A flag-raising ceremony on Monday officially launched the country’s 30th-anniversary celebrations. The first island to receive the flag was Eleuthera, where MPs Alvin Smith and Oswald Ingraham were on hand and “all together.” <\/P><\/p>\n
The flag will travel to all of the major Family Islands and return to Nassau on July 9 for the independence services. Members of the original constitutional reform committee, led by former deputy prime minister Arthur Hanna, will escorted on to Clifford Park for the event. <\/P><\/p>\n
This editorial writer recalls that historic moment in 1973 when the Bahamian flag unfurled for the first time. The writer was at the time a government press marshal working closely with a police lance corporal named Paul Farquharson. <\/P><\/p>\n
We were truly all together then. Would that it could be that way again. <\/P><\/p>\n
Editorial, The Nassau Guardian<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After all the hoo-ha about desecration of the Bahamian flag, we are pleased to see that the Independence Secretariat is on the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}