The Bahamas should benefit in some visible way from these travels.Increased investments. more technical cooperations and developments should be the results. However nothing seems to materialize from these trips.

@Regardless. Heineken always was the majority shareholder in Commonwealth Brewery. They also funded the connected persons who brought Burns House. They basically helped to create a near monopoly in the sale of certain alcoholic beverages.

Humiliating,embarassing and berating is not rehabilitation.The Bahamas needs trained psychologists to work in this field. Also there is a huge need here for trained sociologists. They need to research the roots of this anger and frustration that is widespread in this country.That is major contributor to the anti social behaviour in this country.

A very expensive elevator. That amount of expenditure makes no sense

My condolences to his family on t his passing. Bahamian journalists outside of maybe Sir Etienne Dupuch are not writers,There are so many untold stories about the development of the Bahamas.Many young Bahamians are unaware of the fact that at one time, quite a number of police men were recruited from the English West Indies. The late Sir Lynden Pindling' s father came to the Bahamas from Jamaica to be a police man here.

The island of New Providence needs a proper public transportation system. That seems beyond the ability of our public officials to deliver. In their many travels cris crossing the globe, I know they saw examples of them. The Bahamas is so hopelessly behind in so many areas.Public transport is one of them. A relative of mine who visited Bermuda for a seminar spoke about their bus system. He said it was a proper system.

This is how this country operates. So backward .Reinventing the wheel. There was a report done under the previous FNM administration.There was a report done about the introduction of local government on the island of New Providence. That report could have been used as a template to strengthen local government.

The PLP simply ignored that report.The FNM made no attempt to implement that report. It's recommendations give too much power to the local government officials, The power brokers in both the PLP and the FNM oppose real local government. The Bahamas is way behind in this regard. Canada has a highly developed system of local goverment.The city of Toronto had municipal government for over one hundred and sixty years before local government was introduced here in the Bahamas in 1997.

The financial backers behind the Arawak Cay port and the cruise port will make a tender to manage Potter's Cay. It is an eyesore right across the water from Paradise Island. It is the main port for the domestic shipping, the mail boats, Properly managed, Potter's Cay could make a lot of money. Mike Maura, CEO of the cruise port basically said that in an interview with the Nassau Guardian a few years ago.

The Bahamas is a dumbed down country from the top to the bottom. Persons are given opportunities here for a variety of reasons besides merits.Political patronage, skin colour,family connections, lodge membership and church membership are some of these reasons.

Even in the realm of politics here, you see it. A senior PLP cabinet minister made a comment about his government's budget. He did not understand it. In the United Kingdom, he would be laughed at and and probably had to resign. You have cabinet ministers here in this country who could not be elected a member of Toronto' s city council.

This state of affairs is driving the migration and brain drain from the Bahamas. Increasing amount of ambitious bahamians do not see a future here. A cousin told me what her son said to her. He saw no future for him in the Bahamas. He now lives and work in the United States, paying income tax.

Those vehicles accumulated over the years.There is a lack of enforcement of environmental and zoning laws in many parts of New Providence.Also laws concerning animal welfare are not enforced consistently.There is sense of a free for all on this island. In a sensible, progressive country,these functions are done at the local level by the elected local government.