> PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis plans to open temporary offices in other Family Islands, including Exuma, Eleuthera, and Central Andros to begin monthly visits there.

This is code for growing the size of government rather than creating private sector jobs. Minnis should be asked: How many people will be added to the public sector (government) payroll and at what annual cost? Also: What will be the expected total annual rental cost of these new 'temporary' offices?

In this day and age of advanced communications capabilities over the internet using handheld smart devices, do we really need such costly 'temporary' offices? Will someone please remind Minnis that we desperately need to shrink the size of our bloated government; not increase it!

Surely the P.M. can "borrow" the offices of the Island Administrators for his visits.

BUT ............. Doesn't the FI Administrator represent Central Government????? ....... Why does the PM need an alternative Office?????? ........ Don't we have too much government spending now on extras?????? ................ OR is this another political gimmick??????

SUGGESTION:
This is a good time for the PM to come and sit with the Local Government teams and share ideas and Offices with them and build that organ that is right now in need for serious reform and strengthening - and more financial autonomy to get things done on the ground.

And hold meetings with Department Heads and civil servants who will give suggestions on how the Government can really optimize its work in the FI communities ..... that is what the PM should be doing to promote public service transparency and accountability.

........or he could read The Tribune posts!!!!!

Good point ............ has anyone told the PM Press Secretary to read the Tribune posts and comments as part of preparing for his daily briefings???

If he wants a holiday break every month why not just take one?

Do not downplay how important FamiIy Island affairs are ...... There was once a Ministry of Out Island Affairs ....... Most modern countries still have a Ministry of the Interior that focuses on rural districts/counties etc. ...... but who cares about the Family Islands anymore??????

Comrades! Forget about the prime minister franchising the PMO out to the Out Islands. Were you like me, totally unaware that the Royal Bahamaland Policeman's Force (RBPF) - actually has an 'active military' (soldiers) policeman's section?

The man is having a great time, enjoying his life. He makes promises do not fill full them,
moves on and make some more promises. The hotel repairs due to start NEXT month is
no more now the concentration is on BEES.

The big life week ends in resorts food wine and drinks.

If Perry had put in 30% of the effort that Minnis has already shown that he can+...... we may have forgiven him by now

If Perry had done half of what Minnis has done so far, he would've been a half assed Minister of tours. Nothing more.

People in GB bray too damn much ....... ungrateful, lazy, entitled, americanized fools who live in a bubble world of what the real Bahamas is all about

You really are a Bahamian patriot there! VERY ignorant comments!

We have conveniently forgotten the "Non-Disclosure List" that was the first FNM raving investigation .......... Still no final word on what happened to the list

We have been taken down the road of those PLP Cabinet Ministers who were somehow involved in fishy transactions with the Ash fella ........... Can we hold our breath that those cases will ever end?????

Then came the civil service HR audit ...... looking for "ghost workers" ...... HMMMMMMM

Now we are on the next rave ............ Public Utilities No-Pay List ........ smoke and mirrors???

When will we see real work taking place??????? The Budget is cut ....... Talk of income tax ..................... Evacuations .......... Patience is beginning to wear thin

You are a Grand Bahamian ......... see my comments above ....... case closed

see my comments above ... sheepf*%#er

Freeport for the first 3 decades scoffed at the rest of the country as backward and undeveloped ........ now that they are on hard times, they whine and expect the (Nassau) government to take care of them because their white overlords have jumped ship with all the money ..... Now we fellow Out Islanders share your pain (sort of) but there is a pecking order that should start with the southern islands that are quickly becoming depopulated because SLOP never saw the need to develop them - at all!!!!!! ......... All Freeport needs is a few good investors to replace Hayward & St.George .......... The South never had major investors (except Inagua) ....... Now if you Freeporters have a problem with that comment - I do not apologize.

Many Sheeprunners are assisting with keeping Freeport alive today - including the DPM.