Former National Security Minister Dr Bernard Nottage.
By RASHAD ROLLE
Tribune Staff Reporter
rrolle@tribunemedia.net
THE official funeral for the late Dr Bernard Nottage will be held at St Agnes Anglican Church at 11am on Friday, July 14th, the Cabinet Office announced.
There will be a viewing of Dr Nottage at the PLP headquarters on Tuesday, July 11th, the national stadium on July 12th and at the House of Assembly on July 13th.
Dr Nottage, 71, died last week in a Florida hospital.
He had been airlifted to the US after spending three days in the Intensive Care Unit at Doctors Hospital.
He is survived by his wife and their two sons.
Dr Nottage was born in Nassau on October 23, 1945 to the late Bernard Nottage Sr and Olevia Nottage.
He received his training as a gynaecologist at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
An outstanding athlete in track and field, Dr Nottage was also a long-time president of the Bahamas Amateur Athletics Association (BAAA).
Over the course of his political career, Dr Nottage served as a Cabinet minister in one Pindling administration and two Christie administrations.
Dr Nottage was first appointed chairman of the National Insurance Board in 1982.
In the subsequent general election in 1987, Dr Nottage successfully contested the Garden Hills constituency.
In 1989, Dr Nottage was appointed minister of consumer affairs and then minister of education in 1990.
However, Dr Nottage left the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) to assist in the formation of the Coalition for Democratic Reform (CDR) and was elected leader of the third party in early 2000.
Dr Nottage unsuccessfully led the party into the 2002 general election.
In 2005, he returned to the then governing PLP and was afterwards appointed to the Senate.
Three months later, Dr Nottage was appointed Minister of Health and National Insurance by then Prime Minister Perry Christie.
In 2007, Dr Nottage was appointed leader of opposition business in Parliament and in 2012 leader of government business in Parliament. He served as minister of national security from 2012-2017.
Dr Nottage was defeated in the 2017 general election by 22-year-old Travis Robinson in the Bain and Grants Town constituency.
He was a member of the Anglican church community.
Comments
Well_mudda_take_sic 7 years, 5 months ago
Why doesn't Minnis or Turnquest just tell us how much this man's funeral is going to cost honest hardworking taxpayers? Many of us rightly believe no cabinet minister in the last government should be entitled to receive state funeral rights of any kind whatsoever, period!
sheeprunner12 7 years, 5 months ago
This is established protocol ........ BJ was a longstanding athlete/administrator, physician, MP and Cabinet Minister ....... He will get what is due him by his peers and party .......... The State will give him his official funeral that he is entitled to ........ regardless of his warts and failures, he gave much national service ......... may he RIP
Well_mudda_take_sic 7 years, 5 months ago
You clearly deserve the country you live in today, but I do not! To be all-forgiving and sympathetic to past senior officials at the highest level of what was a despicably corrupt government, one that has caused so much misery for so many Bahamians, especially the more vulnerable very young and very old, simply smells of the kind of Christianity that so many self-processed Christians in our country today hide behind whenever it is convenient for them to do so. BJ never once spoke out about all of the crimes and wrongdoing that went on right under his nose, nor did he choose to divorce himself from the corruption, preferring instead to play the role of a faithful soldier. You don't idolize such men on their passing nor do you throw out their bad and only look at their good, as if somehow the latter justifies forgiveness of the former. A civilized society has no room for "feel good" hypocrisy, even the mourning kind.
Reality_Check 7 years, 5 months ago
His life's record is there and cannot now be changed no matter what all of the self-professed Christians may like to believe should be his legacy. The same holds true for Christie, Maynard-Gibson, Baltron Bethel and so many others like them. In the case of BJ, let's just say his maker is now left to pass final judgement, and leave it at that - nothing more need be said.
sheeprunner12 7 years, 5 months ago
This should have been a mass funeral ............ for ALL of Perry's wutless Cabinet Ministers
EasternGate 7 years, 5 months ago
BJ's family spent many thousands to send a dead man to Florida, just to keep his death certificate private. That money could have easily funeraliize him! Now Cabinet has raised the ceiling from 10 grand to 50 grand. WTF... just to appease PLPs?
sheeprunner12 7 years, 5 months ago
What you mean "keep his death certificate private"?????? ....... If he has a will, it has to be made available for his assets to be disposed of ...... Nothing can be kept secret forever ..... He could only have died of stroke, heart disease or cancer ......... What is the big deal with that?????????
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