Mrs. J. Henry Bostwick This is Me

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1. 1. Fred Mitchell Uncensored.Com For December 2000

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   Published on: 12/1/2000   Last Visited: 11/6/2004

   The case now goes to the Attorney General Janet Bostwick who under the penal code and the constitution has the ultimate conduct of all prosecutions in the country. Like her predecessor Sir Orville Turnquest who entered what is known as a writ of nolli prosequi to end the prosecution of John Mosko who was charged with the murder of a young Bahamian man in 1992, Janet Bostwick can do the same.
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   Prime Minister Ingraham for once seemed sanguine in his comments calling for calm, saying that teachers should allow justice to take its course, that this was only one step in the process and that they should operate in such a manner that Mrs. Bostwick did not feel that she had a gun to her head. From the legal side, there is no appeal from the Coroner. All that is available is judicial review. That is not an adequate remedy because one would have to show that something went procedurally wrong or that the result was so unreasonable that no reasonable tribunal could have come to such a conclusion. So Janet must act and must act quickly to bring some sanity to the system.
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   We said at the PLP's convention that Foreign Minister Janet Bostwick was asleep at the wheel on her job. We were speaking metaphorically, But now we understand that she is sporting neck brace, the result of an accident in her official car. Does that mean she was literally asleep at the wheel?
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   JANET BOSTWICK FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUS
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   JANET BOSTWICK ON GIRLS WITH OLDER MEN
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   JANET BOSTWICK FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUS It is said that the devil finds work for idle hands to do. And nowhere was that more evident than when Janet Bostwick, the Attorney General and Minister of Foreign Affairs awoke from her sleep to suggest to Parliament that the death penalty should be effected on those who sell drugs to children. Now this is the same Janet Bostwick who when she was helping Hubert Ingraham to hang Thomas Reckley was standing outside the courtroom talking to this columnist and telling him that she believed that she would have to answer to her God for seeking to hang Mr. Reckley. Now she wants to hang drug traffickers. Such is the desperation of the Attorney General and her colleagues over crime and the need to impress the Americans. They will say any foolishness and do any nonsense. Mrs. Bostwick was speaking on Monday 4 December in the House on the Dangerous Drugs Act 2000. This Act is to impose penalties of up to forty years for trafficking and a $500,000 fine. Obviously passing a law is going to make a difference in the mind of Mrs. Bostwick. She was there spouting off pretty words about how they are coming after the ill gotten gains of the drug traffickers. She is a part of the Government that granted permission for 4 million dollars of duty free equipment to come into Long Island and were about to grant permission to build a hotel from what is believed to be drug money until Bradley Roberts of the PLP stepped in. Hypocrites are what she and her colleagues are. As for hanging, if she really believed that how come she as Attorney General, not some idle bystander, did not put that in the bill so we could debate that. Now she doesn't mean a word of it. All she is doing is posturing. Go back to sleep Minister! It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove that you are one.
   
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   JANET BOSTWICK ON GIRLS WITH OLDER MEN Janet Bostwick, the somnambulant Minister of Foreign Affairs and political chief of the Womens' Desk has another concern these days. She says that under age girls living with older men are a growing concern for the Government as it confronts problems arising from sexual permissiveness. So The Tribune reported in its edition of Monday 4 December. She was speaking at the AIDS Foundation and Disabled Persons Awareness Walk on Saturday 2 December in Nassau.
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   JANET BOSTWICK DEFENDS HENRY WHAT BRADLEY ROBERTS SAID ABOUT A LEXUS
   
   THE RIGHTS OF A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT A QUESTION FOR MRS. BOSTWICK
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   Janet Bostwick, the person whom we like to call the somnambulant Minister of Foreign Affairs awoke from one of her periodic political sleeps this week for what has to be a most remarkable thing. There she was rising to the defence of her husband, the President of the Senate J. Henry Bostwick. Now the President Mr. Bostwick is not a political neophyte by any means, so one wonders what caused Mrs. Bostwick to rise to his defence.
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   JANET BOSTWICK DEFENDS HENRY Henry Bostwick was once a Leader of the Opposition. He has run for Parliament more times than you can shake a stick at from his earliest political days. He was a political dissident of the PLP, from the early days. He opposed the United Bahamian Party dread star in the old days. But nothing apparently caused his wife to come out in his defence like the allegation made from the floor of the House which suggested that a Lexus driven by him, a brand new Lexus of which he is justly proud was not simply that. So at least was the take of his wife, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Janet Bostwick. She attacked Bradley Roberts, the MP for Grants Town and Chairman of the PLP for making such suggestions. Here's what she is quoted as having said in the House: "Janet and Henry Bostwick have been the objects of attack by leading members of the PLP for more than some fourteen, sixteen years and you may ask why. It is because we both in and out of Parliament took very strong positions with respect to the leadership of that party as a result of damaging evidence emanating from the condemning report of the Commission of Inquiry which took place in 1983 and 1984." According to The Tribune, Mrs. Bostwick confirmed that her husband drives a Lexus and that it was purchased in The Bahamas for a fair price.
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   But it is always interesting to hear lame Members of Parliament like Janet Bostwick get up and dare other members to repeat what they say outside.
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   Mrs. Bostwick simply has to answer the questions posed by Mr. Roberts or let it rest quietly.
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   A QUESTION FOR MRS. BOSTWICK There was a story run in The Punch, the popular twice weekly gossip rag. It was all the rage at the time. We forget which year. But the story is told how Members of Parliament could hear Hubert Ingraham and Henry Bostwick, Senate President arguing in the smoking room of the House of Assembly.
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   Well quite apart from the disrespect that would show to the Governor General, the question we have is where was Janet Bostwick the wife of our esteemed Senate President when the Prime Minister threatened her husband with dismissal. There were no public protests by Mrs. Bostwick then. And the Prime Minister did not say his comments using the privilege of the House of Assembly, he simply abused the privilege of power. That's our PM for you. Mind you he would not try that move on someone like Senator Lynn Holowesko. And if you e-mail us, we'll tell why he wouldn't do so. A clue: he knows his 'betters'. But it only goes to show that Janet Bostwick is a puff of wind. She has plenty of mouth when it comes to an allegation about a Lexus for which duty may not have been paid, but when it really came to defending her husband's honour against a big bad bully, Janet Bostwick was yes you guessed it, asleep at the wheel.
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   How can the US Ambassador supporte the death penalty for drug traffickers or least the call for it by the Foreign Minister without first examining whether or not Janet Bostwick is a mere bystander? She is part of a Government that has bills before Parliament now but no where does it say anything about the death penalty for drug traffickers. So that means that she let a whole bill on drug trafficking be drafted in her office and pass the Cabinet but not a peep about her pet peeve, the death penalty for drug traffickers.
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   Attorney General Janet Bostwick who has had the transcript of the case in her possession from Christmas Eve has not yet made a decision and as usual is dragging her feet in what is a clear case of a Coroner's jury coming to an absurd verdict.
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   Mrs. Bostwick sought and obtained an apology from The Tribune and Niki Kelly in the most grovelling terms to herself and her husband.
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   The Tribune was fully contrite about how Mrs. Bostwick was not dragging her feet in charging the persons who brought in the high priced stolen cars and did not pay customs duty. She revealed that the police have only charged one person, the other persons are believed to have skipped town. On the car, a Lexus bought by her husband she got Niki Kelly and The Tribune to apologize for their comments about t

2. 2. BahamasUncensored.Com Archive - September 2002

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   Published on: 9/1/2002   Last Visited: 4/4/2004

   Chief amongst them is the former President of the Senate J. Henry Bostwick, the husband of former Foreign Minister Janet Bostwick. The now plain Mr. Bostwick it is reported in a pinch will take to parking his car at the Cabinet Minister's section of the Nassau International Airport. Whereupon on one of his last visits, it was reported that the car was towed. Mr. Bostwick is said to have come back and found the car missing, checked with the administration and found that his car was in the compound for towed cars. He made his way there and just as he got there and saw his car, he started those lachrymose glands a running like a baby about how people have been trying to embarrass him by towing his car. They felt so sorry for him that the report is that he didn't have to pay to get the car released. We denied this story on his behalf but people keep insisting it's true.

3. 3. The Freeport News - Two fined, ordered to leave the country

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   Published on: 9/3/2003   Last Visited: 9/3/2003

   Caldwell, was represented by attorney J. Henry Bostwick and pleaded guilty to possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition and was fined $10,000 cash.