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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
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FREEPORT, The Bahamas - Members of the Judicial System gathered at the Garnet Levarity Justice Centre on Friday, January 13, 2017, for the Opening of the 2017 Legal Year - Northern Region.
Chief Justice Hartman Longley, Retired Justice of Appeal, Neville Adderley, Attorney General, Senator the Hon. Allyson Maynard-Gibson, along with other Supreme Court Justices, Industrial Tribunal, Registrars and Magistrates all met for their annual march to the Pro-Cathedral of Christ the King for ecumenical services.
All schools within the Freeport area were represented. Supreme Court Justice Estelle Gray-Evans read the Old Testament Lesson, and Miss Ntshonda Tynes, Acting Assistant Registrar read the New Testament Lesson. Selections were performed by students from Bishop Michael Eldon School and Sunland Baptist Academy.
Archdeacon of the Northern Bahamas, the Venerable Harry Bain, welcomed the group and said while he would normally preach the sermon, as it is an election year, he did not want to get in trouble. He shared a few jokes, and the service continued.
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Rev. Marie Roach-Hepburn, Curate, preached the sermon who she was not going to talk about the oaths they would have all taken, the recent crime statistics, changes made or the deplorable state of the Garnet Levarity Justice Centre. Instead, she addressed love. The importance of loving each other as you love yourself. Love, she said, is the fulfilment of the Lord and if everyone truly loved God, the attorneys and all those involved in the Legal System would have no work.
Being held to a higher standard, the members of the Judicial System were told they should love God, love themselves and love others. Love, she said, is an important virtue of Christians, and they should not get so caught up in their professional lives that they don't make time to develop their relationship with God and forget who wakes them up each morning.
Following the hour-and-a-half-long service, the group marched back to the Garnet Levarity Justice Centre for the Inspection of the Honour Guard, the formal photograph, and a brief reception. Members of the Royal Bahamas Police Force Band performed briefly, and then led the Honour Guard off. Justices also took the opportunity to speak with a number of the students. (BIS Photos/Lisa Davis)
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FREEPORT, The Bahamas -- Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs the Hon. Allyson Maynard Gibson with school children, and marching, during 2017 Opening of Legal Year ceremonies in Grand Bahama. (BIS Photos/Lisa Davis)
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