not come when you want Him to but 242-441-2021 He's always on time.

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Communication is the key to passionateA Christian Prospective lovemaking - PART 1 By REV DR WESLEY L Romans 13:1-2 reads, “Let every soul woman. They look at their wives as rights. THOMPSON be subject unto the higher powers. For chattel or property. 1 Corinthians 7:5 is where the word Mt Pleasant Green Baptist there is no power but of God: the pow- This law will support Ephesians 5:21: 'communication' is referred to. Church International ers that be are ordained by God. husbands and wives be subject to one “Defraud ye not one the other, except Whosoever therefore resisteth the another out of reverence for Christ (the it be with consent for a time, that ye The Law is for the lawless. It is the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: Messiah, the Anointed One). may give yourselves to fasting and responsibility of any civil government to and they shall receive to themselves 1 Peter 3:7-8 reads, “Likewise, ye prayer; and come together again, that create and enforce laws for the protection damnation.” husbands, dwell with them according to Satan tempt you not for your inconti- of its citzens. Simply put: let every person be loyal- knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, nency.” ly subject to the governing civil authori- as unto the weaker vessel, and as being With consent - there are other emer- 1 Timothy 1:9-10 reads, “Knowing ties. For there is no authority except heirs together of the grace of life; that gencies that need to be communicated this, that the law is not made for a right- from God (by His permission, His sanc- your prayers be not hindered. Finally, to your spouse although sexual inter- eous man, but for the lawless and dis- tion and those that exist do so by God's be ye all of one mind, having compas- course is a marital right. obedient, for the ungodly and for sin- appointment). sion one of another, love as brethren, Forget what you have learned about ners, for unholy and profane, for mur- Therefore, he that resists and sets be pitiful, be courteous:” sex from locker rooms or association derers of fathers and murderers of himself up against the authorities We must not twist 1 Corinthians 7:1- with friends and relatives. Every cou- mothers, for manslayers, for whore- resists what God has appointed and 5 which gives one the legal right to have ple should know how to make love in a mongers, for them that defile them- arranged in divine order. And those sexual intercourse with one's spouse way that is honorable and that brings selves with mankind, for men stealers, who resist will bring down judgment with their consent. The husband satisfaction to both the husband and for liars, for perjured persons, and if upon themselves, receiving the penalty should give his wife her conjugal rights, the wife. there be any other thing that is contrary due them. goodwill, kindness and what is due her The amendment to The Sexual to sound doctrine;” Proverbs 8:15 reads, “By me kings as his wife and likewise the wife to her Offences Act to outlaw marital rape Governments are ordained by God. reign, and princes decree justice.” husband. calls for communication. The God kind He sets up and pulls down. I believe the Word of God sanctions For the wife does not have exclusive of love is centered around giving. It Psalm 75:6-7 reads, “For promotion the responsibility of a government to authority and control over her own says, I want to please you more than cometh neither from the east, nor from protect its citizens. Amending The body, but the husband has his rights. myself. It is not concerned with its own the west, nor from the south. But God Sexual Offences Act to outlaw marital Likewise, also the huband does not selfish interests, motives or agendas. is the judge: He putteth down one, and rape will enlighten men who think have exclusive authority and control Love is more concerned with meeting sitteth up another.” archaically about their concept of over his body, but the wife has her your spouse's needs than your own. Torah that survived Holocaust finds home in Miami MIAMI IN THIS Aug. 28, 2009 photo, Steve Andrews, RABBI Danny Marmorstein uses the left center, of Yiddish word "bashert" to describe how Congregation Ahavat a Torah created in 19th-century Eastern Olam kisses their newly Europe survived the Nazi regime in near- obtained Torah as he perfect condition and landed a world passes it to Minda away at his tiny synagogue, according to Feldheim, right, during a the Associated Press. procession to the "It means 'meant to be,'" he said, "and Synagogue through the this was meant for us." streets of Miami. Rabbi The 131-year-old Torah is being cele- Danny Marmorstein uses brated at Congregation Ahavat Olam for o t the Yiddish word "bash- the first time on Rosh Hashanah, offer- o h ert" to describe how a P

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The Tribune RELIGION Thursday, September 17, 2009 • PG 31 Christian money RELIGION guru gets rich TODAY mixing faith, funds BRENTWOOD, Tenn.

WITH the economy gasping for life last spring, about 1.3 million people gathered in 5,600 churches nation- wide to behold the nation's leading prophet of personal finance. Televised live from a church in Edmond, Okla., Dave Ramsey's ST. James infomercial-style "Town Hall for Hope" was a masterful mix of inspi- Anglican Church ration, humor, advice, marketing and is shown in the Bible from a man dressed in jeans, dark jacket and an open-collar Newport Beach, shirt. "Hope is a gift of the Holy Spirit," Calif., Ramsey told a nationwide audience Wednesday, Aug. that included the Fox Business Network, available in 50 million 19, 2009. St. homes. Later: "The Bible says the diligent prosper." James Anglican, At its core, the 90-minute show was in the Diocese of a millionaire preaching to a strug- gling flock, and it raised anew the Los Angeles, is question of whether Ramsey's hugely profitable, tax-paying business — one of several which he describes as a ministry — dozen individual fits with Jesus' teachings. It's a question John Hoffman parishes and four began asking as he immersed himself in Ramsey's financial lessons for dioceses nation- months. He listened on the radio, wide that voted to bought books, took Ramsey's finan- cial management course at a church split from the and paid for a $10-a-month subscrip- tion to his Web site. national church Hoffman came away from it all feeling like Ramsey's intermingling after the 2003 of faith and finances was some sort of consecration of unholy alliance. "It's not a ministry. To me, it's an the first openly insult to the word," said Hoffman, who lives near Logan, Kan. "It would gay Episcopal be nice if it got out of the churches bishop in New and got into the mainstream." Ramsey doesn't deny mixing reli- Hampshire. gion and business, and he doesn't apologize for getting rich doing it, either. Business is a ministry, he says, and good ones prosper by serving people the way God wants them to. "Worship is work-ship, so I don't separate work from ministry," Ramsey said recently at his head- quarters in suburban Nashville, o

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THIS June 29, 2009 photo shows Gianni Bisoli during an interview in Verona, Italy. Bisoli has accused Verona's late bishop, Monsignor Giuseppe Carraro, who is being con- sidered for beatification, of molesting him on five separate occasions while he was a student at Verona's Provolo Institute for the deaf, which he attended from age 9 to 15.

impairments, for example, made the In the Vatican's priests' admonition "never to tell" all the more easy to enforce. In this predominantly Roman Catholic country, the church enjoys such an exalted status that the pope's pronouncements frequently top the evening news, without any critical com- BACKYARD mentary. Even those with anti-clerical views acknowledge the important role VERONA, Italy A yearlong Associated Press tally has sex abuse were virtually unknown a the church plays in education, social documented 73 cases with allegations of decade ago. They point to an increasing services and caring for the poor. IT HAPPENED night after night, the sexual abuse by priests against minors willingness among the Italian public As a result, few dare to criticize it, deaf man said, sometimes in the priest's over the past decade in Italy, with more and — slowly — within the Vatican including the mainstream independent bedroom, sometimes in the bathroom, than 235 victims. The tally was com- itself to look squarely at a tragedy and state-run media. In addition, even in the confessional, according to piled from local media reports, linked where the reported cases may only just there's a certain prudishness in small- the Associated Press. to by Web sites of victims groups and be the tip of the iceberg. The Italian town Italy, where one just doesn't When he was a young boy at a blogs. Almost all the cases have come church will not release the numbers of speak about sex, much less sex between Catholic-run institute for the deaf, out in the seven years since the scandal cases reported or of court settlements. a priest and a child. Alessandro Vantini said, priests sodom- over Roman Catholic priest abuse The implications of priest abuse loom "It's a taboo on top of a taboo," said ized him so relentlessly he came to feel broke in the United States. large in Italy: with its 50,850 priests in a Jacqueline Monica Magi, who prose- "as if I were dead." This year, he and The numbers in Italy are still a mere nation of 60 million, Italy counts more cuted several pedophilia cases in Italy dozens of other former students did trickle compared to the hundreds of priests than all of South America or before becoming a judge. "This is the something highly unusual for Italy: cases in the court systems of the United Africa. In the United States — where provincialism of Italy." They went public with claims they were States and Ireland. And according to the Vatican counts 44,700 priests in a Breaking the conspiracy of silence, forced to perform sex acts with priests. the AP tally, the Italian church has so nation of 300 million — more than 4,000 67 former students from Verona's For decades, a culture of silence has far had to pay only a few hundred thou- Catholic clergy have been accused of Antonio Provolo institute for the deaf surrounded priest abuse in Italy, where sand euros (dollars) in civil damages to molesting minors since 1950. signed a statement alleging that sexual surveys show the church is considered the victims, compared to $2.6 billion in The Italian cases follow much the abuse, pedophilia and corporal punish- one of the country's most respected abuse-related costs for the American same pattern as the U.S. and Irish scan- ment occurred at the school from the institutions. Now, in the Vatican's back- diocese or euro1.1 billion ($1.5 billion) dals: Italian prelates often preyed on 1950s to the 1980s at the hands of yard, a movement to air and root out due to victims in Ireland. poor, physically or mentally disabled, priests and brothers of the abusive priests is slowly and fitfully tak- However, the numbers still stand out or drug-addicted youths entrusted to Congregation for the Company of ing hold. in a country where reports of clerical their care. The deaf students' speech Mary.