with a transparent, non-corrupted trustworthy Government a bill like this would actually assist law officers ( once their not under the influence of the Government and without any Government involvement) this bill would assist law officers significantly by take criminals including corrupted officials, Government, law officers, lawyers, Judges all who are playing a roll in crime. this bill would only be good for the people and the country if a federal agency or corruption department is create but not under the terms or organisations in place now.

with a transparent, non-corrupted trustworthy Government a bill like this would actually assist law officers ( once their not under the influence of the Government and without any Government involvement) this bill would assist law officers significantly by take criminals including corrupted officials, Government, law officers, lawyers, Judges all who are playing a roll in crime. this bill would only be good for the people and the country if a federal agency or corruption department is create but not under the terms or organisations in place now.

Of course it'll "take time to implement." The PLP will leave this for the next government, just like the FNM did in 2012, because no politician in the Bahamas wants this.

also, the postponement of this bill is the price of shelving the spy bill for the time being.

"*ATTORNEY General Allyson Maynard-Gibson said that while the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) will be debated in the Senate on Monday **and passed by Thursday**,*"

Unable to begin to 'can". What's the purpose of the debate?

This proposed FOIA will never have any teeth for obvious reasons. Sadly the problem is much deeper than we would like to think simply because the correlation between the typical types of voters in our society today and the usual kind of politicians they prefer to elect is much too great. As the saying goes: "Birds of a feather flock together" or, in the more appropriate local vernacular, "scum loves only scum"! Therefore replacing an already well fed and fattened bunch of crooks with a very hungry and malnourished bunch of crooks would likely exacerbate our country's death by a thousand cuts. Like most Bahamians I want to be more optimistic, but unfortunately history shows the single most telling sign of a doomed country is the lack of available political alternatives which usually results in a dictatorship of some kind at the end of the day. Even LBT who already looks well fed is nevertheless hungry and anxious to have access to deals on the side with foreign investors and that shining pot of gold held by our country's government which is filled with our tax dollars a/k/a the Public Treasury! Keep in mind too that our PMs have typically also given away for pennies on the dollar large portions of our Crown Land to benefit themselves and their cronies. The dynamics at play are such that much sun light will never be allowed to shine on the dastardly deeds of the corrupt politicians that "we" voters elect to office.