Christie, Halkitis, Simones, Gomez (the doctor), Maynard-Gibson and Frank "No One Dumber" Smith and others like them all belong in prison for gross negligence and careless disregard for life in connection with their abuse of public office and the public's trust! These people are de facto murderers!!

can you lock up the dumbarses that voted for them at the same time?

Already in excess of 1 million dollars (excluding purchase price of land) has been spent levelling a hill for the new mini hospital in Central Eleuthera. And the work is not finished. Surely it is time to take a stand and cancel / postpone these expensive projects especially as clinics on the island do not have adequate stocks of basic medication.

I never understood the practice of leveling hills on islands that are at sea level, that face global warming and yearly hurricane threats. Another national security risk no one's paid attention to for forty years.they should stop that practice immediately. National security needs to be "national" security, it's not solely "crime" or "terrorism". Mother Nature, Pestilence, Pandemics, Drought, Famine, Financial Collapse of Industries etc etc

You, sir, are speaking Greek to the Burmese! Lucrative contracts with hidden strings were the order of the day for decades here.

Common sense as you speak of played absolutely no role in the decision-making process. That's the reason our country is dysfunctional today.

Doctor Sands is talking to persons who he believes are fools. and below him . Does he
want people to forget that the FNM left a one hundred million dollars over run on the Road project alone in addition to other bills. Bills come in every day, he should give some Bahamian some kind of common sense and stop talking foolishness. If the economy does not improve
their song and dance will be short lived.

But you did receive new road infrastructure did you not Birdie? The PLP cannot finish any initiative or project they ever start, its always a setup from the get go and the Bahamian people receive essentially nothing or end up worse off then they were before the project even began. No one is falling for your governments empty promises Biridie, Bahamians have finally had enough.

As long as we have politicians running hospitals (or anything else for that matter) not will get better.

Strange thing, Birdie starting to sound just like Bradley Roberts. Maybe they should take the advise of another PLP, Philip Galanis, as he stated in the Guardian this morning; " Sometimes people need to shut up."

The Messenger just after you and others on this site including Galanis shut up . Then I will
until then I will carry on smartly.

birdie now that's an oxymoron " birdie and carry on smartly" lololol

Definitely sounds like the former administration left a mess. However, Dr. Sands you're in power now. What are your proposed solutions to fix it? No sense just crying about it now. What is your plan?

A few years ago when Doctor's Hospital (WEST) was on the market for sale, I suggested the government purchase the facility along with surrounding properties. The idea was to use the existing facility as a foundation (stepping stone) and build out a new. state of the art, full service hospital over a period of years. Because of the location, the hospital could provide both local and private care and while taking some of the burden off the Princess Margaret Hospital, it can eventually generate revenue for the government. No only is it unwise to have all of the emergency care at one facility, for a growing population that is spreading out, but The Princess Margaret Hospital is just too over crowded and too overtaxed. I have witness doctors and other care givers have to wade through sewerage from broken or overflowing pipes to render care to patients. The money for a brand new, state of the art hospital may never be available all at once, but if government was to identify a location with sufficient property, and start with say emergency services and commit to completing a full service hospital over a say 10 year period, utilizing each part of the facility as it is completed, then that's how the country will afford a new hospital.

This is an indictment of The Bahamas.
Not just BPL.
Not just PMH.
Not just Road & Traffic.
Not just BahaMar.
Not just NIB.
Not just BTC.
Not just Bahamas Air.
Not just a FNM or PLP.
This is a reflection of The Bahamas.
Congratulations.

*Repost:* BJ Nottage certainly did not have to worry about the serious problems involving our country's public healthcare system. Unlike most Bahamians he was very privileged to receive the best available private medical care in both the Bahamas and the U.S. at the expense of Bahamian taxpayers. Minnis was dead wrong in allowing in excess of $250,000 of U.S. medical costs and $50,000 of funeral costs to be added to our country's national debt for the benefit of the family of a former cabinet member (and long serving insider) in the most corrupt government we have ever had...to date. We will now have to pay interest to lenders for these borrowed amounts at a compound annual rate for untold years to come. Just like his corrupt brother Kendal Nottage, who was a long serving cabinet minister under past Pindling-led governments, BJ served for many years as cabinet minister (an insider) in corrupt Christie-led governments. BJ chose to play the role of loyal soldier to Christie and the PLP party notwithstanding his inside knowledge of all the corruption that was going on around him and that no doubt he too personally benefitted from. He therefore had no loyalty to the Bahamian people and it is the height of hypocrisy for Minnis to have saddled the taxpayers with these significant costs. One must ask why did Minnis do this? Is it because Minnis's own OBG medical practice, that is presumably being cared for by other medical practitioners in Minnis's absence as PM, stands to benefit from picking up a sizable portion of the medical business that BJ and his younger partners have enjoyed over the years? Who knows? But something does not smell right here. BJ's estate surely had the means to pay his U.S. medical costs and his funeral costs. The $300,000 plus dollars should have been spent towards fixing water fountains and restroom facilities that are in a deplorable (often non-functioning) state in so many of our public schools. Minnis and his cabinet members need to get a grip on the reality of our country's situation and stop throwing "feel good" money around that our country does not have to spend and must borrow at the end of the day!