Part one:

After 70+ years of incredible massive corruption, friends, family and lovers governance by the UBP, PLP, and FNM it is no wonder the road that we are about to travel will bring along with it many discomforts.

Unfortunately, we may not always like the medicine, but growth requires a serious dose of reality which also brings discomfort like an unwelcomed amenity. Judging from the state of the nation, our social and economic health has been totally mismanaged by decades of self-serving politicians that obviously could care less about Bahamians or the future of the country.

The bitter pill we must now suffer and actions PM Minnis are forced into to salvage the nation is totally necessary as the **FIRST REAL GOVERNMENT"** of the Bahamas that look out for the peoples' and countries interest tries to manage the fiscal nightmare left by its successive predecessors!

While Bahamians struggled to make ends meet, we had to witness blue collar expats supplant our people in domestic, construction and other low skilled areas as the PLP and FNM talked down to Bahamians while they themselves overindulged in every manner of extravagances on the peoples' dime, jet-setting around the world like royals and spending the peoples' money like drunken pirates on furlough.

Unquestionably, prime minister Minnis is a stickler for fiscal responsibility and law and order. **P**illage **L**oot **P**lunder suddenly now find themselves in totally uncharted waters unable to comprehend the present situation as their usual dancing, double talk, playing the fool and smoke and mirror routines only succeeded in totally fooling themselves!

Part two:

The electorate has proven beyond any doubt that they are far more politically and otherwise astute than thought by the UBP, PLP or previous FNM parties, as they soundly rejected the notion that Bahamians are an ignorant, forgetful, stupid people. The people resoundingly confirmed that all they needed was an opportunity to vote for **"GOOD LEADERSHIP"** for a populace that has had its prospects ravaged by massive corruption under a lack of honest leadership for over 6 decades.

PM Minnis is proven to be committed to ‘guting’ the system, cleaning up politics and elevating the people of the Bahamas and riding Bahamian politics of corruption, friends, family and lovers governance and those only using it as a platform to promote their own selfish agendas, while the electorate suffer.

Without question, corruption has hobbled our economy which was once the 3rd strongest in the hemisphere, decimated our people who were known as the proudest in the region and turned our country into a place where expatriates come live the Bahamian dream without contributing to the growth and well being of the Bahamas as the host country.

The Bahamas is among the top residential locations globally for mega wealthy persons and can boast of having the wealthiest of the wealthy as residents. Recent extortion and bribery developments will quickly reset the image the Bahamas as a safe place for FDI and encourage any number of high net worth resident individuals already here to finally feel safe investing the country.

PM Minnis vision, however, for the country’s economic reform to diversify our industries in the short-term is fated for failure. It would be far better and more expedient to concentrate on the deepening and development of tourism which has already proven here and in competing regional destinations as a solid pillar for growth and rapid prosperity.

After only two Months in office and with new damning revelations on a daily basis, the prime minister’s address has shed **"just enough light"** on his trajectory for the country to give all Bahamians the real prospect of hope that we have finally elected a leader with the peoples and countries best interest at heart.

**P**illage **L**oot **P**lunder opposition leader Brave Davis and his crew of losers no longer have a voice that anyone with sense will listen to.

Great comments.
I agree, especially as regards tourism.
Hope the "cleaning up" can really happen.
Thanks

The IMF, IDB, Moody's, S&P, etc. (all agents of the U.S. government used as instruments to implement U.S. foreign policy) are putting considerable pressure on the Minnis-led FNM government to borrow even more rather than stick with an austerity program that will eventually eliminate our budget deficits and start paying down our national debt. It seems all of these agents of the U.S. government are telling our government that the Bahamas must continue to borrow willy-nilly in order to avoid wide spread civil unrest and increased violent crime that will result from an effective austerity program aimed at warding off economic collapse. We must turn a deaf ear to the advice coming from these international agencies because they cannot point to a single nation whose economy they have turned around; in fact, these agencies have wrecked the economies of many countries foolish enough to follow their advice. Minnis is absolutely correct in saying we must take our medicine now, and endure the pain that comes with it, in order to avoid what would otherwise be certain death for our country. The U.S. government will tell the world over and over again that we are a crime ridden country in an effort to pressure our government into borrowing more and more. We should respond by reminding the U.S. that it has several cities, each with a population far exceeding the population of our entire country, where the violent crime rates are so high that vast densely populated areas have become literal war zones, e.g. Chicago, Baltimore, Los Angeles, etc.

Unlike the U.S. we don't have the luxury of being able to print money to pay overseas creditors for goods and services imported by our country. This is why we cannot borrow our way out of the financial hole we are in and must instead go the austerity route. Minnis knows (and hopefully KP appreciates) that we must aggressively tackle a significant overall reduction in the very bloated costs of our government. Minnis will be greatly rewarded for doing so five years from now as things slowly begin to turn around for us.

I agree in a sense that the US focuses on crime in The Bahamas for ulterior motives ('most' tourists are not in danger of murder, locals are in far greater danger). If you keep up with American politics you will see that the corruption there is at another level than we can ever dream of. So I would not be surprised to learn that they are hoping for our failure for their benefit.<br/><br/>
All that aside, I am heartened to see that PM Minnis is trying to 'clean house'. Once he commits to do that on both sides of the isle, that will be great news. I think more ideas are also needed in how to grow the economy beyond tourism and banking alone.

You are so right. They should concentrate on the continued decline of the almighty U.S. dollar and stop their own regime of plunder, loot and pillage.

How about ending discrimination against foreign workers? I am one of dozens of US workers who are still waiting to be paid owed salary and severance from the Baha Mar bankruptcy. All Bahamian workers were compensated. What value are labor laws and contracts if they don't protect everyone? This discrimination appears to be Government of the Bahamas sanctioned.

Strachan is to doc what Fox news is to Trump.

you mean birdiestrachan?