I'm sorry, his decisions are idiotic and his rule must be contested through a vote of no confidence from government ministers.

He is forcing people to congregate at food stores AGAIN, with cloth masks that offer no protection from inhaling the virus! Did he learn nothing from the last time he did that.

He is denying people access to healthcare DURING a healthcare crisis by only allowing them to access care on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays? This is insane. This country will recover from COVID-19, but it may not recover from the poor leadership of Minnis!

... the first time Minnis had an impromptu lockdown it drove people in Nassau to grocery stores, banks and water depots en masse. I would think that should be the opposite of what one should hope for in this kind of pandemic!

http://www.tribune242.com/videos/2020/a…

The Bahamas is not likely to "recover" in any manner, in our lifetimes. This is the sad reality that remains unspoken. The human, natural, and financial resources at our disposal are handicapped, dwindling or nonexistent. The idea that "we are on our own" has never been more apt. There is nothing the government, Minnis, or any other "savior" can do for us now that has not already been done. Once we accept this reality, we may have a chance at survival. Listening to those in supposed authority will do nothing to further us along forward, upward, nor onward. The true costs of allowing education to forever take a backseat in this country will now come back to haunt us in ways, once unimaginable.

The most important thing for us to do now, is to kill the messenger, as we must, and always have done.

NO. Minnis is not a messenger. he is a misguided meglomaniac. these measures are worse than the ailment.

I didn't mean Minnis. I meant the message just above.

How temporary? I mean on July 10th he inistied that if we gave him 3 days then it would all be over. That was a lie. so are we to wait Until the vaccine? Many more lockdowns to come as every time we open up a bit there may be more spread. If Minnis was smart he would have got the hospitals ready for the next wave. But nope he did nothing .

@proudloudandfnm... I can only guess you are saying chill because you are smoking grass and/or are not an employer that is trying not to let staff go while business is erratic !!

Useless Minnis strikes again. If he was actually sincnce about the health issues we face he would have tried to sort the Health Department out from when he got elected. As of now he has done nothing, but he can now use its decrepit state to force a lockdown on Bahamians.

Primum non nocere

How does a country with an education rating of D have so many medial and constitutional experts ?

And so many smart asses too!

is there a class for being a smart ass

No doubt, you were the valedictorian.

Heavens no no no I have your pics from that graduating class

Congratulations

so, asking for a friend. when the 'rona' is still around in 2021 and 2022, and 2035. we will still not be able to buy an alcoholic beverage?

Stock up now brotherman. This is the opportunity of a lifetime. The country's largestt family fortunes began by selling illicit booze. Is this correct? Yes, or no?

**In the meantime,** is there **disturbing news** about rear its head out PMH?

I can’t believe this fool has limited access to the food stores. They are already packed in like sardines. How could he not learn a lesson from his first moronic attempt with the alphabetical shopping. Besides...what evidence is there that a lockdown actually works. Grand Bahama going on almost two weeks and they still have more cases than Nassau every day.

I agree on the food store access. Lockdowns don't work when people do not abide by, or understand why, we all must participate responsibly. That is what we are seeing from Grand Bahama. Merely a delayed response to stupidity.

**I can’t believe this fool has limited access to the food stores. They are already packed in like sardines. How could he not learn a lesson from his first moronic attempt with the alphabetical shopping.**

Thats Category 5 Hurricane Minnis for you, all lip and no brains!

What a moron, now every food store is packed, someone please ship this buffoon to China already so he can play fetch with his masters! And now according to the Bahamas Nurses Union President Amancha Williams...she said **NO NURSES** showed up to work at the accident and emergency department at Princess Margaret Hospital today.

**LIKE I AND MANY HAVE SAID BEFORE...THIS COUNTRY IS A JOKE!!!**

When is this man going to admit that the virus cannot be contained by the methods being employed? It is obvious to even the casual onlooker that it is impossible to control every individual in the country. All that is being accomplished is the sure and certain destruction of the economy of the country. Half of the problem is the attempt to impose unenforceable rules on an unwilling and unconvinced populace.

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open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close,

anyone has a plan?

... well based on the pattern I would say --- open?

Plan Step One: MINNIS RESiGN. There is NOTHING good to say about this pathetic adminstration and its leader. The virus, like all others, needs to run its course and people need to look after themselves and be sensible. Minnis and his Cabinet are hell bent on destroying what's left of The Bahamas. They were doing a lousy job before The Virus, but now they are acting callously, dangerously and stupidly.

Minnis was always unfit to be leader! But after his lousy response to Hurricane Dorian, he should've been shipped off to China!

One has to wonder how many deaths from Dorian did Minnis and his administration hide...not to mention, Minnis and his administration are still holding onto the millions and millions of dollars and goods that were donated from the U.S, Abaco of course hasn't seen a single dollar!

Carry on Dr. Minnis and keep your shoulder to the wheel while these empty barrels continue to make all this noise.
Take some comfort from the words of that savy old politician Winston Churchill who said " I would rather argue with a hundred idiots than have one of them agree with me."

But in this situation Minnis is one of those idiots! Hell, he's an idiot in every situation!

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@ themessenger... I bet if Minnis read your message and decided to "keep his shoulder to the wheel", his response would cause us to hear the sound of his car horn honking well into the night!!

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Lots of idiotic noises in the market place and **NOT ONE** sensible suggestion of what Minnis should be doing differently than other countries to irradicate COVID!

No apologies for PM Minnis missteps, however, CORONAVIRUS-19 is a new virus that NOBODY has any experience fighting. Minnis and crew are only human and bound to make mistakes while trying to navigate an unknown course dealing with this pandemic.

Look at the US for example. Regardless of The USA being the richest, and most powerful superpower on the planet, they have proven to be absolute, total, failures dealing with CORONAVIRUS-19! The rest of the world looks on with pity at the U.S. government's pathetic "non-response" to COVID-19.

The majority of what PM Minnis has done makes him look like a genius compared to what President Trump has done!

Yes, PM Minnis, you made a terrible decision by succumbing to pressure to open the borders. Now please ignore all these naysayers who altogether combined couldn't come up with a single positive thought for all the tea in China, pick yourself up, dust off your team, and move the country forward as best you can.

Carry on PM Minnis. We are beaten as is every other country in the world, but not defeated!

You must be as dumb and delusional as Minnis if you think no one here has given suggestions, many of us here have been doing so since early as February!

- Transparency
- Implement mass testing
- Implement antibody testing
- Bring in more ICU beds
- Bring in more Ventilators
- Give our health care workers some PPE
- KEEP OUR BORDERS CLOSED!!!

Minnis has done **ZERO** of the things I have listed and this virus has been here for **MANY** **MANY** months now! Barbados and many others are doing a WAY better job reopening their country than this Banana Republic!!! NO EXCUSES!!!

No excuses required. You obviously cannot comprehend what you read, and couldn't be truthful any more than Trump! Not one of your suggestions was even remotely necessary prior to Minnis's gigantic fubar of succumbing to pressure to open the borders! That was indeed an excessively bad judgment call with highly predictable consequences. Now that the error has been made, Minnis has no choice other than what is now being imposed to rectify his huge mistake.

Alternatively, Minnis can bury his head in the sand and act the fool like president Trump pretending an open economy, and a functioning school system can coexist with CORONAVIRUS!

The UK developed and about to roll out a new 90-minute testing system while Trump has the US buried in 7 to 10 days test results which are useless due to the long turn around time.

Unquestionably, Minnis screwed up and is far from perfect. However, I would much rather have him as a leader during this time than Perry Christie, Brave Davis, or Donald Trump!

You're a bigger idiot than I thought, but I'm not surprised because its clear as day you take after **YOUR** idiot leader, all lip and no brains!

Carry on Minnis, leave the borders open and lock the country down again
Total and utter lunacy. Best not ignore the naysayers, they are by far the majority and
I wouldn't talk about what the man on the street has to say about all of this depravation and depravity. It looks like all rules are now made by a majority of one!

Our most pressing problem is really Minnis's shredding of our Constitution, and not the deadly Communist China Virus.

Our nation could survive the deadly Communist China Virus, but in doing so we would become a very different and much poorer nation.

But there's no way our nation will be able to survive a Minnis led government for much longer, without becoming either a failed state (like Haiti) or a proxy state for the sinister and most evil Communist Chinese Party (CCP).

Stripped of our most basic civil rights and liberties by Minnis, we will have no rising sun (no nation) for us to lift up our heads to. And that's the sad but harsh truth.

August 7th, that's wonderful Tribune. Only three more vdsys of Minnis-made hell 😂.

Food distribution programme to continue: Do Minnis, his over fed, largely indolent band of parliamentarions and senators, actually believe a tin or two of fatty corned beef, some wienna sauchases and a bag of nutritionless white rice will prevent The Virus from calling on all of the unemployed, who are, incidentally, unable to pay rent or mortgages, unable to pay credit card bills, unable to buy medicine or even have elective or emergency surgery, and is going to save our population while he and his band of merry desk thumping idiots play games with The People's lives while their crew of taxpayer paid civil servants continue to "work from home"???

August 7th, three DAYS away (not whatever gibberish I posted!).

Then do us all a huge favor and stop your gibbering!

Maybe this Corona nonsense is just a ploy by Minnis and his Cabinet to avoid the real issues such as government corruption, an over-bloated contingent of civil servants, a cruel and corrupt police force, a failed immigration policy, inefficient utility corporations run by more overpaid, ineffective government appointed self-serving idiots, a failed education and a failed medical care system, not to mention an economy long down the tubes, aided and abetted by a horrible system of stifling attempts to do business in The Bahamas....