The island of New Providence needed a unified public transportation from the 1950's. We are now seventy years from that in 2020.It is long past due.

The taxi system on this island need also to be completely revamped also.The leasing of plates should have been stopped years ago. Taxi drivers for years refuse to provide service to their fellow bahamians on New Providence. This has been happening since the old meter cab taxi company basically closed down.They mainly plied their trade with tourists.An expat was amazed that taxis worked mainly at the airport,,hotels and down town.He told me that this is why every body here has to have a car to get around. He said I have been in cities n the US and Canada which are larger than New Providence and you can get around easier than here.

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Don't let any body fool you.The Bahamas is not a progressive,innovative country.A Nassau Guardian reporter said on talk radio,he visited Jamaica.Jamaica was in his opinion ,a more progressive country when it came to doing business. The Bahamas has made it primarily due to it's being near to the US and the American's economic embargo of Cuba due to the communist take over of that island in 1959.

The lack of innovation and competition is common here among the business community.
Juan McCartney spoke about that today on his talk show, He said one of the things you see during this coranavirus pandemic is that a lot of businesses here have not innovated.

I am not surprised by this at all.For years cruise lines have been making their own island getaways.This is also a reaction to the end of the subsidies to the cruise lines.Things like this happen when politicians don't understand why certain policies were created.They and the media.The cruise lines are firmly in the drivers' seat in this industry.

The government is hoping to limit the spread of the coronavirus through this curfew.They are following in the foot steps of other countries.They were caught flat footed by the virus spread and other countries reaction to it.This situation also exposes how vulnerable this country and it's economy is to external shocks.That is one of the reasons a former FNM cabinet minister in the Ingraham government felt reducing the deficit to zero in three years was too ambitious.

This situation is unprecedented.It shows how dependent this country is on tourism.How the country imports basically everything it consumes.My job is directly tied to tourism.So I am worried about my family's health and liveli

Bernie Sanders can not win the democratic party nomination.An analyst on CNN basically said so.The fire wall created by the centrist bloc in the democratic party in the 1980's held on super Tuesday.He has not much support among key factions in the party like African Americans,white southerners and blue collar workers.

It does not surprise me at all.Just reinventing the wheel.All of the projects he is just babbling about were started by the previous financial secretary.The Revenue enhancement unit was working quite well.I was told by somebody in 2018 that unit which he disbanded, had to be restarted. A big time FNM supporter said to me ,he does not know what is doing. All he is , a next one of Dr.Minnis's political payoffs.

Age has nothing to do with leadership in politics.Bahamians like to think so.Sir Winston Churchill became prime minister of Great Britain at the age of 65. Both major political parties in the Bahamas are hardly democratic.They only have national conventions when it suits the party insiders.They strongly oppose any attempt to have a strong local government.They are so far from the Westminister system of government.

The young man is attempting to enter politics under the guise of being a community activist.

He is hoping to gain a nomination through his so called activism.

Many of the problems that afflict the day to day lives of the residents of the island of New Providence are dealt with in the real world by local government officials.Both major political parties oppose any attempt to put in any strong government on this island.This will take away from them the political patronage system which lies under this political system.This did not start with Pindling,this goes back to the Bay Street Boys.

Ask Sir Snake,who is one of his main business partners in his many businesses.His name is Sir Orville Alton Turnquest. That business combination was suggested and put together by one Sir Lynden Pindling. Like some one said to me,there is plenty things,you will never be taught in this backward country.That was rhe view of a person who has a major role under this FNM government.