This is a case of plp stupidity and insensitivity once again in capital letters. There should be nothing built on our wellfields. If this is a project needed, then go further west. Also the incomprehensible idea of using any connection to the China Export-Import bank should be discarded and permanently abandoned.

By the fact that Government is willing to sacrifice a known important, valuable wellfield and pursue involvement with China Export-Import Bank; these are indicators of the financial deficit they find themselves in.
The wellfield is in their portfolio thus no need to buy property & few would provide such low low rates, even with knowing the true cost & long term commitments demanded by this group's arrangement. Many Caribbean Governments have refused such terms after their own strong-arm experiences. Buyer beware!!
New Providence is an overpopulated island with little natural spaces left, protect what you have!

So true, and the dim brains of our governmentsbecome more and more evident.

Will become a new shanty town so Haitians can be first on the hospital line.

Future adverse impacts of climate change on our nation's scarce natural resources pale in comparison to the current threats posed by environmentally harmful decisions made by the corrupt Davis led PLP government.

Numerous independent research studies done in recent years by teams of highly reputable hydrologists affiliated with globally renowned conservation and preservation organizations have all concluded The Bahamas already is in the midst of a most serious freshwater crisis that is being exacerbated by government's failure and/or refusal to acknowledge and properly address the underlying issues.

High ranking officials at Consolidated Water and the Bahamas Water & Sewerage Corporation have also repeatedly warned the government that many Bahamians may find themselves without an adequate supply of available and/or affordable freshwater before the end of this decade, if not sooner, due to underground pipe leakages and the escalating cost of producing freshwater by means of reverse-osmosis or other desalinization methods. The cost of barging water to the islands long ago became prohibitive.

Yup, it seems the corrupt and incompetent Davis led PLP government are quite willing to sit on their useless arses and watch us all die of thirst in the not too distant future.

This entire project and its location is a bad idea! The reasons are obvious as stated in the piece above. The problems of tertiary maternal & child healthcare in the public sector has little to do with infrastructure at PMH (that can’t be solved with alteration of the existing facility using plans from the Beck Group), but stem from poor management and compensation within the public healthcare system.

This includes a poor financial infrastructure of healthcare funding, management and compensation for healthcare professionals (especially physicians, nurses and allied healthcare/technical professionals), and maintenance of expensive and technical infrastructure and equipment. See the deterioration of the only decade old Critical Care Block.

Political parties all want to point to an infrastructure project that they provided, not realizing bad projects hang around their necks like a sinking albatross. We need bipartisan projects that span any one five-year administration. We’re much too small and vulnerable to survive wave after wave of stupid decisions. If the present Davis Administration wants to do something bold around healthcare they should seriously take on the mandate of funding a proper expanded national health insurance which will have to include folks paying into an insurance plan similarly to their national insurance tax which has become a lifeline for some folks for workman’s compensation and an aid to their retirement savings.