NATIONAL NOTES

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NATIONAL NOTES

Four more members of the Cuban national baseball team fled Cuba and were picked up off Ragged Island. They, along with seven other escapees, were taken to a detention centre in Nassau. Concern was voiced in several areas of the national press that a double standard was being employed with respect to Cuban escapees. Distinction is drawn by all governments between political refugees and economic refugees. Apparently, baseball players who escape from Cuba and sign $6 million contracts with Major League Baseball teams are considered political refugees in The Bahamas.

Bahamian movie actor Sir Sidney Poitier, now Ambassador to Japan, was in Nassau during April. He visited his old secondary school in the company of his classmate at the time, Governor-General Sir Orville Turnquest. At a later date Sir Sidney awarded four scholarships for Cat Island students to attend the College of The Bahamas. Sir Sidney Poitier is a native of Cat Island and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 'Lilies of the Field'.

The Anglican Bishop of Nassau and The Bahamas including the Turks and Caicos Islands in a press conference on 7th April said he believed there was an international homosexual agenda afoot. Bishop Gomez said the church was not against homosexuals as individuals but felt that the government, by allowing cruise ships to dock in The Bahamas with large homosexual groups, has instituted a policy without consulting the public. He repudiated the use of the word 'gay' as "an ideological expression... that is a deliberate attempt to change the way human beings are perceived." The traditional teaching of the Bible and the historic Christian position on homosexuality will be upheld in the Province of the West Indies, he asserted.

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