People in FNM constituencies need to start calling their MP's advising them to put forth a motion of no confidence in the PM, or else!! Let the DPM take over and lets move forward. I doubt anyone can make as many poor decisions as Minnis has!

I would love to know what process the tourists followed to get the permission from the Competent Authority to have this wedding in Harbour Island.

2020 is turning out to be a strange year. Who would have thought that a tourist wedding on Harbour Island would create such a scandal. Anyway no need to worry anymore, Barbados announced that they will take all the tourists the Bahamas does not want anymore...

Is the person complaining that the other couple got permission to do their wedding? Or that they did not think to call to see if they could do it? Maybe if they called they would have been given the OK? Now to the other items the HI wedding did is a whole different matter. But the wedding itself is not an issue.

You just don't get it. It is not for our most 'incompetent' authority to decide who should get or who should not get a waiver from his ridiculous orders. None of us should be put in the very demeaning predicament of having to watch him pick the "winners" and "losers" among us.

Emergency orders like all other laws are intended to apply equally to all of us. If Minnis is cherry-picking the privilged 'favoured' few who are exempt from his orders, then the rest of us should simply no longer comply with any of his more ridiculous orders.

Just who the hell does this nasty, arrogant and most incompetent oaf think he is? Who does he think coronated him King of The Bahamas and above the law with the ability to strip away all of our most basic civil rights and liberties in perpetuity?

And how is it this looney-tune clown can be above the law with no responsibility for the untold harm and damages his more ridiculous spur of the moment orders have caused so many Bahamians and Bahamian businesses?

How much longer are we prepared to put up with this power crazed imbecile ruining the lives and livelihoods of so many of us? Are we Bahamians really that damn stupid and can't see what's so obviously going on here?

Not sure you understand, that all weddings can still happen per the order, with a maximum of up to 5. This person and someone in Nassau asked to have the numbers increased and this was given the OK. The person in the article could have had their wedding with 5 people or asked to see if they had more (as the HI and Nassau people did). The reason this is a big deal is the HI is a foreigner, whilst no one is hearing about the Nassau one.

@dawes, they will never understand because they dislike the government so much. Many can not be objective. I was trying to find where it said that people could not have their weddings. If you have invested that much money why cancel? I would have gone on as planned and cut back to the 5 people.

The tourists in Harbour island and the one couple in Nassau had the common sense to ask for permission. She could have easily gotten an exemption, especially since as she said the lockdown was not announced until 6pm on Saturday and her wedding was the next morning .I don't understand why everyone is up in arms about the wedding ceremony.

In any event, why are people still planning $10,000 weddings in these uncertain times. A small ceremony with an officiant is all that is needed. Parties and receptions can be planned for another date. #myfivecents

Geeezzzz! You're a much more persistently assinine and diehard Minnis supporter than @Dawes could ever be. Are all of you folks, i.e. @stillwaters, @Topdude, @TigerB, etc. on Minnis's early campaign payroll? LOL

You are the village idiot just like the couple in the story
They had every right to ask for an exemption like the other two couples but chose not to or not smart enough to do it. This has nothing to do with race or discrimination just political mischief.

You missed the point completely.

@Dawes is likely one of the few remaining diehard Minnis/FNM party supporters who disingenuously elects to miss every point of well deserved criticism directed Minnis's way.

No i am not a die hard any party. All parties do bad as well as good and it is up to each person to work out which one they think will either do the most good for them and the country or the least damage.

Bollocks! You're a loyal diehard Minnis supporter. And if you can't admit that, then you've got some of the same unhinged mental problems Minnis himself suffers from. I've never been a supporter of Minnis, and for good reason - I know the man better than most. But you will never see me denying the fact that I frankly detest him for all too many good reasons that I usually elaborate on, often ad nauseam. You on the other hand, and others like @geostorm, typically ignore most facts and simply disagree with anything and everything negative said about Minnis, but without providing much logical reasoning or elaboration as to why. Oh well, you're right about one thing - you certainly have the right, as does all of Minnis's diehard supporters, to spew and spin deceitful views on behalf of your much beloved supreme ruler.

Man I feel sorry for you. All you do is rant at Minnis and then anyone who dares to say anything that you somehow assume to be in support of him. Must be a very sad life you lead.

No need for you to feel sorry for me. Life has been too good to me and my family and I'm happy as a lark. But sadly too few of my fellow Bahamians can say the same because of the likes of Minnis.

Your life may be good but you nothing but a political hack like most of the other posters. You still haven't said what was wrong with the decision to grant the exemptions

I too would love to know who these tourist called at such short notive.

We need to stop with the double standard. Seems to me that if there are going to be exceptions to the rule, then a contact information should be given in your so-called order for exceptions. But we all know it’s not based on that. It’s based on who you are and your connections and to hell with the rest!!

Harbour Island appears to be a whole different world, with different rules — the marina owners over there are campaigning in the newspapers and yachting press for party-yachts from covid-infested Florida to head on over to Harbour Island and party-hearty. This very newspaper has been helping them spread that dangerous message.

The Romora Bay Marina resort actually proclaims on its covid page that visitors don’t have to wear masks on their property!

Eleuthera, miraculously, has no covid cases, yet — but if the marina owners get their way, that won’t last long.

Guess they picked the wrong wedding planner.

As I've said so many times before:

*Minnis is the epitome of a power crazed and most abusive self-annointed tyrannical dictator, no ifs ands or buts. He is without a shadow of doubt mentally unhinged and dangerous to the well-being of our country and its people.*

The **Central Authority** might survive **agitating the male natives* *but Mr. Minnis's worst political nightmare be's to have a bunch of comrades **upset bride sisters-to-be** engaged in a deep piercing of a paralysing stare at **His Imperialist** through his Imperialists motorcar's windows as **his side riders** attempts moves his motorcade abouts the out islands capital's roadways. Just couldn't make this stuff up. Just, couldn't. Nod Once for Yeah, Twice for No?

“ ... deep pierecing steer ...” A cow? Or did you mean “stare.” C’mon, Tal, you’re better when you drop the crap and write clearly.

And ya'll act like special treatment for special people is a surprise! Why is anyone surprised by this? Welcome to the B-A-H-A-M-A-S!

The PM needs to find a new game to play and/or take a staycation.

Ma Comrade DDK, reflect on 'em's Mr.**Theodore** Minnis has **the thirty-four** Housed elected red coats MP enablers, and don't forgets 'em's politically appointed to the upper red chamber led by **the inconsequential constitutionally ignorant** AG Carl **Wilshire.**Time, **Mr. Theodore,** exit the OPM.

I've said it time and time again. Minnis and D'Aguilar revel in catering to every want, need and wish of their foreign friends and have nothing but great disdain for us Bahamians.

If Minnis allowed an already planned wedding to proceed with many guests because of the very short notice he gave for his most recent lock down order, it begs the rhetorical question why did he not immediately clarify his original order by making a public announcement that all weddings already planned for at least the first one or two lockdown weekends could proceed as planned to in order to avoid significant financial harm to the impending newly wed couples.

Minnis and D'Aguilar are both heartless and most vindictive SOBs when it comes to the way they treat us Bahamians. But when it comes to the wants, needs and desires of foreigners, they are all too quick to roll out the red carpet treatment for them.

"Permission was granted for a destination wedding on Harbour Island, Eleuthera and a Bahamian wedding in New Providence."

The writer needs to clarify it some more because the Complainant mentions she and fiance brought their parents from the Family Islands to Nassau (New Providence, Bahamas) for her wedding. So what is the difference between the one described as "destination" Eleuthera Bahamas) and the one referred/described to as "Bahamian" New Providence, Bahamas.

So according to you we have a foreign wedding 'favour' and a Bahamian wedding 'favour'. What's your point? Do you really think they cancel each other out and all is fine and dandy? Tell that to the unfairly treated bride and groom to be who seem to have suffered great financial loss and stress simply as a result of Minnis not making it publicly known that he does not consider his orders etched in stone and therefore behind the scenes is willing to grant an exemption or waiver to the "right" people when he thinks it's fit to do so. What a joke!

...Tribanon, I am sad at the horrible experience Ms. Newbold and fiance is going through and particular sadened at their contracts and financial loss incurred from Govt decision. There are likely dozens more, perhaps hundreds of contracts and planning of events weddings, funeals, graduation, Christening babies, wedding, business annivarisies, birthdaysetcetc which have been postponed and altered. We all get shorted. On the Ms. Newbold position I would have liked to see their photo published of in all fairness of this couple having plans to wed in Nassau Bahamuan destination just as the other partipants pictured in celebration at the other Bahamian Harbour Island destination. And yes, there are lots of unfair inequalities, lots of unfair situations to many persons under all govts and should have corrections. A solution given the sad situation now that it is known from the Tribune is for the govt to step up to the plate and rearrange wedding free costs for Ms. Newbold who also have stated having wedding with Covid 19 strict guidelines.

Fully agree that those who have been wrongfully harmed by Minnis's more ridiculous orders given with little or no notice should be able to seek legal redress from the government.

Is **The Homeless** comrade still serving out his jail time up at Fox Hill Prison, courtesy of the red coats courts? Is there a problem with the economy **that isn't** being caused by Mr. **Theodore** Minnis?

well muddo sic y'all people could complain!! Not to mention playing drums, lady listened to the radio all week and still did not get a phone number for the competent authority!! FFS this the second time around.

Why didn't you give the phone number in your post immediately above?