Either the damn radar was on and working or it was not.why all the cloak and dagger

PLP Mantra: DENY, DENY, DENY!!!!

They will look into the matter and a report will be done...contents will be revealed in due course...

...A committee will be assigned to look into the matter

what the good Minister does not understand is, she can say whatever she wants - she will lose the argument.
1. If the Radar was NOT broken - how comes NO warning was issued.
2. If the Radar was broken, then obviously no one had seen the storm coming, and it makes sense that NO warning was issued.
If 1. was true = the whole gang is incompetent.
if 2. was trust = the whole gang is incompetent.
Result: The minister has to take the political responsibility and go.

Exactly

Comrade Minister with the greatest respect, if as I had posted within hours Hurricane Joaquin hitting Crooked Island that the radar's Magetron is weak and needed be replaced but never was repaired nor replaced - was a correct statement - then you can see why I must disagree with you.
Minister a simple question. Was the Megetron in need, or not in need of repair/replacing?
The maintenance log books must be made public, if your position is that the radar's
Megetron had always remained fully operational.

Liar, liar, bloomers on fire!

No different than her father....just look at her new oriental dress code! Anyone waking up to this woman each morning would be better off .......oh well, you know what I mean!

Unfortunately the electorate is in the bottom half of the Caribbean as far as literacy. If this was not the case, perhaps The Bahamas would choose a new direction as Canada has. The other problem facing this nation, is the choices for leadership at present no matter what the level of education, It appears the political elite of both parties have it exactly where they want.

It's truly unfortunate that the Min of Met doesn't train its storm monitoring staff to reboot their computers when there is a storm in the neighborhood and it's hurricane season. Joaquin was a slow motion train wreck of a storm. It was generally moving at about 3-4 MPH to the SSW since it formed on 9/27. I wonder why, when it was clearly not moving as predicted by US NHC, the Bahamian government didn't decide to put out a warning since it was better to err on the side of caution and get the much vaunted and well oiled incoming storm preparedness machine in motion. No one in their right mind would have condemned the government for pulling the trigger on false alarm. Better safe than sorry? Another thing, wouldn't they have seen the outer whorls of the storm as it approached? It wasn't THAT small. Why weren't they screaming louder and louder on the 28th, 29th and 30th that an unpredictable storm was approaching, to open the shelters and to get to shelter ASAP? Maybe they need to train to reboot the phones too!

These people are relics of the past ! Why are they even there. ?

It's truly unfortunate that the Min of Met doesn't train their storm monitoring staff to reboot their monitoring computers when there is an erratic, burgeoning storm within striking distance and it is high hurricane season. Joaquin was a slow motion train wreck of a hurricane. It was only moving at about 3-4 miles SSW. It took 4 days to close on the southern Bahamas. I wonder why the government didn't post some warnings when it became evident that the storm wasn't behaving as their models predicted? Why not start up the well oiled and much vaunted Bahamas National Hurricane preparedness machine. No one in their right mind is going to blame them for erring on the side of caution for ramping up their warnings in the face of an unpredictable storm. Another thing, why didn't they get on the phone early to begin opening the shelters positively and start getting people moving to the shelters with provisions. Do they have to teach them and the cops to reboot the telephones too? Can't they set up a phone tree or visit the outlying settlements to verify preparations in them nice shiny jeeps?

The Report says that the Radar was not necessary to track the storm, as it can only track for 150 miles that is Exuma. but it was working. The weather channel has already apologise for what they said. and I have heard many US weather men say, the storm developed extremely quickly. But the reporter with "The Radar was not working " in her quest to fling mud on the Government has no problems throwing it on innocent people such as Mr: Dean and others.

So this confirms that the storm was not tracked. The radar which may or may not have worked is not to be blamed.

@birdie You are so ignorant that if the internet gave an electric shock for postings of your kind, you would be one burnt up cajun poster.

Someone better secure that log-book or make some copies. I have a feeling it will go missing.

Bottom line is Storm was not being properly tracked for whatever reason, hence insufficient Warnings, and those responsible for such failings need to resign, end of story, as if you are not going to take responsibility for putting Lives in jeopardy, then what are you?!? Very sad state of affairs, which stands as yet another example of why this Country is in the mess it is in.

birdie says it is ok so it must be ok. birdie goin to put up lots of money for hurricane relief too.

So to hell with yall.we didn't open the shelters,we didn't have a proper communications system,we didn't respond until late saturday on our relief efforts those are not important,but we will have a full fledge press conference to tell yall that the radar that was of no use to us was working.

Wow, our game-development company has a better infrastructure than the Bahamas. Our computers don't need "rebooting". If something needs rebooting it's an indicator for something being broken. "Just reboot" is the jackass answer you'll give a non-techie when you cannot be arsed to fix the issue in the first place.

Comrades within hours Hurricane Joaquin making landfall I had also blogged there were:
(A). NEMA assigned satellite phones with dead batteries,
(B). NEMA assigned satellite phones that emergency personnel did not know the phone numbers of the other phones they were to call in an emergency.
The Minister is mistaken if she thinks she will quiet people in the palm of her hand on this one like she thinks she did over Baha Mar.
This whole NEMA pre prep and response could very well end up being the root cause of more than ministerial undoing.

From earlier this month ? Late September until early October 1-2 no warnings was given. October 1-2 until now and you couldn't come out and tell the Bahamian people if the radar was working or not. So the Baha
mian people are fools?

Ya got to love the PLP signage in her left hand. Security Blankie I guess.

I suggest a good old fashioned PLP Anal Probe? then possibly appoint a committee to review the facts, then sweep it all under the rug unless of course it can still be used to steal funds from the public

"*Mr Basden said he was disappointed by the logbook entry, but would not say whether the person responsible for the entry would face disciplinary action.*"

What a shortsighted manager..simply amazing. "Disappointed" that an employee offered a professional assessment and not willing to say if the employee will be punished for that assessment...exactly what does he think will happen in future? Who is going to report anything in the logbook that is adverse to what Mr Basden wants to see in his perfect cya world? What good is the logbook then? Why write anything if nothing ever breaks?

I recall a similar experience with a foreign boss who thought he was the end all. I reviewed my daily report, saw something wrong, looked at it again because I could not believe something was wrong, I then reported "something is wrong" to the senior team, as I'd been directed to do when I saw something wrong. (laughable). This boss then instructed another foreign worker to tell everyone nothing was wrong. That worker had a little sense, he checked before he acted and he told the boss something really is wrong. Boss never apologized. God complex and arrogance have no colour or nationality.

**Who's responsible for auditing the MET office's procedures btw**? I'd be really concerned about the possibility of Mr Basden punishing an employee for reporting an adverse condition in the log

You need your employee's eyes and ears because you can't see everything. Even if the employee is wrong, when you sort out the issue, you simply make a note next to the original entry explaining what the real problem was