The governments approach does nothing to allay the fears and concerns of those who watched people swept out to sea, watched others drown or crushed by falling walls or may otherwise still have family members missing! Surely they must have something of a body count even if all those bodies have not been ID'ed. It is they who are adding to the emotional stress of families by taking the approach they have! How can you have 50 dead with hundreds of corpses?

They need to start collecting DNA samples from living relatives who still have family members missing since at this advanced state of decomposition some corpses can only be tentatively identified by DNA!

Why are you so obsessed with knowing a body count. In the end we will know how many people died, knowing now or in a month doesn't change that number.

You're callousness towards those who have every reason to fear they may have lost love ones is not the least bit appreciated. If our government is taking its sweet time in identifying the bodies they have found, that's wrong..period! Those who have lost loved ones who are still missing deserve a fuller explanation of why the drip-drip-drip process underway is taking so long. Something is not right!

Meanwhile his own defence force reporting way more than double that “ official” body count

Well said Marvin Dames and Dr. Sands! If we are not careful, social media will destroy the lot of us. People really waste far too much time spreading negativity and untruths. What does the government have to gain by hiding the body count? Seriously, how many times since shortly after the storm, the government has said that they expect the official numbers of the dead to be a large one, but they are combing through methodically to ensure that things are done correctly and also with dignity.

Oh pleezzzz.....many have perished in the aftermath of Dorian waiting to be found by our government's methodical combing exercise....like our government obsessed with controlling everything and marching to its own drum beat, I suspect you have no idea what time is of the essence means in a life or death situation.

Even if cautioned, lectured, issued stern warnings under threat arrest it still will change not damn thing.The colony's comrade populaces, won't ever again trust in the word any member central government's Imperialists red cabinet, yes, no....... Please GO AWAY, the colony's inhabitants much prefer thank and place their trust in British Royal Marines ....

The deceitful way this corrupt government of ours has been fooling with and skirting around the figures for Dorian-related fatalities is the very same deceitful way they have been fooling around with the figures for our national accounts and budgets since they took office in May 2017. Is most of the Dorian-related financial support of donors going to go the way of our VAT dollars? KP Turnquest already knows the independent certified accountants the government has hired to audit the Dorian-related financial donations will be issuing an audit report heavily qualified as to the completeness and accuracy of the donations received, and with good reason.

Remember: Our VAT dollars were intended to reduce our national debt and not slow down its rate of growth. That certainly didn't happen.

The cash donations received and pledged financial support are intended to help the destitute survivors of Dorian. Will the survivors be the beneficiaries of the amounts generously donated?

News in USA as of yesterday is still “at least 50 died”

The 20% Reconstruction and Redevelopment Tax will address the problems created by the Hurricane Dorian. The VAT tax is a separate issue and also necessary. This is the price we have to pay for living in paradise. It does not matter what the likes of Sic Mudda and Tal Russel blurb, belch and spit out of their mouths, our Government has everything under control and well coordinated. Please let us rally around the Government during this time of crisis. Surely Sic Mudda and Russell have the capacity to be patriotic. Get out of the gutter gutter rats.

"It would shock you to know how little there is left here in the Bahamas that government can tax."

I guess Income and Capital Gains are little then ? Try living in most developed countries if you want to know what heavily taxed is (40-50%, or even more in some countries,if you include Federal, State, County taxes, Social Security, National Insurance etc.) VAT or Sales Tax which are in effect the same thing are a way of life in most countries as well. No one likes paying taxes, but most of us realize it's a necessary evil in order to pay for schools, healthcare, libraries, infrastructure etc. Now how the government spends those taxes is a whole other ball of wax

I guess you haven't heard that the wealthy living in developed countries who can afford expensive tax attorneys and accountants have some of the lowest effective tax rates in the world.

Sic Mudda the Mickey Mouse University graduate talking foolish again. Have you ever had a basic course in Macroeconomic Planning? Sign up for one at UB and you may start to understand the economic development strategy of our Government. Deputy PM Turnquest has the way to move our Bahamaland forward. Let us rally for the 20% Reconstruction and Redevelopment Tax ASAP.

Oh pleezzzzzz......

Only 20 reported missing? The Dorianpeoplesearch website has hundreds. The owner of the website should take the site down if it’s no longer being updated.