This botched installation of these Wartsila generators are a going to cost the Bahamian people.Same sh*t, different day.

The Bahamian educational system has had problems for decades. Relatives of mine who retired could recite the litany of problems,they experience forty years ago.

There are a lot of poorly socialized people in this country. They lack emotional intelligence and parental skills. So many children are acting out what they see in their environment or are basically left to fend for themselves.

A high ranking Anglican priest and a white intellectual basically said the same thing. Sociology is not studied in the Bahamas like in other caribbean countries. These social issues have been with us for years.

There needs to be a proper organized public transportation system on the island of New Providence, There is no reason to get around on this small island you need to drive or own a car. A foreigner who visit this island was amazed at the traffic on this island.The city he lived in, in Europe was larger than New Providence and had almost three times the population of the Bahamas.Yet that city had a proper functioning public transportation system long before the Bahamas came an independent country.

@ This is Ours. The Director of Works should be a qualified engineer. He should be able to speak at press conferences about the technical aspects of things in the Ministry of Works. He/She gets a free pass from you yet the FS is under a constant scrutiny from you. A bahamian engineer living aboard from this. New Providence is an engineering disaster with a lot of bad engineering work.

Algernon Cargill said this to a relative and his classmates who he lectured. Barbados is ahead of the Bahamas in some aspects of their development. A next relative of mine said this to me. The cost of living in Barbados was lower than the Bahamas yet they were way down there in the southern Caribbean. He said he experience that when he visited that island. He could not understand that.

@Oracle. The financial secretary is not responsible for drafting most policies for economic growth, That is really the responsible of the cabinet. He is merely a civil servant trying to do his job. You do not understand that. Like some one said to me years ago, this economic model was created by late Harold Christie and late Stafford Sands. Pindling never changed it. Other caribbean countries have copied it. A big time FNM member told me that.

He is speaking the truth. This briefing should have been done by the Director of Works Who is the director and where is he/she?

The best road on this island is the Western Road heading to Lyford Road past the Old Fort Bay round about. That was the opinion of an engineer in a letter to the Nassau Guardian. It was built and engineered by a Canadian firm for the late E.P. Taylor. Also the roads West Bay Street on
the Bahmar strip. Most roads in this country are not engineered and no built to first world standards The city of Freeport have way better roads than New Providence.

@Moncurcool. He is speaking the truth. The overtime fees charged by the government for these flights are paid to the customs and immigration officers who are on duty and work these flights. That is the reason for the resistance to a shift system by their union.

That is the reason over fifteen years ago, Iberia Airlines decided at that time not to make LPIA a hub for their operations.Of course you and Neil Hartnell do not know that..You have no idea about this matter.

Eventually pressure is coming to make changes to this situation. It is not going be done by your FNM party and definitely not by Brave and his merry band.Vantage the management of LPIA is going to start to apply pressure

@SP.You can not be that naive to think that only politicians are corrupt in this country.

There was a court case years ago about a drug trafficking on a family island. The convicted american drug trafficker explain how he paid off the two police officers, custom officer and immigration officer on that island.

There is widespread corruption in this country. Politicians are not the only corrupt people in this country. People in the know will tell you that.

@Sheeprunner12. This problem with the payroll system was being dealt with by John Rolle. The reason previous attempts fail was resistance and lack of buy-in by certain civil servants. Since every thing in your simple mind PLP and FNM, John is married to the late Chuck Virgill's niece. This is really an attempt to stave off this country heading to bankruptcy and modernize the payroll system. If Hubert Ingraham remained as prime minister,he would support this program.

The problems with the government payroll has been ongoing for fifty years. John Rolle, when he was acting as financial secretary attempted to deal with this.