>While speaking to reporters in Grand Bahama on Wednesday, she said critics should “be careful” of “vilifying” people in the media about the pledges they have offered. “We really should be very careful what we say about people who come to pledge. We should not criticise people and their pledges, we should be thankful and grateful for whatever they are pledging,” she said.

Where was this clucking dingbat when government was unnecessarily interfering with and hindering the desperately needed helping hands of numerous well known foreign NGOs in the immediate aftermath of Dorian?

> “The IDB has to figure out the several billions of dollars that are really necessary for the rebuilding of this country. And so, we are happy and pleased and appreciative of persons who are prepared to support the government and people of the Bahamas."

Here's a very telling admission from the clucking dingbat. She actually believes the IDB as opposed to the Minnis-led FNM government is running our country. She's probably right on that score given all of the incompetent governing we've experienced since May 2017.

In case you are not aware, it was not until Mrs. Smith took over the coordination of the relief in Grand Bahama that people starting getting help and us in the NGO world saw action happening and the red tape cleared. So she deserves kudos for what has been done since she took over. The government should have had her running the operation from day one and not in October.

Few will agree with you. She's been instrumental in doing Minnis's bidding by putting as much red tape as possible on NGO activity in Grand Bahama as she has red lipstick on her lips. Everyone knows the post-Dorian recovery effort has been seriously hampered by Minnis's incessant desire to control and micro-manage just about everything for the benefit of his cronies. And Katherine Forbes-Smith has been only too willing to help Minnis achieve his desired freakish level of control over just about every aspect of the recovery effort.

The many who will not agree are ignorant as they have not been involved and knowledgeable of what has been happening. As one connected with an IGO that was involved with the hurricane form day one, I'm not asking but telling you that Mrs. Smith has made all the difference in making it easier for us as NGO to work. Anyone who tells you difference is only a trouble maker.

Or possibly because the pledging conference was a UNDP / IDB iniatitive that was organised by and sponsored by them. So they remain involved as part of the transparency that you write about in long post when its convenient.

How much is Kay Forbes smith being paid to spill garbage and spin. crap.??

Will she speak about the cruise line that she is the consultant to. What doc them
tell her to tell them??

“Let us strip down how this $1.5bn is made up,” Mr Davis said on Tuesday. “I daresay, when you talk about donors, you are expecting donations to be made without strings attached.
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This clearly shows the ignorance of Davis. If he knows about donors, he would well know that donors always give and specify where they want their funding to go and you as the recipient then have the choice to determine whether you want to take it or not. A real leader would have asked how things work before opening their mouth and showing clearly their lack of understanding.

Kay Forbes Smith must be running hard to be the most hated woman in the Bahamas
and no FNM propaganda can change that fact.

Perhaps doc should have waited before he made his grandiose 1.5 billion announcement

How much is doc paying her to spin and the cruise port that has been doing the dumping in
Bahamian waters. What is she and doc telling them. being as she is a consultant?.

Ma comrades, do take closer look at her picture, and then still say all honestly, that still your're not least, skeptical that someone such intelligence looking Comrade "Sister" Kay - doesn't really know true meaning **Pledged** funds intended be used **exclusively** - for the reconstruction post Hurricane Dorian?

What are you even saying

"*We need as much as technical support in this journey of recovery*"

Thry say this without lifting one finger to find out what technical expertise we already have. Lately I've heard a narrative that we need to get assistance from abroad to find out how to prepare a business continuity plan. Have these people asked any major bank in the country for their protocols? These banks have for decades prepared plans for operating remote offices, securing home premises, ensuring satellite communication,... I am literally flabberghasted whdn I hear educated people tell the nation that we need to bring people in the country to show us how to do this. It is more frightening what these people could be telling the foreign man. No wonder they come in and charge us 35 million for a website. They say clearly this person is the smartest man in the country and he don't know no better...add another zero on the end of the number...

You have a big chip on your shoulder.

Who hurt you, who denied you something, maybe your dreams didnt work out?

Seems like only you know everything, the pre -eminient expert in all things, but you have time to be online commenting on all things. The chairman you have a problem with, every idea you have a problem with, i mean what a burden to know all and only have tribune commenters to share it with

It's called decades of seeing the Bahamas and Bahamians sold out. May be you don't see it because you're a beneficiary. Mutton does taste good. And if you really read my comments in "all the time I have online, I frequently state when "I don't know"....now when I know, I indicate it...I also find the Tribune posts anytging but a burden, the debate is good

everything above is 100% true. Individuals are publicly talking about going to foreign firms to find out how to prepare business continuity plans. You go to a bank and ask them what they do to prepare. You'll be asking yourself too, why are they going outside the Bahamas for information that right here????

Go and do a syrvey of business persons who made proposals to govt. Better yet go speak to the owners of Cavalier Construction on why theyre closing shop as construction on the Pointe is ongoing....Speaking out against air is one thing but speaking out on facts???

Go talk the operations officer in any bank please

We the people are our own "worse" enemies!

It is amazing how we go on rumours and not facts.

LMAO.....you're certainly entitled to your opinion, but that doesn't somehow change the facts as known by most Grand Bahamians.

Do you live in grand bahama or Abaco