It is utterly sad and pathetic that a prime minister would stoop that low with innuendos that he know are not factual, just to appease his bottom feeder supporters.

Sadly though this is what people who are not leaders do. They try to make something out of nothing to take the focus off the fact that they are doing nothing and going nowhere.

There's something and they know it

Anyone who gets involved with the Political, either party, should know the potential to become political cannon fodder or get thrown under the buss.
No matter how good the intent or job. Political expediency and purpose never correlates to competence or purpose.

At least they are not dragging people to court before investigating, Mrs. Susan Larson, what does she know about feeding the helpless. Bishop Walter Henchell has been distributing and helping the helpless for over three decades but under the worthless FNM was ignored and shunned and so was countless hardworking and honest over the hill pastors and NGOs. Let's get to the bottom of the food sham program.

Sham food program? I guess you never saw the lines of cars waiting for (and getting) food. You are very fortunate not to have needed this program.

Fraud is commonplace in charities. Charities have been linked to money laundering and terrorism because they're such great mechanisms to hide bad actors and their motives. There was a HUGE sex scandal in Haiti in their relief efforts. Bad actors know if you smile and had out food alot of people will miss what you're really doing. That's why it's of utmost importance that nobody excuses these lax systems with why y'all complaining we was doing good work and plenty people benefitted. Its unaceptable

"*miscoded, not misappropriated” and the relevant NGO was not even aware the funds were in its account*"

Seriously? Well this seems to prove Mr Davis' point. Where was the oversight? 2milion dollars disappears and nobody wonders were it was until Brave Davis shows up 2 years later

The NGO should have had reports of X number of persons served totalling a dollar amount, add in their maintenance fee and then the oversight body should have asked, where's the excess 2 million we gave you last month? *2million??? Oh look there's 2 million right on my account! Who knew?*

**We need to stop allowing these, *we're good*, *it was a just a mistake* excuses and start holding everybody accountable or we'll never get rid of corruption. The bad guys will say, well you let the good guys do it, why you picking on me?**

Miscoded not misappropriated? Interesting war of words.

The other woman said she acquired a sixteen thousand dollar generator.
ACQUIRED from where??

probably bought it from some Brave individual when 'they' brought in all those generators years ago into Nassau, through the out islands disaster relief program, so he didn't have to pay duty.

There is a reason why Susan Larson was chosen for this program. It is because of her and her family's ability to raise money on a local and international level. All of the local charity leaders are good at distributing after it is raised and that is what was done. The same people who criticize her are the ones who benefited the most. It is very sad that we only focus on the negative and ignore the positive. Thousand of persons from all walks of life donated their time, talents, and treasures to the feeding program. There were many good things that came out of it. A database was prepared to identify all of those in need to prevent duplication of efforts. The international organizations gave The Bahamas top grades for taking care of the people compared to others around the world. The bottom line is that no one went hungry and no money was stolen. However, Bahamians love to bite the hand that feeds them. Let's see if anyone going to come forward and help next time if we keep attacking those that helped before.

Which Intl organization gave the Bahamas top grades "*compared to everywhere else around the world*"?. I thought I heard the opposite, that we were pretty much at the bottom of the pile in terms of our management.

Unfortunately we're going to move nowhere if people keep excusing mediocrity as excellent work.This was mediocre and the very definition of no accountability. If the requirement was for monthly reporting, and funds dispersed on the basis of estimates, with a requirement that excess funds be returned...shouldn't someone have been checking to see the number of persons serviced? how did we get to 2022 with noone realizing there was a 2 million overage?

The next hurricane will come and we will be talking about the exact same thing because "good work" apparently doesn't need to exhibit transparency or accountability

I strongly recommend all the NGO's to just stop and leave it up to the Govt social services to deal with. If the Government has information on illegal items then take action. If all they do is talk but no action then chances are nothing illegal happened. But what's the point in volunteering and helping (and donating as a large amount of the money in the food task force was donated) if you just get these sort of messages put out. Leave it to Government going forward as they are always able to do the right thing without wasting money.

exactly. Criminals should be prosecuted. If you don't prosecute then you have no evidence of illegality.

Hence Nygard. He lived like a king in the Bahamas for decades because we saw no evidence of criminality apparently. We're a great and shining example of how the justice system works to catch criminals

I don't think you know how this work. Charities are big time money. Big money always attracts fraudsters as well those intent on good

> "........and the relevant NGO was not even aware the funds {$2 million} were in its account."

Susan Larson would be wise to say no more.