Mr.Roker was honest and a straight shooter.May he rest in peace.

Abaco before the destruction was on its way to surpass Grand Bahama in terms of contribution to the national treasury.Abaco needs real local government.Abaco needs a fully equipped and functioning fire department. The island is a major tourism center.An englishman said to a relative of mine, the Bahamas is really govern like a communist country. That how it is from the days of the UBP.

This should have been done years ago. This was spoken of when Leslie Miller was Minister of Trade and Industry. Sensible, progressive ideas take years to be implemented in this country.

Congratulations Mr.Cash, on your tremendous achievement.

eExuma,Abaco and Eleuthera are all net contributors to the consolidated fund / treasury. A larger percentage of the tax revenue generated on these family islands should stay there. The Bahamas really needs to change it's governance system. There needs to be a more stronger form of local governments on the the family islands. They are treated like little colonies of Nassau.The Bahamas needs to move to a federal West Minister system which the Canadians and the Australians are using.

Most persons do not want to see Dr.Minnis return as leader of the FNM. He and whoever is advising appears to be oblivious to that fact.

The first Hubert Ingraham administration set up several committees to look at various social issues in this country. He was criticized in some quarters for that. Mr.Ingraham to his credit was no fool like quite a number of persons in this country. He saw the various issues that was and will affect life in this country.

The committees looked at youth,crime and education. Reports were prepared and even printed in the press. Consultants also were brought in to look at the organization of the police force. However many recommendations from these groupings were not implemented. Of course, the PLP on regaining the government simply ignored those ideas. This is how this country is governed.

The island of New Providence have quite a number of poorly socialized individuals living on it. They lacked basic social skills. They were never taught or these behaviours modeled by their parents and guardians. You see it daily on this island, the breakdown in families and communities. The country needs trained sociologists and phycologists' to look at these issues. They need to identify and develop programs to arrest and fix these problems. There is quite a number of NGO's working with very groupings in this country. It is going to take an all hands on deck approach to these problems.

Pray tell,how splitting BPL into three companies is going to work. Years of mismanagement and corruption has come to a head.

Sentencing persons to jail for possession of small amounts of Marijuana for their personal use is foolish. That was the opinion of an English lecturer of one of my relatives. He said that they had decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana in the United Kingdom.

You are simply giving a lot of mainly young men criminal records.This in turn is making it hard for them to obtain employment.This is creating an underclass of unemployable people in this country.

The island of New Providence and the entire Bahamas needs a modern public transportation system. A proposal for a unified public bus system was presented in the seventies. It was rejected by the PLP government for the fear it would damage the livelihood of taxi drivers.

The lack of proper functioning bus system hurts productivity and is one of the factors driving the high cost of living here. A lady said this on a talk show. If New Providence had a sensible bus system, she catch the bus to and from work during the week. She drive her car on the week end to go the shop and church.

Bahamians are unwilling to modernize this country. They by in large are struck in a by gone era. A comment was made on social media about the Bahamas.The Bahamas is a country that is struck in the nineteen sxties.