That is the nail in the coffin for restaurants. With vat and grat, you already tack on 27% to exorbitant dining/ restaurant costs. Now you expect customers to pay another $20 per head to do so... Remind me again what advantages people enjoy for getting the jab? New Day indeed.

Can't imagine Bahamians saying they are broke, but can find 27% on top of the crazy prices in the restaurants. I cannot see how restaurants are still in business.

Yep just another excuse for a never ending medical dictatorship…

There is simply just to much grey in the trampling of civil liberties…

At least emergency orders had expiry dates…

Do you realize that we're still dealing with the pandemic sir/madame? Health protocols must still be followed to limit the spread of COVID-19.

The point is that by removing the emergency orders but keeping protocols the same, they are in effect, making all of the temporary rules and regulations permanent.

Actually no I hadn't - deaths and cases are at all time low and NOOOOwhere in the world have the supposed protocols (masks, social distancing, school closures, vaccination mandates) worked to mitigate seasonal spikes or made any difference in the numbers of cases or deaths...please provide evidence that any of these protocols have worked - would love to hear what you have to say...

exactly, just look at Florida. Florida has the lowest rate per capita and it has been open from day one with minimal effect on business' compared to california.

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Would you please buy a ticket to North Korea or Syria and go there today? You obviously dont know what freedom ja or what a vaccine is.
Why aren't peope dying from measles? Because they are vaccinated. Why are people dying from Covid? Bevause they are either vaccinated or unvaccinated. Doesn't matter. Also if you die less than 14 days from your 2nd shot you are listed as unvaccinated.
Please feel free to kill yourself, but dont force other people to kill themselves with your poison.

Bingo!

Israel ran into a brick wall with its passQCR code as those fully vaccinated are undone after four to six months due to vaccine loss of efficacy which then requires revaxing to to regain status as fully vaccinated. Persons are refusing unending vaccinations just to be at indoor social events. The unknown medical mafia will continue to rape the Bahamian travel by air public. All 1st World vaccinated nations has conceded that they have to live with Covid vaccinated or not as risk remains for all. Just mirroring minnis' misguided and archaic helth measures prolongs public stress that saw him ousted for world health ignorance and ignoring open source current scientific data on Covid that PAHO says undermines vaccine only strategy. The WHO was castigated at the recent health forum for ignoring Ivermectin/hydroxichloroquine Protease Inhibitor pre health booster theraputics and relying on vaccine or death. That the vaccines fail during four to six months for vaccine jabs is their only solution. And the world is stupid as square one is a vi$ciou$ circle.

THE AZ is a 90% efficacy and does not require booster. wild generalizations do zero to advance the dialogue. maybe try reading a book?

AZ is only 70% dude. Go read a book.

A must read warning from a fully vaccinated Israel to vaccinated persons.

https://m.jpost.com/health-and-wellness…

From the Article.
"One study comparing symptoms among people vaccinated and unvaccinated found that a vaccinated person infected with corona had a 58% less chance of developing a fever. Most people who were vaccinated and then infected said they felt more like they had a minor cold.
Another difference is the risk of being hospitalized.
The vaccinated have a much lower chance of being hospitalized because of their symptoms and are less likely to suffer long-term symptoms, often referred to as long-COVID."

Depending on individual body immunity status, age and comorbidities. Bottom line is that those without morbidities could easily survive Covid like the Bahamians who are not fat, children and healthy young adults. Vaccines that need a quick reboost every other day is like my sex pill. It does not fix the problem. I must always keep one on hand in case of failure.

https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/…

So you get rid of the emergency orders and replace them with in effect emergency orders. This is like the VAT to 10%, but we are increasing plenty of other items so you lose out situation. Apart from what looks like no curfew the rest are the same or worse (now if vaccinated you need to show a test to go indoor dining).

He is correct on that. Those vaccinated, the shot create Covid antibodies in your body by exposing you to Covid spikes which your body produces but you also breath and spit them out while talking. Non vaccinated and Covid negative are 100% more healthy as some new varients avoid testing and are immune to vaccines. Scientists are afraid to reveal that thin air is not creation a new breed of viruses.

Spot on. The new rules are the same old rules in disguised, with the same health travel visa that they criticized so much. Oh, and where is the free testing?

PLP surely fooled the people with the New day that has the OLD heads leading it.

They didn't fool me.....I voted for one of the independent candidates running in my constituency and I was saddened that she didn't get elected because she can run circles around Davis and Darville when it comes to her intellligence and common sense.

Bingo x 1000 !

Only Health Protocals along with scientifically recognized Protease Inhibitors pre Covid boosters work. Wholesale non targeted Te$ting forever is recognized as $$$ laughable $$$ medical monitizing of a health issue.

The vaccine hoax will persist with the PLP ..... It will just become more hilarious with so many "grey" rules to pacify an ill disciplined society. The shoe is on the other foot, so we'll see how it goes for 242. The PLP was smart to get rid of the CA boogey man. There will just be a multi headed devil to blame in 242

Actually CA Smith is still Governor General. He hasn't announced publicly that he's resigning.

Competent Authority = CA

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CA stands for Competent Authority, aka HAM

“This morning we are delivering on that promise and finally closing this dark chapter in our country’s history."

Closing a dark chapter? Not at all. They are making the emergency orders permanent...it sounds worse to me.

What is the guidelines and criteria that must be met for the tyranny to end? No one seems to want to state what that might be. No cases? 10 cases per month? Week? 0 deaths? 100% vaccination rate? effective therapeutic drugs? What is the end goal? What is the measure of when this foolishness can stop? This should be made mandatory in this legislation. The goal posts always seem to move.

This is only going to end when the Americans put down their cheeseburgers and TV remotes and use that 2nd Amendment right that their ancestors left them.

The cattle need to get ready for their fourth shot!

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-n…

Absolutely right! LMAO

Well by creating a leaky vaccine that only effectively works for 6 months (ish) it ensures that no population will never achieve 100% sterile vaccination.. Only a small % of the population will ever be within the 6 month window of protection...the other 'vaccinated' folks simple become vessels for variants production ensuring the energizer panic bunny can keep on going, and going and going...oh yeah did you hear that 10% of domestic cats in the UK where infected by COVID...so yeah this is never going away and neither are the proxy regulations advocated by professions (journalists, doctors and politicians) desperate to control situations that are simply impossible to...

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20211…

The Red Line has been reached as the vaccinated cringe at booster after booster and the Covid of everything creeps from travel, social/cultural gatherings, education to grocery shopping in parts of Germany. It is planned that way. Grow your chicken and breadfruit. In ten years there will be no fish. France and UK are at war now over fishing grounds.

So every time you want to go eat at a restaurant, you have to get a covid test in advance??? That's the end of that business!!!

THE RESTAURANTS WILL JUST TEST THEM ON ARRIVAL. SOME DO AT 15. BUT THE RESULT NOT VALID FOR OTHER PLACES.

No....actually it's the end of Davis and Darville who are now the laughing stock of the Bahamian people for attempting the very same scaremongering tactics Minnis had in mind to unconstitutionally pursue the mother-of-all power grabs under the evil pretense of somehow protecting us from the Wuhan virus.

This corrupt feeble minded and incompetent Davis led PLP administration has simply decided to enact the legislation Minnis instructed Carl Bethel to draft in a wrongful effort to try codify and cement the emergency orders and protocols into statute law that violates just about every civil right and liberty guaranteed to us under our Constitution. This PLP administration will be ignored and laughed off of the political stage by the Bahamian people. And most rightfully so. ROWL

SO the Minister of Health has now become the competent authority. Wow!

No, the PLP will not use that phrase. They blamed that for all Covid failings. No CA, just a flaccid new law, that people will soon ignore (for the most part).

These rules don't go far enough, any gathering, a Covid Ambassador should be hired, to supervise people interacting with each other. Also to collect any fines for the Government. This will go a long way!

Tyranny. Half of USA is non functioning now as the populace tries O get the world as we knew it spinning again away from medical minis/hitlerism

My friend, I am not looking at the USA, I am looking at Australia, where the unclean humans are lock inside 22 hours a day. Now kangaroo can be seen walking down city streets in peace!!!

PLP already dismantled the Covid ambassador system. They saw them as Minnis henchmen. This gonna be long

In Australia, where people can only go out to buy "essential items", the ambassador looks in the shopping bags to see if they only bought the allowed items.

Mind you in australia there were 2 women premiers and new zealand a woman prie minister. They could teach many local kahunas how to be vicious.

They even had the police shot 18 rescue dogs not to allow volunteers to go out to feed them.

WTF.....!!! Do away with emergency powers but give the incompetent health authority a permanent mandate to make up new rules every day instead. In the meantime, SE Florida is wide open and cases are plummeting and more and more hard data coming out that the vaccines do nothing to stop the spread of any of these variants he talks about. I really thought the PLP would have the guts to move away from the communist PAHO/WHO - big pharma vaccine holocaust. At least I thought they had the brains to recognize that the silent majority voted the FNM out because of all of this Nazi foolishness.....how long till the next elections ?? If the tourist economy isn't in ruins and we are all enslaved by the New World Order by then

And good luck in the family islands when they have to close every restaurant on the island for non-compliance. What are they going to do next, start locking Florida tourists up for not wearing a mask and shooting rubber bullets at innocent people for complaining - that is the NEW NORMAL in Australia

Moderator, can you please let me know why you are not posting my comments?

Minister of Death for The Bahamas. Congratulations to all of you who who thought, or hoped, that this government would be better than the last fricked up one. More horrible governance. More doom and gloom. Thank you Doctor Death.

Davis and his cabinet members are just creatures of instruction. The likes of the IMF and the very greedy and evil globalist billionaire oligarchs they represent are now calling all the shots.

It really doesn't matter anymore who we vote for at the polls. Our corrupt local political elite, whether they be of the FNM or PLP flavour, long ago sold all of us out as they went about unjustly enriching themselves, their families, their financial-backers, cronies, etc., by selling our country off to the foreign corporate vultures represented by the IMF, IDB, World Bank, etc., and the evil foreign state actors who facilitate their raping, pillaging and plundering of small and vulnerable nations like The Bahamas.

The PLP has screwed up again! What about employees who work in restaurants, those who supply restaurants and those entering restaurants to ruin any enjoyment that might have been had by the patrons? I swear we must be the stupidest country in the world with the most stupid and blind governments.

> In addition to this, “a funeral service conducted in a church or place of religious instruction shall be conducted without the presence of the remains in an urn or casket inside.”

No problem, just place the deceased or his ashes in a cardboard box.

The vaccines spread the virus as a vector as each shot is like a mosquito bite invecting that person in order to derive Covid antibodies at that point the vaccinated spread the virus through spit and breathing. The vaccine does not supply immunity from Covid as all vaccinated persons must be tested to travel or to publicly/privately gather to eat maybe to shop if certain regional health powers has its way. Many vaccinated in the Bahamas have gotten sick and caused Covid death among their families. There is no proof that the vaccines create Covid varients but neither could it be denied. However, varients sure appeared after vaccines were introduced to stop Alfa. If we had the money and resources of Auschwitz Australia we would still be under a Minnis medical monetized global tyrannical dictatorship. Tourism and all other supporting industries necessary for Bahamians to grow are paying ransom to the medical only elite millionaires of PCR and test for ever strangulation to stressful and financial death.

So, unlike the Competent Authority, which had an expiry date, this mini-me wants the power, and permanently.
Everything above up to the travel requirements is just taking stupid in a new direction.
Not surprising.
Prepare for more desperation, joblessness, crime, frustration, hunger.

This marks the end of the political careers of both Davis and Darville who are now the laughing stock of the Bahamian people for attempting the very same scaremongering tactics Minnis had in mind to unconstitutionally pursue the mother-of-all power grabs under the evil pretense of somehow protecting us from the Wuhan virus.

This corrupt feeble minded and incompetent Davis led PLP administration has simply decided to enact the legislation Minnis instructed Carl Bethel to draft in a wrongful effort to try codify and cement the emergency orders and protocols into statute law that violates just about every civil right and liberty guaranteed to us under our Constitution. This PLP administration will be ignored and laughed off of the political stage by the Bahamian people. And most rightfully so!

Small wonder I'm forever LMAO at the comical entertainment provided by foolish PLP and FNM politicians of the highest corrupt and incompetent order who should just be ignored for what they truly are, i.e. imbecilic idiots!

Is Guardian's Talkie Show aka "Cleric" Host is on his latest ramp.
He's got questions over why is it that the new 2021 Health Services Rules has not banned the wearing of **open-toe shoes** and everything like the sling-back wear peep-toe shoes since they is not healthy for Popoulaces practicing of **social distance toes apart?**
You really can't make this anti-toes exposing stuffs up. - Yes?

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Guess The Computer Guy's funded PAHO is more powerful than our vote. We are Pahomians with no rights as parents. Our kids will become forced no parental consent vaccinated during school hours. The Bahamas remains on Covid Script even though UK pediatricians enmass said the vaccines heart issues are worst for kids than Covid. The battle to control is far from over.

Carissa coming to get ya . Resistance is futile. We are the borg.

This comment stream is slightly amusing. All these armchair and youtube experts think they know it all. Surprise numbskulls!!! The medical establishment that keeps your ass alive from birth to death still has way more experience and knowledge than all of these pundidiots making assinine statements on something they know nought. Until you can show me your MD or PHD (and no not a philosophy or religion PHD) and your extensive library on epidimiology then go STFU and sit small!!! Guess what the reason the cases are low is due to the extended invconveniences we have all suffered over the past 18 months. stupid is as stupid says on Tribune comment posts.

Yes, Four legs good, two legs better!!!

https://www.oann.com/fauci-hhs-official…

Great post.

As my late Grandpappy would often say: "Having the whole alphabet after your name doesn't make you smart, right or just." LOL

Neither does having none of the alphabet after your name.

Hey fella - Human beings have been around quite a bit longer than you and your overinflated opinion of modern science. About 300,000 years longer. The reason you haven't died of a common cold is that someone up the family tree developed natural immunity and passed it on to you. And the inconveniences that we have all been forced to suffer over the past 18 months has actually woken a whole lot of people up to the fact that your heroes are the very ones who created this virus, patented it, and are making an absolute $$$ killing out of testing us and treating us. If you cant see the truth your PHD is worth nothing.

So wrong in so many ways

Hooray !!!, someone who finally gets it. Couldn't have said it better myself.
The problem is, most of the uneducated population (particularly on here) will err on the side of these pundidiots (not heard that one before, so apologies for plagiarizing)

Well that didn't take very long. The PLP have been in office for less than two months and already the people want them gone. Bahamians will never learn!!

Dr. D is just plain "dumb". . .he talks too dang much!! Touchy like Mitchell. . .dang dude!!

The only thing I see that is different than the EO is that the dictator is no longer the PM. . .but now is the MOH!!

Any er yinna know where to find Dr. D's "turn off" button? He needs to be "shut off".

So long as some big pharma-educated doctor on a mass media power trip gets to make rules for the business sector - this country's economy will be f......d. We just had a doctor shut the economy down for a year and a half and borrow an obscene bunch of money from international loan sharks to offset the fact that he ruined the economy of 350,000 people to try and save 0.017% of the population (most of which were over 70 with 2 or more comorbidities) Now the PLP is telling the next doctor he has complete control over the business community !? Good luck if somebody sneezes. Might as well close down your business right now

Two Freeport Buddies, a Red and PLP were out in boat fishing when one of them collapsed and fell overboard.
The other Freeporter whips out his cell phone and calls his newly House-elected Red MP.
I think my PLP Voting Buddy has just fell overboard and he's looking all deaded. What should I do, he’s not breathing and his eyes are all glazed and looking everything for the worst like this and that.
His Red MP says, “Calm down. First, let’s make sure your  Buddy is really deaded!"        
There’s that still of complete silence, **followed by the loud sound of a gunshot.**
Back on the phone, the Red Voting Freeporter, says, **“OK, MP, now what,** — Yes?

https://m.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakin…

From Israel. The difference between Covid and flu.
https://m.jpost.com/health-and-wellness…

WHO will enforce the New Day Covid law?? ... The Doc didn't mention that at all ...... We await.