If the only options are reform or fail, we’re screwed.

Wouldnt it be nice if these clowns actually shared their ideas with the public rather than having this bizarre conversation about whether their (secret) ideas can work or not ? If the people in this country do not stand up and demand to be treated like grown-ups, we seriously are doomed for a long slow painful descent into the third world.

Where's the hope, just seems like a-pile-of-ticks.. With too much hot air.. Grandstanding... What are the ideas?

Stupid people generally don't like to have their stupidity aired in public. This explains why Minnis gives as few lengthy press conferences as he possibly can. Minnis only wants to speak to the public when he's barking his orders and protocols that he will not allow to be questioned.

Branville said it right, "The ideas, you're right, have been there before," he said of the Committee's proposals.
"It's putting them into action and trying to make it work. I totally agree. Having the political will to execute upon it is a whole different story. We quite often fall short in that respect."
Yet, I would question the word "often". Perhaps better words would be "nearly always"

All they appeared to have done is take all the ideas of the last 20 years that have never been acted upon and put them into one document. This document in turn will not be acted on except to be able to form a new committee for each idea which of course will be filled with the same old people who have not done anything to help this country. Then all that will happen is they will make plenty money and there will be no change. I am becoming more sure that we will have to collapse completely before we can rebuild better as our politicians have neither the brains or the will to do it themselves.

I tend to agree Dawes. And, the collapse has already begun

What is the point of the ERC if Government can decide not to implement certain ideas. Surely if there is the an economic case for it then it should occur. As soon as Government starts to reject ones it is based on politics, which is exactly why we are in this position.

This is an age where countries are printing money endlessly to kick the can down the road and the Bahamas can't do that so this country is finished. Within the next 25 years we'll be a UN colony.

25 years my arse! Don't be so silly. Minnis is already negotiating with the Chinese Communist Party the terms and conditions of the agreement he will sign on behalf of his government and the bahamian people that will make the Bahamas a satellite police state of Communist China. LOL

Any plans based on persons traveling here is not feasible for a few years. That leaves increased taxes on banking (which wont happen) and clawing back our natural resources (which also wont happen). Then there are the air space and shipping lane usage tariffs, which will take some time to implement if TPTB allow them.

Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems that we have nothing to generate significant income under the present conditions.

These political appointees are just going through the motions. None of these recommendations will make a significant difference in the short term
Anthony Dupuch

These lofty ideas have NO CHANCE of being implemented, let along achieve success, in a country in which the Speaker of the House of Assembly does not have a toilet, and cannot buy a set of refills for his stapler without permission from the Cabinet.

Our problems are NOT BIG. Our problems are a WHOLE BUNCH of small ones, which add up to disaster.

Is the Economic Recovery Committee the same as the FNM’s election machinery? ‘Oil dem up baby, time to roll into battle, soon!’ But on a less serious note: The government failed to realize this this covid-19 virus was a progressive event ( no pandemics due to viruses are not new its nature of their behavior are well documented). So when this government did the first set of lockdowns and were able to contain the virus and flatten the curve, they jumped in the air clicking their boots together and celebrating victory. And even more foolishly, they opened the borders and a second beaver washed in, destroying ALL the hard work and sacrifice and effort that went into beating and containing the first wave. Realistically, that time should have been spent preparing for the second wave. That was just a lull the eye of the storm passing and guess what? It caught this country less equipped and more ill prepared than the first one. Persons are literally dying on the doorsteps of the hospital, some are being sent home to die and the economy is in shambles. It doesn’t seem even a slight chance of schools reopening for face to face, at least until March of next year. But this government in its infinite wisdom, plans to swing the borders open again, in just a matter of days and invite in strangers from all aspects of the globe, under the guise of reopening tourism or restarting the economy. HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN ABOUT The THIRD WAVE? Unless it only involves locals, please rethink the startup of any economic activity, including wholesale tourism until, at least March of 2021. Put your hopes of a safe and effective vaccine even beyond then. ( one of the volunteers in the vaccine trials had died, but the the university responsible wowed to continue those trials. In short, the focus for the next six months should be keeping Bahamians alive and safe and keeping food on their tables. Stay in your homes for a while little longer and keep the doors of this country closed for just a while longer. Hide yourselves from the world for just a few more months, until this wrath has truly passed.

@John - I have tried many times to impress on everyone that the pandemic will never be over; there will always be a mutation. Lockdowns are here to stay. Greater events are in play and this is just the beginning.

I don’t agree that lockdowns are here to stay or that covid-19 is here to stay.

The more important thing is to keep the population as a whole isolated from strangers, who may bring in other strains of the virus. Lockdowns, at this point, do not have to be intensified or made more stringent beyond the present weekend lockdowns. These are effective in that, by their very nature, they curb or prevent activities that may draw large crowds or induce the breaking of social distancing and orthe safety protocols.

Right John.....and you also don't believe influenza is here to stay. Take your meds and get a grip on reality.

If there is NO real national strategy or solution to divesting the 80% of the population of the country off New Providence, then this country's development is really doomed.

Either develop the Family Islands OR re-settle the least populated islands (south of New Providence) and lease them to the highest bidder (USA, Israel or China) to develop .................(any other solutions?)

America wanted to buy us before, let them buy us now. Forget england, embrace America and let us become a state .

Never!

@bahamianson: Much too late for that to be even considered now.

Given our government's coziness with the Chinese Communist Party, it's more in the interest of the USA that we just become another failed state like Haiti or Venezuela.