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Ever since reports about prison guards abusing Cuban refugees at a detention center in Nassau, Bahamas went viral last month, the Bahamian government has been trying to weather a public-relations hurricane. Unsurprisingly, these reports incited regional outrage. Nowhere more so than in Miami, from where Cuban exiles (aka Miami Cubans) exert apparent political influence in the… Read more.
Nine hours into jury deliberations on Wednesday in Nassau, Bahamas, Justice Anita Allen, the presiding judge in the case of two people accused of attempting to extort $25 million from actor John Travolta, declared a mistrial after she got word that a politician blurted out the following at a local campaign rally: Well, we have some… Read more.
I am heartened that the government of The Bahamas has finally proposed legislation to ban marital rape. After all, according to a 2006 United Nations report, marital rape is already a crime in over 104 countries, including Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago; not to mention being a crime under international law. Yet this proposed… Read more.
Anna Nicole Smith’s ‘friendship’ with Bahamian minister Shane Gibson is the Bahamian Minister of Immigration and Labour. A week ago, pictures of him in compromising positions with the late Anna Nicole Smith went viral. Those images gave the impression they were more than friends. I argued that those pictures left Prime Minister Perry Christie no… Read more.
