> Your vote does not only create MPs; it
> sustains the entire chain of people
> who believe their first duty is to
> shield politicians from embarrassment,
> even at the expense of patients,
> staff, and the truth.

When a nurse of 44 years is treated like a criminal for exposing conditions in the nation’s main hospital, that is not “procedure”; that is fear and political loyalty masquerading as policy.

***The law of this country protects whistleblowers for speaking in the public interest. Section 47 of the Freedom of Information Act, 2017—brought into force on 1 March 2018—exists for exactly this scenario. It is intended to shield public servants from being disciplined, harassed, or disadvantaged for disclosing wrongdoing, mismanagement, or threats to health and safety when done in good faith and in the public interest.***

A leaking public hospital, rodent infestation, supply shortages, and unsafe conditions are not “politics”; they are straight public safety and governance failures. No “social media policy” or internal memo can sit above an Act of Parliament. If her suspension is based on an outdated or unlawful policy, it is bad lawyering and reads as victimisation for protected disclosure—not legitimate discipline.

This is the sickness on display that has killed this country: senior officials acting as political enforcers, gating keeping, instead of being guardians of the public interest as they are paid to do.

> *'Watch Da Road' - That Time Coming*

I understand her pain.
Whenever I have spoken out about any sordid condition in this country, the first response is to kill the messenger.
Davis, Lundy, Darville, all of them care only about themselves. This is their culture.
I'll bet the Prime Minister's office doesn't have any of the problems that our National hospital has.
It is an insult to human decency, not that PMH is in this condition, but that we have a gang of leaders who don't give a damn.
Don't care and will literally choose to shoot the messenger rather than do the right thing.
I believe that our current administration CANNOT even imagine what the right thing is.
Disgraceful!

…the sad part is, the hopeless alternative is just as bad, perhaps even worse. What we need are not more men chasing opportunities under the guise of “politicians,” but a new generation of genuine leaders - ones willing, for once, to put the Bahamian people first.

100% agree. However, where are these leaders going to come from?
It has to be a complete, totally complete, revolution of mindset, requiring sound education and understanding.
I think most of our most promising kids are choosing to leave, rather than fight the maggots.
I know I sure as hell do not want my son to stay.
The idea that a decent child would work for a Davis, or a Lundy is rather sad.
Yes?

While I understand your point, there’s a deeper truth for those of us who remain and the many who are now returning after the shifting reality of uncertainty of life in America, especially under the new policies of Donald Trump - makes it more urgent than ever for us, as a people, to save our own country from further decay. We shouldn’t just send our children abroad to study; we must send them with the understanding that this is home. Their education should not be an escape route, but preparation for return, ready to lead, ready to rebuild. The call to return and take up leadership has never been clearer or more necessary than it is now.

I appreciate your hope.
However, there is a saying that when the US sneezes...................
I find very few who truly understand what shape The Bahamas is in economically.
Do we understand how many hundreds of millions of dollars our politicians have taken out in the last few years alone?
We have borrowed and borrowed with little to no transparency.
We are in deep doo doo. We are deeply in debt.
We have no idea of the collateral pledged.
The fact that our own kids have fled, should tell us something about what we truly value here.
Those who will be returning, will be returning to a country on the brink. There is nothing that we do that is sustainable.
Not our fiscal policy. Certainly not our political situation.
I would like to see a bright future for my son, but am preparing for him to be educated abroad. If he is truly educated, he will find there is not much to return for.
I have traveled and lived other places.
Rarely have I encountered such a backward thinking place.
Just being real. What exactly do WE care about?
I can't find much. We just don't care.
Our politicians, pastors, police, judges, all don't seem to give a shit about anything.
The daily papers illustrate this on a daily basis.
On the Family Island where I live, I doubt there is one person who reads anything other than the bible, which they do NOT understand.
I wish I could be more optimistic, however, this situation did not occur overnight. We have had many decades of the fish rotting from the head down, as a Nation for Sale, as a place where going low is a business plan.
It will take a few generations, if we have that, for a group of educated kids to come back home, fight off the demons currently in power and to help educate a group of really ignorant people to do the right things.
There is hope, however, it dwindles by the day.
Judging by the way this administration operates, they are doing their best to make sure corruption, dishonesty, greed and selfishness prevail.
Christians? Please!

While 99.9% of readers will agree with your clear dissection of what has become of the place we call home, we must remember this - despite its failings, this Bahamas remains our most precious possession. We may relocate, adapt, and enjoy the comforts of other lands, but those are only pauses in the journey. The Bahamas, with all its scars and beauty, is the soil that shaped us. However far we go, it will always be home. Please, never forget that.

I can't argue with that. However, let us remember the Titanic.
There were many, even while the ship listed perilously, who continued to tell all the others that this was an unsinkable ship.
History is quite clear on the outcomes of decades of corrupt leadership in a country.
It is not pretty.
And further, if anyone is truly spending much time listening to the climate scientists, which I am not optimistic that we are, time is not on our side.
The acceleration of nearly everything, including the melting of land-based glaciers, does not bode well for our not-too-distant future.
I know how old I am, and it will not likely happen in my lifetime.
However, I feel we have an obligation to at least the next couple of generations.
Our present political class could not seem to care less. I first typed in "leadership", and then realized that not one of our current politicians could be called leaders.
Home is where the heart is. I am with you IslandWarrior, but I must be real about the state of our nation. I am not too optimistic, I admit.

Ahh the Bahamas. We must never bad mouth it, even if we can all see it is going down hill. If we speak only good that will be the way people will see it. Whenever someone is honest and shows something that needs to be fixed, we will shoot the messenger and then go back to our fantasy land.

... the nurse said nothing that patients do not see. There would be no problem if the government simply maintained our primary hospital. This is an indictment on those who are paid by the public purse allow a healthcare institution to fall into disrepair while still giving "*service*" to the public!

She should sue!!

The key takeaway from last night's "RedShirts" Golden Isles campaign rally was one that the organization identified as "COI" and the lone independent candidate....Should focus their special election limited funded campaigns on the message that the two mainstream political parties and their candidates **are indistinguishable, despite their different party colors.** The core message to be delivered to the approximately 7,990 eligible voters in the Golden Isles constituency is **"How much longer will you allow that**....a rodent problem just didn't popup on the wards and in the operating theaters at Princess Margaret Hospital's under the "Brave" premiership. ---- The lact proper cleanliness like the letting every government subdivision roads pavements and all other contracts over generations governances'----These two groups politicians and, or their donors and fronting persons have equally partnered in corrupting and controlling the country's business landscape. The "RedShirts" rally only highlighted this specific theme as a potentially successful angle of focus by both opposing candidates. --- Yes, weren't there questions over the PMH janitorial under the previous Minnis administration, yet it seems he and Pintard...may have been the only two of Dr. Minnis's cabinet members last night to show their faces during the Golden Isles campaign rally? --- Closest to the old money guard may have been Shirlea's seated MP, non-cabinet member, grandson of Montaque's Sir Geoffrey Adams Dinwiddie Johnstone. --- Full Disclosure be's that none of the above had to be made up!

Sister pearl did she make this video while she was on duty or off duty. Not surprised that doc Sands approved. I HOPE she did not show patients privacy issues. 44 yeats Her time over or will be soon . Is this political ? What say doc sands are you in contact with pearl

This picture shows the place to be in bad shape even the drum is rusty. The place looks very bad.

@Comradebirdie, imagine the fallout if the PMH ward's photograph had been recording sound?

Who is the person in BLACK it looks like something out of a horror scene are nurses wearing black now??

A sickening example of poor management, grift, and corruption. There are no words that can express my true sadness at this situation.

@ComradePorcupine's previously posted: ("We have borrowed and borrowed with little to no transparency. We are in deep doo doo. We are deeply in debt. We have no idea of the collateral pledged.") May I add to Comrade Porcupine's wise post that in the Bible it says **"All debt will eventually have to get settled in full!"** --- Yes?

So, how does this end, Tal?
With a biblical debt jubilee?
When you say, or the bible says, "All debt will eventually have to get settled in full", help me understand how you see this.
Look at what Greece went through a few years ago.
Debt seems to be the ultimate trap to take over the politics of a nation, as I see it, and control their resources.
Look at our own Debt to GDP ratio.
This really doesn't not bode well for the vast majority of our fellow Bahamians.
And, there is no doubt as to the real reason this administration is courting the IDB and others to continue to lend to us.
There are no innocents here.
This is a calculated entrapment.
I have no doubt on this matter.
We have allowed ourselves to be placed in a very vulnerable position.

Sister pearl says there were no rats and the place was better under the other fellow. Seems polotical for sure. That fellow heart is not in the right place providing he has a heart. Remember he was front and center with superwoman and the umbrella display
What ever is going on at the hospital did not happen overnight. If the fellow had fixed it it would still be fixed. The person in black ??

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This photo does not tell the complete conditions of the " the noise, the moaning and groaning in pain with very little medicine to treat the illnesses, and the severe heat with no air conditioning,
Governments of foreign countries seeing these conditions will have to bring it to the attention of their citizens planning on vacating in our otherwise Beautiful Country. My mother and Father died at this hospital. Not the same at Doctors Hospital, where our elected politicians go for their treatment of health issues. This treatment is only for us poor voters who elect the politicians that reign this hell down upon us.

Good, she did well. They'll get it all fixed up now. If a sacrifice is what it takes to get some things done, then it's worth the sacrifice.

I don't believe she should have to sacrifice anything.
Our job, if we are not brave enough ourselves, is to support her to the fullest.

@ted4bz ---- Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 Summary Laureates William Faulkner full acceptance speech. ----    "Ladies and gentlemen,  I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work – a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust.............     https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter…

Thx for the link, Just read it and his bio.
Perhaps, one of the most inspiring reads this year for me, and not for lack of reading.
Humility is one of the most important traits a person can have. Faulkner's work certainly stands taller to me for this crucial trait.
Don't agree with everything, as many things have materially, truly changed in these intervening years.
I have recently told some friends that we are now living in a post-truth world This is entirely due to the rapid rise of AI. I am certain that not many could have predicted the rapid game changing tech now in existence.
Quite literally, there is little we can now trust. Whether we see it with our own eyes, hear it with our own ears. The truth has become almost impossible to determine. What are the implications of this? Not good!

"Yes, left question if its outlived its purpose", -- if back in the "Good Ole' Bay Street Merchant Boys Structure, " - Fair say, theys' made it significantly harder to get fired, if you're a "Nassau" unioniism worker?