The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

We show enormous respect to our mothers - grandmothers and great grandmothers in that case if we have the privilege of still having her. We treat them with enormous respect - never forgetting their birthdays - anniversary’s and in many cases even if they have left us, we memorialise them on their anniversary of their births and deaths.

I was honestly surprised that June 3rd, came and went that our government showed zero respect to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, our Queen, the Queen of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas.

Not a squeak... not a mention in passing in the House - nothing - zilch. Didn’t see or hear anything even ZNS News did not cover the London celebrations.

June 3rd was the 70th anniversary of when then HRH Princess Elizabeth became Queen of the United Kingdom and the Colonies... in 1952 The Bahamas was still a colony ‘self-governing’.

On July 10th, 1973, the choice of the then Government we choose to have as our Head of State Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and she remains to today in the presence of His Excellency The Most Honorable Sir Cornelius Smith - Governor General....came and gone....seems although we feted HRH Prince William and HRH Duchess of Cambridge at quite an expense, just weeks ago throwing all our State celebrations behind their Royal visit but come the day of the Jubilee nothing.

Prime Minister, through your cohorts, PR folk, you seem to have sent your official message ‘as long as Her Majesty reigns, is alive, we hold her as our Queen’ - after we will become a Republic. Seeing that the majority of the Commonwealth are States who have taken Republic postures one has to ask why then Prime Minister not now?

70 years as Queen of the Kingdom and the Commonwealth is a massive achievement which even if you don’t support monarchies at the minimum surely, we could have showed some respect...

A congratulatory diplomatic note to Buckingham Palace, possibly we could have done that? North Korea sent a congratulatory message!

Her Majesty is Queen of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas... our Sovereign Head of State. Seems we embrace Her Majesty’s’ awards - titles etc but disrespect her position... says a lot regrettably.

J H HUDSON

Nassau,

June 4, 2022.