"*#Prime Minister Perry Christie visited the scene near the dump on Sunday afternoon.*"

WHY??????????? To gaze at the fire? What do you hope to do now? YOU'RE TOO LATE AGAIN

FNM or DNA could win a lot of jubilee votes if they spent a bit of campaign funds to charter a fire fighting plane and put out this blaze.

FNM or DNA could win a lot of jubilee votes if they spent a bit of campaign funds to charter a fire fighting plane

This PLP government has FAILED again .......... what ever happened to the grand design to create a PPP with Renew Bahamas??????? ........... now they are gone, and the dump is a burning hell on Earth for the surrounding communities ....... Dorsette and Brave MUST resign!!

Why does it almost always seem that we are always operating in crisis mode? When will they ever conclude that there's a need to operate proactively as opposed to retroactively. Invest HEAVILY in all your emergency services (i.e. Fire, Airport Department, ambulance agency), equipment (not just the vehicle), continuous regular training refresher and learning new procedures, man power, contingency plans, acquire a bambi bucket (water bucket) let coast guard helicopter and DEA chopper to drop water from the air.

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If there was real town planning ......... there would not have been a Jubilee Gardens. That whole section should have been left for expansion of the dump ....... The dumpsite is in desperate need of Ingraham's vision again ............ But Perry has NO dump plan (again)

I pray that nobody was hurt and that no homes burned. Lisa

Yes. With the high winds this could turn into "anything". The wind could change direction, the fire could jump lines, it's a very dangerous situation for the entire island.

Dumbass writers didn't say if it's PUT OUT as yet.

"Put out" is an impossibility at the moment. There's a report that the entire dump is on fire

Then request if anyone has one of those frickin planes !!

**...................................... "PLP ALL THE WAY - *TO NOWHERE"* ....................................**

Lol...Perry Christie and Leslie Miller to the rescue. It's official, the lunatics are running the asylum.

Which one is more full of bullshyt?

If it's still burning, you need that US COAST GUARD collaboration right about now. Get a chopper.

The wind is very predictable. There is a cold front blowing through. For over a week now we knew that on Friday the wind was going to come up from the ENE at 25 knots gusting 30. The wind is slowly clocking around to the SE over the next two days until it drops but not completely. The wind is forecast to be up for nearly 8 more days.

Any person with common sense should know that if there was a fire before the winds increased on Friday it needed to be controlled/contained.

Once again the people that managed these things, sit with the thumbs in their asses making excuses that someone else started this fire yadayadayada.

Why in the Bahamas do people not get fired and sued for this shit. People need to be held accountable!!!

Let's not forget to mention all the polluted air that others on island are forced to breathe. If you think it's bad now wait for the wind to die 9 days from now, and it gets warm and the fire is smuldering.

Anyhow I am glad to not be in Nassau subjected to this shit.

These people are not serious. Exactly what purpose do they serve standing around catching gap seed? Real leaders would have immediately gone to their command center and ensured that they were getting hourly updates on the deployment of resources, ensuring that teams were adequately staffed, reaching out to international bodies in case the situation worsens. But par for the course they will wait for it to get worse then talk about how grim it is. Every government minister does not need to be sitting out there like an owl!! Do the job you got elected to do LEAD. PLEASE. This is ridiculous.

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Owl #1. What's the point of staring at the fire? I bet they haven't even planned for a change in wind direction yet.

he forgot to bring the fiddle, otherwise he would be fiddling.

**...... Head Jackass In Charge, Confidently On Top Of The Situation! .......**

Christie fiddling while Rome burns!

It's a joke to suggest that these fires were started deliberately but the government will try.

Not this big

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The bottom line is that the dump has to be moved! When it was placed on the Harold Road site it was at 'the edge of the city. Now it is virtually in the heart of the city as communities have grown all around the dump and as the wind shifts round a nd round the entire island is affected. Even runways at the airport has to be closed from time to time. The government was duped by those clowns and alleged criminals who claimed they could manage the dump. Their first suggestion should have been to relocate it. A suitable site would be one that is more secure and has less access points. Possibly one that will have the smoke blowing out to sea when the wind is blowing in its most common direction, in the likely event that there is a fire. Right now the dump is like a great demonic alter. When it is afire everyone must cover their noses and bow.

There is some very shocking news coming out the US and no it is not the accusations from Donald Trump that former president Obama tapped his phones at Trump Towers just before the election.

John, All of our politicians seem to get swayed by the power they have. Including President Obama. He's a good man, but he and the democrats did everything they could to stay in power. They made some big mistakes that hurt most Americans and that's why Trump won the election in Nov. Lisa

Listen Donald Trump is a nincompoop. I'm sure Reince Priebus wants to snatch that phone out of his hands and smash it so he can stop tweeting uncorroborated nonsense all over the place. # sad.

I didn't say Donald Trump wasn't a idiot. Actually I took up for Obama. He's a great man that IF he did order the wire tapping it was because all or most politicians get carried away with their power. The democrats we running scared. I've made plenty of mistakes in my life, I don't judge others. I don't like to talk politics everyone gets so sensitive.

Actually the President can not order wire taps . The FBI or DOJ has to do it and it has to be approved by a judge or in the case of foreign interest FISA

It's ridiculous, the President cannot order wire taps. That's illegal, Donald Trump doesn't have a clue that's why he can make such an outrageous statement. And he does it so that people like yourself can jump on it and repeat it. He will soon tell us he found a black robe in the closet and Obama was practicing wizardry.

Wire taps are initiated from the FBI or the Department of Justice and only when they have probable cause. Clueless Donald Trump doesn't realize that if there was a tap, someone had probable cause to believe he was involved in something very serious. It's like shouting to the world someone's suing me for fraud, well that opens up a whole can of worms. "Why?"

Obama as POTUS was the number one customer of intelligence gathered by all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, including the FBI. Therefore he did not have to order 'his' intelligence agencies to do anything. He could have merely suggested to a high ranking member of 'his' national security team' that a wiretapping should be done in which case it got done posthaste, probably with the rubber stamping of a special court judge after the fact. All of the criminal leaks occurring in DC these days are sadly going to eventually come back to haunt Obama.

Well it ain't gonna happen for this particular fairy tale Donald trump is spreading. The former head of the DNI has already come out and said it didn't happen, not to his knowledge and if it did he would HAVE to have known. The reporter was trying to be very careful with the wording and he said without blinking "I DENY IT"

**............... Let The Finger Pointing Blame Game Commence With All Hast .....................**

The FNM will start the game by blaming the PLP, who will pass the blame back to the FNM because they also did nothing to resolve this obviously inevitable disaster.

Both PLP and FNM will then "again" conclude it's not in either parties best interest to accept responsibility for yet "ANOTHER" colossal government failure.

Finally, both will issue statements designating the blame onto fatherless homes or some other obscure entity without a voice to defend themselves.

**One thing for absolute certain...The PLP and FNM will NOT accept responsibility for failure!**

Bye Bye Christie

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Our winds blow from the southest to the northwest for most of the year which means the dump ideally should be relocated to somewhere in the Clifton Bay area. This is the reason why Runway 14 at Nassau International Airport is our nation's busiest runway. Runway 14 has a compass heading of 140 degrees - almost due southeast. For safety reasons aeroplanes take off and land into the wind to the maximum extent possible. Only on very occasional days would residents of Lyford Cay, Old Fort or Albany be inconvenienced by smoke from dump fires if the public dump is relocated to the Clifton Bay area.

you need to run for office, dude.

It's a great day to be off-island.

Enjoy and buy an apocalypse grade mask for your return

Experts repeatedly recommended to the Pindling, Ingraham and Christie administrations that a cargo terminal facility be developed at Clifton Bay in the area where BEC's main plant is located and the sea is sufficiently deep. Such a facility would have achieved the dual purpose of (1) moving all shipping and freight congestion away from the downtown area, and (2) facilitated relocating the main public dump to the Clifton Bay area where the more toxic waste could be barged to a more suitable site on Andros, 25 miles away. But the half-dozen or so influential white Bahamian families (like the Symonettes) who have always owned and controlled the docks downtown would hear none of it, fearing that they would lose a grip on their highly profitable shipping and freight businesses. Sadly, Pindling, Ingraham and Christie all cowered to the wishes of the 'ole white boys, as if their personal financial interests mean more than the lives of many thousands of black Bahamians whose lives are being or have been prematurely cut short by the hazardous highy toxic fumes of smoke. Crooked Christie knows no shame. He may as well have been flipping his middle finger to all those individuals who have for many years now been greatly suffering from the life threatening (and life taking) unending public dump fires.

The PLP wanted to move it there to F Wilson land ,and in anticipation snatched up all the crown land .It would of cost 250 million to move it there and the cost of goods would of went up b/c of the trucking cost . Ingraham used the fill from the Harbour to build out Arawak cay and got the shipping companies to put up 21 million dollars , The way the "Mailboat " was run that was purchased w/ a loan from the development bank ,probably never paid back ,I prefer to have the people that know about shipping run the port .Don,t let colour allow to make up fanciful stories .Couple of there operatives came to my Pop to get him ,basically use his money , to secure crown land ,land in anticipation of the port an Chilfton ,,he said no thanks .And no Ingraham was far from perfect but I would take him 10 ways to sunday over Christie ,,shit got done

Shameless Crooked Christie is all set to say the following when he next stands in the house of assemby: "Mr. Speaker, I was there. Yes, Mr. Speaker I was right there - at the very edge of the recent dump fire. I got to see and experience first hand the heat of the flames and the choking smoke. I looked around but could not see the leaders of the FNM and DNA - perhaps because of the thick smoke. Surely they were there too Mr. Speaker, somewhere there, because I would have thought that they too would have recognized the importance of being there, like I was, to witness first hand the hardship these dump fires cause so many of our people. Mr. Speaker, all of the resources available to my government were brought to bear by me, yes Mr. Speaker, by me personally, to control and put out the raging fire that day as quickly as possible. And Mr. Speaker, I want the people to know that I fully intend to now take personal charge, yes, me personally, of finding an appropriate solution to this vitally important matter at the earliest possible time. And so Mr. Speaker, the people can take comfort in knowing that their Prime Minister, yes, me personally, now has this most important in hand, yes my own hand Mr. Speaker, as a matter of the utmost priority. Thank you Mr. Speaker for letting me provide, today, this highest level of assurance to the people that their suffering caused by smoke from the dump fires will soon be a thing of the past."

Wow. I'm betting that's exactly what he will say, he'll throw in some bigger words but otherwise spot on.

I want to come back and stay in the Bahamas. I miss someone very much.