**Tourism Reopening**

Good one lol, wonder which idiots will come to the Bahamas to "Vacation in Place" as they would call it, when they can go spend their time and money elsewhere in the Carribbean where the Prime Minister isnt a complete idiot and hasnt lost their damn mind!!!

**Parliamentarians are not entering quarantine despite the potential exposure, citing advice from health officials**

Of course they aren't, this country is ran by corrupt thugs after-all! NO RULES APPLY TO THEM!

This corrupt, incompetent, nasty, arrogant and vindictive arsehole will not easily let go of the extraordinary power he thinks he now has over the people.

LOL

The Bahamian people have sacrificed far beyond what is reasonable considering the painful
Government approach to this Pandemic.
On again off again, complex and contradictory rules, Micro rules,
Layers of poorly written documents to read and understand,
Prosecutions and incarcerations, Fines, Long lines everywhere,
Lines I might add entirely created by the Authority.
Add all this to terrible implementation at the Civil Service level (Customs, Immigration, Min of Health) for Travel.
Most of the economic Damage done, and still being done via Authority Micromanagement is unnecessary. KISS technology would have sufficed.
Extending it is pointless. The Cat was let out of the bag by none other than the Authority.

"I ask the Bahamian people if they can at least remain compliant just at least until the end of this particular month by wearing facial masks and trying to resist from such social gatherings"

Frankly, with 55 new cases yesterday, the Bahamian people need to continue with face coverings and social distancing until this virus is under control. Why is the PM putting a time limit on it?

If you haven't figured it out yet - the only place in the world that has COVID under control is Sweden. They put their heads down and pushed through the storm whilst everyone else has embraced the fear and cowered to a bunch of farsical attempts to subdue an airborne pathogen that has done nothing but prolong the inevitable - herd immunity. Papa Doc now understands that he has destroyed our economy and completely failed to protect anyone from the virus in the long term and has no choice but to prepare us for reality. I sure hope you have all been working on your own natural immune systems in the meantime

I am all for keeping businesses open but just think it is premature to be suggesting we are only weeks away from being back to normal. Face coverings and social distancing need to be continued until this thing is under control. Otherwise, no visitors will want to come to our islands where infection rates rage and there are no hospital beds.

every year there are new viruses. Mother nature gave you immune system to handle EXACTLY THAT! you do not need lock downs, face masks, and so on. All you need is healthy life, way to maintain yourself and your family. But the so called government is doing exactly the opposite. Everyone sitting on the couch eating fatty fast food, without moving the body watching shitty TV. Now you do not need to be Einstein to predict the outcome!

There is no need to extend the Emergency Powers.

Minnis is just drunk on the power it gives him.

Of all the Meetings in Parliament, Her Majesty Loyal Opposition in govt, representing peoples rights, debating skills, in action in Parliament with fierce debates ...did not show up to represent the people. The Englerston MP is a very fierce debater and should have been there as only Opposition party Nassau MP, most populated island.

Willfull and calculated absence of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition from attending Parliament to represent peoples interests...glaring lack of democracy for people for their Opposition representation absence in Parliament.

I think the reason they are extended is due to the fact it means employers do not have to make their decision on whether to layoff (and severance) or rehire a lot of people. Government knows many businesses will have no other choice but to be declared bankrupt and that would make the economic collapse a lot worse then need be. I am sure whenever that date comes there will still be many bankruptcies.

Shouldn't required but once glance over of the **35 House-elected MP red coats** to understand why such types comrade individuals focused on building wealth when **starting off on day-one** as the elected with financial worths ranging anywhere from not less than **$1m to $5m to $12m and closing off at $650 million** be's expected to be more receptive introduce **authoritarian rule** not exactly the ideal candidates for being sensitive riddin' **The Colony** of poverty corruption, **greed** and crime. A nod of Once for Yeah, Twice for No?

The competent Authority is incompetent. He does not have the ability to think through he should have someone who when he makes decisions to ask does it make sense?

Opening a parts store without mechanics makes no sense. When he closed service stations.at
1 pm no sense at all. 6 people at a funeral. made no sense. Now he wants more
power to make no sense. he took the bread out of the mouths of many Bahamians
by not allowing them to work.

The man is visionless and drunk with power.s

The majority of the Bahamian people have already sacrifised 6 months of their lives. Many have been without income for 6 months while politicians and civil servants keep collecting their salaries,many of them "working from home". You have already proved that the only thing you can do is ordering lockdowns and travel restrictions. Do you really think that 3 more weeks will have any effect? Judging from your actions and from the notorious "efficiency" of the Bahamian civil service you can call for emergency powers for the next 10 years and you still will not be able to get it right

virus will not disappear in 4 weeks. Nor in one year, nor in 10. Look at influenca, despite vaccine still millions of people get sick every year. You need to lock down everyone forever if nobody is allowed to ever get sick. Makes any sense?

Isn't this session in the peoples Parliament...when of all Sessions of great importance.... that the nations Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition chose not to show up and represent the people of the nation.????....and those on the Govt side made the herculean effort to show up following virus protection protocols.

"Progressive Liberal Party representatives were not in attendance, citing concerns about he virus."

Totally atrocious, eliminating peoples democratic representation, dispicable action of the Opposition not to show up in peoples Parliament to put the feet of govt on fire and serve the peoples of democratic nation to the best of their abilities and sworn oaths to do so. Past times the one MP 'Big bad Brad' had the phenomenal ability and being in few members Opposition party in govt., had the ability to take on massive govt opposite and gain respect from members.

"*I must congratulate those in the construction industry who have become more disciplined and compliant in terms of wearing the facial masks and that may have possibly helped why we are seeing a decrease*"

OMG. This the stuff we spreading as information now

Once you freely give up your freedoms and common sense to governments, it becomes a bargaining chip dangling over your heads. Hopes and beliefs are losing cards, you won’t be getting what you waiting for. All of history and whats left of common sense proves you will not be getting Any of it back, well, at least not just like that, not freely, not without a battle and certainly not any time soon.