Education in general...you keep seeing the posters and sayings up on social media, teachers were respected, and feared, and if you got sent home with a note or a bad grade, chances are your parents would whoop you harder and knock some sense into you, now it's all about me, and my child is the perfect angel and the teacher is dragged over the coals for even suggesting that the child was out of order or did not study and failed a test. Our whole society has failed at least the current generation of high school drop outs (I don't dare call them graduates...they just left a day care center at 12th grade). I've got kids in the education system now and nearly every day I look at the lack of discipline in the classroom and the lack of proper structure, and shake my head...and my kids are in a high end private school...don't get me started about our public schools.

Yeap. Assuming the forensics are handled on the equipment properly, the only information that should be gleaned off of any of those machines should be BoB related...but you KNOW...especially with the PLP pulling the strings on this one, that they are going to rape those laptops of any and all information for their political gain. It's too tempting for them not to...it's a done deal, PLP top brass have probably already hacked into those machines for every other reason except BoB business. The whole thing stinks. Like stated before...they seem more concerned about finding who is leaking apparently factual information, than trying to stop the problems and abuse within BoB in the first place. They know they've been caught and busted misusing funds in there, so now it is a witch hunt to find the source of the leak and plug it so they can carry on behind close doors with their illegal activities.

HA!! Had forgotten about that one!! Guess the RBPF forgot about it as well!!

...I just spewed coffee all over my keyboard...the PM is a joke. Sadly, crime is not. This freight train wreck of a government is putting every citizen of this country, more so in Nassau, at risk of life and limb. Epic epic failures on all fronts.

Pretty sad state of affairs. 11 bux a month...that's just a slap in the face. Please, go fight on behalf of our country...in exchange, we will give you a pension of 2.50 a week. Even at 1945 rates, 11 bux a month is SAD. Mind you, it's not just us, I know the US Vet's are seriously neglected for the most part as well.

Whatever you do boy, you just better fall in line and agree with the government, you just gonna make things difficult if you oppose it. So let's not go down that path, just follow me, I know what I am doing!! bull crap

While I disagree with this man on many many fronts, and my distaste of unions is no big secret, one thing I will have to say, and both governments are notoriously terrible with it, is renewing or reworking these industrial agreements. If you end up unionized...heaven help you if you do, you can't just let an agreement lapse for months, or in some cases even years. Now...if you are just delaying, and delaying, that is one thing and should not be tolerated, if the union is pushing to radically change the contract to the detriment of the company, and the two sides are actively discussing things, that is another matter, but get the dang agreement sorted out. That's when people start to get pissed off. One BIG elephant in the room is Obie's jab at foreign entities 'coming into the Bahamas' as a shell company and leaving people high and dry when they fold. Let's not forget how a PLP stalwart who bought a major grocery chain and ran it into the ground left hundreds of Bahamian employees without their just wages. But that's OK...he's Bahamian, we won't hold him to the same standard, we will just come down hard on the expats. In the meantime, let's see what government money can get padded back into the baby tiger's pockets by scheming to by a defunct building for millions of dollars that should be leveled anyways.

Obie is an idiot...the 'week' they refer to is just like any other week, and yes, the spirit of the law as it was initially written was people are typically 9-5 Monday - Friday, so your 40 hour work week. 5 days of work 2 days of rest. So when they refer to the number of 'weeks' vacation you are entitled, it goes under the same merit, you get your 5 days off and the 2 days of rest under your typical job...it doesn't say you get 7 WORK days, the same week you put in, is the same week you get back. Now...I have never messed with shift work type structures...hypothetically speaking, what if you had someone who worked 5 hours a day 7 days a week, not quite 40 hours, so 5 and a bit hours 7 days a week, that is their work week...but guess what, they still only get that same one week, and they still only get the 40 hours of pay...but that is the week they put in and the week they get back out. That is the spirit of the law...quit trying to twist things around and cause everyone stress and grief and put money in your own pocket kicking off these stupid legal battles.

Gestapo tactics...it's the only thing the police down here know. I am sure that approached properly, Good evening Mr. Cash...please see the search warrant, here is a copy for your records, we need to take your laptops and cell phones. Approached properly, they most likely would have been handed over and presented properly...just bust through someones door and start snatching stuff, madness...where were you going, into some gang leaders drug haven where such tactics may be necessary to protect yourself from getting shot? No...simply gestapo strong arm tactics most likely encouraged due to political affiliations. Just a hunch.

Got to make it to where things don't just 'go away' or get 'lost' or 'overlooked'. Everyone knows everyone and can usually find some sympathetic person from the lowly clerk, to the head of whatever department to whatever politician wants to 'scratch your back', to make all this small stuff vaporize. It needs to stop, we need to speed up the legal system as well so that people get into court in a timely fashion. Did you know that if you are not served a summons for a traffic violation in 6 months, the ticket is dead, they can't prosecute you. They may try, but if you were told at a traffic stop to expect a summons and 6 months rolls by and no one knocks on your door...that's it...it's done. These inefficiencies are the very loopholes that are exploited...hey...I know so and so...I'll delay that long enough, don't worry about. Heck...they can't even get you a simple police report for an accident. They say to check back in 2 weeks, and 2 months later the report is still not ready.