Curfew and lockdown must continue until there's a clear sustained decrease in the number of new infections, since otherwise we risk 14% of the population dying. There is no other path, unfortunately.

You are so out of touch with reality it is scarey

More businesses need to open during the month of May. Just continue mandatory face masks and social distancing. There are definitely not enough days for businesses to be open. <br/>
People are going to get more frustrated as time goes on.

We have a mortality rate of 14% because we don't test. If we were all tested then the rate would go down dramatically. They keep mentioning this rate and then those super spreaders who they have not tested. So they know there are plenty people out there who have it. But it benefits them to say plenty people will die if they don't have this lock down. Ask them to show what the effect will be in deaths for us with so many people unemployed. How many additional deaths there will be in the long term as the Government will not be able to fund the already underfunded health care. They should open up and those who are high risk completely self isolate. Why should all of the population watch pretty much everything disappear because we are unwilling to isolate these 14% (which will be a lot lower).

Islands that have had zero cases and Grand Bahama with 7 should be allowed to open.
some businesses. Not bar rooms or sit down restaurants. fish fries.

It is common sense. there is no need for a task force for this..

The weekend total lockdowns can no longer be justified as a legitimate measure to help slow the spread of the Red China Virus and are therefore now an unnecessary infringement of the civil liberties (rights and freedoms) guaranteed by our Constitution. Our elected representatives were never empowered by our Constitution or at the people's ballot box to select one of 'their own' as a type of monarch or other supreme ruler with the power to transform our country into a de facto police state for an indefinite period of time. I might add a police state in which our police, defense force and courts are all being used in a very punitive and wrongful way to enforce what can only be described as seemingly endless weekends of martial law.

Tyranny all too easily often comes along whenever extraordinary powers are allowed to unnecessarily remain in the hands of any one individual for too long a period of time, especially an individual who may be prone to becoming addicted to such powers and abusing them.

We don't all have a government job that comes with generous pay and benefits no matter what transpires. There are many of us 'Peters' being robbed to keep the government employed 'Pauls' living in the non-productive lifestyle they've very much grown accustomed to. You sound like one of the 'Pauls' content to be living off of other people's money whether it be from taxes collected and/or more borrowings that increase our already unsustainable national debt. And you certainly seem to be enjoying more than most that long paid vacation you're now receiving.

You won't care until it affects you or a family member. That's usually how out of control power gets its roots

I am all for a complete shutdown for 2 - 4 weeks.

But due to the decisions made by the government, I have to agree. This 2 day weekend shutdown is POINTLESS and just an abuse in POWER. 5 Days Open and 2 Days Closed is the DUMBEST thing. You are open 71% of the week. 71%.........

STOP WITH THE WEEKEND SHUTDOWNS IF YOU NOT GOING TO SHUT IT ALL THE WAY DOWN

Any person who is looking at the numbers can see that this is pointless. NUMBERS DON'T LIE, PEOPLE DO.

Well they say they've flattened the curve 2 days after they started testing...it looks like we trying to keep in step with the US headlines irrespective if what is actually happening on the ground

Agreed

We knew that was coming 😮 Doc and Doc playing hand ball. Time to ease up already!!!! Enough is enough!!

I just hope and pray we see some positive results after May 30th because if not then, what, another 30 days lockdown?

Mandela, don't even whisper it!

$20.000 or five years or both. Ash did not pay that kind of fine.

No hand cuffs no shackles. he must be privileged , so it must be all right.

He was not quarantined.

Extraordinary Emergency Power EEP in hands power governing politicians **should never be granted nor extended for a month but must return the floor People's House** to seek to row forward such EEP for a maximum period 7 to 21 days...and, Extoadinary Powers voting calls for the governing party's majority party's whip rule be suspended allow House MP's to break ranks voting along party lines...**thus allowing for free voting by governing party's House MP's.** Nod once for yeah, twice for no?

Why is the opposition and free press not challenging this one-man dictatorship ? Where is the church? Other countries are coming out of lockdown. Respected scientists around the world are challenging the efficacy of total population quarantine. Internationally recognized health experts are advising that we are literally doing exactly the opposite of what we should with regard to developing our own natural immunity. Statisticians are challenging the early death rate data with new, more robust global data that shows death rate percentages plummeting to levels of the common flu

How on earth are the people we rely on to provide a balanced perspective letting a single ego maniac deny every one of our basic human rights and head us full speed in the wrong direction? The rules change daily without you saying a peep. Is there not a single one of you that has the courage to ask what grounds a single individual has to completely disregard the Constitution for as long as he so chooses, based on his own scientific findings? The ministry of health is sending people home with a positive diagnosis and then testing their family members a week later and guess what, more people are infected. The government is relying on a minuscule amount of data that they are obviously manipulating to their advantage and using it to whip up hysterical fear. They are then relying on the very same group of people whom they say can't be trusted to look after themselves to give themselves the mandate to rule without any checks and balances in a potentially never-ending power play.

A $20,000 fine or 5 years of jail time for breaking a 'rule' they made up this morning without an act of parliament. What on God's earth is going on ?

You have made some good points. <br/>
I think the fines are ridiculous as well. I read a story today about a man who was arrested because he used $32 worth of expired food stamps at Super Value.<br/><br/>
I couldn't believe what I read. Obviously this person is hungry. If the food stamps were expired... just tell him they are expired and let him go. Why arrest someone who obviously just wants something to eat like many people out here now. <br/>
To me, it's the government who has become heartless... not the business owners!!!

Put THAT in Doc's Suggestion Box, Comrade!!!

Me dilemma, I try me damndest not be sandwiched between **a rock and a hard place**.... know what mean?

Not this time Comrade. I think what you wrote earlier was rather important and think it needs to be brought to the esteemed leader's attention post haste!

Several of the Corona cases and deaths this week were due to breeches in the Medical System. Misjudgment and or mistake that led to both patients and health care personnel being unintentionally and knowingly exposed to the Corona virus. And so it is more than hypocrisy for Minnis to come in front of the nation and double the fines and penalties for persons breaking the curfew. In most incidences it is a person trying to get from point a to point b, or get food or supplies in like manner and they get caught up and out of time. And in most cases they are alone and isolated where they come in contact with no one other than the person they set out to meet, so the chances of spreading the virus is slim to none. And they are almost always from the poor and low income bracket. How can a so called caring PM justify doubling the fines and jail time on these people

Just because they can't control the 800-900 persons that are quarantined they choose to shut the whole country dowm,really killing the economy. Of course since now we have a panel of economic and health experts,I shouldn't worry. The only ones that are enjoying the extended lockdown are the politicians and the civil cervants. Keep the current course and the money will run out faster than you think. But then again why would they care

So the landlord is now under law to only accept 60% of but the banks are not under law to accept 60% of the mortgage. This just ain't right. The small man is taken advantaged of but the predatory commercial banks are let off to consider if they will help the landlord.

Yup. Just like always.

None of our ports or islands anywhere in the Bahamas should be opened to the cruise ship companies **until** a tried and tested effective vaccine for covid-19 has been developed and all passengers and crew members on each cruise ship (without exception) are required to show satisfactory proof of inoculation before disembarking the ship and gaining entry to our country. And the same must apply to all visitors who arrive by air travel.