This announcement will be the fourth attempt to renew the inner cities of New Providence. There was a plan drawn up by Columbia University out of New York in the sixties under the UBP government.
The Grants Town Urban Renewal Program of the Pindling Government in the early eighties.
Never implemented. One of the reasons was the World Bank recommended that the entire over the hill area needed to be razed to the ground and left fallow for fifty years.This was because the water table was so so polluted.
The Christie Government Urban Renewal Program.Poorly managed, no goals set and no real accountability for the funds spent.
Now the Minnis administration turn.
New Providence on the whole needs local government.However the ruling class don't want that.
The media needs to do research on these things and don't simply repeat the words that come from the politicians' mouths.

He is unqualified and unsuited for the position. You have to understand his background.
Hubert Minnis made a big mistake in his appointment.This removing of qualified senior civil servants for political reasons sets a bad precedent. But as a previous commentator said. PM Hubert Minnis is simply a PLP in FNM colthing.

If this country had more men with the personal convictions of the late Vince Ferguson, this country will be a better place. A man who stood up for his convictions.
Condolences to the family of the late Sir Arlington Butler. He served in several areas of nation building. A true bahamian patriot.

When the Bahamas joins the WTO,there will be plenty changes here. Bahamians be prepared.T

I had such high hopes for Chester Cooper. He is just pandering to the old stalwart councillors

Defending a poor use of the people's tax dollars. What special skills did that man possess?
in my opinion, none. But I don't expect much from Phillip Davis. He was an inept DPM and Minister

Despite their crime and economic challenges, Jamaica has surpassed the Bahamas in a number of areas. While Bahamians stood still,they have moved ahead. Ask them about their 2 million stopover visitors per year, while the Bahamas is stuck at 1.4 million.Ask them how they are building and expanding their room inventory,while hotels are closed in this country for thirteen years in GB, the Royal Oasis, Ask them how reduce their electricity rate from 40 cent to 20 cent per kilowatt hour. I really want to know that.Let them show you their solar and wind farms

The ground transportation system on New Providence needs to be completely overhauled.

As Baha Mar struggles to increase it's occupancy rates, other countries in the Caribbean are expanding their hotel rooms. Cuba, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic are all experiencing ggrowth in their stop-over arrivals. Every other country in the Caribbean is now in tourism.The Bahamas is no longer the only game in town.

Typical bahamian politician. Make promises and don't know how to get them done. Just like the previous PM.