The two ladies mentioned in this article by the reporter are victims of crime. One is the crime of under-aged sex with minors and the next theft of national insurance contributions. The vast majority of Bahamians don't see these as crimes. However outside the Bahamas in the real world, they are.

@ This is Ours. It is Davis not Favis The financial secretary is a technocrat. He does not draft legislation. That is done by the legal draftsmen and women in the Attorney 's General office. You have no idea how the government works or should work. The FS and his team at the Ministry makes no move without consulting the Minister of Finance who is also the Prime Minster. Most times you make and infer things that are not true.

Can the former prime minister Christie say what is the New Providence experience? There is increasing precious little for tourists to do outside the hotels and cruise ships.There is also the off shore islands like Blue Lagoon and Pearl island.

Go to the old city of Havana and the colonial zone in Santo Domingo. Compare that to downtown Nassau. A bahamian made this comment, on a cruise that stopped in Ocho Rios Jamaica,there is so much things to do onshore. there. Tourism in the Bahamas is going to be increasing challenged by other destinations in this region.

The FNM under Dr.Minnis is just like the PLP in that regard. There was no forensic audit done by them on the spending in the Junkanoo Carnival fiasco. I was told the FNM had to protect a certain person. That person is related tp a very prominent FNM party member.

Fronting is very common in the Bahamas. A young lady told me just last week about a certain business. A PLP crony was fronting as the owner of that business for the foreign owners. Eventually they got tired of him and brought him out.

The system of local government in the Bahamas is a joke. The local government officials in the United States,where my sister lives has tremendous power and responsibilities They raise and collect certain taxes. They control local zoning ,education at the local level,waste collection and law enforcement at the local level. Local government existed in the United States before the American revolution.

I am not surprised at this decision The cruise lines have tremendous clout and power within the Bahamian tourism industry. A caribbean hotelier wanted the english-speaking caribbean islands to form a united front against the cruise industry. A bahamian living aboard ask this question. How is it that cruise arrivals to the Bahamas has out -paced air arrivals to the Bahamas for years? Nobody in the Ministry of Tourism has the answer for that question.

The public disclosure act should have been repealed and replaced by an integrity act. This was done in some other caribbean countries. Also all senior civil servants, their spouses and their dependent children should also file yearly disclosures.The heads of government corporations such as BPL, Water and Sewerage and NIB. Judges and Magistrates also should be required to file annual statutory declarations of income and liablities.

This is simply the result of farming out collection of government revenues to third parties. Both major political parties have done it now.

The things done by Mr.Pintard in his constituency is commendable However in most advanced countries that is done by elected local government officials. Both of the major political parties do not want that. As for transformational leadership n the Bahamas,there is very few. The Bahamas despite it's economic success, is years behind in many aspects of it's overall development