so sad for us. we need to tighten our belts and purchase what we must. just like only the essential workers went to work, you only need to buy the essentials, and save what you can until the economy looks brighter and better. be encourage my fellow bahamians, better days will come. such are the vicissitudes of life. prepare for the good and prepare for the bad.

The Venezuelan people have been saying for years now that better days will surely come their way.....but that clearly has not happened. And it will not happen in the case of the Bahamas if we are foolish enough to support either the FNM, PLP or DNA in the next national general election. Be prepared to vote for an independent candidate running in your constituency because the alternative that comes with either Minnis or Davis is decades of suffering like you have never suffered before, with zero hope of it getting better even in grandchildren's lifetime.

The pull of a free FNM/PLP T-shirt is too strong!

This is an eye opening classic example of what can happen because Bahamians do not own our economy!

Thank you, PLP and FNM for 5 decades of asinine stupidity, that has now come home full circle to roost.

No need for naysayers and apologists. We are tone deaf to both of you!

You decided to work in the same middle to low level job for 10, 20 years and didn’t invest in yourself and none of that is your fault?

Though the Melia was originally built and owned by us. And look how that fared. It was sold as it failed.

Sadly we only have to look at how the Communist Chinese have treated our brothers in many of the African countries they now control to understand the kind of future we are going to have. Thanks to Ingaham, Christie and Minnis, Bahamians are going to learn the hard way that white supemacists of the violent neo-nazi skin head kind are saintly choir boys when compared to Red China's very sinister and evil yellow supremacists of the communist kind.

Tribanon has more than issues. He has an encyclopedia of Ailments, types of depressions, feelings of inferiority, frustrations And failures that no single physician can attempt to address. This is so unfortunate.

You think The Queen might be prepared to take us back??

Forget the queen, let's join up with Omicron Persei 8's lizard people kingdom.

lol say what?

The good news is that new corona cases in the US have plummeted by 70 percent since late January. At this rate most cases will be gone by next month (March as I have been saying since last year). The tourists will strengthen by summer and the country will have a booming winter season, especially if winter 2021 is half as bitter as this one. And do you know what that means for an FNM going into an election with a booming tourism industry and a rapidly rebounding economy? So that’s also why there will be no early elections.

Those happy pills you are taking may soon be in scarce supply. lol

Better the happy pills than the Corona vaccine. Because no one, no one, knows exactly (except rake in Billion$ for the manufacturers and distributors). First they tell you it protects you from getting Corona but you must still wear your mask and follow the safety protocols. Then they say, well some people (or ginuea pigs) have gotten the virus after taking both doses of the vaccine. So now they say, 'the vaccine will not stop you from getting the virus, but it will make your symptoms less severe if you do get the virus, pleeze! So answer this: why have policemen, doctors, nurses, food store workers and other front-line workers stopped getting the virus en masse? Because they have developed herd immunity...and the spurts here and there is the wake of the virus disappearing.

Simple math - The two best vaccines (Pfizer & Moderna) are both about 95% effective after the second dose, so 5% of those vaccinated could still get infected.

The reason you should still wear a mask after being vaccinated is becuase the vaccine protects you and not others. The vaccine 'teaches' your body how to 'build' the correct antibodies to fight the virus should you get infected. The vaccine doesn't build an invisible force field around your body that the virus can't penetrate. You are still able to 'carry' the virus and pass it on to those who have not yet been vaccinated, or those that choose not to get vaccinated. I think further studies are currently in progress to assess the degree of transmission post vaccination.

Regardless of the degree of incompetence in colony's Labour minister, it's beyond incomprehensible to be asked to believe that Comrade Dion, **hadn't known** about Melia's 2-years planned shutdown at the time he said, “But since the pandemic started, I am confident **based on the evidence that we see in the economy** that the unemployment rate **has drastically come down** because as you know **everything was** at a standstill and most of the businesses they put their workers on temporary layoffs. How much more of **a standstill** - could be any worse than a major resort's planned 2-years shutdown?

Anyone who has stayed overnight at that venue knows that it is in pretty rough shape. They couldn't even afford to tune the piano in the piano bar.

But anyhow, the bad news is that it should have been shut down a year ago when the pandemic started. Now there is three years wasted instead of just two.

The nation's continuance of Tourism, being the primary engine over decades and decades, should have the personnel to have done all likely possibilities of producing in advance various options to soften the blow of the hammer. Surprisingly, there seems to have no foresight for disasters and plans of to ease the distress of the one blow.

In this time now upon these workers, the taxi drivers who hhave income from transporting guests, beach vendors, workers who deal with the travel industry , the loss of revenue from Electricity bill to BEC, fewer travellers not flying BahamasAir to and from the now closed hotel, the children of these hotel workers, merchants, farmers and suppliers to the hotel and the hundreds of other Bahamians who benefited, may the Good Lord help them all in these added challenges they face to find a good solution to ease their pain.