Friday, December 31, 2010

BTC Injunction Lifted

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By Scieska Adderley

The Bahamas Communications Public Officer's Union (BCPOU) and Bahamas Public Manager's Union (BCPMU) received some good news yesterday after a two week injunction was placed against them by the management of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) was lifted.

Supreme Court Justice Bernard Turner handed down the verbal ruling.

One of the union’s attorneys, Anthony McKinney explained Wednesday’s ruling to the Bahama Journal.

"In the matter of BTC vs. BCPOU and BCPMU, he discharged the injunction against the unions. This means that the injunction has been lifted and the parties are back to the conditions that they were

Thursday, December 30, 2010

BTC Injunction Lifted

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By Scieska Adderley

The Bahamas Communications Public Officer's Union (BCPOU) and Bahamas Public Manager's Union (BCPMU) received some good news yesterday after a two week injunction was placed against them by the management of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) was lifted.

Supreme Court Justice Bernard Turner handed down the verbal ruling.

One of the union’s attorneys, Anthony McKinney explained Wednesday’s ruling to the Bahama Journal.

"In the matter of BTC vs. BCPOU and BCPMU, he discharged the injunction against the unions. This means that the injunction has been lifted and the parties are back to the conditions that they were

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

BTC Injunction Lifted

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By Scieska Adderley

The Bahamas Communications Public Officer's Union (BCPOU) and Bahamas Public Manager's Union (BCPMU) received some good news yesterday after a two week injunction was placed against them by the management of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) was lifted.

Supreme Court Justice Bernard Turner handed down the verbal ruling.

One of the union’s attorneys, Anthony McKinney explained Wednesday’s ruling to the Bahama Journal.

"In the matter of BTC vs. BCPOU and BCPMU, he discharged the injunction against the unions. This means that the injunction has been lifted and the parties are back to the conditions that they were

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Christmas Should be More Commercial

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image 1920's Coca-Cola advertisement

Christmas in America is an exuberant display of human ingenuity, capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment of life. Yet all of these are castigated as "materialistic"; the real meaning of the holiday, we are told, is assorted Nativity tales and altruist injunctions (e.g., love thy neighbor) that no one takes seriously.

In fact, Christmas as we celebrate it today is a 19th-century American invention. The freedom and prosperity of post-Civil War America created the happiest nation in history. The result was the desire to celebrate, to revel in the goods and pleasures of life on earth. Christmas (which was not a federal holiday until 1870) became the leading American outlet for this feeling.

Historically, people have always celebrated the winter solstice as the time when the days begin to lengthen, indicating the earth's return to life. Ancient Romans feasted and reveled during the festival of Saturnalia. Early Christians condemned these Roman celebrations -- they

Monday, December 27, 2010

Christmas Should be More Commercial

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image 1920's Coca-Cola advertisement

Christmas in America is an exuberant display of human ingenuity, capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment of life. Yet all of these are castigated as "materialistic"; the real meaning of the holiday, we are told, is assorted Nativity tales and altruist injunctions (e.g., love thy neighbor) that no one takes seriously.

In fact, Christmas as we celebrate it today is a 19th-century American invention. The freedom and prosperity of post-Civil War America created the happiest nation in history. The result was the desire to celebrate, to revel in the goods and pleasures of life on earth. Christmas (which was not a federal holiday until 1870) became the leading American outlet for this feeling.

Historically, people have always celebrated the winter solstice as the time when the days begin to lengthen, indicating the earth's return to life. Ancient Romans feasted and reveled during the festival of Saturnalia. Early Christians condemned these Roman celebrations -- they

Sunday, December 26, 2010

BTC Injunction Lifted

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By Scieska Adderley

The Bahamas Communications Public Officer's Union (BCPOU) and Bahamas Public Manager's Union (BCPMU) received some good news yesterday after a two week injunction was placed against them by the management of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) was lifted.

Supreme Court Justice Bernard Turner handed down the verbal ruling.

One of the union’s attorneys, Anthony McKinney explained Wednesday’s ruling to the Bahama Journal.

"In the matter of BTC vs. BCPOU and BCPMU, he discharged the injunction against the unions. This means that the injunction has been lifted and the parties are back to the conditions that they were

Saturday, December 25, 2010

BTC Injunction Lifted

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By Scieska Adderley

The Bahamas Communications Public Officer's Union (BCPOU) and Bahamas Public Manager's Union (BCPMU) received some good news yesterday after a two week injunction was placed against them by the management of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) was lifted.

Supreme Court Justice Bernard Turner handed down the verbal ruling.

One of the union’s attorneys, Anthony McKinney explained Wednesday’s ruling to the Bahama Journal.

"In the matter of BTC vs. BCPOU and BCPMU, he discharged the injunction against the unions. This means that the injunction has been lifted and the parties are back to the conditions that they were