Again, I must congratulate Minister of Health Donville?Inniss on his stand regarding legalising prostitution.
He made it clear during a top-level regional meeting on HIV/AIDS at?Hilton Barbados on January 12 that legalizing prostitution would not be one of those laws to be modernised any time soon.
He said:?“The issue of legalising prostitution would always be a heated one, filled with emotion and sometimes a lack of objectivity”.
I support him 100 per cent. There are too many people out there who are hiding behind a term that is very annoying to me: “sex worker”.
Which school or university does one have to attend in order to qualify for such a job?
The minister was right when he stated that we must not drop our moral guard just to please others. I hope more Barbadians would be like the minister and stand up and be counted on this issue and other matters that deal with our falling morals.
The church is too silent on this issue.
During Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) The People’s Business sometime last year, a guest on that programme tried to make a case for the so-called sex worker, but that guest was disappointing. His argument being that the sex worker could generate much revenue for the Government.
I do not agree with the whole concept, because money is not all and morality is very important to any nation.
I ask: “. . . What doth it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?”
All of us must do all within our power to help hold this society and country together. We are living in a time when morals all around us are falling. Let us play our part now, before it’s too late.
Ecumenical service
The Emmanuel AME?Church will be holding an ecumenical service in celebration of Christian unity at the Emmanuel AME Church, Silver?Hill, Christ Church, tonight at 7:30. All are invited.
St?Paul Patronal Festival
The St?Paul’s Anglican Church will be celebrating its Patronal Festival from Sunday, January 23, to Thursday, January 27. The preacher for the festival will be the Reverend Robert McLean, rector of St?Andrew Church,?Manchester, Jamaica.
The programme is as follows:
Sunday at 8 a.m. Sung Eucharist and Procession; Solemn Evensong and Procession at 6 p.m.
From Monday to Thursday the service will take the form of Solemn Evensong and Procession and will begin at 7 nightly.
Candle Light Service
The St Paul Church, will be holding a candlelight service on February 2, at 7:30 p.m. The preacher will be Canon Claude Berkley, Bishop Coadjutor elect of the Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago.
Absence from Diocese
Archbishop of the West Indies and Bishop of Barbados Reverend Dr John Holder will be absence from the Diocese from Monday until February 1 to attend a primates’ meeting in Ireland.
During his absence Dean Frank Marshall will service as Vicar?General.
Deanery meeting
The St?John Deanery will be meeting next Thursday at 10 a.m. at the St?John’s Parish Church. The meeting will be under the chairman of Rural Dean Canon Dr?Geoffrey Mayers.
Harvest
The Centenary Moravian Church at Shop Hill, St?Thomas, will be holding its annual harvest on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. The public is invited.
Thanks
The Moravian Disciples would like to thank all of those who supported their concert last Saturday and made it a success.
15th anniversary
The pastor and members of Emmanuel AME Church, Silver Hill, Christ?Church, wish to thank all those who supported them in 2010.
On Sunday there will be celebrating their 15th anniversary with a rally at 3:30 p.m. at the church. All are invited.
