Ms Larson did you receive a salary ???

Birdie give it a rest. You were wrong then as you are now, so admit it and apologize.

Yes Birdie, for once in your life open your eyes to what is really happening instead of always looking at things from a political (PLP) angle.
Hopefully Brave will have the Cajones to actually apologize in public to this lady, who did far more for the Bahamian people during COVID than Brave, Minnis or any of those other politicians ever did.
If I were in her shoes, the least I would expect would be a public apology and then I would be satisfied. If I didn't get a public apology I would be all over the Prime Minster like a rash, with a lawsuit for libel, wrongful arrest and defamation of character.
Come on Mr Prime Minister, do what you would expect others to do for you, if the shoe was on the other foot

**People at NGO's do not work for free**. Stop being ridiculous.

A portion of the funds they take in is designed to go to administrative fees. The only difference between them and a regular business is they the salaries should not be be mega mogul salaries and any money they raise should go to support shortfalls in reasonable administrative fees or charity work there's no piling up of profits for personal or investor benefit.

NGOs. DO THEY RECEIVE LARGE SALARIES

It depends on their level of seniority. What dont you get? An NGO is like every other organization with tiered levels of pay

This administration has been a disgrace from Day 2. A huge and public apology needs to be made in order to give Bahamians peace of mind that they too can volunteer and organize to do great deeds after and during a horrible event.
As it stands now the public is scared to organize anything because of Brave and his snake tongue. Whoever has been guiding Brave during this term does not have good intentions for Brave. They have undermined him and lead him down the path of evil from the start.

Frank Smith was arrested. Shane gibson was shackled. Are they less. Remember smith who was arrested for removing his own equipment.??

They were arrested because they were accused of crimes. The friendly judicial system here released them

They were "accused" based on political affiliation. For all your nonsense about being a "freethinker" you seem still stuck in a Nelson Mandela-type jail.

Ask the woman if she received a salary and how much ?? Also it appears there was money from the program in certain folks account. Facts

Minnis appointed Chair of the National Food Distribution Task Force, Susan Larson, is vindicated after a PLP-premiership selected audit found she didn't crook the popoulaces' purse. --- Let the sister move on. --- Yes?

No she's not vindicated, but in a different sense. It was her responsibility to ensure the program was run to audit standards and it clearly was not. That would make it easy for some hypothetical worker down in the basement, who Mrs Larson would not know and would never have met or spoken to, to pilfer hundreds of thousands in vouchers and inventory. Because who would catch it? That's the importance of the "controls" that both audits mentioned didnt exist. Ensuring those controls exist is ultimately the responsibility of Mrs Larson

Doc take a break Mr Frank Smith and Shane Gibson were under your watch remember shackled gibson.all I am saying is be fair to all human beings But I still would like the woman to state if she received a salary. JUST ASKING ?

**NGO staff are like staff at any organization. They get paid.** The more seniority you have, the higher the salary. What is wrong with your brain?

**NGO staff cannot possibly do all the work that there is to do, so they rely heavily on a large "*volunteer workforce*". Volunteers do not get paid.** Some volunteers work regular jobs and donate time in off hours, so their income comes from elsewhere. Some volunteers are super wealthy, they have time, they dont need the money. Some volunteers are retired or students, they dont work and they do it for the love of it.

**Mrs Larson was not a volunteer (as far as I know) therefore entitled to a salary** at the senior management level

---- @ComradeBirdie, video is a reminder that we are but a Hurricane away from recalling in to service Comrade "Sister" Susan Larson -- Pray she will answer our call. --- Nassau 's flooding was a sneezer flood waters wakeup. --- Yes? ----

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6CLJLl…

this affair validated a few things
1. no good deed goes unpunished
2. in future, the alreafy short list of volunteers will be shorter.
3. in this bahamaland, no opportunity to cast aspersions on the integrity of another is missed.

Fraud is common in charitable work, this is not debatable. From persons trying to scam benefits to persons trying to scam contracts

Be interesting to hear what Comrade "Sister" Susan Larson would be ready to jump in to say of the current PLP administration, to date, carrying out their expansion of the National School Food Program, which aims to provide meals to pre-primary and primary school children of every out island, cay, town and settlement. -- Yes?

Susan and her NGO averted tens of thousands of Bahamians from starving to death during Covid. I know I donated as well. Then she was physically arrested her for theft and held in custody for 24 hours. 5 years later on the eve of Hurricane 🌀 Melissa the audit in a timely and mysteriously manner is suddenly tabled in parliament with no wrongdoing found and confirming that task force of NGOs and Government partnership achieved its objective and averted a national crisis.

We are now looking for NGO’s to assist the government in the aftermath of Melissa … any volunteers 🥺

Let’s focus on Cooked Island, Aklines, Mayaguana and Ragged Island which are directly in the path of Melissa.

If we can send a 737 to Jamaica why can’t we evacuate these islands which may be submerged like Abaco and Grand Bahamas during Dorian.

I find little sympathy for what happened to Susan in the public domain and a heavy focus on the theft of food supplies which surely did happen. However there were Bahamian that were starving during Covid.

As Christians we are reminded of Christ's Parable of the Sower where most of the seeds were wasted but one out of four did fall upon fertile ground. What would have happened of the Sower did not plant at all because of the possibility that birds were going to steal the seeds? With no food the people would starve.

Bahamians miss the point on this one. I too believe it was mindblowing that Mrs Larson was arrested. I would really like the present commissioner to state on what evidence she was held in a prison cell. I could accept asking her to come in to answer questions, but arrested?? That's very odd.

But, it is very very clear that both audits found odd, and people might be surprised to know how odd, practices at NGOs. Remember when the liquidators asked the Sam Bankman NGOs to give back the money they received and the Bishop say "*the money gone?*". Gone on what? We dont know. We dont know if it was for personal use or not. We know he fed people who needed food, but we dont know if that cost 10%, 20%, 50% or 100% of the money. And that is unacceptable. "Good" notwithstanding

There is no need for ngos to distribute food. They are paid Doc minnis could have used the red cross churches and most importantly those who walk and talk with person in need every day like bishop Rolle and others not those who live behind gates and do not and can not hear the cries of the power.

@ComradeBirdie, you better not be the "dead on arrival" message which plps, will take islands, cays towns and settlements-hopping, come official general election campaigning time. --- Yes?