I agree with everything written in this article. Immigration is used to build countries. The US and Canada were built on immigrant labour. A relative of mine who lived and worked in the Turks and Caicos told me, there is a large expat community there.

The Bahamian tourism industry took off due to it nearness to the US and the economic embargo and isolation of Cuba. Cuba fell out of the tourism for years. In fact before COV19 hit, more Canadians visit Cuba for vacation than come to the Bahamas. More countries in this region are developing their tourism industry.

A Bahamian with a PHD living aboard, said this ,life in the Bahamas would be very different if Cuba and Haiti were not economic basket cases

The Bahamas has both a governance and management problem. This was evident with hurricane Dorian. A country that sits in a hurricane zone . The Bahamas is also governed on an overcentralized model. Power is concentrated at the center and even some mundane decisions are made at cabinet level.

Persons are selected for certain positions here ,not for their competence. The head of the DRA is an example of that. Bahamians here are fixated on appearance, personality and politics. That is why so many competent persons are cast aside. That is one of the push factors encouraging talented persons to migrate from the Bahamas.

I hope and pray we learned our lessons from hurricane Dorian. However based on many things I have seen or heard in this country, I a m not certain that will happen.

Dr.Major was not a good speaker also. His ruling on documents has rendered the Public Accounts Committee weak and practically useless until recently.

The island of New Providence needed a safe, reliable unified public transportation system decades ago. Not having one is one of the factors in the high cost living on this island and the increasing level of social fragmentation, That was the opinion of a bahamian graduate student.

Bahamians can go right door to Fort Lauderdale and see how a real unified public transportation works. Their buses run on a twenty minute schedule from 6.05 in the morning until 12.00 at night. Bermuda which is just 22 square miles has a sensible public transportation system. Like I was told by somebody despite the Bahamas high level of GDP, this country is years behind in many aspects of its' development.

I was told from last year that Mark Humes was not going to be renominated. I like him as a person. The person said to me ,he just won on the wave. There were several wave candidates in this parliament.

Nicole Martin if elected, would bring nothing to the parliament. She left the hotel union in a disarray, I was told. The Bahamas really needs a strong system of local government to train and prepare people for the national level of politics.

The Bahamas is a country with deeply rooted socio-economic problems. Crime is one of them.
Crime is a multi-faceted problem with many layers.

The first Hubert Ingraham government set up a commission to study crime. The Ingraham government also had commissions looking at youth and education. The Christie government started Urban Renewal. If the recommendations and policy ideas from those commissions were implemented properly along with a sensible ,managed urban renewal program, we could have been in a better position.

In a more advanced country, Mr.Turnquest would have never been elected to parliament. A FNM party official told me before the 2017 election, they were not sure he would have won his seat.

The United Bahamian Party was formed in 1958. Contrary to the belief of many bahamians, the PLP was formed by three mixed race men. The late Sir Henry Taylor, the late William Cartwright and the late Cyril Stevenson. Bahamian history and civics was not really taught much when I was in school.

Creating the conditions and policies for affordable housing should be on-going process. A co-host on a guardian radio show said that.

We don't govern like that in the Bahamas. We do something and stop.

What the incompetent ex-minister of finance said should be common knowledge. Maybe not here in our Bahamas.

Tax reform should be an going process. Making the system of taxation fairer, more equitable and more efficient.. Also the first world countries will force these changes upon the smaller countries. The americans are trying to capture as much of the tax dollars, american corporations avoid paying by transferring some of their operations aboard.