Bahamas Christian Council President Bishop Delton Fernander yesterday expressed concern over the Davis administration's plan to achieve citizenship changes via legislative means after two referendums to effect gender equality in the country's constitution failed over a decade apart.
"I think it's the wrong route," Fernander told The Nassau Guardian in response to Attorney General Ryan Pinder foreshadowing that citizenship changes will be achieved via legislation prior to the end of the year.
Fernander added, "Obviously, if the legislative route could have been done, why did we go through two referendums?"
The first proposed amendment in the 2016 referendum would have allowed children born abroad to obtain Bahamian citizenship from either their Bahamian father or mother, in those circumstances where the other parent is not Bahamian.
Right now, only Bahamian men are entitled to pass their Bahamian citizenship to their children born abroad in these situations.
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