by Felicity Johnson
Prime Minister Perry Christie gave a keynote address at the 31st Annual Conference and Trade Exhibition of CANTO (Caribbean Organization of National Telecommunications Organization) on July 26 in Miami.
His apparent preoccupation with his record-setting number of addresses to CANTO by "any one prime minister" captured my attention on the question of relevance and gave me even greater cause to consider the appropriateness of the contents of his address.
Perhaps the Bahamas Telecommunications Company's CEO Leon Williams ought to be congratulated for being able to draw the prime minister away from the country at a time when numerous critical issues required the prime minister's urgent attention at home, in order to address a trade exhibition and secure his record. In any event, who was counting? Probably not the otherwise engaged prime ministers of the region.
Perhaps the fact that the Bahamas and BTC in particular have hosted this CANTO event three times in the last 12 years at some expense influenced the frequency with which the prime minister has addressed the group.
Nonetheless, the appropriateness and relevance of the content of the PM's address must be viewed in the context of the Bahamian telecommunications sector of 2015.
Dead People on Facebook & Unskilled People in the Workforce
by Larry Smith
"How can you rape an underage girl and then post pictures of her online?"
That was the question posed by the grieving mother of Rehteah Parsons, who says her daughter was never the same after four boys sexually assaulted her two years ago.
When a cellphone picture of the alleged assault was circulated around her Nova Scotia high school, Rehtaeh immediately dropped out, and eventually committed suicide. Her funeral was held on Saturday.
The initial police investigation had ended with no charges filed, due to lack of evidence, but following public pressure the police reopened their investigation. A large part of that pressure was a threat by the hacker group, Anonymous, to identify the boys online.
In 2009 a New York City emergency medical technician faced misdemeanor charges after being accused of taking a picture of a female murder victim and posting it to his Facebook page.
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