On this day after Valentine’s Day, what better time to discuss sexually transmitted infections (STIs). And as we hear from Nurse Larrie Ferguson, Coordinator of STI Services, the country has a lot of be concerned about, with certain STIs on the rise.

Also, views on the impending VAT system, and the latest statistics on car theft in the country.

And “70s Music Week” begins Monday!

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URCA officials – Kathleen Smith, CEO, and Stephen Bereaux, Director of Policy & Regulation – explain the regulatory body’s reasons for denying Cable Bahamas’ application for a 27 percent increase on basic cable packages.

And we discuss National Security Minister Dr. Bernard Nottage’s comments about the state of crime, and the deaths of two men in police custody last week.

Coming next week – 70’s Music Week! The best music of the decade, all week!

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The calls continue to grow for the country to implement a proper legal aid and public defender system. We discuss the dire need for this with lawyer Ellsworth Johnson, a tutor at Eugene Dupuch Law School, and Vice President of the Bahamas Bar Association.
Johnson, who is also the President of the Bahamas Human Rights Network, also discuss the deaths of two men in police custody over the weekend.

And fresh from the Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas in December, Celeste Marshall, Miss Universe Bahamas, is back to tell us what she’ll be doing next.

And we’ve got our “Quote of the Week”.

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More children are clinically depressed than we might want to admit. So says Dr. Michelle Major with the Caribbean Centre for Child Development. We discuss the warning signs and symptoms, and ways to tackle the problems.

And a heated debate is sparked about spanking and beating children and corporal punishment.

Plus our ‘Song of the Week’ – Daughtry’s “No Surprise”

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With estimates of between 600 to 700 teenage girls giving birth to children every year in this country, we discuss the challenges of teen pregnancy in The Bahamas with Sonia Brown, President of the PACE Foundation, and Andrea Archer, Founder of the PACE Program and a Director of the foundation.

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