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Setback for three-party political system
The attempt at third party politics in The Bahamas probably died yesterday, when The Coalition for Democratic Reform (CDR) announced at a news conference held at The Cable Beach Resort & Casino that with immediate effect, it was disbanding and joining forces with the Free National Movement (FNM). The announcement was made by Charles Maynard who was joined at the news conference by the Chairman of the FNM, Desmond Bannister and all his officers.Democratic systems thrive on all being able to have a voice and in principle, when we have many political parties existing, this should translate into a broad spectrum of views being aired.
Why did the CDR come into existence? In my opinion, the only reason why the CDR was formed was because Dr Bernard Nottage was disgruntled at the Progressive Liberal Party's (PLP) hierarchy, in that he was not made the leader and he sought a means to have a platform; thus, the CDR was born.
An unlikely dorm
Bonnie Basden hadn't planned to make her home a dormitory. And she couldn't have known that it would become the empathetic embrace of a home away from home for 10 Family Island boys over the past six years.Because six years ago, Mrs. Basden, 44, had just wanted her own son, Anthony, to attend a school that was well-rounded. Academics were all good and well; after all, strong academics could put a school on the map for generations.
But Mrs. Basden, a veteran athlete and the first female from Grand Bahama to make the national basketball team, wanted more. She wanted to see her son's school then Sunland Lutheran School, now Sunland Baptist Academy become the kind of school that equally courted top scholars and star athletes.
So in an unprecedented move, Mrs.
Man gets prison term for stealing from employer
BRECKENRIDGE - A former Fairplay man who stole $250,000 over nearly three years from his Silverthorne employer faces an eight-year sentence in prison for the felony theft.David Lantz, 47, siphoned the money from Kaupas Water Labs between November 2002 and September 2005 when he was employed as the business' accountant.
Summit County District Judge Terry Ruckriegle handed down the sentence to Lantz on Monday afternoon in Breckenridge after listening to statements from Lantz's wife, his pastor, his marriage counselor, Lantz himself and Kaupas Water owner Ed Kaupas.
"This community lives and breathes on the employment force working for employers, whether it's ski areas or individual owners such as Mr. Kaupas," Ruckriegle said to Lantz. "When trust is broken to the level that you broke it, it's absolutely imperative that the community understand what the consequences of that are."
Ruckriegle cited Lantz's violation of trust as an accountant, his efforts to hide the thefts by stopping the mail and locking the file cabinet while he was on vacation, and his lack of any attempt to pay Kaupas back as reasons for imposing the sentence he did.
Weather system being monitored
Weather officials are keeping a very close eye on a system just northeast of The Bahamas that they believe might develop into a tropical storm "in the next day or so."Forecaster at the local Department of Meteorology Pat Butler said there is also a trough just east of The Bahamas that is expected to bring scattered storms and thunderstorms to the islands.
"And yes, there's that disorganised and low pressure area northeast of The Bahamas," he told the Nassau Guardian yesterday. "They say they are going to investigate that with an aircraft and then they'll see what is up with that. But it just might develop into a tropical storm." He added that as the possible tropical storm moves west-northwest over water, it is gathering a cluster of thun derstorms that meteorologists will investigate to see if it has any "circulation."
Should this system turn into a tropical storm, it would be named Beryl.