The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

I have been watching the parliamentary channel, 40 as they broadcast live the proceedings of the joint session of parliament....Incredibly the Minister of Social Services is unable to comply with the norm of practice and invents new titles which have no support in The Constitution of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.

We do not have a First Lady unless you call the wife of His Excellency The Governor General, but no other.

The minister was not satisfied in describing the wife of the current Prime Minister but added that of the late Sir Lynden Pindling.

In the minister’s conclusion she talked about the importance of the celebration of this Woman’s Suffrage event in the parliament of the Bahamas, historic she described it so I plead with the minister to stop inventing what is not true and retain what is true till possibly sometime in the near future certain things like the First Lady issue will be altered and supported by a Constitutional Amendment but until then the wife of a prime minister is not the first lady of the Bahamas under any description nor are the wives of certain reverends.

To me the use of this is a mockery of the word-title anyway.

Let’s get it right so the future generations may know our history correctly or otherwise what have we?

Rubbish nothing more and nothing less.

M WILLIAMS

Nassau,

November 26, 2012.