The Bahamas is a deal country. The late Elwood Donaldson said that. The Bahamas has operated like this from the glory days of the UBP. This deal is the senior advisor in the OPM office deal. If you look closer, a big time FNM supporter is involved in this. Of course, the media here do not understand or won't say that. The FS has no part of this.

Dr. Sands only gets part of the story, Clarence Russell was a police superintendent when he was appointed chief passport officer. He was subsequently made Director of Immigration under the Minnis administration There is complaints against him by persons in the immigration department. He never worked in that department until he was made director. Of course, the media here simply write what Dr. Sands said.

The people in the know still remember the disastrous performance of Marlon Johnson as the acting financial secretary. Let Dr. Sands tell you how much he was paid for subpar performance.
Also let Dr. Sands tell you, the honest opinion of one of his fellow cabinet minister opinion of Johnson performance as financial secretary.

The Bahamian media really do not ask questions or do any investigative journalism. They merely write down the words of politicians and other persons in this backward country.

One of the problems not discussed in this country is that many men are unprepared for retirement. A cousin told me some time ago about a colleague of his in the uniformed branches. When he was told that he was due to retire, he begged to stay on the job. He could not retire. He had bills. My cousin said I prepared myself for retirement. He went to BTVI and learnt a trade. He is retired and now works part-time for himself. I know a next retired police officer, he now works as an electrician.

There were several prison officers working on contract under the Minnis administration. A lot of the rehires are police officers. The media need to ask in what capacity they are working. This was going on for a number of years.

This country has a lot of structural and economic challenges. They are not adequately addressed by both major political parties. This country needs a massive rethink of education and human resource management Also taxation, access to business financing and the cost of living. The Bahamas is increasingly not a country to live in and thrive for quite a number of it,'s citizens. These factors are drving the emigration and brain drain from this country.

Both parties have rehired retirees, The PLP does it simply more blatantly. This country really needs the full implementation of the FOIA. As for the idiotic comment of hj,the financial secretary is a civil servant and not a politician. You need to travel to the family islands in the MICAL district and see how those islands are partially still in the nineteen century.

The Bahamas has regressed in so many ways. There was a time when his country was self-sufficient in the production of eggs and other dairy products. The person who said that remembered the old Hatchet Bay Dairy.

@ Moncurcool.You do not know what you are talking about.Taxes are levied by the parliament in their annual budget. The problem we have in this country ia both a low level of tax compliance and the tax system is regressive, The politicians which you and most Bahamians should have change this system years ago, They were advised by the IMF, There are also in this backward country quite a number of monopolies and oligo[polies. This backward country does not want to modernize, You are one of the typical idiots in the Hubert Minnis faction of the FNM.

@Sheeprunner.The perfect example of that is the island of Barbados. Barbados is smaller in area than long Island. Barbadians pay income tax, a higher rate of VAT, property tax , custom duties, garbage collection fees and other charges, Yet their cost of living is way lower than the Bahamas. A relative who visited Barbados several times said that to me.

Junkanoo has become big business. The average Bahamian does not understand that. The middle class Bahamian who have gone aboard, studied and retuned home to live and work should know that. It is simply being poorly managed by the JNCP on New Providence.

I blame Phillip Davis for this fiasco. THis happens when you rush to sign agreements without getting good technical advise. The PLP and the FNM are the same .The FNM under Hubert Minnis had to grovel and go back to Tyler Technologies when they cancel their agreement also.

@ This is Ours, This is not the first time there was a shooting in a store.Two brothers were shot in a barber shop a few years ago on Pyfrom Road. One died in the store and the next one died in the hospital. Also a next young man was shot and killed in a barber shop Blue Hill Road south,