Dr. Sands, the healthcare facilities are exactly what you provided when you presided over them, nothing has changed other than your departure. Any shortcomings in this area should be laid right at your feet.
Now you and Brave of all people tag teaming up on the government? They say politics makes strange bedfellows, they also say that birds of a feather flock together.
Do you really want to be tarred with that brush??

And let's not forget that Minnis, a medical doctor no less, also did absolutely diddly-squat to improve the public healthcare system when he was minister of health under the last Ingraham-led administration. Minnis's appointment of Renward Wells as minister of health really says all there is to say about how little Minnis cares about our public healthcare system.

Sands is just a talking head who is trying to use this situation to score a few political points. In reality this country should have had a pandemic response protocol after the SARS pandemic. If we did they, would not be running around like chickens with their heads cut off wasting time, energy and lives repeating the same mistakes.

So this is a failure at multiple levels from:
1) the Ministry of Health (in particular Public Health) who should have had an implementable pandemic plan with adequate staff to mobilize,
2) using one kind of test only, when there are different kinds of tests that serve different purposes,
3) the competent authority who seems not to have advisors or if he does, should have fired them 5 months ago
4) the population of the Bahamas who has to start requiring more from their elected leaders.

We are to blame for electing incompetent people to lead this country every five years!

"We are to blame for electing incompetent people to lead this country every five years! - I agree with you 100% but what are you going to do when your only two choices are herpes and gonorrhea?

... communities should reject candidates who offer themselves. For instance if Minnis decides to run again, the people in his constituency (PLP's and FNM's) should have peaceful protest marches everyday until he withdraws!

But I agree with your point that we need 3rd and 4th choices.

And when it comes to incompetent people, Minnis is at the very top of the list!

You should add point 5). The contagious spread of Belly-Swell-Itis around this country. The people are breeding faster than the government can make provisions for their welfare. Also, we still waiting on that radar in Inagua, from "that time." Even if Bahamians slow down on breeding, the southerners race in to fill the gaps. I'm hearing that is happening now more than ever. Wages will remain LOW when employers have the ability to pick choose & refuse.
The church likes the word "abstinence", but it is time for them to expand their vocabulary, and it is way past time that the government make a specific law against not hiring illegals instead of relying on the "harbouring" clause.

As usual Chicken Davis is loud and full of hot air. It's easy to criticize when that's all you're doing. Not presenting a detailed plan on what he would do is proof that he is as clueless as everyone else.

Let's face it, the whole world has been "caught with its pants down" on COVID. That's not to excuse government's poor management of the crisis here in The Bahamas. We could and should have done better.

Taiwans response was probably the best in the world, because they had a plan after SARS, so not everyone was caught with their pants down. But this country ALWAYS has its pants down!

Sands and Davis........jeez......never thought I'd see the day, but desperate men do desperate things.

He should have stayed and voted no if that was his stand on the matter. I figure the other 24 absents might have been given the chance to vote remotely. The members that wanted to vote no and didn't are probably afraid that if their vote carried and the country was opened wide again, Covid numbers would explode and they would be blamed. They want one leg on each side of the fence. Suck my teet...........

One of the most laughable things said lately was when Dr Fauci said the corona virus is still in its first wave because even though there are surges and declines. There hasn’t been a case where the cases have gone all the way back down to zero, Eell Dr Fauci you’re wrong. That’s like saying if you’re out on the high seas, there are no waves because you can’t see no sand. But the fact is if you look at the world graph for corona cases and deaths, threre are three clear and distinct waves. If you look at the graphs for individual Countries or individual US States you can see clear, distinct waves. The graph for China had a definite wave at the beginning that was flattened and continues to remain flat with daily cases under 20. The problem with the United States is there was never a harmonious, unified effort to combat the disease , the effort was politics against science and state bs state. And as the lockdowns and curfews became territorial in The Bahamas, the numbers for each island have started moving in opposite directions

Dr. Sands is trying to take a major step politically. Putting that aside for a second, he's right to speak to what is happening and to give some suggestions.

This really isn't the time for flashing party colors. As one country, we need to sort this problem out. Brave is right that the government has failed. But, after you point that out, give some suggestions to fix the situation.

Testing, testing ,testing and more testing will be th e inky way out of this crisis. Lockdowns with increased resting is just further destroying the economy. Get it right PM!

The FNM need to hurry up and hold the convention that they have been delaying for a while now. It is very clear that Sands holds Prime Ministerial ambitions, and they need to hurry up and let him and Minnis battle it out for leadership of the FNM.

The constant negative press generated by comments such as these (I noticed the frequency has increased lately) only serves to illustrate how dis-unified the party is, and makes the incumbent government look very weak. They are not helpful at all, and it needs to stop one way or the other.

I say let him and Minnis battle it out : winner take all, loser goes home. If he feels that he can do better, let him throw his name in the ring and be done with it. Let the party choose who they want to lead them, and let the loser shut up. We need to come together under one accord in times like these, this is not the time for political games.

A better idea is for government ministers to vote no against extending the emergency orders to the end of November. Encourage Minnis to resign and let a new leader emerge other than Sands.
If either Minnis or Sands wins, the country is guaranteed to lose. Power should never be given to those who crave it!

So what is the rationale behind wanting the PM to terminate the emergency powers at the height of a pandemic? Y’all say y’all have a better plan? Y’all can’t be serious!

So how many hours have passed and The Tribune didn’t realize or fix the upside down banner at the top of this page?

We have ALWAYS underperformed, come dead last in everything, and been ass-backward. The only thing Bahamas excels in is systemic corruption, and asinine political stupidity!

No one should be acting surprised.

If only these useless leaders would collaborate with other Carib countries who though not perfect, have been very effective in mitigating the spread. But naw. No foreign influence in this hear Bahamaland.