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THOUSANDS MAY HAVE CAUGHT VIRUS

Leading medical centres estimate infection rate is much higher than stated

By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net THE true number of COVID-19 cases in the Bahamas is scores higher than the confirmed tally, according to three international research groups that have created separate epidemiological models of the virus.

One group estimated that on a single day in August when the country confirmed only double-digit numbers of cases, the actual number of infections was 14 times higher.

The models of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), the Imperial College London (ICL) and the London

School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) offer different estimates but reach the same conclusion: the number of COVID-19 cases far exceeds the confirmed number of cases.

The research groups have been influential to how policymakers have responded to the pandemic around the world. Their models consider confirmed cases, confirmed deaths and testing rates and they reflect a range of assumptions and epidemiological knowledge of researchers.

The models were collated by Our World In Data, a scientific online publication.

SEE PAGE FOUR

HOUSE Speaker Halson Moultrie yesterday lashed out at the “untenable” state of the country’s parliamentary democracy, as he likened Parliament to a “dinghy” hitched to the executive branch of government instead of having independence.

He said Parliament was not moving forward, as the institution had been allowed to “degenerate into an executive aristocracy”.

Speaker Moultrie said it

was unacceptable that in 2020, “some 291 years after the establishment of the Parliament of The Bahamas, which is the first arm of government, is still being pulled along by the executive branch of government like a dinghy boat, hitched to the membership or the mothership.”

He told MPs: “Honourable members, this state of affairs is untenable.”

He said there had been no separation of powers, opening the door to “spite”, “jealousy”, “revenge” and pettiness.

SEE PAGE FIVE

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AMBITION IS NOT ENOUGH

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SUSPECTS FACE NEW CONTROLS IN BAIL ACT

By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net THE Minnis administration is seeking to make changes to the Bail Act by introducing a bail management system that ensures accountability while eliminating loopholes that allow impropriety.

The changes will also make it more difficult for repeat offenders to receive bail.

SEE PAGE THREE

‘EDUCATE TO ERADICATE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE’

SPEAKER RAGES AGAIN OVER UNDERMINING OF PARLIAMENT

By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net

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SHOT DEAD OUTSIDE HIS PUB ROBERTO Lewis was found shot dead on Tuesday night. Mr Lewis, who managed The Village Pub, was found on the street outside the bar. See the full story on page three.

By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net

LOCAL activists are again calling on the government to implement the necessary tools to effectively address the needs of domestic violence victims.

They say more educational awareness is needed about the issue and also called for the creation of a special domestic unit in the police force.

SEE PAGE FIVE

NERVOUS SUPERPLEX LOOKS TO REOPENING STATESIDE

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net THE Fusion Superplex will “have to make some serious decisions” on staff terminations and restructuring its finances if it is not permitted to open by early November, its chief executive warned yesterday.

Carlos Foulkes told Tribune Business that “patience has already worn thin” among the cinema and

FUSION SUPERPLEX entertainment complex’s lenders even though they recognise its six-and-ahalf month closure is due

to a pandemic beyond the company’s control and is covered by a “force majeure” clause in the two sides’ agreements.

Acknowledging that Fusion Superplex’s debts were increasing for every day it remains closed with no revenue income, Mr Foulkes said this “creates a higher burden for the business to recover from and get back on its feet”.

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PAGE 2, Thursday, October 1, 2020

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A PRAYER for Philip ‘Brave’ Davis after his return from treatment for COVID-19 in the United States at last night’s PLP event.

VAUGHN Miller MP at last night’s event.

A double welcome THE Progressive Liberal Party held a “service of thanksgiving” yesterday for the return of party leader Philip “Brave” Davis.

Mr Davis recently returned to the country after being treated for COVID-19 in the United States.

Last night’s event also saw the party welcome Golden Isles MP Vaughn Miller, who last week joined the official opposition after serving as an independent member of Parliament for nine months.

FORMER Golden Isles MP Michael Halkitis with an elbow bump for his successor and new PLP member Vaughn Miller.

Photos: Shawn Hanna/Tribune Staff

PATRICIA MINNIS HELPS KIDS GET BACK TO SCHOOL

PATRICIA Minnis greets children of Free Town at their party at Pilgrim Baptist Temple Community Centre, St James Road on Friday.

Photo: Derek Smith/BIS MORE than 125 children from the surrounding communities participated in the Free Town Urban Renewal Centre’s back-to-school jamboree held on Friday at the Pilgrim Baptist Temple Community Centre.

The event was attended

by Patricia Minnis, wife of Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis. Mrs Minnis, representing the Office of the Spouse of the Prime Minister, presented the children with backpacks that were stocked with school supplies, including books, pencils, crayons, geometry sets, pens, erasers, rulers, sharpeners, snacks, masks and drinks.

New shoes were also provided to those children in need of them.

The children were also treated to a hot, nutritious lunch as part of the Urban Renewal Commission’s month-long lunch programme—held as a oneyear replacement to the commission’s month-long summer camp usually held in July but rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Back-to-school events were held simultaneously in all ten Urban Renewal Centres in New Providence. Officials say more than 1,200 similarly stuffed backpacks were presented to children attending the events. Additional events have been scheduled for Grand Bahama and the Family Islands, which account for the remaining 13 of the 23 centres.

Mrs Minnis applauded the Urban Renewal Commission and staff at the centres for their efforts.

“I wanted to come and share with the kids because I wanted them to know that, in addition to the love they receive at home, that

there are persons outside of their family circle who are also concerned about their welfare, that love them as well,” Mrs Minnis said.

“This time is very difficult for kids (as) usually they would have been in school with their friends and so we have to engage them. This was a wonderful opportunity to do just that.”

Mrs Minnis also took the opportunity to discuss with the children a number of the safety measures designed to prevent or limit the community spread of COVID-19.

“We have to constantly remind them that it is important that they wear their masks in public spaces in order to protect themselves, and the importance wearing masks plays in helping to reduce the community spread of COCVID-19. We also have to constantly remind them of the proper way those masks should be worn which I think, is the hardest part for many of the children, and also to constantly remind them of the role physical distancing also plays in reducing/preventing community spread.”

Loretta Mackey, centre manager at the Free Town Urban Renewal Centre, said Friday’s event, and the three-week luncheon programme, were just two of the many programmes underway to give back to the community.

“We feel that we are all family,” Mrs Mackey said.

“We have been able to build great relationships with the members of the communities we serve through our various programmes, and the people very much appreciate what we do for them.”

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Thursday, October 1, 2020, PAGE 3

Village Pub manager is shot dead outside bar

By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net

A MAN was shot on Tuesday night and found unresponsive on the sidewalk outside a local bar.

The latest homicide victim, identified by relatives as 46-year-old Roberto Lewis was remembered as a family person who helped those in need. It is said Lewis managed The Village Pub, the bar he was found outside of on Tuesday.

According to police reports, shortly before 10pm officers were called to a shooting incident that occurred on Balfour Avenue in the vicinity of EP Roberts Primary School.

On their arrival, officers found the body of a man lying on the sidewalk outside The Village Pub. He was unresponsive.

“The preliminary information is that a male exited a business establishment and walked in an eastern direction along Balfour Avenue, when a dark coloured Nissan vehicle approached him. A male exited this vehicle armed with a firearm and discharged it in his direction hitting him about the body,” a police crime report noted.

The victim’s cousin, Troy Clarke, said his relative was a “cool brother”.

“He takes care of his children. He takes care of his family... He did what he had to do,” Mr Clarke said.

“He was a good employer.

People who needed a job he hired them... People who needed bills to be paid he paid them and stuff like that.

“He was always well

THE SCENE outside the Village Pub yesterday. dressed, very educated.”

It is rumoured Lewis was owner of The Village Pub, however his cousin could not confirm this. However,

The Tribune was told the deceased managed the bar.

The Village Pub has been in hot water with law enforcement in the past. The owner

SUSPECTS FACE NEW CONTROLS IN BAIL ACT from page one

While debating the amendment to the Bail Act in the House of Assembly, National Security Minister Marvin Dames said while crime continues to trend downwards, the public remains enraged by malicious acts of violence.

He suggested many crimes are committed by repeat offenders, but the bail management system would ensure offenders do not create further crimes along with serving as protection for victims.

Further, the new system will bring accountability to and credibility to issues surrounding sureties.

Over the last five years there have been on average per year some 664 people being granted bail by the respective courts.

Within the five-year period the highest numbers were in 2018 when around 939 people were granted bail and in 2017 when some 809 were granted bail.

“The new system will also ensure that people are present at court at the appointed time,” Mr Dames said. “It will eliminate the burden on the police and tax payers to track and monitor defendants daily. It also protects those defendants’ rights to remain innocent while awaiting trial.

“At the same time, it balances the rights with a victim’s rights to have their day in court, to be heard and to be protected. It will be mandatory for individuals affected by this act with existing reporting requirements as a condition of bail to register with the bail management system.”

The amendment to the Bail Act was tabled in 2019 and will also enable magistrates to grant bail in certain matters and to provide rules to regulate bail application procedures.

A 2016 amendment to the

Bail Act, which was passed under the former Christie administration, restricted the ability of judges to grant bail in offences involving intentional libel, assault, stealing and other previously bailable offences. The amendment also did not return the power of magistrates to grant bail for the offences of drug possession with intent to supply, rape, housebreaking, attempted murder and threats of death.

However, unlike the 2016 bill, this new amendment will make provisions for magistrates to grant bail for drug possession with intent to supply and certain firearms matters.

Mr Dames said yesterday: “The genesis of the (2016) amendment stemmed from the belief at that time that this court (Magistrate’s) was being too lenient on persons charged with serious offences and allowing prolific offenders out on bail to engage in nefarious activities. Included in the amendments was the restriction on a magistrate to grant bail to persons convicted of certain specified offences.

“It should be noted that a person not tried in three years was considered reasonable not to be granted bail.

The thinking at the time was to be sufficiently restricted so that the courts would have much more to consider prior to granting bail.

“However, this unforeseeable action resulted in an increase in the number of persons being remanded to the Department of Correctional Services and having to apply for a bond in the Supreme Court.

“The current advancement in the judicial sector underscores the need for the law to be reviewed and revised and remove the bottleneck effect which impeded the pipeline of the sector.”

There also will be increased powers for the Magistrate’s Court system.

“The new amendment

seeks to increase the jurisdiction of the Magisterial Court to grant bail in relation to offences listed in part (d) of the first schedule. The Magisterial Court will have the ability to grant bail for possession of prohibited weapons and ammunition as listed in Section 30 of Chapter 213 of the Firearms Act. “For many years the topic of bail remained a sore issue, especially among magistrates. Our administration has confidence in the Magisterial Court as they are trained professionals who have witnessed the reformation of the judicial sector.

“This move has also been supported by the highest court in the country.

“Our administration now believes that with the new bail management system and the complementary restoration of the magisterial powers, then the judicial system will significantly improve and become more efficient.

“The two coupled together will save precious time as matters presented at the summary level can be dealt with by a talented pool of individuals, many of whom go on to serve as Supreme “Court and Appellate Court judges.”

Regarding sureties, Mr Dames said this is a critical component of the sector as these people take on a legal obligation to ensure accused persons while on bail adhere to law.

“There have been issues regarding sureties’ credibility and ability to be honest when assisting a person requesting and/or on bail. Therefore, it was important to address this area in the new bail management system.

“If the changes were to be significant the noted clause would amend the principle act to require a surety to utilise the bail management system for the purpose of making his or her statutory declaration.”

Photo: Terrel W Carey Sr/Tribune Staff was arrested in August after police responded to reports of an unauthorised gathering.

It is claimed police also found a pistol and ammunition

inside his vehicle following the arrest.

Last month, videos emerged online of several people coming out of the

local bar. Commissioner of Police Paul Rolle revealed 23 people were arrested in connection with that particular incident.

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THE COMBINED chart showing the predictions from the three organisations at IHME, ICL and LSHTM and, clockwise from above right, the individual charts from IHME, LSHTM and ICL.

Thousands may have caught virus from page one The data suggests the Bahamas was experiencing a surge of COVID-19 cases far earlier than previously known. On March 22, for example, when the country confirmed just four cases of the virus, the ICL, a public research university in London, estimated there were 453 cases while the IHME, an independent global health research centre at the University of Washington, estimated there were 118 cases.

On August 10 in the middle of the second wave of COVID-19, the IHME and ICL estimated there were 666 and 210 cases respectively while the LSHTM estimated there were more than twice the confirmed number of infections.

Just recently, on

September 21, the IHME and ICL estimated there were 236 and 195 infections, nearly four and three times the confirmed number of infections.

“Two things are clear from this chart: all models agree that true infections far outnumber confirmed cases,” wrote Oxford University and Our World in Data researcher Charlie Giattino. “But the models disagree by how much, and how infections have changed over time.”

“A key limitation in our understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic is that we do not know the true number of infections.

Instead, we only know of infections that have been confirmed by a test – the confirmed cases.

But because many infected people never get tested, we know that confirmed cases are only a fraction of true

infections.”

The models do not give estimates of the cumulative number of infections per country.

While local health officials did not offer comment on these estimates up to press time yesterday, the Ministry of Health released data showing 119 COVID-19 cases were confirmed on Tuesday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 4,022.

The new cases include 103 in New Providence, nine in Abaco, four in Grand Bahama, two in Exuma and one in Andros.

The ministry confirmed four new deaths: an 86-yearold woman, a 50-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman, all New Providence residents that died on September 28th; the death of a 53-year-old woman on September 23rd was also confirmed.

Ninety-five people have now died from COVID-19 according to the official statistics, with fifteen deaths under investigations.

One hundred people are

now hospitalised.

Last night, the Ministry of Health reported 101 additional cases, pushing the COVID-19 toll to 4,123. Another death

was also recorded after a 75-year-old man from New Providence died on September 29, bringing the confirmed death toll to 92.

DAVIS: GOVT DID NOT DO ENOUGH

By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net

OPPOSITION leader Phillip “Brave” Davis has again hit out at the Minnis administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic,

saying yesterday the government did not do enough testing and contact tracing “to stop a few cases from turning into a few thousand”.

Mr Davis made the comments in the House of Assembly yesterday. It

was also his first appearance in Parliament since contracting the virus in August.

Mr Davis blamed the rise of COVID-19 cases on the government’s decision to prematurely re-open the country’s borders in July

without a proper plan in place.

“Mr Speaker, this spread in infections resulted in thousands of Bahamians contracting the virus over the past few months, along with fellow parliamentarians and members of staff of this place. I was one of them,” he said.

“While each of us is unable to say specifically how we joined in our fellow Bahamians as a dashboard statistic, the overall picture is clear. Our borders reopened despite what immediately became clear.

“The government had not used the many long months of curfew and lockdowns to prepare properly. Today, I want to emphasise how crucial it is that the doctors and nurses on the frontlines be heard and respected.

They’re asking for more resources. They tell us that they need more test kits, quicker result, faster (contact) tracing, more beds and more staff. We owe them this much at least.”

Mr Davis also took aim at the government’s

COVID-19 testing and contact tracing strategies, saying it “appears to be doing nothing” to increase testing capacity and strengthen its COVID-19 response.

“There was not enough testing or tracing in place to stop a few cases from turning into a few thousand.

When the borders opened, what was the number of cases? Today, it is over 4,000,” he said. “…This is what happened and what continues to happen. Each day, you’re having an average of over 50 and yet the government appears to be doing nothing other than (telling the) tourists to come back soon and this to me is baffling.”

However, Health Minister Renward Wells defended the country’s response to the health crisis, insisting that testing has increased “dramatically” in recent months.

He also highlighted the government’s plans to increase manpower in the healthcare system to aid in the fight against COVID.

“Mr Speaker, we went from being able to do some nearly 300 tests in the country in July to being able to do almost 1,000 tests a day in the country,” he stressed yesterday, responding to Mr Davis.

“As a matter of fact, about three days ago when we had 151 cases - that was as a result of 900 tests in one day. That’s on the testing side.

“On the employment side, Mr Speaker, we have about 71 junior nurses who would’ve passed out of the nursing programme and who are currently in the system, Mr Speaker, in health working along with nurses.

“They have not yet passed their exam. I have a commitment from the nursing council that they would allow those nurses to take their exam. I wanted to see it happen at the end of September, but they are now going to be doing it November first.”

He added the government is also in the process of hiring more nurses from abroad to resolve the nursing shortages.

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Thursday, October 1, 2020, PAGE 5

Speaker rages again over undermining of Parliament

from page one “That is why 291 years later on the 28th day of September the personal assistant of the Speaker tendered her resignation after working for some six months without pay. One chaplain has completed her tour of duty and has yet to be paid,” Mr Moultrie said during Wednesday’s sitting.

“Two-hundred and ninety-one years later the Speaker of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas cannot get an office in the edifice of the Parliament after three long years of asking. He suffers the indignity of functioning out of an office with no running water and no bathroom facility.

And this too when there is more than adequate space in the Parliament buildings, 291 years later.

“Two-hundred and ninety-one years later, the Speaker occupies office space that has been condemned by a police report as being a security risk and unsafe or suitable for the head of the legislative branch of government.

“I know that in my personality and in my person, I might represent a challenge for some of you but it should not matter how you may feel about the occupant of the office or the office of the Speaker

HALSON MOULTRIE, the speaker of the House of Assembly. Photo: Terrel W Carey/Tribune Staff for the time being, governments are comprised of official offices. We should respect the offices of state.

None of us will be where we are forever. But while we

are where we are, we owe the offices and the institutions of democracy a duty of care.”

He also expressed displeasure in Parliament

Parliament,” he said. “As is customary, members of Parliament are given the speaking order on which every member of Parliament is expected to speak in that order. Unfortunately, that did not happen today.

My speaking time delivered to me today on my speaking list was for 3.30 pm today (Wednesday). However, at around 2pm or just before 2pm today the House moved directly to the third reading and passing of the bills.

“As you would note, my speaking time is around 3.30pm in the afternoon.

However, no notice was

given to myself as the member of Parliament to indicate that the House was going to move to the third reading and passing even before I had my opportunity to deliver my presentation on behalf of the people of Bain and Grants Town who elected me to serve for them. It is very unfortunate. I am highly disappointed and I see it as an attack on democracy and the actions can be likened to the stifling of the voice of the Bahamian people.”

Mr Robinson said when he asked what happened, he was told the debate

lacking the basic tools to carry out its mandate, nonfunctioning committees and “contempt” for the separation of powers.

“Two-hundred and

ninety-one years later, the concept of the separation of powers is held in such a brazen contempt that staff members of Parliament are actually listed as members of the Cabinet and the secretary to the Cabinet is the accounting officer of the Parliament,” Mr Moultrie said.

“The Speaker cannot purchase a toothpick without the approval of the secretary to the Cabinet, 291 years later.”

Regarding Parliament’s degeneration, Mr Moultrie said the institution continues to move backward.

“In examining the history of this Parliament, I have seen a trend. We are not moving forward, members.

We are moving backwards.

We’re not moving according to our motto – forward, upward, onward, together.

We have dropped the baton. We have permitted our once cherished democracy to degenerate into an executive aristocracy. The Commonwealth of The Bahamas deserves better.

Our citizens deserve our best effort.

“I am also noticing a trend in voter apathy and a complete disrespect for politicians and the institutions of democracy. If this continues, our democracy will become anaemic. Is this the legacy we want to bequeath to the next generation of

Bahamians? I pray not. In the meantime, let us put our shoulders to the wheel.

And let’s start by building the institutions of democracy. We will start and I will start by reconstituting the committees of this Parliament. The committees are the heartbeat of every Parliament.”

The Speaker then reconstituted several committees of Parliament.

Among them was the Library Committee which is made up of West Grand Bahama and Bimini MP Pakesia Parker-Edgecombe, Fort Charlotte MP Mark Humes, Pinewood MP Reuben Rahming, Exuma and Ragged Island MP Chester Cooper, Mangrove Cay, South and Central Andros MP Picewell Forbes.

The Committee of Privilege was also constituted.

Its members are: Elizabeth MP Dr Duane Sands, St Anne’s MP Brent Symonette, North Eleuthera MP Ricky Mackey, Cat Island, Rum Cay and San Salvador MP Philip Davis and Englerston MP Glenys Hanna Martin.

Other MPs were assigned to the Public Accounts Committee. Mr Davis, Mr Cooper, Mr Forbes, Long Island MP Adrian Gibson and Tall Pines MP Donald Saunders make up this committee.

ROBINSON ANGRY AT NOT BEING ALLOWED TO SPEAK

By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net

BAIN and Grants Town MP Travis Robinson expressed anger that he was not allowed to speak in the House of Assembly yesterday during a debate on amendments to the Juries Act and the Bail Act. Mr Robinson, who read the speech he wanted to give on Facebook Live, did not blame a particular person, but said the actions were an attack on democracy.

“I am very disappointed in what happened today in

ended because opposition members had walked out.

He said after opposition members left, Parliament should have suspended proceedings to determine who would speak next.

“This is not what our country is about and this is not what the people of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas deserve,” he said. “Every member of Parliament was elected to represent the voices of his or her constituents…I did not even have the courtesy of a message or a call to inform me that they were moving to a third reading and the passage of the bill.”

Mr Robinson has shown willingness to ruffle the feathers of senior Free National Movement party members in the past, most notably joining Golden Isles MP Vaughn Miller, Centreville MP Reece Chipman and Pineridge MP Frederick McAlpine in voting against a hike in value added tax in 2018 that cost him his job as parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Tourism.

However, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis reinstated him to that position in July after he spent months closely aligning himself with his party.

He said yesterday: “I am not here as merely another number or another vote.

I am a vote for the people and the consciousness of the people of Bain and Grants Town and because they sent me there to speak on their behalf, it is their voice that I represent. So if you disrespect Travis Robinson I don’t care. But what you will not do is disrespect the people of Bain and Grants Town. You can do whatever it is you please but when it comes to the voice of the people of Bain and Grants Town, they deserve to be heard too and that did not happen today.”

‘EDUCATE TO ERADICATE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE’ from page one

Their calls come amid public outrage over the double homicide of a mother and daughter that occurred earlier this week, which police suspect is a result of a domestic dispute.

Women’s rights advocate Alicia Wallace explained that Monday’s incident is just one of many that shows that there is a culture of violence in the country, which often targets women and children.

Deeming the issue “a public health crisis”, the Equality Bahamas director said the country now needs to address the broader issue of violence which is multifaceted and learn how to communicate effectively in nonviolent ways.

“We’ve been calling for more attention to genderbased violence and we have also been calling attention to corporal punishment,” she said. “We can excuse a woman being ‘disciplined’ by her husband or her boyfriend. We can excuse very extreme discipline of children by their parents or caretakers, but we will not excuse the murder of children.

“All of a sudden it’s an issue now that children are being affected, but we need to understand that violence, generally speaking, is a public health crisis because that’s what it is.

“We can no longer isolate these issues. What we’re dealing with is an inability to successfully communicate particularly in conflict.

We need to learn across the board how to communicate in crisis and how to express

displeasure without resorting to violence.”

Ms Wallace also said evidence has shown that domestic violence has increased in the country since the COVID-19 restrictions were first introduced.

Having known beforehand how the strict measures would impact the most vulnerable populations, Ms Wallace said activists have been sounding the alarm and calling for the government to introduce “feminist policy guidelines specifically for COVID-19.”

“We called for a specific domestic violence unit within the police department to ensure that there are people that are actually trained to deal with these calls because it’s no secret that people have made domestic violence calls or shown up to make a statement and have been dismissed,” she told The Tribune yesterday.

“There are times when police officers can be quite flippant. We need a specific unit with people who are sensitized to the issues and I mean are trained to properly respond to people.

“They need to be properly trained in not only responding and finding out what they need, but also making referrals. People need to be referred to the hospital, or the clinic or Social Services in getting assistance with temporary housing which we don’t have enough of.”

Khandi Gibson, another activist, also shared similar sentiments to this newspaper.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Ms Gibson said

her non-profit organisation, FOAM, has assisted some 15 women, who are all victims of domestic violence.

“I’ve had people call me throughout the night saying ‘he’s fighting me, forcing me to have sex. Oh, he abused me. He slapped me. He ripped up my shirt,’” she said. “And they’re calling me because they don’t want to go to the police and they just want someone to talk to them.”

She added that the group, with its limited resources, has been able to remove

several women from dangerous situations.

However, the activist said there is now a risk involved in trying to help victims, one that could potentially lead to damaging consequences.

“When you take in the domestic violence (victim) around you, you don’t know if they have boyfriends who could shoot up your house.

Someone could attack you and your family and do some stuff. They could hurt you and hurt your family,” she said.

“And it’s sad because nobody trying to get hurt even if you

want to help them.”

To better address the needs of victims of domestic violence, Ms Gibson said there needs to be more government support to assist those living in unhealthy and unsafe environments.

“Number one, I think Urban Renewal’s (operation hours) need to be 24 hours. Two, I think that a week’s stay at a motel for the domestic violence situation needs to be up more than a week because a week is no time for anyone to try to get help and then there

needs to be a gender-based police violence (unit) at every police station.”

In mid-September, the director of gender and family affairs at the Department of Social Services said reports of domestic violence had increased by two percent during the COVID19 pandemic.

Dr Jacinta Higgs also revealed at the time that there were 33 calls about domestic violence to The Bahamas Crisis Centre between February and April.

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The enemy we cannot see IT is hard to fight any battle – but it is harder still to fight an enemy you cannot see.

The battle against COVID-19 is, of course, unlike many physical battles, and yet it shares similarities in how we defeat it. We must know where it is. We must know its strength. We must know the number we are facing.

Do we really know for sure how many cases of COVID-19 we are dealing with? According to three international research groups, our confirmed numbers are much lower than the likely number of cases. One group said that on a day in August, when we recorded only doubledigit numbers of new cases, the actual number was likely to be 14 times higher than that.

The researchers draw their estimates from a number of sources – they consider confirmed cases, confirmed deaths, testing rates and knowledge about epidemics themselves.

The numbers are shocking. In March, on a day when just four cases were confirmed, Imperial College London estimates we had 453 cases. Another group, IHME, estimates there were 118 cases.

Now part of this is understandable because of the nature of COVID-19 itself. It is estimated by the World Health Organisation that around four in every five cases of COVID-19 are mild or asymptomatic. What that means is that people are not experiencing symptoms.

If you don’t have symptoms, you don’t call the doctor, you probably don’t take a test, you don’t show up on the list of confirmed cases. You can, however, keep spreading the virus.

Asymptomatic people would be detected if they took a test, however, so the question becomes whether enough testing is being done to find people who don’t know they have the virus – and prevent them from spreading it unwittingly.

These questions have been raised with Bahamian experts – but testing numbers have overall remained low.

Back in May, advisor Dr Merceline Dahl-Regis said that The Bahamas does “not have the capacity to do mass testing”, while in July she acknowledged: “Many have asked about mass testing.

Mass testing is most helpful at identifying cases where there is community spread. Testing will identify a case but this must be accompanied by contact tracing, testing of contacts”, isolation and quarantine.

To date, as of last night, 20,261 tests have been completed in total since the start of the pandemic. That includes multiple tests of the same people – and a common part of the process of ensuring a patient has recovered from COVID-19

and can leave quarantine is a retest.

Even if that was entirely separate patients, that would represent about five percent of the total population over the whole time of the virus.

Perhaps this is our strategy, the way we think is best to tackle the virus. Or perhaps this is what we are forced into because of the lack of availability of supplies or testing capacity. Perhaps we can’t get enough lab space to test in the numbers we need.

Whatever the reasons for our approach, you can only fight the enemy you see, and if these researchers are right, there is a vast swathe of the battlefield we cannot see anything on. We can’t engage COVID-19 if we aren’t tracking it.

The solution could easily be said to be get more test kits, hire more labs – but we are not the only ones in that market. How plausible it is to do that is an entirely different question. If it is possible to do more, then absolutely we should, but if we cannot then we are left with the same weapons to use in this fight: wear your masks, keep your distance, wash your hands. Keep doing those, for all our sakes.

Back to work - safely It’s getting to the sharp end of things for many businesses whose doors have been closed down so long that they are having to make tough decisions about how to keep going.

One of those businesses is Fusion Superplex, the cinema complex, that says it may have to terminate staff and restructure finances if it cannot open again by early November.

The company is making its own assessments about how to open safely – with a capacity reduced to about 30 percent of maximum, and the cinema is eager to make the most of movies coming out at the end of the year.

Of course, it has to be safe – and the goal to bring in customers and money must not trump safety. Some locations have been ingenious with their thinking about how to approach matters safely – drive-in movies have made a comeback in a number of areas, for example, allowing people to watch the film and share only the space in their car.

But when it is safe, we hope businesses do get the green light to cautiously return to the market. It is good for the business, it is good for the government coffers – Fusion was already on a payment plan for NIB and those NIB funds could do with replenishing.

We long for a return to normal – but only when it’s safe.

The Church and the Pride EDITOR, The Tribune.

THE Bible has a million different interpretations.

Jehovah Witnesses found some obscure text in it reference mixing blood and they will quite literally allow their children to die rather than giving them a blood transfusion. Personally that sickens me.

There is a letter in your paper today ref Pride & the Church. Homosexuality has been around before Christ walked the earth. Some cultures frown upon it and generally speaking the more civilised cultures accept it. In the first of the great civilizations the Greeks ( before Christ ) it was totally accepted.

In Victorian England it was a criminal offence and the great writer,

satirist and leading intellectual Oscar Wilde spent time in Reading gaol for homosexuality.

Generally speaking worldwide approx 2% of the world’s population is “ completely homosexual” . It’s important to understand these people are born this way and the idea that they can be conditioned out of homosexuality is farcical. No amount of preaching and quoting of the Bible will change this statistic.

These so-called christians who feel that homosexuals should be ostracised/ punished and excluded for the condition that nature bestowed upon them is frankly very un-Christian.

His comments do not surprise me this correspondent is the same gentleman who

a few months back stated in a previous letter that Trump was not a racist! Astounding and almost beyond comprehension.

Trump is doing his utmost to bring back blatant racist behaviour as the norm in the USA. Again last night in the debate he refused to condemn openly fascist/racist groups such as the Proud Boys who are closely aligned to the Klu Klux Klan. The Klan lynched their last black man in Mobile, Alabama as recently as 1981 and believe me the likes of the Proud Boys would like nothing better than a return to the “good ole days”.

THE REALIST Nassau, September 30, 2020.

Travel rules ill thought EDITOR, The Tribune.

AS A long-time regular visitor and winter resident of Nassau from Toronto I have been following your ongoing articles and letters concerning the entry requirements for The Bahamas. The Finance Minister keeps making financial projections for tourism and The Tourism Minister keeps making ongoing rules. Yet the people affected by these rules – your prospective visitors– largely remain unconsulted.

It would be helpful if the officials making the harsh entry requirements actually came to Canada and other countries from which your visitors are drawn and attempted to carry out the requirements. The latest directive is for COVID19 tests to be required for entry and they must be no older than five days.

Even ten days can be difficult when there are very few health centres, if any, who will give such tests to healthy persons just for travel. What thought was given to that in Nassau before the directives were given? Even if tests were allowed how can all this be done in coordination with the few flights available?

Has any thought been given as to the time this takes for

LETTERS letters@tribunemedia.net busy working people who simply want to go on a holiday break?

People are usually required to wait for two to three days for a written result having to take time once again to pick up the result. This will in large cities require paying for parking yet again and taking time from work or busy schedules. Then the result has to be scanned to Nassau for a Health Visa with no idea how long that will take to be returned.

Who wants to buy an air ticket and secure accommodation when you are uncertain whether you can actually travel to Nassau in the five to ten day time frame? Has it ever occurred to your officials the reason why so few are coming to The Bahamas as a result of these poorly thought out measures? No wonder Air Canada has cancelled nearly all their flights. Very few are able to comply.

After periods of restrictions at home visitors do not want to be forced into quarantine on a holiday.

They want to be free to move around and enjoy the activities. This is one

of the main reasons why your country has been such a favored destination by Canadians and no doubt other countries over the years. Come in and be restricted and face additional expensive tests at your expense is another doomed initiative.

It is one thing to bark out orders to prospective visitors. It is another thing to get them to actually comply with them. There are too many other destinations in warm sunny areas actively looking for business with far fewer restrictions and tests at the host’s expense on arrival. Why bother with The Bahamas? I hope common sense will prevail very quickly or there will be no tourism and your economy will be very seriously affected for a very long time. Regular visitors will be forced to go elsewhere, like the new destination and never return to The Bahamas.

After a lifetime coming to Nassau I just cannot imagine not returning for regular visits. Sadly your Government officials are forcing people to look to other resort destinations.

GEORGE HITCHCOCK Canada, September 30, 2020.

Coconut street vendors EDITOR, The Tribune.

When are we going to regulate the coconut street vendors?

Let me first say, I am all for the small businessman making a dollar. However, everything must be done in decency and order. At the very least, they can arrange for garbage pickup of the unwanted husks. It is indeed an eyesore and invites other unwanted rodents. It must be a lucrative business as they are popping up left, right and centre. A ‘food handlers’ certificate should be displayed at these outlets. My observation suggests that no common knowledge of food handling protocols are adhered to. No gloves, no mask, no hand wash stations or sanitizers are visible. Who can verify that the bottles themselves are sterile or its content?

I suggests that:

• They be made to obtain a business licence (Cutting out all of the un-necessary red tape).

• They be made to attend the Food Handlers Course sponsored by The Ministry of Health.

• They be made to rent booths, something like Fish Fry or the Straw Market where the price is affordable and there is running water and proper garbage disposal.

• They bark the coconuts and keep them in its shell. Only penetrating the eye with a straw at the time of consumption. This will ensure that the contents remain sterile. Keeping them in a cooler with ice would be an added bonus.

• Bottling in containers should desist until a proper environment is achieved.

If a customer requires a gallon, the seller ought to know by experience if 15 or 20 coconuts would equate

to a gallon. (This would put the responsibility on the buyer to keep the product sterile when transporting to another container).

• Running water would not only be used to wash hands but to keep cutlasses and other utensils safe and clean.

• No preparation should be done at ground level. All preparation should be done on a well-organised and clean solid surface.

Please let’s fix this before it becomes a problem and persons become sick because a vendor used the bathroom and didn’t wash his hands. Trust me, we have a lot of other things to worry about so let’s nip this one. There are a lot of foodborne illnesses that can be life threatening. The current state presents a very viable possibility for error.

LISA T Nassau, September 17, 2020.

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Extradition appeal rejected in case that dates back to 2002

By FARRAH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter fjohnson@tribunemedia.net THE Court of Appeal has denied a man’s request to appeal his extradition case to the Privy Council, after ruling his matter did not raise an arguable case or highlight a point of law of general public importance.

On December 12, 2002, Sean Bruey, also known as Shawn Saunders, was indicted in America on drug trafficking charges and a request for his extradition was made. Three days later, provisional warrants of apprehension were issued for Bruey and his co-accused pursuant to the Extradition Act. An Authority to Proceed was also issued, followed by committal proceedings which were conducted before Magistrate Carolita Bethell. Those proceedings

concluded on November 12, 2003 with Bruey and the other fugitives being committed to prison to await their extradition.

Following this, Bruey applied for a judicial review and habeas corpus in the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. At the time, Bruey had applied to the Privy Council for special leave to appeal an earlier dismissal of his habeas corpus and constitutional applications by the Court of Appeal, but had withdrawn his application.

According to a judgment on the Crown’s website, this withdrawal meant “all domestic proceedings pertaining to the extradition request were at an end, and (Bruey) was now amenable to be surrendered”.

Still, Bruey launched a “new constitutional challenge” to his extradition

based on Article 17 of the Constitution and two sections of the Extradition Act. The matter eventually came before another judge, who rejected the applicant’s habeas corpus application and his effort to “engage the Constitution to achieve his release from custody”.

Bruey then filed an application with the Court of Appeal, but that was dismissed after the panel concluded the constitutional application was an “abuse of the courts’ processes’’ and argued there was “no merit in the applicant’s section 13 complaint”. Most recently, the applicant asked the panel to grant him leave to appeal to the Privy Council since he believed the judge and the justices were wrong when they failed to consider the “additional time” he spent in custody after he withdrew his application before the Privy Council.

On Monday, Justices Sir Michael Barnett, Jon Isaacs and Milton Evans denied his request but granted a 14-day conservatory order to give Bruey the “opportunity to seek special leave from the Privy Council”.

According to court documents, Bruey’s counsel argued his client’s appeal lay “as of right to the Privy Council” due to terms outlined in the Bahamas’ Constitution.

His attorney further asserted the judge and panel failed to consider the “intolerable conditions” he was forced to endure while in custody “awaiting his surrender”.

In his judgment, Justice Isaacs noted how Bruey’s July 16 affidavit failed to show any evidence of him making a complaint to the Review Board or the Commissioner of the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services about his living conditions at BDCS. He said

this showed the applicant did not resort to the “procedure set out in the inmates’ rules for redress of his grievance” which suggested he “failed to exhaust a reasonable and adequate means of redress” before he applied for constitutional relief.

“There is nothing exceptional about the applicant’s case that would cause the court to allow the applicant to utilise the Constitution in his bid to avoid his surrender to the requesting state,” he stated. “Importantly, he has already had an opportunity to mount a constitutional challenge to his extradition on virtually the same grounds in the present application; which he withdrew.

“We are satisfied that the applicant’s case does not cross even the first threshold of the two-stage test enunciated in RDA (a benchmark case), that is ‘an

arguable case’. Moreover, the application does not raise any point of law of general public importance.”

Justice Issacs said it must be noted how the Court of Appeal dismissed Bruey’s application on the “constitutional aspect” of his case because the panel agreed with the judge’s view that Bruey’s applications “amounted to an abuse of the processes of the court”.

“In the premises, the application for leave to appeal to the Privy Council is refused,” he continued.

“Inasmuch as the applicant is in the same position as the fugitives in Austin Knowles et al, that is, in peril of undergoing a uniquely irreversible process, we grant a conservatory order for 14 days to allow the applicant the opportunity to seek special leave from the Privy Council.”

SHOPLIFTER SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS JAIL FOR THEFT

By FARRAH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter fjohnson@tribunemedia.net

A 55-YEAR-OLD man was sentenced to six months in prison after he was caught attempting to steal an assortment of hygienic products from a local pharmacy last week.

Police arrested Lindon Johnson after he stuffed two packs of razors, four packs of women’s deodorant and six packs of Axe deodorant in his shirt while he was at Lowe’s Pharmacy on September 29.

He pleaded guilty to one count of attempted stealing during his hearing before Senior Magistrate Derence Rolle-Davis yesterday.

The court was told that the store manager for Lowe’s Pharmacy in the South West Plaza was in the front office viewing the cameras, when she saw an unknown man dressed in dark clothing and a bright fluorescent vest take items off a shelf and stuff them in his shirt. After viewing the footage, the manager notified another employee who alerted a security guard

who stopped Johnson.

The defendant was taken to a bathroom where he was detained until police arrived. When they searched Johnson, they discovered $93 worth of products in his shirt. He was arrested. In an interview at a station, Johnson admitted to the offence and told officers he stuffed the items in his shirt because he did not intend to pay for them.

Johnson told the magistrate he was not working because he was having difficulty finding employment since he suffered from

MEN ADMIT GUILT IN BREAKING CURFEW

By FARRAH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter fjohnson@tribunemedia.net

A 45-YEAR-OLD man who said he violated curfew because he went to pick up his wife from her mother’s house was fined $200 yesterday.

Police arrested Roderick Collie after they found him on Barbados Street around 12.50am on September 16.

He pleaded guilty, but said he left home to drive “two minutes away” to get his wife from his mother-inlaw’s house.

After pleading guilty, he was fined $200 or ten days in prison.

• James Brennan, 30, was arrested after officers found him on Marshall Road around 2.15am on September 6. During the hearing, Brennan said he had a few

drinks and passed out on his brother’s couch. He said he woke up to 14 missed calls from his wife asking him to bring her iron tablets.

Brennan insisted he just “pitched up” because he was not aware of the time.

Magistrate Rolle-Davis accepted the guilty plea and placed him on six months’ probation. He warned him if he violated the conditions, he would be fined $350.

asthma and arthritis. He also said he was remorseful for his actions and noted he had never broken into anybody’s home or approached someone to try and rob him.

Magistrate Rolle-Davis noted Johnson had been charged for similar offences in the past and had spent three months on remand for stealing. He said it

appeared the defendant was a “common thief” since his actions proved he had not made any effort to change his ways. He sentenced Johnson to six months in prison.

PAGE 8, Thursday, October 1, 2020 “To lose patience is to lose the battle.” – Mohandas Gandhi AFTER the results of the 1972 general election, Sir Randol Fawkes, honoured as the Father of Labour who helped to form the first Majority Rule government and became Minister of Labour and Commerce, was out of frontline politics and would never return as a Member of Parliament.

First elected to the House of Assembly in 1956, the labour lion, who earlier rivalled Sir Lynden Pindling for public affection, largely became politically irrelevant and was marginalized on the sidelines of public affairs as The Bahamas moved toward independence in 1973.

By contrast, most of his political colleagues remained on the frontline of politics post-independence as the country entered a critical period of national development as a sovereign nation. These colleagues helped to shape the modern Bahamas.

Sir Randol won his seat in the House in 1967 and 1968 with support from the PLP, who did not oppose him. Opposed by the PLP in 1972 he lost.

Few today recall that in the 1970 vote of no confidence against the Pindling administration, it was Sir Randol, who was no longer a cabinet minister, who placed the motion on the agenda of the House and who moved the resolution.

But unlike the Dissident Eight, Sir Randol did not stay to vote on the motion.

By this time, Sir Randol’s unreliability and volatility had become notorious.

He was no longer trusted by either the Progressive Liberal Party or the rebels, who became the Free PLP, which quickly evolved into the Free National Movement.

The political struggle and contest between the PLP and the FNM was decisive in creating a viable a two-party parliamentary democracy. Sir Randol was largely uninvolved politically during this period of contestation in the political

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The conceit and danger of blind ambition SIR RANDOL FAWKES

maturation of the country.

While Sir Lynden and the PLP were in a political

war with former colleagues in the PLP who formed the nucleus of the new

FNM, Sir Randol was largely inconsequential, and no longer a threat to Sir Lynden, the latter requested a knighthood for the Father of Labour, which was conferred on him in 1978.

Sir Randol left a critical mark on the country and played an important role in the country’s history, some of which is chronicled in his memoir, The Faith That Moved The Mountain.

CAUTIONARY

For all of his giftedness, patriotic spirit and contributions, Sir Randol remains a cautionary tale for Bahamian politicians. It is a cautionary tale about political viability and stability, being a dedicated member of a team and loyalty and commitment to a political party.

It is also a cautionary story for those who jump or meander from party to party in pursuit of their blind ambition and those who create vanity parties as instruments of their own conceits and narcissism, parties which they typically abandon when it no longer serves their interests.

To his credit, the Coalition for Democratic Reform led by the late Dr. B. J. Nottage, was decidedly not such a vanity party.

The CDR had a number of progressive ideas for the country and good talent like Charles Maynard and Phenton Neymour, both now deceased.

The celebrated fourstar American General George S. Patton (18851945) ranked alongside the renowned General Douglass MacArthur as the two greatest US generals put on the battlefield during World War II. Both men often thought they were more consequential and important than the President of the United States.

For all his overweening, powerful and at times explosive ego, Patton appreciated the vagaries of life. He famously offered a classic reminder to all those who possess power and fame: “For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honour of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters, musicians and strange animals

from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments.

“The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him.

Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.”

Overconfidence, especially in those gifted in one field who believe such talent is easily transferable to the political realm, is often thought of as the “mother of all biases”.

In our political history, some with professional degrees in law or medicine from celebrated universities, often deemed themselves politically smarter or more visionary than those who did not possess similar academic credentials.

In the 1960s, a scion of a prominent black family, who deemed himself as one of the smartest politicians of his era and who at one time led his own political party, thought that he was destined to become Prime Minister. His ambition was never realized and he consistently had difficulty winning a seat in the House.

INSTINCTS

Those who achieved professional degrees in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and 60s were often described as having BTEs (Been To England).

Some of them, like Sir Lynden, had natural political instincts and native wisdom.

Others, who had excellent academic credentials, were often shocked when those who did not similarly achieve tertiary education abroad, upended them politically, including in parliamentary debates.

Some of the BTEs were often politically outmaneuvered by those who enjoyed native genius and who were well-practised and wellread in the political arts and craft.

The Nobel Prize scientist Daniel Kahneman noted that if he possessed a magic wand one thing he would change about human psychology would be the elimination of the superiority complex.

A conceit and danger of blind ambition, is the inability of some to appreciate that they are not as politically gifted as they might conceive and that there are others, whom they may feel superior to, who are actually more politically adept.

The tests in our parliamentary system for becoming a successful politician and the highest prize of becoming Prime Minister is not singularly how one sees oneself. The tests include: how party members, parliamentary and cabinet colleagues, and eventually the general public assesses a political talent or actor.

Former MPs Andre Rollins and Branville McCartney shared a similar trajectory. Both had their own vanity parties, both have a certain charisma and are intelligent men who were capable in public debate.

And both possess massive egos and overweening ambition, wide and treacherous shoals they were unable successfully to navigate and upon which they crashed. Both proved politically unstable and incapable of playing the long game, with colleagues no longer able to trust them. They failed the test

of loyalty to their political parties.

Mr McCartney infamously abandoned the FNM and his own vanity party, the Democratic National Alliance. There are rumours that he wants to rejoin the FNM. Some believe this would be good for the party while others are strongly opposed, believing he is politically untrustworthy and incapable of change.

Having aggressively abandoned the FNM before, were he to return and considered for a seat, he should not be given a choice seat and must demonstrate contrition, especially for the spoiler role he played in the 2012 general election. Acknowledging and rewarding those who remain constant in a political party is simply good politics.

CONCEIT

Golden boys and girls quickly elevated often prove a political disaster.

Then there are those who go shopping for seats in both parties, who have no loyalty except to their own conceit and blind ambition.

When these ambitions are unmet, they buck the party of convenience for another party of convenience. There is a word for this.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there are those in politics and in the media who are incapable of rising above their petty grievances. Now is not the time to complain about the fire.

One must clearly appear more decidedly committed to helping to put out the fire.

A common fate of some of those in the political arena is that when they leave certain posts or are not re-elected, they feel increasingly irrelevant.

As an antidote, they seek attention and are constantly trying to grab headlines, often with sensational and silly notions.

A classic lesson in politics is that politicians and journalists are rarely friends.

Both serve each other’s temporary interests, which can quickly flounder. Journalists enjoy politicians lobbing criticisms at their party, providing the former with fodder and headlines.

Conflict and political battles and infighting always sell.

But when a politician is no longer useful, they will quickly be dropped, never truly realizing how they were used and how the journalists they trust or once trusted were privately briefing against them with other journalists and politicians.

It is called blind ambition for a reason. The one blinded by massive egotism, narcissism, overconfidence, a lack of humility and the inability to grow and to learn, typically end up with shortened political careers.

With their ambitions unfulfilled they often remain blind as to why their political careers were not as successful as those who sat tight, kept their head down, learned the political arts and cultivated colleagues and the party faithful.

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen used to remark: “Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is ‘timing’ it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.”

Political success, especially in our system, typically does not go to the impulsive and impetuous or the politically unstable and volatile. It goes to the constantly growing and maturing individual who has the patience, the wisdom and the steely tenacity to play the long game.

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US IMPOSES SANCTIONS ON CUBA’S RAUL CASTRO’S SON-IN-LAW

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is targeting the son-in-law of retired Cuban leader Raul Castro with sanctions as it steps up its campaign against the communist island’s government ahead of the U.S. presidential election in November.

The departments of State and Treasury announced Wednesday that Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja, the husband of Castro’s daughter, Deborah, had been added to the U.S. list of “specially designated nationals and blocked persons.” The agencies accused him of helping to fund human rights abuses and working in concert with Venzuela to suppress Cubans’ freedoms.

Assets López-Calleja is the head of the Cuban military’s financial arm, known as GAESA, which controls state-owned businesses including hotels, factories, stores and an airline. The move freezes any assets he may have in U.S. jurisdictions and bars Americans from doing business with him.

“The revenue generated from the economic activities of GAESA is used to oppress the Cuban people and to fund Cuba’s parasitic, colonial domination of Venezuela,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement. “Today’s action demonstrates the United States’ long-standing commitment to ending economic practices that disproportionately benefit the Cuban government or its military, intelligence, and security agencies or personnel at the expense of the Cuban and Venezuelan people.”

The announcement is the administration’s latest action against Cuba and comes just two days after it imposed sanctions on a debit card operation that allowed Cubans to buy food, appliances and other items with money sent by relatives in the United States.

On Monday, Pompeo announced that FINCIMEX, a Cuban state company that processes remittances and issues the American International Services debit card, had been added to the sanctions list.

The government began accepting the card for purchases in July amid the coronavirus pandemic that worsened the lack of food on the island and sparked long lines for goods. It became so popular that FINCIMEX temporarily stopped accepting applications in mid-August but resumed them this month.

PRESIDENT Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden participate in the first presidential debate Tuesday.

(Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP)

DEBATE COMMISSION SAYS IT WILL MAKE CHANGES TO FORMAT

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — The presidential debate commission says it will soon adopt changes to its format to avoid a repeat of the disjointed first meeting between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden.

The commission said Wednesday the debate “made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues.”

One possibility being discussed is to give the moderator the ability to cut off the microphone of one of the debate participants while his opponent is talking, according to a person familiar with the deliberations who was not authorised to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The next presidential debate is a town hall format scheduled for Oct. 15 in Miami.

Interruptions Moderator Chris Wallace struggled to gain control of Tuesday’s debate in Cleveland because of frequent interruptions, primarily by Trump. The candidates interrupted Wallace or their opponent 90 times in the 90-minute debate, 71 of them by Trump, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

Wallace, of Fox News, pleaded for a more orderly debate, at one point looking at Trump and saying, “the country would be better served if

MODERATOR Chris Wallace of Fox News speaks as President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden participate in the debate. (Olivier Douliery/Pool vi AP) we allowed both people to speak with fewer interruptions. I’m appealing to you, sir, to do that.”

“Ask him, too,” Trump said.

“Well, frankly, you’ve been doing more interrupting than he has,” Wallace said.

Biden on Wednesday called the debate “a national embarrassment.”

But despite some suggestions that the final two presidential encounters be cancelled, both campaigns said they expected their candidate to attend.

Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh said the

commission was “only doing this because their guy got pummeled last night. President Trump was the dominant force and now Joe Biden is trying to work the refs.”

ABC News’ Martha Raddatz, who moderated one of the three debates between Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016, said Wallace was put in nearly an impossible situation.

Faced with the same behaviour, she said she might have called a full stop to the debate for a moment to recalibrate.

She never had the option, technically, to cut

off the microphone of a candidate four years ago, she said. It also wasn’t in the rules that were agreed to in advance by the candidates and commission.

“To say, ‘He’s not going to follow the rules so we aren’t, either,’ It’s an unprecedented situation,” Raddatz said. “That was so out of control.”

Twitter was ablaze with criticism for Wallace early in the debate for losing control of the proceedings.

That was illustrated by MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who tweeted “What is Chris Wallace doing?

He has no control over the debate. He asks a question and let’s Trump continue yelling. This is a disgrace.”

By the time he was on “Morning Joe’’ the next morning, Scarborough had cooled off.

He called on the debate commission to act.

“While it was extraordinarily frustrating, I think all of us need to walk a mile in his shoes before saying the morning after, ‘He could have done this, he could have done that,’” Scarborough said.

Supporters Some of the president’s supporters felt that Wallace was too hard on their candidate. Trump himself suggested he was also debating Wallace, “but that’s no surprise.”

Wallace even got some criticism from opinion personalities on his own network. “Trump is debating the moderator and Biden,” prime-time host Laura Ingraham tweeted during the debate.

Another Fox colleague, Geraldo Rivera, expressed more sympathy.

“The guy signed up to moderate a debate and he ended up trying to referee a knife fight,” he said.

Wallace, host of “Fox News Sunday,” was not immediately made available for comment by Fox. There is some scepticism about what the commission can do that is really meaningful.

“I’m not sure that there’s a format change that can solve that problem,” said Sen. Pat Toomey, Republican, of battleground state Pennsylvania.

Wallace is the only presidential debate moderator this cycle with prior experience, after receiving praise for handling the final Clinton-Trump debate in 2016. The other two moderators are Steve Scully of C-SPAN and Kristen Welker of NBC News.

Scully moderates the Miami debate, a town hall format where citizens get to ask questions, which may make interruptions more difficult.

“Having prepared for these, the town hall is a completely different event in the debate Olympics,” tweeted David Plouffe, an adviser to former President Barack Obama.

“If Trump brings the same nastiness to Florida, it will be doubly painful to watch but it will be doubly painful for him politically.”

The Nielsen company’s estimate on how many people watched Tuesday’s debate was expected later Wednesday. ___ Associated Press writers Bill Barrow, Laurie Kellman and Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report.

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Private Funeral Services For Edison Roosevelt Rolle, 79 affectionately called

“Reds” or “MacGyver” of Albert Street, Eleuthera and formerly of Hatchet Bay will be held on Friday, October 2nd, 2020, 11:00 a.m. at St. Catherine of Sienna Roman Catholic Church Hatchet Bay, Eleuthera. Officiating will be Officiating: Monsignor John T. Johnson assisted

by Mrs. Jeannien White. Interment will follow in Big Bay Cemetery Hatchet Bay, Eleuthera.

He was predeceased by Wife: Nellie Mae Rolle; Son: Virgil; Grandchild: Jilliana; Siblings: James A. Rolle Jr., Nathaniel J. Rolle, George W. Rolle, Hasting Rolle, Gertrude (George) Bethel & Evelyn (Clifford) Wood.

Sandra Ferguson, Justina Burrows, Etta Jane Bain, Catherina, Della, Abagail, Shanice, James, Rosie Thompson, Julie Russell, Debbie Williams, Evette Moss, Carla Gilbert, Theresea Rolle, Desiree Woods and Nikita Rankins; Nephews: Randy, Tony, Bernard, Wilfred, Pedro, Charles, Jerome, Daniel, Collins, Scott, Darren, Dominic, Nemo, Alexi, Lester, Dexter, Vardo, Deno, Mark, Teddy, Tevon Hield, Min. Kevin, Pastor Horward and Kendal Stuart, Wellington Davis, Adanis, Zephrick, and Alexandro Newbold, Zandel, Fredrick Jr. David Marcus, Jarrod, Daniel, Dwight, Tyrone, and Jarod James, Ted Curry, Anthony Toberts, Neil, and Dwanje Adderley; Godchildren: Matthew Reckley, Bridgett, Levirty, Gwendoty Dawkins, Robert Green, Terry Stuart, Sharlane Reckley, Niproka Stuart, Wendol Staurt; Numerous Grandnieces and Nephews; Other Relatives and Friends: Lanord Black and Family, Pastor Mckinney Family, Wilmea, Lisa, Josetta and Alburey Family, Pastor Preston Knowles and Family, Bishop Nixon Simms, Rita Gaitor and Family, Levarity Family, Stuart Family, Russell Family, Culmer Family, Hunt Family, Davis Family, Walker Family, Wells Family, Rolle Family, Barry Family, McBride Family, Green Family, James Family, Swain Famiky, Russel Family, Whole Community of Moore’s Island, Community of Green Turtle Cay, Grace communion Family in Nassau, and St. Matthew Baptist Family, Lion Salt and light Family, Soul Seeking Family and Greater Bethel Family.

Left to cherish Daddy’s memories are Daughters: Brenda, Dawn & Vandra Rolle, Sparkle (Julbert) Cadet, Samantha (Ahmal) Henfield; Sons: Trevor (Nurse **If Your Name Has Been Inadvertently Omitted It Was Not Intentional ** Elizabeth), Jeffery, Kingsley & Vince Rolle; Adopted Children: Allen Major, Charles Bethel, Bently Carey, Alburn Brown, Demico Russell, Lisa Fernander, Viewing will be held at Greater Bethel Native Baptist Church Hard Bargain Marsha Hanchell & Laverne Saunders; Grandchildren: Vashon, Ocarvio, Moore’s Island Abaco on Thursday from 2: 00 pm until service time on Saturday.

Vantasha, V’Anntae, Wisdom, Aviano, J’anna, Jamal, Corey, Ryan, Natieka, Jermain, Jerel, Violet, Debbie, Rosina, Arthur Jr., Shemar, Trinity, Malik & Lavelle Davis; Great- Grandchildren: Qu’Kyrie, La’Carvia, Omarah, Shakhiah, Shaquan, Perzario, Perez, Arthur III; Brother: Lionel Rolle; Brothers-in-Law: Williams, Wellington & Raymond Albury; Sisters-in-Law: Gloria, Bernice, Hilda and Marilyn Rolle, Florence, Laura, Cherry and Samara Albury; God Children: affectionately called Sheena Munroe, Wilfred Munnings, Dec. Devon Maurice, Administrator Gilbert Kemp, Anthon Pinder & Majorie Ranger; Numerous Nieces: Paula (Rev, Carl) Pinder, Merle (Danny) Seymour, Phillis (Lester Sr.) Mackey, Althea (Keithley) Saunders, Lorraine (Wayde) Thompson, Alva Rolle, Portia (Michael) Culmer, of Pine Tree, Coral Lakes will be held on Friday, Margo, Cindy, Karen, Lillamae Rolle, Lakell (Ernal) McKenzie, Anitra (Ian Sr.) October 2nd, 2020, 11:00 a.m. at Blue Hill Gospel Dawkins, Haysalah (Albert) Brannen, Catherine (Don) Albury, Sandy Walker, Chapel, Blue Hill Road South. Officiating will be Sr. Margaret, Nicole, Kershala & Tatjana Albury, Shanekah(Kennedy) Scavella, Pastor Ron Shearer, Th.M. assisted by other ministers Camilla Adair, Lisa Adderley, Monique, Shelly, Jaimie & Cassandra Albury; of the gospel. Cremation will follow.

Numerous Nephews: Harris Wood, Spence (Henrietta), Edmund (Pauline), Kevin, Edney, Jeffrey (Avis) & Martin (Camille) Bethel, Julian and Joseph She was pre-deceased Grandfather: Richard Johnson; Rolle, Gregory (Maryanne), Dwayne, Bishop Theophilus (Evona), Naaman Grandmother: Cyprianna Stubbs; Great grand (Indera), Romeo (Branishka), George Jr. Rolle, Mario, Quant (Latoya) Rolle, mother: Laramore, Great grandfather Philip Wallace, David (Christine), Wayne (Wendy), Clinton Rolle, Steven Miller, Jerrod, Great Grandmother Wallace; Uncles: Michael William Jr. And Kyle (Lavette) Albury, Wellington Jr., Jason, Julian, Raymond Johnson & Leo Kirby, Jr., & Lemmuel Albury; and a host of Grand & Great Grand Nieces & Nephews too many to call by name; Other Relatives and friends including: Doddridge Left to cherish the memories of this warrior princess Moxey, Vernita Bullard, Monsignor John Johnson & the Catholic Community, are Parents: Brian and Maxcine Stubbs; Sibling: Theo Stubbs; Niece: Riley Stubbs; Helen Robinson & Family, Rodney Pinder & Family, Harriet Pinder & family, Caregiver: Julie Penit; Grandmother: Brenetta Mae Johnson; Grandfather: MISSION STATEMENT: To provide consistent, sympathetic, caringSr.and professional, “Service with Excellence” serving the Commonwealth Beverly Roberts & Family, Children of the late Vernita Ward & Family, Samuel C. Stubbs; Aunts: Rose Kirby of Eleuthera, Beatrice (Nehemiah) Heild, of the Bahamas and worldwide, with the highest level of consideration the(Dereck) personalJohnson desiresof and financial comfort toKnowles, our client families.

Pastor Orlando & Clarice Thompson, Pastor Kevin Pinder & Family, Children to Ruth Freeport, Anita (Craig) Patrice Johnson, of the late Florence Belle & Family, Adrian Johnson & Family Lorna Dean & Patty Fernander and family, Sharon (Anthony) Flowers and Family, Antoinette” Family, Children of Bessie and the late Richard Dean, Children of the late Olga Kendy” Harp, Donna Stubbs, Oralee (Rodney) Smith, Penny Butler; Uncles: Bowles & Family, Children of the late Bernard Bethel & Family, Children of Richard Johnson of Eleuthera, Julian (Antoinette) Johnson, Joseph (Tracey) the late Freddie & Hortense Pinder & Family, Billy & Brenda Stubbs, Paula Johnson, William Johnson, Danny (Debbie) Stubbs, Tommy (Makeva) Stubbs, Rolle, Mara, Mark, Gordan (Jenny) Kemp, Maryann Farrington, & Family, Gregory (Krista) Stubbs, Lester (Nitza) Stubbs of Atlanta, and Darren and Bridgette, Jeannine & Tamara McQueen, Carol Pinder, Audrey Farrington & Christopher Stubbs; Godparents: Lisa (Gary) Mackey, Millie (Perry) Adderley, Family, Livingston Stuart, Susan Hannah & Family, Michael & Keva Roberts, Jennifer Johnson, Ken “Big Guy” Francis, Michael “Banana” Johnson and Grant Cambridge, Swinburn Burrows, Lucine Fowler, Paula Roberts, Daniel & Lucine Mingo; Grand Aunts and Uncles: Stafford and Doral Laramore, Mena Ferguson, Minerva Delancy, Birb Scavella, Gernia, Jasmine & Jermaine Margaret Laramore, Cecil (Sherilyn) Wallace, Bursil (Ethlyn) Wallace, Winston Ferguson, Elijah Lewis, Walter Curtis, Calvin Munroe, Andy (Beaver) Cooper, (Glennis) Wallace, Perry (Marjorie) Wallace and Oralee Lumpkin of Florida; Darlene Sands & Family, Doyle & Ada Sands, Neil Sands & Family, Elka Bethel, Cousins: Keno (Ephenette) Wong, Nadia (Olaf) Holstein of Germany, Owen Deputy Governor General Hon. Lonnie Rolle, Marlin & Judith (Mitch) Roker, (Angela) Stubbs, Dion (Kenya )Johnson, Krista McCardy, Danielle (Kelechi) Vernita Dean, Daphne Cambridge, Lena Johnson, Katherine Gerszewski, Anusiem of Atlanta, Anecia (Kenny) Davies, Juliet, Jade and Aisha Johnson, Retired Nurse Priscilla Scavella, Joan Stubbs, Latoya Russell, Eliotte & Berthya Torkel (Jay) Dawkins, Lakera Deveaux, Lakeisha Symonette, Kadeem, Jacri, Rolle, Hance & Betty Deal, Barry & Shad Cadet, Julianne Politsse, Hon. Hank Kristen and Jamekka Stubbs of Florida, Quekell (Okellen) Prince, Shakiah Johnson (Member of Parliament), Family of the late Phoebe Brooke Sweeting, (Orey) Godet, Rachael, Beth-Ann, Caleb, Rashad, Travon, Charles Avery, JonFamily of the late Joseph & Dollyanna Albury, Nicole Adderley, Juliane Michael, Jordan, Joeliese and Rashida Johnson, Trenae Poiter, Jonathan, Abigail, Gerszewski, Gideon & Andrew Pinder, Laverne Wood, William Holland, Dr. Catherine and David Knowles, Ryan, Robbyn, Davardo, Kyle, Donnavan, Allen Cho & the Medical staff at Hatchet Bay Clinic. The entire community of Kayla, Ashley, Amber, Gabrielle and Gregory Stubbs Jr. and Elyssa Storr; James ‘Cistern, Hatchet Bay and Palmetto Point and Eleuthera at large.

Other Relatives and Friends: Theresa Stubbs and Family, Clive and Sue Daley of Miami, Florida, Adellie Hanna, Doanna Rolle, Linda Stubbs, Odea Johnson, **If Your Name Has Been Inadvertently Omitted It Was Not Intentional ** Charlise Johnson, Ruth Johnson, Joanne Whyte, Patricia (Berkley) Chisolm and family, Pastor Stephen and Judith Knowles and Family, Wendy (Wayne) Viewing will be held at St. Catherine of Sienna Roman Catholic Church Hatchet Rolle and family, Sharon Sturrup, Theresa Laramore and Stephonya McCartney Bay, Eleuthera on Thursday from 2: 00 pm until service time on Friday. (classmate of Tenille) Indiana Darville and Family, Lillian and James Smith and Family, Sandra Taylor and Family, Kristen, Cassandra and Tony Johnson, Kayla Darville, Veronica Frazier and Family, Marion, Charles, Kenneth and Ormand Greenslade, Caroline Rolle and Family, Linda Hepburn, Virginia HallCampbell and Dr. Mildred-Hall-Watson and family, Margot (Antoine) Bosfield, Jackie (Scott) Taylor, Lisa, Natasha ,Michelle, Teddy, Philip, Rodger, Kendal, Charles, Michael, Shawn, John(Marcia) Laramore and Tameko (Raquel) Laramore, Sylvia Major and Family, Rochelle & Charles) Sealy, Yhonnick & affectionately called Talbot McKinney, Patrell & Monty Miller, Antone & Marissa Wallace, Garvin, Philip, Dwayne, Carole, Sweet girl and Burton Wallace, Earl Lumpkin Jr, Cyprianna Jackson, Rabbie Miller and the offspring of Leroy and Sybil Miller, of Hard Bargain, Moore’s Island, Abaco will be held Sis. Elsie Knowles and Family, Aniska, Arthur, April, Tre and Aari Barnett, on Saturday, October 3rd, 2020, 11:00 a.m. at Greater Kim Miller and Family, Anna Smith, Taneil Stubbs and Britney Seymour, Eyes Bethel Native Baptist Church Hard Bargain, Moore’s Wide Open-Advocates for Children with special needs Linda McCaulsky and Island, Abaco. Officiating will be Pastor Robert Alexis Williams, Sonia Black, Betty Rolle and Tanya Curry, WHIPS Lesia Sands, McKinney & Pastor Preston Knowles. Interment will Erica Laing, Jasmine Strachan, Yvette Plakaris, Nikki Drakes and Marva Moxey, follow in Hard Bargain Cemetery, Abaco.

Robert, Larry and Carter Forbes and Family, Christine Johnson, Charles, Paula Hunter, Dale Davis, Sherry and David Knowles, Sharon and April Minnis, She was pre-deceased by her Husband John Paul Millie Adderley and Family, Dr. Donald and Betty McCartney, Gerrianne Hale, Jones Sr.; son John Paul Jones Jr. Elvis Rolle, Shanae, Shannon and Shanti Mackey, Dr. Nevillene Rolle, Cherisse Moss, Claudette Bethel, Jan Donell Sands and family, David and Leja Burrows Left to cherish her memories are Son: Julian Jones and Family, Energine and Clarisse Simms and Family, Dr. Tamonya Sands and Sr.; Four Daughters: Joanne and Janice Jones, Juliette Family, Debbie Humber, Terry, Linda, Christine and The Evans Family, Kirk Curry and Jewel Jones-Hopkins; adopted son: Reno and Theresa Smith; Two and Marsha Smith and family, Pastor Dwight Bradley King, Karen and Gino daughters-in-law: Lindamae and Francis Jones; Sons-in-law: Alexandra Curry Rahming and Family, Drs. Anthony and Val Hamilton and family, Glynnis and Marvin Hopkins; Grandchildren: Delshawn, Dashawna, Dashawn, Julian Jr. and Javaughn ”JR” Rolle and Family, Nicara Adderley, Virginia Chan, Chane Julicia Jones, Alexander Jr., Masceo Hopkins, Alvion Penn-Hopkins Francheska Knowles, Annelle Alfred and SAC Class of 2003, Barbara Wallace, President McBride, Eric and Carlton Gibson and Anastasia and Carroll Russell, Rachel and and the Class of GHS 1979, Michael Thompson, President and Class of 1977 C. Renaijha; Great Grandchild: Jamiah Jones; Four Brothers: Locksley, Thomas, C. Sweeting, Dr. Indie Jones, Nurses Ferguson and Sweeting, Ms. Mcphee and Nathaniel and Freeman Hield; Three Sisters: Victoria Stuart, Vera Williams, Staff of the Adelaide Clinic, Ke-sha Sands, Dr. Rivers, Dr. Burrows, Dr. Bodie, Margaret Gibson, and Genevieve Pinder; Sisters-in-law: Audrey, Enid, Larona, the Pastor, Leader and members of Blue Hill Gospel Chapel and the Assemblies Violet, Rose Hield, Medina Adderley, Roselia Agbim, Anita Roberts, Mellany of Brethren in The Bahamas, the Coral Lakes HOA, the National Commission Miller, Gwendolyn, Susan, Ruth Jones; Brothers-in-law: Pastor Zephaniah for Persons with Disabilities and many others too numerous to mention.

Newbold, Derick Gibson, Pastor Anthony Williams, David Roberts, Glen Miller; Nieces: Marjorie swain, Elevise ,Lenora, Anna Newbold, Keva Hield, Mahalia **If Your Name Has Been Inadvertently Omitted It Was Not Intentional ** Hield, Crystal (Jerad) Douglas, Bridget (Jermaine) Flowrs, Shanell Stuart, Annica Cornish, Ruthmae (Jackson) Davis, Fremecia Hield, Lakisha (Mark) Viewing will be held in the Halcyon Suite at Restview Memorial Mortuary and Douglas, Marjorie (Patrick) Swain, Shalanda (Don) Davis, Melinda (Ricardo) Crematorium Ltd., Robinson and Soldier Roads on Thursday (TODAY) from Johnson, Maryanne, Sarajane Hield, Catherina (Kendel) Seymour, Melissa 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.

(Coswald) Meadows, Pandora Hield, Shavonn (Joshua) Swain, Victoria Hield,

Tenille Anita Stubbs, 30 “Sugar”

Sheva Jones, 74 “Sister Reka”

MISSION STATEMENT: To provide consistent, sympathetic, caring and professional, “Service with Excellence” serving the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and worldwide, with the highest level of consideration to the personal desires and financial comfort to our client families.

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Private Funeral Services For Lorence Bernard Evans, 52 affectionately called “Rency” of Conch Stand Drive, Nicholls Town, Andros will be held on Saturday, October 3rd, 2020, 11:00 a.m. at Conch Sound Memorial Park, Nicholls Town, Andros. Officiating will be Bishop Caleb Evans assisted by Pastor Troy Miller.

Woodside, Ria Davis, Shamard and Nehemiah Taylor; Great Grandchildren: Jahmarzio Glinton and Autumn Newbold; Adopted Children: Eva Smith, Edith Stuart and Kenny Collie; Sibling: Deacon Burke Smith; Sisters-inlaw: Eloise Smith, and Viola Smith (Miami, Fla); Nephews: Phillip, Clifton (Marsha), Steve, David and Harrison Smith (Sons of Uncle Hugh Smith), Joel (Candy), Lester (Peaches), Roland, Warren (Marcia) and Andrew (Michelle) Smith (Sons of Uncle Burke Smith), Dereck, Darville, Dean and Dennis Smith (Sons of Uncle Mike), William, Gregory, Theodore and Ranny Munroe (Sons of Esther Bethel); Nieces: Gwen (George) Johnson, Betty Smith, Dossie Rolle, Eleanor, Helen, Agnes and Linda Smith (daughters of Uncle Hugh Smith), Ruth, Eva, and Aretha Smith; Ivy (Reginald) Ferguson, Ansala Lee and Annismae Smith - (Daughters of Uncle Burke Smith), Nancy (Joseph), Shanell (Milton) Rolle and Colene Smith (daughters of Uncle Mike Smith) Desiree (David) Mezadieu (daughter of Uncle Hershel Smith), Melvina and Tasha Munroe (daughters of Ester Bethel); God child: Vanessa Morgan Chatman of California; Special Friends: Blossie Stubbs, Marietta Mackey, Edith, Dora and Susan Stuart and Sandra McPhee; Livingston Lockhart; Other family and friends including: The families of the late Captain Rolly and Maggie Gray; Hansel and Emil Miller; Willis and Beryl - Ferguson; Fred and Leanne Cooper; Rosnell Bodie; Joe Hocker; Bob Chamberlain; Mary and Solomon Smith and Diana Rolle, Rosnell McKenzie, Carlton and Brenetta Thurston; Oswald and Mable Morgan; Phillip and Winifred Forbes; Hester Johnson; Ornan Pratt; Bertram Archer; Buster Hall; Alice Rolle; Mary Symonette and Daisy Brown, The families of Pastor Burkie and Vivian Rolle; Theresa Kelly; Frank and Rita Minnis; Deaconess Paeman Rolle¸ Rowena and Alpheus Rolle; Samuel Smith; the Patton family and the entire Staniel Cay, Black Point, Farmer’s Cay, Barratarre and the main land of Exuma, Ms. Blossie Stubbs and family; Della Ferguson and family; Darrise Moss; Katrina Nemour. Kiara Bodden, Renaldo Smith, Dollie Ferguson, Rose of Ross Corner Daisy and Charles King and the entire King family; the Watlings Street neighborhood/family and the Faith Gardens Community. Bishop Luther Thurston; Bishop Albert Hepburn; Pastor Charles Young; Rev. Raymond Hepburn; Pastor Alkin Rolle; Pastor Richard Thurston; Ms. Franceta Roberts; Sherry Simmons; Leanor Williams; Tanya Demeritte; Harriette Smith; Shakera Lloyd; Sidney (100) Lightboune; Ms. Vernice Bain; Audrey Bastian; Betty Poitier; Francis Ledee and family; Min. Sandra Gardiner; Yvonne Russell; Sherese Williams, Debra Butterfield, Livinston Cooper and Bishop Oral Rolle. Families of the following churches and ministries: United Christian, New Destiny, Signs and Wonders, Grand Bahama Family Worship Centre; Mt. Ararat Evangelistic Centre; Zion Baptist – Shirley Street. The Ministry of Health (Headquarters); Department of Public Health; Ministry of Works – (Supplies /Stores Unit) and Grand Bahama Health Services (Community Health Services), and all other family members and friends too numerous to reference.

He survived by his wife of 26 years: Natasha Evans; Children: Sara and Giovanni Knowles, Rennard, Rakim and Lorence Evans Jr.; Adopted Children: Mario Tynes, Stantia Woodside and Henniqua Rolle; Parents: Merlie Rahming, Bernard and Gloria Evans, Dorothy and Alexander Walkes; Grandchildren: Rennard Evans Jr., Zachary Knowles, Omari Tynes, Deondre and Skylar Wilson; Sisters: Yvonne (Bernard) Harvey, Lettianne (Lorenzo) Johnson, Tanya (Kevin)Mason , Bernice Been, Yvonne (Don) Bannister, Kimberly Dean, Valorie Basden, Catherine, Lavern, Ruby, Bernadette, Berneya, Berndice Evans Bernice Been; Brothers: Steven Miller, Wendall (Feenix), Kendal, Dale (Dorinda), Larvick (Tara) and Bernard Evans Jr.; Brothers-in-law: Elcid (Alesa) Evans, Sargent 2374 Ricardo Walkes; Sistersin-law: Agatha Bowe, Joan (Hugo) Pratt, Beulah Laing, Christine (Gary) Hanna, Cyntiesh and Florence Walkes; Aunts: Deaconess Sylvia Strachan, Deaconess Coral Edwards, Deaconess Sandra Rahming, Sherrie and Michelle Rahming, Linda Wallace and Retired Nurse Francis Woodside; Uncles: Joseph Jr., Alexander Sr., Mervin Sr., Drexel Sr., Larry, Vincent and Barrington Rahming, Rev. Wellington Wallace and Rev. Arthur Edwards; Nieces and Nephews: Dametra Moss, Tyra Munnings, Lashawn Johnson, Faith and Grace Evans, Dujuan Johnson, Marlon and Marlon Russell, Anthony Evans, Edward Missick, Tyler Johnson, Samantha (Lavardo) Harris, Samuel Basden, Sascha (Shieko) Hoyte, Dahres (Brianna) Bannister, Branishka (Romeo) Rolle, Kristoff, Glenard (Chrissy), Denario (Rashan), Brittany and Bernard Evans Jr., Theora, Gabrielle, Tarique & T’Shura Evans, Darneka & Danielle Evans, Requeal Coleby, Meaghan & Reaghan Evans, Maxwell Miller, Kenria & Keshae Evans, Dallas Dean, Dale Jr. & Danae Evans, Kalan Mason, Heneka and Alex Rolle, Angel and Storm Pratt, Dar’j, Ellise and Shekinah Laing, Alex, Garise Hanna, Lashanda (Anthony) Linden, Ricarda, Ricardo Jr., Ricario and Ke’anu Walkes, Deon Wilson Ellie and Dominick (Cymonne) Evans, C’nyq Dames, Brian Riley, Aiden Bowleg, Teshonn and Tetrae Walkes, Te’juan Minus, Brandon, Tarverus Miller, Giorgio Bain, Lekiecha and Kenrick Woodside; Grand Niece and Nephews: C’quan, Tenaiya Minus, Lavari, Alexa & Aubree Harris, Shieko Jr & Royce Hoyte, Ahmad Sands, Nathan Rolle, Amari & Amore Evans, Faith Evans, Liam Dean, Dakota Rolle, Arianna Rolle, Serenity Miller, Khyree Evans Rayne Evans, Kayden Thompson, Eric MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE, AND RISE IN GLORY! Butler Jr Sire Woodside; Cousins: Commissioner of Police Paul Rolle (Terry), MISSION STATEMENT: provide consistent, sympathetic, caring professional, with Excellence”Omitted servingItthe Commonwealth Your Name“Service Has Been Inadvertently Was Not Intentional ** Carolyn Rahming-Moxey, Mel To Minus-Smith, Police Sergeant 336 Kermit Minusand**If of the Bahamas and worldwide, with the highest level of consideration to the personal desires and financial comfort to our client families.

(Tanya), Woman Police Reserve Constable 772 Shcanla Todd (Beaumont), Shawn & Tangler, Alma, Anthony, Lakeisha, Ricardo, Roston, Raymond, Viewing will be held in the Halcyon Suite at Restview Memorial Mortuary Dorothia, Alexander Jr., Drexel Jr., Dexter, Dominique, Destinique, Mervin and Crematorium Ltd., Robinson and Soldier Roads on Friday from 10:00 Jr., Ken, Tammy, Quinton, Shericka, Rashad and Barringtino Rahming, Tamara am to 6:00 pm and again at the church on Saturday from 9:30 a.m. until McQueen, Sade and Corbria Edwards, Larissa Walker (Tracey), Lashan Rolle service time.

(Harold), Deandra Major (Geronimo), Alecia Roberts, Alexis Sturrup, Keano Smith, Kendra Sweeting Judy Rahming (Ben), Anne Lightboure (Edwin) Earl, Iris, Peter (Sandra) Russell, Micheal Yorick (Sandra) Lorraine, Paulette Wendy, Sally, Constance, Mae, Madeline Evans, Olivia Sweeting, Ida Ramsey Dorothy Coleby Meryl (Clayton) Mackey, Bartholomew Bowleg, Tracey, Loren, Kirk, Clyde and Ishmael Rolle, Lisa Sweeting, Naiago and Fredina of Wilmar Road and formerly of Deep Creek, Hinsey; God Parents: Meryl Mackey and Gold Hanna; Other Relatives and South Andros will be held on Sunday, October 4th, Friend: Ashanti Russell Audley and Beulah Fowler and Family Margo Newbold 2020, 11:00 a.m. at New Providence Seventh-day and family,Ingrid and Perry Scott and Family, Solomon Roberts And Family Adventist Church, Soldier Road. Officiating will be Sharmaine Smith, Clara Evans and Family, Shamado Burrows” Vashnell Hill Pastor T. Basil Sturrup assisted by Pastor Leonardo and Family, Marilyn Adderley, Shan and Leroy Adderley, Oscar Miller, Jacob Rahming & Pastor Alvarico Moss. Interment Lightboure, Pastor Nathaniel Pratt and family, Prince Mackey and Family, will follow in Lakeview Memorial Gardens and Tammie and Monica Evans, Lornie Storr, Ifill Russell, Jacklyn Frazer, Shalease Mausoleum John F. Kennedy Drive.

Russell, Alma Russell, Florence Pratt-Meyers, Renarld Rolle, Tina Cooper, Rev. Coralee Fowler, Sheila Rolle, Althea Wallace, Bergie Jones, Alphonso He is predeceased by his children Stanley McPhee Smith, Hugh and Sherry Fowler, Renford Munroe, National Insurance Board Jr. and Ruthenell Braynen; Sibling: Leomi Higgs Nichols Town Branch, Nurse Una Bain, Pastor Jenna Roberts, Bassiemae Storr and Family, Bennett Knowles and Family, Cornelius Clyde, Pastor Helen Scott and Family, Pastor Brinka Cleare, Carlise Wallace and Family, Keith Left to cherish his memories are his Wife of 65 years: Erma Adell McPhee; and Laurie Treco, Hilda Bowleg and family, Barbara Sweeting and Family, Children: Charles (Giselle) McPhee, Earlene (Alfred) Munnings, Glen BTC Nicholls Town, The Mennonite community and the Entire North Andros (Sharon) McPhee, Alimae (Rodwell) Dean, Jenetha Patrice McPhee, Victoria Nicole (Roderick) Rolle and Lavardo McPhee; Son-in-law: Nathaniel Community.

Braynen; Grandchildren: Shantell Burell, Nathalie Demeritte, Laquita Thompson, Enrico, Stantaffita, Dario, Latoya, Stanley III, Glenda, Lakeisha **If Your Name Has Been Inadvertently Omitted It Was Not Intentional ** and Lynnia McPhee; Ralden, Danario and Jaden Dean; Ramon, Raheem Viewing will be held in the Halcyon Suite at Restview Memorial Mortuary and and Rashad Munnings; Nikita, Raynard and Robyn Rolle; and Jeffranique Crematorium Ltd., Robinson and Soldier Roads on Friday from 10:00 am to Gibson; Great-grandchildren: Shadyshea, Camorie, Shakera, Ramon Jr., and 6:00 pm and again at New Mount Pisgah Trinity Baptist Church on Saturday Caden McPhee; De’Shavantell and Shavantell Finley; Darren Dean, Malik Demerette, Kayla Thompson, Ja-Mya Smith, Ahmari McKenzie, Zaylen from 8:30 a.m until service time.

Rolle and Tramon Barry; Great-great-grandchildren: William Smith and Andrea Rolle; Siblings: Edgar McPhee, Arthur, Reuben and Howard McPhee, and Ruthlee Smith; Sisters-in-law: Grace and Catherine McPhee; Nieces and Nephews: Arthur Jr., Jennie, Joyce, Evelyn, Jessiemae, Oscar, Edgar Jr., Jelita, Floyd, Stanley, Walter, Lenamae, Barbramae, Bloniemae, Clara, Victoria, Ruben Jr., Cassandra, Alvin, Regenia, Leon, Marjorie, Christine, Alma, Andrea, Charles, David, Kelson, Lloyd, Sherry, Howard Jr., Dexter and Jamaal; Other Relatives and Friends including: Pastors Kareem Black, T. affectionately called Basil Sturrup, E. Danny Clarke, Paul Scavella, and Jeremiah Duncombe and of Watlins Street and formerly of Staniel Cay, their families; Elders Norward Rahming, Joseph Morris, Victor Miller, Joseph Exuma will be held on Saturday, October 3rd, Johnson, and Alvin Rahming, Steadman Forbes and their families; Jack 2020, 11:00 a.m. at United Christian Cathedral, Thompson (Permanent Secretary to the Governor General), Ann Strachan, Flamingo Gardens.Officiating will be Pastor Lester Ann Wilson, Theophilus Rolle, Edward Duncombe, Caroline McKenzie, Thurston, Evangelist Melvina Munroe, Pastor Nathaniel Adams and their families, Nurse Valdamae Rahming and the Staff Alkin Rolle and Apostle Shawn Taylor assisted by of Miriam Green Clinic (South Andros), the officers and Members of the other ministers of the gospel. Interment will follow South Andros Seventh-Day Adventists District of Churches, and the entire Community of South Andros; The South Bahamas Conference of Seventhin Lakeview Memorial Gardens J.F.K Drive.

Day Adventists; The Ministry of Health (Flemming Street Clinic), The Margie was predeceased by her loving husband: Ministry of Agriculture & Marine Resources and The Ministry of Education Elliott Bob Saunders; her sister: Nellie Ferguson; (Palmdale and Sadie Curtis Primary Schools); Other relatives and friends too numerous to mention. brothers: Hugh, Herchel and Mike Smith.

Stanley McPhee Sr., 95

Matriarch Margie, 88 nee Smith Saunders “Marjorie”

Fond memories will forever be with her Children: Judy and Charles Edwards; Perry Saunders, Agatha and Beaufort King, Jinnett Ann Saunders Bowles, Robert ‘Bobby’ Saunders, Nursing Officer Kathy Saunders and Pastor Nicole and Apostle Shawn Taylor; Grandchildren: Brian and Bessie Rolle, Prison Officer Perry Saunders, Ashla Edwards, Natajia Miller, Beuatisca King, Diondro Bowles, Lorenzo, Opal, Kennedy, and, Asia Saunders, Ashton

MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE! **If Your Name Has Been Inadvertently Omitted It Was Not Intentional ** Viewing will be held in the Halcyon Suite at Restview Memorial Mortuary and Crematorium Ltd., Robinson and Soldier Roads on Saturday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and again at the church on Sunday until service time.

MISSION STATEMENT: To provide consistent, sympathetic, caring and professional, “Service with Excellence” serving the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and worldwide, with the highest level of consideration to the personal desires and financial comfort to our client families.

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Private Funeral Services For Min. Leanamae LeToya Missick, 59 of #109 Atlantic Drive and formerly of Mayaguana

will be held on Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. at Cousin McPhee African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral, Carmichael Road. Officiating will be Apostle K. Bradley Moxey assisted by Apostle Terry Moxey.

Interment will follow in Lakeview Memorial Gardens Mausoleums, John F. Kennedy Drive.

Daughters: Sherlycia, Shernee’, Shernya, Alexandria; Grand Daughter: Ariah; Sisters: Orinthia, Keturah, Nikishia, Montess, Terecitia, Tamicka, Anishka; Brothers: Alberto, Richard (Tasha), Stephen (Izzie), Charon (Anishka) Jameko, Clemente, Orlando; Grandmother: Kaythleen McKenzie; Aunts: Annamae, Jacqueline, Laverne (Hartman), Marion, Alderine, Edithmae (Leroy) Janice (Reynold),Vernetta (Francisco) Priscilla, Betty AnnueIIa, SherO; Grand Aunts: Margaret, Naomi, Myrtle, Coreen, Viola; Uncles: Reginald, Ivan, Rudolph (Linda), Alfred (Daphne), Sidney (Jewel), Garth (Leolean), Tyrone (Sheena), Frederick (Janet), Arlington (Nora), Vivian (Francina), Alworth, Rodney, Eric, Philip, George, Hinsey, Averil; Grand Uncles: Nehemia, Hansel, Charles; Brothers-in-Law: Simon, Anthony, Charles, Raymond, Bobby; Sisters-inLaw: Raquel, Ann, Anderion; Nieces: Kishante, Cierra, Cierria, Dehne’, Nevaeh, Montaj, Rachel, Mariah,Gia, Kemi, Stevanija, Mykell, Jamia, Jamyah, Jameeliah, Vadalia, Stephanie, Keturah, Jacobed, Maxia, Kiante’, Ashantae’,Taquanna; Nephews: Joseph, Joshua, Frederick, Davonte’, Thawn, Montel, Monterro, Dwight, Kamal, Alberto Jr., Cameron, Caiden, Roman, Savion; God Children: Khristin, Kassidy, Deondria, Jefferey, D’Kemba’, Michael, Jamiah, Eugene,Vaquel, Vernal Jr., Lapetra, Vonsel, Wynsome, Ryele, Taliah, Casey; Numerous cousins too many to mention: Celeste Lockhart, Sheila Knowles, Justin Hamilton, James; Other Numerous Relatives and friends including: Celeste Lockhart, Sheila Knowles, Justin, Carlos Hamilton,James Ishamel, Chevonne, Berthlyn and Destiny Cornish, Franceta, Kizzie, Niqua, Melonie Reckley, Raymond and Anthony Knowles, Sidney McIntosh, Natalie Wells, Elvis, Stephen Woodside, Keisha, Rev S. Mills and Dolly Mills, Tavaris Edgecombe, Samantha Coakley, Evangeline Bowleg, Mae, Calma, Amanda Pritchard, Amanda Pyfrom, The Entire WSC Abaco and New Providence, Friendship Tabernacle Church, LWY Class of 1988, JPW Class of 1990, The Kidney Center Abaco,Renal House Stacey Dean, Yolanda Adams, Natash Sawyer, Ednold Johnson, Vaughn and Meridith Forbes, Elicheemae Roberts, Life Worship Center, Rehoboth, Word in Action, Shavonne Turnquest. And to you who we may have missed on paper, thank you for your love, support and understanding. You are special to us and forever in our hearts.

Left to cherish her fond memories are her only child: Tanaz King; Adopted Daughter: Kavianna Ferguson; Adopted Grandchildren: Keyanna and Tatianna Summer; Brothers: Edison, Rev. Alexander, Sterling, and Jerome, Shefford and Sheffield Missick; Sisters: Colamae Missick, Iona Charlton, and Shenika Panza; Sisters-in-Law: Eulamae Missick, Margaret Missick and Apostle Cathy Missick; Brother-in-Law: Mr. Roy Charlton; Nephews: Cassan & Patro Cartwright, Elvardo, Elrico, Javan and Ian Missick; Nieces: Shamara Evans, Sheena Missick, Nickesha Missick, Rodeisha & Desiree Charlton, Camisha, Laverene, Verlencia, Unetha, Jeanamae Missick, and Joyann Missick; Grand Nephew: Demajio Rahming; Grand Niece: Faith Rahming; God Children: Regina Charlton, Randy Cooper, Wendy Bonaby, Denice Thompson, Katora Murphy, and Chrissy; Other relatives and friends including: Mr. Beaufort King, Ms. Vivienne Missick, Mr. Andrew Conliffe, Messrs. Leroy, Nesbitt and Dudley (Jacob) Higgins & Family, Ms. Gladys Murphy & Family, Min. Carnetta Ferguson & Family, Mr. & Mrs. Leon Charlton & Family, Ms. Joanna Brown & Family, Mr. Stanley Collie & Family, Ms. Joyce Mitchell & Family, Apostles K. Bradley & Terry Moxey and God’s Dwelling Place Ministries International Family, Pastor Joseph & Mother Pearl Thompson and the Bread of Life Baptist Church Family, Bishop Ian & Prophetess Koralee Braithwaite and Holy Dove Baptist Church Family, Pastor Dolly King and Hosanna Full Gospel Baptist Church Family, Rev. Dr. Ranford Patterson & Cousin McPhee AME Church, Mother Daisy Black & Family, Mount Carmel Baptist Church Pirates Well, Mayaguana, Pastor Huel Williamson, Viewing will be held in the Halcyon Suite at Restview Memorial Mortuary Zion Baptist Church, South Betsy Bay, Pastor Reginald Charlton, Zion and Crematorium Ltd., Robinson and Soldier Roads on Friday from 10:00 Baptist Church, Abraham’s Bay; Pastor Robert Colebrooke & The New am to 6:00 pm and again at the church on Saturday at 8:30 am until service St. Paul’s Baptist Church; Apostle K. David & Prophetess McPhee and time.

World Changers Ministries International Family; Apostle Kevin & Pastor Private Memorial Service For Alice Collie and Temple of Praise Family; Rev. Irene Charlton & Family, Dr. Patricia Forte, Mr. Arthur Brown & Family; Ms. Voilene Collie & Gregory John Anderson, 68 Family; Mr. Byron Collie & Family, Ms. Cynthia Brown & Family; Ms. Eva Hamilton & Family; Ms. Louise McPhee & Family; Messrs. Samuel affectionately called “Gabes” Murphy, Jacob Murphy, David Murphy and Ms. Katrina Murphy & MISSION STATEMENT: To provide consistent, sympathetic, caring and professional, “Service with Excellence” serving the Commonwealth Family; Rev. Lester & Sis. Leatha Bain and the Mt. Olivette Baptist of Mason Addition willto beour heldclient on Friday, October of the Mesdames Bahamas and worldwide, the highest consideration financial comfort families.

Church; Doreen Taylor with & Getlean Taylorlevel andof Family; Mr. & to the personal desires and 2nd, 2020, 11:00 a.m. at The Christian Tabernacle Mrs. Roderick Murphy, Mesdames Virginia Murphy, Hettamae Murphy, Church, Robinson Road. Officiating will be Frankiemae Moss, Elizabeth Murphy, Florence Murphy, Elsie Murphy, Pastor Trevor & Prophetess Tamara Simmons Deloris Murphy, Vanda Murphy, Beulah Murphy, along with Messrs. Ray assisted by others ministers of the gospel.

Murphy, David Murphy, and Simeon Murphy; Ms. Marion Brown, Ms. Rosemary Missick, Messrs. Charles and Prince Higgins; Mr. Kingsley Left to celebrate his life and cherish his memories Black; Mesdames Sandra Murphy, Calvise Murphy, Maxine Murphy, are his three children: Deokin, Nyoka and Melony Murphy, Willacie Murphy, Eulean Murphy, Patsy Murphy, Linda Sylvia; Ten grandchildren: Deokinnique, Deokin Murphy, Paula Murphy, Iris Murphy, Mildred Murphy, Carnetta Murphy Jr., Deoquon, Jamenika, Wilfred, Sylvanna, and Messrs. Carlton Murphy, Prince Murphy, and Mervin Murphy; Mr. & Rhianna, Jefferi, Mendencie, Jermaine, Amelia; Mrs. Patrick David and Family; Mesdames Bricemae and Carmen Smith, Two great-grandchildren: Artemis and Deokin Mr. Tony Lewis, Kermit Smith & Family, Inspector Mario Murphy, Mr. III; Two sons-in-law: James Cooper and Jermaine Johnson; one daughterVincent Murphy, Messrs. Jeffery and Carter Murphy, Mesdames Maxine in-law; Brothers: Edward, England, Joseph, Maxwell, Mark, Anthony, Murphy, Barbara Murphy, Pamela Murphy, Prenetha Murphy, and Ms. Derrick, Adrian, and Dodson; Sisters: Muriel, Jeanette, Eloise and Francita Gibson, Ms. Pandora Miller, Mr. Shelmar Charlton and Members Donnel; Nieces: Janay, Tameka, Mickia, D’ andra, Avery, Shantell and of The Betsy Bay Social Club, Doretha, Minilee, Rayond, Priscilla, Majorie; Nephews: Jeriel, Dominique, Edwin, Anton, Aljamon, Jerom, Miriam, Covena, Valeria, Gretel, Bernestine and Jackie, Mr. & Mrs. Meko, Giovanni, Ricardo, Miguel and Cohen; God Mother: Maud Kelly; Gentle Murphy & Family, Mr. & Mrs. Charles Murphy & Family, Woman Aunt: Mildred Rolle of Miami, Florida; Uncle: James Colebrooke; Other Assistant Superintendent of Police, Alma Rolle, Pastor Melony Murphy friends and relatives including: Vernita Bain, Valarie Newbold, Patricia and the Church of God Abraham’s Bay, Mesdames Naomi Gibson, Ella Francis, Freddy Taylor, and Family, Leroy Farrington, Allan Francis, Stacy Murphy and Mr. Vanwright Murphy, Ms. Hesterline Collie, Ms. Annamae Charmaine, Kathy of Miami, Florida; Special thank to: Jameko Dean and Charlton & Family, Roselene, Nora, Dotlene, Inez, Carlton and Paulette, family for their love extended to Gregory founders, and members of the Errol McPhee and Roland Fawkes, the Judiciary Staff including Justice Genesis “Bellers” Junkanoo group, The rift raff shack and dominoes crew, Guillimina Archer-Minns, Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt, and the entire Mason Addition community, Philip Taylor, Vito Russell, Senior Magistrate Constance Delancy, Magistrate Samuel McKinney, Daval Dean, Oscar Dave’s, Wesley Marcel, Andre Grant, Owen Stubbs, Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans, Magistrate Kara Turnquest-Deveaux, Sebastian Turnquest. The Saxons and Genesis Warhawks’ Junkanoo Magistrate Koschina Marshall, Magistrate Sandra Dee Gardiner, the Staff Group, Columbus Primary school. of the Magistrate Court Complex, South Street, Mesdames. Charmaine Musgrove, Raquel Jones, and Arabella Rolle, Angelic Voices of Praise, Mesdames Sharon Colebbrooke, Judy Colebrooke and Mr. Dwight Death Notice For Colebrooke, Ms. Gloria Curtis, Mr. Sirvaughn Rolle, Mr. O. Russell, Mr. Ezrena Louvise Forbes, 88 McPhee, Mr. & Mrs. Leroy Henfield, Mr. Felton Cox and the Taxi Drivers of Prince George Wharf, The Government High School Graduating Class of Driggs Hill South Andros died at her residence on of 1980. The entire communities of Mayaguana especially the residence Saturday, September 26th, 2020. and descendants of Betsy Bay, and a host of other relatives and friends too numerous to mention.

She is survived by eight children: Locksley, Elaine, Please forgive us if your name was inadvertently left out.

Benjamin and Lynden Forbes, Beverly Morris, Karen Forbes-Baeyen, Patrice Forbes-Johnson and MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE Delereast Forbes-Bartlett; One daughter-in-law: Elsie Forbes; one sonViewing will be held in the Halcyon Suite at Restview Memorial Mortuary in-law: William Kent Bartlett and many others relatives and friends too and Crematorium Ltd., Robinson and Soldier Roads on Friday from 10:00 numerous to mention. am to 6:00 pm and again at the church on Saturday at 7:30 am until service Arrangements for the funeral service are being finalized and details will time. be announced at a future date.

Mr. Sherlyn McKenzie, 49

of Ferdinand Drive will be held on Saturday, October 3rd, 2020, 10:00 a.m. at Rehoeooth Jehovah Ministries, Prince Charles Drive.

Officiating will be Rev Anthony Carroll J.P assisted by others ministers of the gospel.

Interment will follow in Dundas Town, Abaco at a later date.

He was pre-deceased by his: wife Renee McKenzie, Father: Albert McKenzie.

He is survived by his Mother: Martha McKenzie;

Death Notice For Devon Johnson, 34 of Bias Alley, Shirley Street, died at Princess Margaret Hospital on Tuesday, September 15th, 2020.

He is survived by his Sister: Charmain Johnson; Brothers: Kevin, Kirklyn, Sean, Calcey and many others relatives and friends too numerous to mention.

Arrangements for the funeral service are being finalized and details will be announced at a future date.

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Funeral Services For Mr. Angelo Trevor Munnings, 53 of #131E Kitchener Avenue, Freeport, Grand Bahama and formerly of Nassau, New Providence will be held on Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. at The Pro-Cathedral of Christ the King, East Atlantic Drive and Pioneer’s Way, Freeport, Grand Bahama. Officiating will be Canon Norman Lightbourne. Cremation will follow.

He was predeceased by his father, Frank “Bud” Munnings; aunts, Loretta Jones, Ethelyn Knowles, Orian Adderley and Bernell Munnings; uncles, Frederick “Heads” Munnings, Granville and Elgin Smtih and Reverend Raymond Jones.

other relatives and friends too numerous to mention. Special Thanks to: Palmdale Medical (Dr. Yasmin Williams-Robinson), Stephanie Evans, all of the staff at Pats Senior Home (Soldier Road), the Holy Cross Parish Clergy (Cannon Peter Scott and Deacon Philip Heild), and Burrows Senior Care Home (Freeport).

Viewing will be held in the “Halcyon Suite” at Restview Memorial Mortuary and Crematorium Limited, #11-A Coral Road, Freeport, Grand Bahama on Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and at the church on Friday from 9:30 a.m. until service time.

Mr. Edward Kent Farquharson, 54 of #705 Lucayan Towers, Freeport, Grand Bahama will be held on Saturday, October 3rd, 2020, 11:00 a.m. at Calvary Temple Assemblies of God, Clive Avenue, Freeport, Grand Bahama. Officiating will be Pastor Robert Lockhart. Interment will follow at the Grand Bahama Memorial Park #2, Frobisher Drive, Freeport, Grand Bahama.

Precious memories will linger in the hearts of his devoted mother: Elva SmithMunnings; sisters and their husbands: Valarie (William) Duncombe, Yvette (Orson) Munnings-Smith, Venita Munnings-Rolle, Charlene (Thomas) Munnings-Lockhart, Dekita (Sadat) Munnings-Ferguson and Juliette McPhee; brother and his wife: Michael (Ellen) Munnings; nieces: Chynna and Aaliyah Smith, Sasha Rolle, Samia Neeley, Tereka Rolle, Tanecia Adderley, Ramanda and Matniece Ferguson, Kendesha Munnings, Mia Ed is predeceased by his mother, Barbara Jean Alava Demarcia and Karen Lockhart; nephews and their wives: Jermaine Farquharson.

(Denice) Duncombe, Jeraldo and Jerone Duncombe, Michael Munnings, Anteka (Brittney) Smith, Cordero (Kahesia), Antonia Smith, Brian Ed is survived by his loving daughters: Hayley, Halle, and Younique; father: (Travolta) Munnings, Steven (Angelique) Rolle, Sidney and Samir Neeley, Etienne Louis Farquharson; brothers: Kendal, Louis and Floyd Farquharson; Ricardo Adderley, Thomas, Thomarie, Renardo and Leonardo Lockhart; sisters: Evelyn ‘Bonnie’ Bartlett, Angelita Bruey and Wanda Tomlinson; grandnieces: Trinity and Rachel Duncombe, Sanaiah Rolle, Kiara Rolle brothers-in-law: Kim Bartlett, Gene Bruey and Vincent Tomlinson; and Raquel Adderley; grandnephews: Jermaine, Michael, Jeremiah, Joshua sister-in-law: Dr.Noelynn Farquharson; aunts: Patricia ‘Patsy’ Roberts, and Jermorie Duncombe, Anteko and Antwon Smith, Steven Rolle, Keano Ida Farquharson Hanna, Lenora Carey and Veronica Saunders; uncles: Burrows, Savanté Williams and Zion Cambridge; aunts: Anya Munnings, Theophilus and Albert Carey; nieces: Kenya Farquharson, Toni Sweeting Lana Basalyga, Lenor Weech, Andrea Major, Theresa Kite, Cyprianna (Michael), Robyn Pinder (Deon), and Julia Bartlett; Julie Brownlee (Hal); McSweeney, Janet Seymour, Gale, Terricita and Audrey Munnings, Angela nephews: Adam, Johnathan, Omar and Dylan Farquharson; Kim Jr. (Erin), Nottage, Julie Munnings and Ingrid Cambridge; uncles: Raphael, Michael, Keenan and Kish Bartlett; Jordan, Peter and Sam Farquharson, Vincent and Frederick R., Frederick A., Gregory and Wayne Munnings; numerous first Joel Tomlinson, Blake Farquharson; grandnieces: Sierra Sweeting, Cartier cousins and their spouses: Jewel Hamilton, Carolyn Strachan, Raymond and Dior Pinder, Sophie Naomi, and Ava Bartlett; grandnephews: Michael Jones, Casey (Cecelia) Jones, Walter (Helen) Jones, Monique (Llewellyn) and Miguel Sweeting, Deon Pinder cousins: Lionel Hudson Jr., Pamela Samuels, Godfrey Smith, Yvonne (Bruno) Dittmar, Hayward (Shirley) Arindell (Esmond), Royanne Swain (Sherman), Cheryl Braynen (J.B.), Smith, Barbara (Jerry) Pratt, Whitfield (Sophia) Smith, Judy (Rev. Jacob) Helen McNeil (Patrick), Donna Johnson (Mr. Trevor), Trevor McKay, Kimlyn Moss, Doreen (Wenzel) Delevaux, Marilyn and Edsil Adderley, Kim Smith; Hanna, Dale Woodside (Anthony), Leslie Braynen, Wentworth Roberts, godchildren: Tyra Nottage and Keano Miller; other relatives: Gwendolyn Caryl Lashley (Charles); Michelle Fields (Edward), Tommy Turnquest Hanna, families of the late Frederick A. Munnings Sr. OBE, Audley (Shawn), Julia, Beth, Donnalia and Thia Farquharson; Quennie Missick, Munnings, families of the late Wilfred Munnings, families of the late Mary Brittney, Yolanda Rolle, Gillian Ferguson, Norville, Barton and Robert Woodside, families of the late Lenora Curry and families of the late Hassim Hanna, Chantal and Cherise Carey, Sandra Clarke and family, Bernadette Munnings; special friends: Patrick Duncombe, Ken Nottage, Ellison and Jolly, and Nicole Lightbourne; Mr. and Mrs. Jensen Farquharson, Mr. and MISSION To provide consistent, sympathetic, professional, “Service with servingFarquharson, the Commonwealth Allison Bain, STATEMENT: Elson Bowleg, Anthon Deveaux, Garfield Forbes, Kirtcaring Neely,andMrs. Derek Farquharson, Rev.Excellence” and Mrs. Andrae Basil Carey Steven Rolle, Kevin Smith, Laing, to of theDeveaux, BahamasSteven and worldwide, with(Margo) the highest levelSeigfried of consideration the personal desires and financial comfort to our client families. and Michael Lightbourne; and a host of other relatives and friends including: Reese Sands, Terry, Maxwell Johnson, The K Block family: Trevor Poitier Sir Orville Turnquest, Sweeting family, Saunders family, Marshall family, Alden and Anasis Austin, Linda Pinder, Margaret Wallace and family, Brown family, Isaacs family, Clarke family, DeGregory family, Crawley Helen Forbes and family, Eltamae Austin and family, Eva Swan and family, family, Styles family, Calvin, Etienne Jr., Allyson, Etienne III, and Myra Kenneth Basden and family, Santivia Riley and family, Irvin Thomas and Farquharson Harry Rahming, Audley Russell, Ashley Gibson, Anitarae family, Deitrich Albury and family, Andy, Royal and Cordell Pinder and Kamissoko, Letitia Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. Emille Jarrett, Ocean Reef family Johnny Bowleg. Jasmine Davis and family, Barbara Jones and family, Rev’d and a host of many family members and friends Marie Roach-Hepburn, Canon Norman Lightbourne and family, Corlette Rolle, Thyra Johnson, Reese Sands and family, management and staff at Death Notice For Roosters Sports Bar and Grill, Nurse Andrea Bain, Doctors, Nurses and Supporting Staff at the Rand Memorial Hospital, Hawksbill High School Class of 81’, 82’, 83’ and 84’. of Sealink Avenue, Summer Haven Estates and Viewing will be held in the “Perpetual Suite” at Restview Memorial Mortuary formerly of Mt. Thompson, Exuma died at Princess Crematorium Limited, #11-A Coral Road, Freeport, Grand Bahama on Margaret Hospital on Monday, September 28th, Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and at the church on Saturday from 9:30 2020. a.m. until service time.

She is survived by her Sons: Philip Humes, Benjamin Humes, Andrew Humes & Joey Humes; Daughters: Genevie Sturrup, Anniemae Armbrister, Alvern McCoy & Vaneria Smith; Twenty Thirty Grandchildren, Six Great Grandchildren and many others relatives and friends too numerous to mention. of Freeport, Grand Bahama will be held on Friday, October 2nd, 2020, 11:00 a.m. at The Pro-Cathedral Arrangements for the funeral service are being finalized and details will be of Christ the King, East Atlantic Drive and Pioneer’s announced at a future date.

Way, Freeport, Grand Bahama. Officiating will be Rev. Father Colin Saunders. Cremation will follow.

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Carmetta Leather Humes, 86

Mr. Curtis Elton Cartwright, 74

He was predeceased by his brothers: Norman, Albert, and Dexter Stephen ‘King Size’ Cartwright.

Those left to cherish his memory are his children: Michael, Tonya, Evan and Curtis Cartwright Jr.; daughters-in-law: Andrea and Larissa Cartwright; grandchildren: Kingston, Kemani Kaiden and Anthony Joshua Cartwright; brother: Winston Cartwright (Violet); sisters: Judith Bernadette Tirelli, Mary Carroll and Rachel Knowles; brothers-in-law: Raffaele ‘Peppi’ Tirelli and Christopher ‘Solo’ Knowles; sisters-in-law: Violet and Cheryl Cartwright; nieces and nephews: Maria (Victor) Cartwright, Lisa Carroll, Robert (Denise) Cartwright, Norman (Muriel) Cartwright, Rachela Tirelli, Neil (Kimberley) Knowles, Jonathan (Desiree) Cartwright, Miguel (Telnear) Cartwright, Michelle (Doddridge) Davis, Francesca (Cedric) Dubois, Adam (Candida) Knowles, Giuseppina Tirelli, Dane (Crystal) Knowles, Christa Cartwright, Nathalia Tirelli, Ryan (Lauren) Cartwright and Ashley Cartwright; grandnieces and nephews: Tamara, Romero, Sophia and Stefan Cartwright, Franki Brown and Jordan Turnquest, Kristin (Gio) Sands, Robert Jr. and Cassidy Cartwright, Norman Jr. and Nash Cartwright, Meghan and Tyler Knowles, Jonisha and Jonathan Cartwright, Maya and Mason Cartwright, Cohwen and Summer Davis, Marley Dubois, Jonelle, Morghan and Ashleigh Knowles, Isabella Hyde Tracey, Khaiden, Skye, Apryl and Trinity Knowles, Harbor Cartwright; great grandniece and nephew: Carter and Cori Sands; and a host of other family and friends including: David ‘Jinx’ Knowles, Ignatius ‘Snooks’ Carroll, Dwight ‘White Boy’ Knowles, Gordon ‘Mancy’ Ritchie, Samuel Malachi Knowles, Clifford Moree, Christopher Darville, Eric Knowles, Reginald ‘Champ’ Ritchie, Madolyn Paul Lindsay, Tirzah Saunders-Carey, Charmaine Moss-Cartwright, Lady Naomi Wallace Whitfield, Willrow and Elizabeth Strachan, Lucy Dorsett, Merril Dorsett, Knowles family, Ritchie family, Darville family, Saunders family, entire Logwood Road family, Wendy’s (Freeport) family, Stephanie Evans, Troy Bullard, Earl Lightbourn, Esau Wright, Harry Sands, Gene Young, Philip Armbrister, Sammy Smith, Wendell Thurston, Churchill Tenor-Knowles, Deon ‘Lil Man’; and many

Leon Lorezo Green, 54

of Sunset Park, died at Doctors Hospital on Thursday, September 24th, 2020.

He is survived by his Wife: Minister Sonia Green; Mother: Nathalie Curtis; Sanchez, Theo, Myles & Darius; Daughter: Chelsea Capron; Sisters: Ann Smith & Alma Green; Brothers: Gulfry, Reno & Anthony; Grandchildren: Sydnique Rolle & Kyano Capron and many others relatives and friends too numerous to mention.

Arrangements for the funeral service are being finalized and details will be announced at a future date.

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Pastor Don Daxon, 53 of Cripple Hill, Crooked Island, died at his residence on Friday, September 25th, 2020.

He is survived by his Wife: Emmiletha Daxon; Sons: Daniel Daxon & Don Daxon Jr.; Daughter: Iesha Daxon; Sisters: Naomi Bonaby, Ruth Arnette, Mary Daxon & Darcaus Daxon; Brothers: Timothy Daxon, Lawrence Daxon, Herbert Daxon, Chief Petty Officer Robert Daxon, Chief Petty Officer Phillip Daxon, Stephan Daxon & Kevin Daxon and many others relatives and friends too numerous to mention.

Arrangements for the funeral service are being finalized and details will be announced at a future date.

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Private Funeral Services For Edmond Aurtnel Butler, 50 affectionately called “Cat” of Great Habour Cay, Berry Island will be held on Saturday, October 3rd, 2020, 11:00 a.m. at Seaview Cemetery, Berry Island.

Officiating will be Pastor Kathleen Butler assisted by other ministers of the gospel.

Private Funeral Service For

Kandy Kay Pinder, 58 of Abaco will be held on Saturday, October 3rd, 2020, 3:30 p.m. at Friendship Tabernacle Central Pines, Abaco. Officiating will be Pastor Silbert Mills, Pastor Darrell Pinder & Pastor Robert Cornea assisted by others ministers of the gospel. Private interment will follow in Marsh Harbour Cemetery.

Left to cherish his memories are his dear Wife: Michelle Butler; Two children: Eddesha and Kynyiah Butler; Four Step-children: Brian She was predeceased by her parents Lewis Sawyer, Akeem, Ednequa and Marcquell Pinder & Paronell Pinder; Brother: Laddy Lee Pinder.

Mackey; One Step Grandchild: Akeem Jr.; Mother: Gloria Butler; Five sisters: Denise Carey, Mathanise, Patricia and Darnell Butler, Lisa Smith; Four brothers: Eugene, Kevin, Perry She is survived by her siblings: Buddy & Cindy Pinder, Rudy and Marco Butler; Special Friend: Bevelyn Winder; Brothers and Pinder and Caroljean Lowe; Nephews: Christopher Pinder, Sisters-in-law: Joseph Carey Jermaine Smith, Latesha, Olive, Vincent Pinder, Lance Pinder, Brock Pinder, M.J. Lowe and Mikelle Butler; Aunts and Uncles: Marina Knowles, Thelma, Kyle Pearce; Nieces: Mitzi Pearce, Margo Lowe and Susie Berthamae Stirrup, Dora Bethel, Houston, Paul King; Grand Pinder; many cousins, nieces, nephews, and special friends too Aunt: Agnes Francis; Numerous Nieces and Nephews: Craig, numerous to name, and the dedicated Big Bird Family Farm Anton, Perry Jr., Eugene Jr., Geno, Crystal, Latario, Marco staff members.

Jr., Markell, Martisha, Elvis, Shaniqua, John, Jonathan, Joelle, Livingston, Shavonya, Shaniece, Dannello, Jamal, Alicia, Jeron, Viewing will be held at Friendship Tabernacle Central Pines, Gabriella, Joelle, Shakkiah, William, Valentino & Shenez Carey Abaco on Saturday from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm until service time Johanna & Cardinal Rolle, Joenise & John Marshall, Jonta & at 3:30 p.m. Death Notice For Latwone Sands, Maria, Jermaine & Danielle Smith, Kevenette & Donald Sawyer, Stacey & Herbert Miller; Numerous Grandnieces and nephews: Huberto, Deangelo, Shekina, Arlinka, Creanne, Shanton, Akeemio, Anthoniqua, Benson Quincina, Journee, Death Notice For J’Leah, Valeah, Caranno, N’coi, N’kiya, Adonis, Shantina, Santino, Valentino Jr., Vashawn, Jamar, Johnell, Latwone Jr., Ms. Maud Opelia Johnson, 52 Saphron, Adorn, Sevyn, Tavara, Latoya, Critsin, Cristina; Numerous Cousins: Vernon, Sheena, Charaid, Kirk, Arnold, of #21 Swillet Place, Freeport, Grand Selena, Renardo, Malinda, Dorshen, Nicola, Charmaine, Dion, Bahama and formerly of James Cistern, Renae, Ronda Nikkie, Nettie, Secka, Kera and much more; Other Eleuthera died at her residence on Friday, Relatives and Friends: Dave Munnings & Family, Lyden Rolle & September 25th, 2020.

Family, Paula Miller & Family, Mary Knowles & Family, Terrence Winder & Family, Leonardo Aritis & Family, Jamel Roberts survivedserving by her Jemima STATEMENT: To & provide consistent, sympathetic, caring and professional, “ServiceShe withisExcellence” the mother: Commonwealth & MISSION Family, Samuel Fenelus Family, Winfield Sands & Family, of the Bahamas and worldwide, with the highest level of consideration to the personal desires and financial comfort to our client families.

Johnson; 3 sisters: Rowena Maclain, Tracey Dean & Family, Dennis Saunders & Family, Valdia Dean Agnes Knowles and Vonnia Pearce; & Family, Cardinal Rolle & Family, Lawrence Rolle & Family, brothers: James and Deallo Johnson; aunts: Francis Family, Brennen Family, Roberts Family, Miller Family, Ramsey Family, Tasha Davis, Naldo Bowleg, Koolz Ferguson, Rosemary, Fredricka and Dorothy Johnson, Betty Rolle and Shelly Munnings Pinder Family, Rolle Family, Shane, Harry, Debra Johnson; uncles: Thomas Johnson and Iacaac Johnson; Benji, Tom, Dasha, Magin, Eric, Lil Cat, Big Baby, Tony, David, 8 nieces, 7 nephews and a host of other relatives and friends Swiss, The Entire Great Harbour Cay Community and Abaco including: Carlton Maclaian, Nelson Knowles and Kenrick Family.

Pearce. **If Your Name Has Been Inadvertently Omitted It Was Not Arrangements for Ms. Johnson’s service are being finalized Intentional ** and details will be announced at a later date.

Viewing will be held in the Halcyon Suite at Restview Memorial Mortuary and Crematorium Ltd., Robinson and Soldier Roads on Friday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and again at Revival Time Death Notice For Church of God, Bullock Habour, Berry Island until service time.

Mr. Wilfred Sherman, 72

Raynarj Antonio Louis, 3

of #21 Stafford Creek, Andros died at his residence on Sunday, September 20th, 2020.

of Bailey Town, Bimini will be held on Friday, October 2nd, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. at Gateway Outreach Ministries, Bimini. Officiating will be Apostle Gilbert Rolle assisted by other ministers of the gospel. Interment will follow in The Public Cemetery, Porgy Bay, Bimini

He is survived by his daughter: Sherfia Sherman, Diane and Dotlyn Woodside; sons: Avery Sherman and Duran Woodside; grandchildren: Halley, Dacid, Duran Woodside Jr., Zaphir and Dave Neymour Jr., Xavier Hunter Jr., Fredricka Murphy and Avery Sherman; sister: Shirley Barr, Adline Sherman and Leaving to cherish his fond memories are his Mother: Ranika Louis; Adopted Father: Petra Collie; brother: William and Kensil Sherman; numerous Hiram Fife; Brothers: Samuel II (Monet), nieces, nephews and a host of other relatives and friends.

Rayvon & Raheem; Grandparents: Neco & Pamela Louis; Great Grandparents: Alpheus Rolle (Laurine), Rosemary Edgecombe Arrangements for Mr. Sherman’s service are being finalized & Annisette Louis; Aunts: Tova Finley, Sharell, Patrell, Nekquel, and details will be announced at a later date.

Gezelle & Shanique; Uncles: Relando, Necodaine & Gepetto; Niece: Samiah; Cousin: Leonarj, Furon, Anthorn, Jeddiah, Reina Death Notice For & Andre; Godparents: Terricita Curtis, Lakrista Woods, Atia Edward Stuart Senior, 87 Sawyer, Shanaara Harris, De-Aaron Smith, Bendra & Ramona Rolle; School Friends: Diondre McPhee & Marvardo Dean; Close family & friends: Birdie, Lloyd (Brenda), Cora, Helen, Orient, of Moore’s Island, Abaco died at his Sophia Edgecombe & Family, Jaqueline, Ann, Nicole Louis residence on Tuesday, September 29th, &family, Angel, Nakia & Shakira, Valerie (Stephen), Geraldine, 2020.

Sharan, Shelly, Shateke, Nekole, Gabrielle, Keihlandra, Shila, Chet, Pitt, Kenya Stuart, Malca Dean, Girted Hands Academy, He is survived by his children: Jonathan, Apostle Gilbert Rolle & family, Stuarts Conch Stand, The Bimini Osbourne, Stanley, Edward Jr., Bradley, Community Clinic and the Community of Bimini Burselle and Lindell Stuart, numerous grandchildren, and many others relatives **If Your Name Has Been Inadvertently Omitted It Was Not and friends too numerous to mention.

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Arrangements for the funeral service are being finalized and details will be announced at a future date.

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EMBERS of the Deep Creek National Neighbourhood Watch Council (NNWC) have added to their list of duties - with prayer gatherings, car wash events, cleaning initiatives and more.

Marvin RZ Gibson, NNWC president, said: “The Deep Creek NNWC gives voice to everyone and gives strength to our community to help itself, especially trying to get help from anywhere in the midst of a pandemic. It provides a platform for everyone who is invested within a community, regardless of differences or distinctions, to make their presence felt.

“We have some Haitian families in our settlement, and we formed a connection with them, and they are excited to be contributing to our projects. We have foreign residents who saw us conducting the cleanup campaign and the following week they were on the park with us participating in the car wash. This is important to me because it brings people together to interact, establish rapport, share ideas and concerns, and build connections. It unites us as neighbours in our neighbourhood.”

The Ministry of National Security, led by Minister Marvin Dames, introduced the NNWC initiative to the island of Eleuthera in January. A group of people,

Prayer and community

DEEP Creek NNWC community comes together. trained by the Royal Bahamas Police Force, went into communities and established NNWC groups to focus on areas such as religious and spiritual awareness, community care and development, crime deterrence and reduction, and youth violence, prevention and empowerment.

Mr Gibson said: “Everyone is aware of what is happening and encouraged to be a part of what is happening. What we found was that persons were tired of the lack of transparency and were discouraged from being apart of associations and organisations and it is our intention to change that mindset from the outset. We enjoy great support because we constantly

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report to the community about whatever is happening. Prior to the prayer gathering we hosted a community clean-up campaign where we picked up garbage; cans, bottles, debris, and more from the roadsides and verges. It was a great experience to have our community unified behind common causes and created an opportunity for citizens to come together and connect with each other and feel relevant in our community.”

Highlights of the prayer gathering community initiative included an opening prayer by Chaplain Young followed by a singing of ’Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus,” and prayers by Mr Gibson and NNWC vice president

Rev Diana Francis, senior pastor at First Baptist Church, in which religious education teachers and student Christian movement facilitators in conjunction with intercessors and prayer leaders will pray at various schools and campuses throughout the country.

The initiative hopes to continue rounds of prayer, intercession and praise and worship at the selected gates with different ministers and with ministries leading.

The national prayer initiative has an executive planning team including Pastor Dr Roslyn Astwood, Apostle Henry Higgins, Apostle Dr Sterling Mcphee, Dr Ellis Peet, Pastor Christopher Roberts, Min Arlene Thompson and Sis Destiny Murphy, along with Family Island Christian Council representatives and pastoral team leaders, many of whom served as gate team leaders.

For more information about the initiative, email bahamasmanninggates@ gmail.com or join the “Manning the Gates-Bahamas” Facebook Group.

POLICE officers help in community clean up campaigns.

Miller. Organisers said that afterwards people separated into various teams for specific tasks while volunteers kept them refreshed with food, cool drinks, and water. A total of 19 vehicles were cleaned from the Cape Eleuthera Island School; and a total of $463 was raised.

“COVID-19 has changed everything including the way we look at life, and how we interact with each other. The Deep Creek community united in prayer is a demonstration of our reliance on faith over relishing in fear. The Deep Creek NNWC is driven by our faith in God and the power of prayer. We passionately believe that we must trust Him and put Him first if

leader of the Global Worship Centre, led the way in a “kingdom assignment” endorsed by The Bahamas Christian Council.

“Bahamas Manning the Gates National Prayer Initiative is a newly birthed prayer movement that has set out on a mission to revolutionise the nation of The Bahamas through the principles and power of prayer,” she said.

The initiative was inspired by the scripture, Joel 2:17, which admonishes priests “to weep between the porches and the altar”, and aims to bring repentance, reconciliation, revival and restoration to the nation

INTERCESSORS and prayer leaders “manning the gates”.

through continuous corporate prayer and fasting.

It was this mandate that led to the events of August 29, with prayers offered at approximately 60 gates nationwide, with New Providence in particular, manning eight gates which encompassed a north, south, east, and west gate,

in addition to gates that targeted the ports of entry of the nation’s capital such as the airport, Potter’s Cay and the Arawak Cay Container Port. Among these gates was also Rawson’s Square which was manned by the President of The Bahamas Christian Council, Dr Delton Fernander,

Silver Linings

You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby!

I’M calling this my “PostCOVID” installment.

Not because of any cessation in the effect of the pandemic – not by a long shot! We are still to obey every safety protocol. Prevention is still paramount!

I’ve dubbed it this way because, in large amounts, we have moved on with everyday life. There are many new “normals” we must incorporate, deal with, pay close adherence to, but, by and large, we still cope with the everyday usuals that have always existed. Somehow though, as I re- engage myself in what used to be my normal life, I can’t help but look at the ways I have changed.

I no longer see things the way I used to. My appreciations have changed, my circles, entirely dissimilar – I am certainly not the same person I was in March, and I dare say, many of us share

along with members of the council.

In an official statement to Bahamas Manning the Gates National Prayer Initiative, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Peter Turnquest commended the initiative and rendered special thanks to the “courageous and battle-ready” organisers and prayer warriors who are “unceasingly praying for our continued protection”.

The initiative has also sought other pathways to relay the message of their mandate to the masses of the nation. Presently, the initiative hosts virtual prayer gatherings via Zoom every Tuesday at 6am, which also includes a fast between 6am and 3pm.

There is a public Facebook Group under the name “Manning the Gates Bahamas” and the initiative has had prayer declarations broadcast via IL Studios’ Channel 224 and ZNS’ Channel 211 on a weekly basis to echo the message of hope and restoration to viewers of The Bahamas.

There will also be an education component led by

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Manning the gates INTERCESSORS and prayer leaders from around the nation are the being called on to “man the gates” once again this weekend.

This Saturday’s call to prayer is round two of the Bahamas Manning the Gates prayer initiative, which will specifically gather intercessors and prayer leaders from countless churches throughout the country to offer prayer on behalf of the nation at the various gates that were selected for the initial prayer event.

National coordinator and visionary apostle Dr Brenda Pratt, senior

we are to survive this pandemic. These citizens still need help and we have the manpower, but we need wood and supplies to help them. Much of the jobs have come to a screeching halt as a result of COVID-19 and persons were being fed by the Government Rapid Bahamas Food Programme during the lockdown but persons are still hungry and still need help significantly, especially in our community,” said Mr Gibson.

Mr Gibson said the group is still in need of disposable masks and hand sanitisers to distribute to people who cannot afford to purchase them on Eleuthera.

“Local medical practitioners are telling us that the disposable masks are

safer than the cloth masks which are more expensive, and no one should have to choose between eating and wearing a mask. School is also about to reopen and we want to help students with much-needed school supplies. Residents of Deep Creek, Eleuthera, can reach out to me or our community police officer, PC 1311 Brown for a Neighbourhood Watch application form. Friends of Eleuthera, and those wishing to contribute, can contact us at telephone (242) 473-8566 or (242) 801-8510, or on our Facebook page at https://fb.me/DeepCreekNNWC. They can also send us an email at nnwcdeepcreek@gmail.com,” said Mr Gibson.

Additional initiatives include the recent distribution of hand sanitisers to residents of more than 30 homes and a team from the Deep Creek NNWC, police, the Department of Environmental Health Services, and local government touring Deep Creek to identify derelict vehicles for transport to the dump site.

“Efforts were being made to have the derelicts removed because, aside from contributing to rodent infestation, they were an eyesore and an environmental hazard,” said Mr Gibson.

More activities will include a Back-To-School community prayer and car wash, and a walkathon.

that same testimony.

How have I changed you may ask? Well, let’s not focus just on me. I fully believe that the experience we gained during the previous months have forced us all to: • Be more decisive in our choices • Tolerate nonsense less • Become more mindful of our resources • Pursue goals energetically • Cherish true connections In the past few weeks, I have actively mapped out a plan for the rest of this year, into 2021.

This means less time for the frivolous and more effort spent in embracing the change. To mention a few shifts – I’ve become a more conscientious tutor, and a more enthusiastic worshiper; fearlessly rectifying all areas of my life, shining light on hidden places, enclosing open and

vulnerable spots and, in general, just managing this new “Ayanna” that has suddenly emerged somewhat like a phoenix. Conversations with others have proven that this change in persona is widespread. The thing is, not only do we have to get used to who we have become, but we must also be prepared to reintroduce ourselves to the ones we connect with in this “postCOVID” era we now find ourselves in.

If I tell you it is easy, I’d be misleading you all. For one, many will probably not expect the change. They will perhaps assume that you are the same. And herein lies our lesson.

The weight of embracing change is enormous.

That is true for all change, particularly the internal and private. Perhaps it is because it thrusts us into a personal new normal,

ushering us to a place of discomfort first, before yielding any benefit. Any worthwhile change is singular, and individual long before it affects anyone else around us.

Christ himself felt the pressure of that change in the Garden of Gethsemane.

“Father,” He prayed, “let this cup pass from me!” I believe He was intimating: I feel the change and its weight is almost unbearable!

My normal has shifted and I have shifted with it, but I still need strength to fully embrace it.

I’ve become something new and in order to perpetuate and complete this new change I’m going to need your help!

Don’t fear embracing who you have become – I don’t.

In this way, I have stepped into the experience of Christ. And His experience

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assures me that because He is with me and in me, I can leave who I was, and live out who I have become.

Our journey into silver linings has done three things. It has taught us to: • see beyond the price of hard times and hardship • change our point of view to recognizing the benefits of the less immediate • look for individual effects in corporate events And now we know that embracing change takes determination and trust in a bigger plan. Back in

Gethsemane, Christ won in a battle of wills between what was comfortable for Him, and what was necessary in order to accept change.

Celebrating the idea that you have indeed come a long way brings you to an individual openness and honesty about yourself and your situation that can be uncomfortable but liberating. It frees you to be different, and affect change around you in a way you didn’t think was possible.

God Bless You this Week!