The bahamian constitution is simply a boiler-plate template. The British foreign office gave every one in the caribbean basically the same constitution.

The Bahamas is a laggard when it came to getting independence. Jamaica, Trinidad, Bardados and Guyana all obtained independence before the Bahamas.

The Bahamas is a country with very weak social and civic bodies. The citizenry is poorly educated and remain remarkedly ignorant about systems of governance.

Local government is hard work in some countries. In a city in the state of Oklahoma, where one of my relatives ,their city councilors have a lot of work to do. The council man said in an interview, he had to read 300 pages of documents before he attended his first city council meeting. He had to know the city problems, issues and what was doing to be discussed on the agenda. He could not fumble through that meeting like some people do in the House of Assembly here.

@observer2.There is local government in the Westminister system. In fact Boris Johnson the current prime minister in the UK previously served as mayor of London.

Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all have elected assemblies. The British has had local government for over 300 to 400 hundred years.

The prime minister is the only person who knows when the election is called. That is how it is with the westminister system of government. The Bahamas does not have a fixed election date yet. So it behoves, political parties to be ever ready.

Bahamians need to be taught how this system of government works. There is a need for civic education to be taught through out the school system. Bahamians by in large, simply don't understand governance.

A very simplistic view for a complex issues and problems.

@ Emilio 26. Mr.Johnson does not have the experience or the practical experience for that post. His so called appointment to this acting financial secretary post flies in the face of meritocracy.

He is merely one of Dr.Minnis 's political deals. In this backward country, it is still who you know or who your people is. Let him explain to you the reason and circumstances of his departure from BTC.

This is the same man who said Bahamar had a fake opening. He also said that he would find a real buyer for Bahamar. Typical politician who says one thing while in opposition and does the opposite when in government.

@C2B.What you say is very true. This is a typical Bahamian play. Things like this has gone for years in this country. Certain elements of the media attempt to play naive but they know the play. Like a former MP said on a radio show, the Bahamas is a deal country.

There will be more public private partnerships coming down the pipe line.

The Bahamas has serious infrastructure challenges. The Bahamas is a group of islands and not one single land mass. The government is hard pressed to provide for its recurrent expenditure. Governments here usually borrow for it's capital projects. Bahamians don't understand that. All they hear and know is political rhetoric.

Those vessels were built by Damen Shipyards. They also refurbished the Nassau and Bahamas ships.

Damen Shipyards was selected by a committee when Tommy Turnquest was Minister of National Security. The Sandy Bottom project was developed under the last Ingraham administration and completed under the Christie government. There was a loan from Deutsche Bank for those vessels.

A retired defence force officer told me all about that project. It was a well -conceived and managed project.

This behaviour is unbecoming of the prime minister. However this fits into a pattern of behaviour previously exhibited by him.