Christie, Gray and Davis must each bear direct responsibility for not having ensured adequate property and casualty insurance was in place. The fact that the necessary insurance policy listing the appropriate government agency (BAMSI) as loss-payee was not obtained can only be described as gross negligence on the part of Christie, Gray and Davis. The lame brain stupidity and gross recklessness of these three stooges certainly surpasses that of Moe, Larry and Curly. The gross neglect of Christie, Gray and Davis in just about all that they do or seek to do (or don't do and seek not to do) is why we as a country are mired in debt and why we as poor and middle-class Bahamians are now taxed to death. Christie, Gray and Davis are each the very definition of a bumbling inept incompetent moronic politician with no conscience whatsoever! These imbeciles feel no shame for the horrible hardships they have inflicted on most of us in the course of enriching themselves, their business cronies and political friends. THEY MUST BE HELD TO ACCOUNT!

Gray is proving to be extremely incompetent. Dr Minnis told him a few days ago that work had stopped. He scoffed and mocked and said that was news to him. Only to find out, work had stopped. The DPM then tells us because there was a lull in work the contractor let the insurance lapse.... DUUUHHH..the building is still there at risk of some natural or man made disaster. The dumb-a excuses they utter in the House are simply unbelievable. I can see them at lunch patting each other on the back and saying...boy that was a good one...

If this was a private contract between Gray, Davis, or Christie and the contractor, you can bet your last penny they would hold the contractor liable.

All of the other cronies that got contract base on political affiliation are now scrambling to get their insurance on projects up to speed.

Reading this made me sick today, even though I knew it was coming. No one will be fired, no one will resign, the same contractor will probably get the job again. No denying it we are a throughly corrupt nation, and this government is corrupt to the core.

Definitely not shocked...but saddened even more at the state this country is being run.

Incompetence beyond incompetence. Can this administration do ANYTHING right???

Most of the problem lies at the feet of the Bahamian people because they think these kind of things is only tie to one party. The Bahamian Government function on cronyism, and when a contractor is tie to one party or the next he can get away with almost anything, so they would cut cost everyway they can and wouldn't have to suffer no consequences unless in a situation like this where some fool burn down the building and it came back to bite him.

How much more of this gross ineptitude can the country take? I understand that the M.P's are very rich people and the taxes they are heaping upon Bahamians do not affect them like the rest of us but there must be some sort of accountability. Minister Gray obviously is not worried about the peoples money, I wonder if he would be so caviler with his personal funds? Who makes up the government contracts? Why are the Bahamian people NOT protected from negligence in these contracts? This sits squarely upon the contractor as I doubt the government had take ownership of the completed building from the contractor, but as we all know, the Bahamian people are going to get F#@ked again.

Neither Davis, Gray or Christie showed any sign of being upset about the fact that the building wasn't insured. These fags are so good at pretending but yet they wouldn't even pretend to be upset about the lack of insurance. This just shows how much they don't care AT ALL about the people outside of their circle. And the other MP's that sit next to them didn't raise hell either. None of these ticks give a damn about us. They just want our money. We need to roll them out as soon as possible.

Why would they be upset, they will tender another contract to the same contractor who will "donate" the same amount as before. It is a two for one as far as they are concerned.

That is how it is suppose to work on any contract but it probably wouldn't happen.

It makes more sense to me to blame the arsonist for this mess right now, rather than the contractor or the present government leaders. Moxey has been charged and we will eventually find out if he is indeed guilty or not.

Why would Moxey start this fire? Did the contractor owe him money and this was his way of getting even? Did Moxey "think" that the building was insured and perhaps conducted a dirty deed on behalf of the contractor who apparently was not flush with cash? Insurance fraud is not a new concept. Did the contractor think his insurance was current or lapsed?

I am of the view that the arsonist "had a reason" to do what he did. Why not get to the bottom of that first? If you start there, the blame trail will make itself known in no time at all.

You can't deny blame on the arsonist but sometimes stupid things happens and it uncovers a lot of unprofessionalism. I strongly believe that this kind of things goes on all of time.

Why does any of this come as a surprise - Bamsi will go the way of the BARTAD cows - starved and eventually forgotten. #moreofthesame #AndrosohAndros

The contractor is a good solid PLP...he's got a get out of jail free card, ain't no repercussions in that regard.

Pathetic!

How much was the building insured for? When it was insured that is

UNFORTUNATELY most (if not all) insurances do not pay if arson is proven. But a building under construction should have been insured in any event. So what happens now.: According to reports the building was not completed and eventually set on fire because workmen were not being paid. So assuming the government now issues a rebuilding contract to the same contractor. So what does he do? Use the funds to pay off his old workers and still end up not being able to complete the burned out building, or does the government 'pad' the contract to allow the, obviously incompetent, contractor to bail himself out. In any event the Bahamian taxpayer has lost. They end up with first building that was not completed, then one that is now burned down and may be completed at additional costs. Then there is the delay of having $5-7 million sit idle that could have been in use. But never mind that, how long did the critical care block at PMH sit idle?

This government has no one to blame but themselves. They are still in the habit of hiring and giving contracts to persons who have reputations for "not doing."

Sometimes I wonder why we even have a government.

Yeah...I wonder if Gray knows UWI has had an Agricultural school ln
Trinidad for YEARS. With a well developed programme, with real instructors and students! Imagine that. Second, who can live off bananas and papaya? Seriously if our food supply was cut off could we survive on BAMSI's produce? The first thing the PM needs to do is move Gray he talks horse manure. The second thing he needs to do is figure out BAMSI's purpose, is it to sell to the global market or foster food security?pick anyone and stick to it.

Third isn't there a well established supply of bananas on the world market? Third don't we have a problem with produce spoiling en route to NP currently? Fourth, how hard is it to grow bananas?