Of course it is, the Lockdown King will **NEVER** let anyone take away his new powers, be prepared because we'll be having more useless lockdowns well into Summer 2021. We've been on a curfew since **MARCH**, why doesn't this idiot realize that his stupid lockdowns are doing more harm to this country than the Chinese Virus ever could!

Minnis is right, when this pandemic is over, a different world will emerge...a world without this **USELESS** s.o.b as our PM! This country is forever doomed until this fool is removed from office along with his corrupt and useless administration.

Minnis the man with the plan. Lockdown, lockdown, lockdown!

I don't think PM Minnis has been reading the Bahamian papers these last few years.
"Regarding small businesses, Dr Minnis said funding has been the greatest barrier for entrepreneurs." No Dr. Minnis, it is one of the challenges, but not the major barrier. The major barrier is the attitude of our government employees who feel it is their responsibility to hold Bahamians back by saying "no" more often than they say "yes, how can we help?" As a business person, I can tell you that the challenges to doing business are not funding. They are the piss poor attitudes of our fellow Bahamians, who either too jealous, too incompetent or too lazy to do their job. Some have a problem even being at their job. No, Dr. Minnis, your administration is only more of the SOS that we have gotten with every other administration. You want to boost local business? Put some of that Crown Land into Bahamian hands, instead of foreign hands. You want Bahamian businesses? Get rid of some of the onerous taxes and duties required to start businesses. You want Bahamian businesses? Find some public servants who understand what "helping" their fellow citizens actually means. You want Bahamian businesses? Find some Ministers who actually want to help their constituents, not just secure a pension, draw a salary and get kickbacks.
Dr. Minnis, you could have a million dollars cash in your hands and still be very disappointed that so many barriers were thrown up to you, as a Bahamian, just for trying to better yourself and your country. I think I have actually heard you say that yourself, some long time ago. Like education, we talk the talk, but just can't find the wisdom to see the reality as it exists. Words, words, words. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Bahamians are tired of eating shit.
This paper has been rife with stories about how Bahamian entrepreneurs have been held back at every turn over the years. I do not expect an easy fix. No one alone can do it themselves. Not even you. But, to suggest that funding alone that will change anything in Bahamian business terms is an absolutely ignorant statement, with no basis in reality.

So very right you are Porcupine, on all counts!!

Thanks DDK.

the whole world is on lockdown, it's not Minnis' fault. he does not know what to do. No government knows what to do. The Czech government is closing down after saying in March that lockdowns would never happen again, having almost zero cases in april, having a party in april with over 1000 people celebrating, and lifting all restrictions in the summer. Now , they are in trouble again and locking down. the only solution the world has at this time is to lockdown and pause for a second.

It’s almost like Sweden was right...lockdowns delay the inevitable...
I think everyone is forgetting LDs were went to be a temporary Measure to limit the overwhelming of hospitals - not a suit of armor against the disease. It’s now turned out that lockdown certainly kept people out hospitals (not necessarily COVID cases) but people that needed other care. End result is around 100k extra deaths in us between Jan and October mostly of young adults...lockdowns kill...

@bahamianson you must be kidding us when you say, "The Czech goverment". Is that really the best you could conjure up? Believe it or not, many of us do know fake news when we read it. LOL

@bahamianson... please find out the last time Taiwan had a lockdown!

Well mr Minnis power corrupts and absolutely power corrupts absolutely...the irony is you powerless to do anything about the transmission of this disease...the only thing you can do at this point is make what’s left of society doesn’t go to hell in a handbag...put the kids back in school and for the love of Christ stop taking tourism for joy rides...No more lockdowns, no more curfews, allow people to move so they can get cat scans and MRIs, look yeah night clubs are bad idea, gyms aren’t t great either but don t force people to huddle in homes that just makes matters worse. Get people on the beach. Get them outdoors. Situationally this the best defense against transmission...but ultimately at this point herd immunity quickly is the only option fortunately most evidence puts that threshold at 20-40% of the population...

The Bahamas' economy is fubared and we are living on what is left of the fat that was put on. Soon the fat will be gone, and the situation is getting worse by the day. Lockdowns are the way to contain frustrated and angry citizens, so there will be no end to them until the economy can provide for them - which will take years. Trying to live a normal life under abnormal conditions is irrational.

Welcome to the madness of the new normal.

World bank published a report saying lockdowns will go until 2025. So prepare for complete fuck up here in the Bahamas. No tourists, no money, no business, probably also no food until 2025. If you need treatment at the hospital please bring your own oxygen machine and your own organ transplant.

The big picture here is not too difficult to see.

Minnis, with the help of the Chinese Communist Party, is transforming the Bahamas into a police state, having already self-annointed himself as its dictator. And the new Bahamas police state ruled by him will have as one of its principal economic activities the cultivation of marijuana for export (smuggling) to the North American market place. This will provide employment for many thousands of Bahamians who would be expected to toil in the sun day-in-and-day-out for very little pay on the large marijuana plantations owned by the ruling class headed by Minnis.

The Chinese Communist Party will of course be allowed to establish naval and other military bases throughout the new Bahamas police state (much to the chagrin of the US government and its national security interests) in exchange for helping to ensure unruly Bahamian dissidents are mercilessly forced to obey the harsh dictums of the ruling class headed by Minnis.

Just think of the irony here. Many decendants of Bahamian slaves along with illegal immigrants will find themselves toiling in the fields of modern day marijuana plantations in a new era of slavery.

LOL with tears in fear of what's to come.

ask yourself why there are no cases in China where it allegedly came from?

There are only 2 options:

1. the numbers are fake and they are dying like flies
2. OR they have vaccine/medicine long time ago.

actually to me a country with 1.5 billion of people saying we have only 15 cases is equivalent to (2).

So there is some possibility that all this was done to troll Trump (re-)election. For this speak also the moment covid arrived: not too early (risk of US finding a vaccine etc) and not too late (then it had no impact on the elections). Add the permanent hate speech of DT against China... you think that didnt arrive anywhere?

If you put the facts together I believe what is going to happen is that "wise chinese men" will "suddenly" "discover" miracle medicine against covid, IF Trump losses the election. If he wins prepare for 4 more years of covid.

Whether Trump wins or loses the US presidential election really doesn't matter a hill of beans to the very sinister and evil Xi Jinping led Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The ruthless CCP have ushered in the era of wicked bio-warfare, consistent with their longstanding ideology and goal of worldwide domination. Undeniably though, Biden would be the easier and much more compromised foe for the CCP to go up against in the coming years. And his running mate would be an even easier foe for the CCP if Biden became president and then had to turn the presidency over to her for any reason.

“The government will begin next year, the expunging of records of those convicted for the possession of small amounts of marijuana."

Next year? Next year? Why don't you outlaw the import of toilet paper and make it illegal to be in possession of toilet paper until next year. This will allow the Bahamian people to have at least some small amount of empathy with the so-called law breakers.

It seems like people are being taught that stupidity is a good thing. What will happen when the masses start to engage in stupidity on a large scale because they simply know no other way? All the stupid, all the time - yeah - great. Unbelievable.

Any one know when is Minnis going to allow Wells to come out from hiding in the basement bunker of PMH?

We are in the midst of a pandemic crisis and our minister of health is no where to be found on most days. It's not characteristic of Wells to be quiet as a church mouse. Perhaps Wells is now as overwhelmed and dysfunctional as our public healthcare system. Minnis, a medical doctor no less, was only too quick to toss the hottest political potato to Wells by putting the minister health hat on his head. LOL

Ok Hitler, I mean Dr Minnis.

You are nothing if not incompetent, and drunk on power.