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Grace Community Church Senior Pastor Lyall Bethel said yesterday he would reject any law that would weaponize sex in a marriage and said there is no need to move forward with a marital rape law. During a press conference, Bethel, surrounded by senior members of his church, said the Sexual Offences Act already provides sufficient

Before a packed room, Law Reform Commissioner Dame Anita Allen said yesterday that a bill that would criminalize marital rape is not a “campaign against husbands” or a tool for wives to leave a marriage, as some believe. Dame Anita spoke during a “discussion” on the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2022. In addition to the

Dear Editor, We in this Christian nation must be careful when searching the bible, a book in which the culture is patriarchal to the core, and where women are the property of men, to determine the dignity and respect and the humanity with which women are to be treated in this postmodern moment. Such an

This week, the government tabled the Protection Against Violence Bill, 2023, which seeks to provide for the protection and support of victims of violence. The bill seeks to create a national strategy to prevent and respond to the occurrence of violence and to protect victims of violence; begin a system of information gathering to generate

Dear Editor, We write to express our deep concern and disappointment regarding the comments of Rev. Rex Major at a recent national ecumenical church service where our national leaders were present. As an organization committed to upholding universal human rights and advocating for equality for all individuals, Human Rights Bahamas (HRB) finds Rev. Major’s expressed

Dear Editor, I was appalled at the manner and nature of the response of the representative to United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women to Rex Major’s publicly expressed concerns about marital rape. There was no attempt to address the concerns or points of argument in Rex Major’s remarks;

Dear Editor, I was shocked to read a “Christian” pastor use a national ecumenical service to try and derail the move to criminalize marital rape. What is especially glaring is this is a man who fell victim to violence in 2016 when he was gun-butted by armed intruders who also attempted to sexually assault a

Dear Editor, I noticed that the venerable Rev. Rex Major stepped on the toes of many secular Bahamians by boldly voicing his skepticism about the much talked about marital rape law proposal at the Evangelist Temple over the weekend. Despite the pushback, Major’s point about the difficulty in proving marital rape was indeed valid. When

His mouth you cannot believe you understand? i recently -- youre going to love this one. i had a meeting which was an ex-kgb folks reunion. we had a general from the kgb and ex-major who was actually cia and the undercover guy was me. and the general who knew kislyak pretty well, he said, you know, he reported -- he wasnt on the payroll of the kgb, but he reported sort of in to the kgb. he has always been and is a very, very skilled operator. whatever comes out of his mouth is deliberate and is ...

Lively, theyre fraternal and staffers come out and help, ex-major leaguers come out and help and its really an annual ritual that we go through and its one of the things that has brought i think republicans and democrats together for years is the congressional baseball game. >> certainly has. >> if youre a ballplayer we know who the ballplayers are on both sides. its always very fraternal and this is a tragedy and sadly, i think this is going to change the way that were going to have to practice...