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By RASHAD ROLLE
Tribune News Editor
rrolle@tribunemedia.net
POLICE Commissioner Clayton Fernander announced the prorogation of Parliament on Saturday afternoon, ending the session that began on October 6, 2021.
Typically, when a parliament session ends, all legislation during the session expires. Tabled questions for ministers also fall away.
Parliament can be prorogued for significant or less significant reasons. Although it is usually done to prepare for a general election, it can also allow an administration to reset its legislative agenda, generating press and public attention.
The new session will begin on October 4 with the governor-general reading the Speech from The Throne. Former Deputy Prime Minister Cynthia “Mother” Pratt is expected to soon succeed Sir CA Smith as the next governor-general and, as such, would read the speech.
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Comments
ExposedU2C 1 year, 1 month ago
Lest you forget, it was Hubiggety who kicked the Taiwanese diplomats out of our country in 1992 in order to open the door for the Communist Chinese to become the rulers of our nation.
ThisIsOurs 1 year, 1 month ago
Oh so you mean he's a false prophet ...
ThisIsOurs 1 year, 1 month ago
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ThisIsOurs 1 year, 1 month ago
I have too much to say... I cant remember what was so inflammatory that it had to be censored
ExposedU2C 1 year, 1 month ago
What only a handful of the most senior government officials at our MOF and Central Bank now know is that the IMF and other international lending agencies have had very high level discussions about The Bahamas potentially being an ideal candidate for "The 2013 Cyprus Debt Crisis Solution."
On 25 March 2013, a €10 billion international bailout by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other international lending agencies was announced in return for the government of Cyprus agreeing to, among other things, impose a whopping one-time bank deposit levy on all uninsured deposits in Cyprus, both local and foreign. This resulted in the Cypriot government seizing around 48% of the uninsured deposits in the Bank of Cyprus (the island's largest commercial bank).
The contractual rights and obligations that up to now have applied to customer deposits placed with financial institutions in The Bahamas, including branches and subsidiaries of foreign financial enterprises, may well not be inviolate under the terms and conditions of an IMF engineered emergency financial crisis that the Bahamian government is forced or otherwise coerced to declare. JUST LET THAT HORRIFYING THOUGHT WEIGH ON YOUR MIND FOR A WHILE.
JokeyJack 1 year, 1 month ago
Bahamians don't care. Now if you were talking about the end of Junkanoo, Kalik, or dominos THEN you might get their attention.
Please go out tomorrow and ask ANY Bahamian how are things and you will get the response "Erryting cool."
ThisIsOurs 1 year, 1 month ago
The IMF can discuss anything as theyve done for years, and they will serve their best interest. It does not mean we have to accept their plan. Barbados rejected their plan, it was a rough road for the citizens but nevertheless the plan to devalue the dollar was rejected.
ThisIsOurs 1 year, 1 month ago
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ThisIsOurs 1 year, 1 month ago
Can a person off the street convicted of a crime run for office? Even if they served less than a year? No, the constitution forbids it. Then what makes that convicted criminal less desirable than someone convicted of a crime while in office? Fact, nobody creates a rule to disadvantage themself
ExposedU2C 1 year, 1 month ago
The last part of the last sentence of the first paragraph of your comments above that reads "MPs write the law" is truly laughable given that many of our MPs today are D- educated and barely literate.
Our laws are usually drafted or copied from laws that exist in other jurisdictions by one or more special interest groups, often foreign, who have a vested interest in ensuring the new law suits their purposes.
Our AG's Office and our parliamentarians typically only serve as the rubber stampers of whatever new law the special interest groups desire be enacted in a some kind of quid pro quo exchange.
AnObserver 1 year, 1 month ago
How many cops standing around in obsolete uniforms does it take to read a piece of paper to a crowd? This is where the VAT money went.
Nine people visible in the photo, and likely countless more out of frame for what should have been an email blast and cost nothing.
ExposedU2C 1 year, 1 month ago
They really have nothing better to do given that all of us are so lucky to be living in a crime-free society. LMAO
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