That proposal was presented to previous PLP and FNM administrations. This is how this country operates. Business ideas and proposals are passed on and funneled to a favored few. That is why this country is not developing with sense and is stagnant.

@An Observer.The Bahamas a service economy based on tourism and financial services. Nursing is a very complex and demanding profession. It goes beyond bathing patients and emptying slop pans.The salaries and working conditions for nurses in the government service is not good. Add to that ,the recruitment of bahamian nurses by foreign agencies. Salaries and benefits are better aboard in the US, Canada and parts of Europe.

Sensible,progressive ideas take years,decades or will never reach the Bahamas.Local government is one of them. Many of the problems and situations on the island of New Providence are dealt with and managed by local governments outside the Bahamas.Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando are all governed by a mayor and city council.

I say constantly Bahamians do not live in the Bahamas.Quite a number of them are unaware of the plight of their fellow Bahamians in the family islands. Those who live on New Providence. All some of them know of this country is what the religious and political leaders tell them. There is tremendous amount of underdevelopment in the family islands.

Both the Senate and the opposition failed also in this instance.They should have been able to point our the flaws in the legislation.The Senate job in the real world is to review the legislation that is passed in the lower chamber.The opposition should also point out the errors and make proposals to correct them. Most parliamentarians in this country do not know what they are doing.

Is the columnist in a round about way suggesting the implementation of a progressive income tax? That move will be strongly oppose by the very people who would benefit from it.

Oh,this is the situation which was circulated on facebook and whatsapp by FNM political operatives.The forged document alleges a senior civil servant, an investor and a member of the securities commission were attempting to take over this company What a bunch of bs. A pack of unadulterated lies and feces. Some Bahamians take for gospel what ever they read on whatsapp and facebook.

I meant to say Bahamian politicians do not want local government, they fear that it would reduce their power. Renward Wells basically said that.

The irony.Here Dr.Minnis is proposing municipal government for the city of Nassau.Yet when he was prime minister,he completely ignored the recommendations for local government on the island of New Providence.That report was done by a committee set by his government.Bahamians do not really want local government,they fear it will reduce their power.

The Bahamas has the third oldest parliament in the Commonwealth Yet the Bahamas is a primitive country, politically,socially and economically. That was the opinion of a noted political scientist and writer.

There has been a successful third party in the Bahamas. It was the Bahamian Democratic Party which served as the official opposition after the 1977 general elections. It had broken away from the FNM. Before that ,the third party was the Free PLP which eventually became the FNM.Bahamian history is not really taught in this country.

Bahamians tend to vote on hate and emotions. Also some bahamians still vote along racial and class lines.Political patronage and offering inducements for votes is common in this country. That is why third parties who do not have access to significant financial resources have such hard time getting support in this country.The Bahamas in some ways until recently was seen as semi -feudal society by some observers.