The Tribune understands there was deep concern among some of the prime minister’s Cabinet colleagues about the level of consultation that preceded Monday night’s announcement.

That is the problem in a nutshell. The PM thinks this a one man show. Unfortunately by this approach he denies himself valuable perspective from Cabinet and other colleagues. Ego has overtaken common sense.

I agree. And this practice has plagued Bahamian politics for decades. Problem-solving should not be a unilateral step Mr. Prime Minister. Delegates and government personnel need to be consulted. By doing so, all possible scenarios and outcomes can be planned and discussed. Minnis dropped the ball on this one. But let’s not overreact.

> Delegates and government personnel need to be consulted. By doing so, all possible scenarios and outcomes can be planned and discussed.

You do of course appreciate that the so called "delegates and government personnel" had already run our country into the ground long before the deadly China Virus came along. They're not much different from Minnis when it comes to lack of competence and common sense. So consulting them is not going to be the solution to anything we are now up against. And many our best and brightest Bahamian minds are no longer among us because they found it necessary to make their homes abroad....having been quite literally driven away from The Bahamas by the type of sordid corrupt political creatures we have been foolishly electing to govern our country for decades now.

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Minnis took the ministry of healths bait.
It was them who made up this story of locking foodstore their pronouncements recorded in the media from last Friday.

Blaming the patient is second nature to doctors, therefore the tone of the pronouncements.

To have to listen to people other than doctors is a lot of crow for Minnis to eat.

One challenge is this country is that our leaders usually want people around them who agree with them. I don't see the current PM as being any different. If you have people around you that have a backbone and they are some of our brightest minds, we can get better solutions. Mistakes may be made, but we would have less mistakes and less draconian measures implemented.

Like Dr. Sands said s lockdown only makes sense if you have a plan. Clearly there was no plan and there was no thought prior to implementing the lockdown. This was a huge blunder.

Mr Sands, please stop the rubbish. We know political posturing when we see it. It’s obvious that you are only willing to emerge when you wish to “take a shot” at the government.
First of all, no government of the Bahamas never had the confidence of the Bahamian people. Historically speaking, Bahamians grumble, complain and point fingers, regardless of who is in office. There is simply no satisfying them. Secondly, you Mr Sands, have no credibility left as it relates to ethics and morale. You sought to deceive the Bahamian public and eventually had to be unceremoniously removed from office. So you’re in no position to criticize. If you think you can use this opportunity to lay the framework for a bid to become the next leader of the FNM, you are grossly mistaken.
Yes, Dr Minnis made an error in judgment and needs to use this a a teaching-moment moving forward. He needs to accept and understand that no more unilateral steps should be taken when dealing with matters related to the pandemic.

(correction) no government of the Bahamas has ever had the confidence of the Bahamian people.

thats plain BS, and you know it.

Oh? Do tell. Who was the last government that Bahamians expressed confidence in? We’ve been changing government now for some time. And there is now talk about doing it again. We just removed to PLP from office, and now we’ve forgotten why we did that, and now we’re considering putting them back. That doesn’t seem like a people who possess confidence in a government.

Do you really need to be told the last government the Bahamian people expressed confidence in was the UBP? In fact so much so, that Minnis posthumously ordained Pop Symonette a National Hero. LOL

say what ever you like but Sands now garners more trust than Wells or Minnis et. al. at least he is honest and admits his mistakes. Can't say the same for anyone else. a little humility goes a long way. Combat you cold use some humility too maybe?

... Sands is far from honest and is nothing but a political opportunist. His sole advantage over Minnis is that he is a better communicator. If you like I can list all the mistakes he made as minister of health during this pandemic! Never give power to a man who craves it as Sands does!

Agreed.

Agree. Besides, we can ill afford to have our country run by the closely-knit free masons, i.e the lodge brothers, as a secretive government unto themselves within what remains of our fragile parliamentary democracy.

Honest? Admitted to his mistakes? lol.
Dr. Sands was caught in a scandal and when he couldn’t deceive the public anymore he had to come clean. That’s what happened. No honesty there. Damage control, maybe. But not honesty. He sought to circumvent the law for his own benefit and was caught. The PM didn’t want to fire him, but his actions were too egregious to ignore.

Now we know you're pulling our leg. Minnis repeatedly ran afoul of his own orders and protocols in too many ways to recount. And the only reason he never had to resign from office for breaching his very own emergency orders and protocols is because he had the power as the self-annointed Incompetent Authority to grant himself whatever exemptions he needed after the fact.

P.S. And lets not forget that D'Aguilar, unlike Sands, was given protection for his role in various protocol violations by Minnis.

There's definitely a political strategy here. But, put aside that for a second and look at what he's saying. There really isn't a plan here. Pure and simple.

We're in bad shape. We shouldn't expect perfection from the PM for this crisis. A lot of leaders globally are getting their butts kicked. So, he's not alone. The difference here is he's making decisions that are totally detached from reality. They defy logic.

I think that Dr. Minnis has pride issues. Clearly he doesn’t trust anyone if his own cabinet members have no clue what he’s going to do next. Frankly it’s embarrassing. We have a stubborn leader who has surrounded himself with people who only feed his ego and are incapable of telling him that he’s an emperor with no clothes. He needs to drop his pride, diversify his ‘advisors’ and get this country back on track to beating this virus or he will be the first PM in Bahamian history that’s ousted without a general election. Frankly the Bahamian people are tired!!!

Where is Loretta???

Hiding ever since she heard the deadly Communist China Virus likes really big people. She's no fool.

"*Tribune understands there was deep concern among some of the prime minister’s Cabinet colleagues about the level of consultation that preceded Monday night’s announcement.*"

But you have him the authority to ignore you

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