what a failure. If an officer unlawfully kills, is this not a crime, i.e. manslaughter or perhaps murder. Surely it is a crime , and surely the officer needs arresting and firing and to face trial.

Well after 20 years (since the landfill had it's first proper cell constructed in 1999) , our Bahamians have had their go at the landfill. We've managed it so badly that it looks like a war zone.

I will support a well run landfill regardless of who's doing the work, long before I'd rally for our people to have the jobs , based on our track record.

Sadly, in this case, we're better off if the Bahamians stay home.

Well note that I said "standard of life for the masses", it's arguably true that those socialist countries have a higher standard. This contemplates education, health care, hours of work etc etc.
I'm no socialist, but we must be honest when looking at the big picture.
At home here, many are living like they did a 100 years ago. An in the USA, gone are the days where most families had a house, cottage, car , truck , a boat and a pension.
Nowadays, it's only the savvy that do well.

"There's a reason America and the Bahamas are flourishing while the UK and Europe are mired in socialistm."

its your last paragragh where you become the fools voice.
America has been in decline for more than 50 years, a country where one working parent used to easily support a family; this now takes two working parents and theyre upside down with debt and have no savings for retirement. That to you is flourishing?
But at least America peaked, albiet 50 years ago.

Our nation, the Bahama is also in decline, by any measure, sadly we peaked, but without reaching any mentionable standard. Peak is really a stretch when describing the height of societal achievment attained by Bahamians, the majority having attained low level of poverty.

So unless youre meaauring society by the concentration of wealth and achievements of the 1/10th of the 1%, i dont think you underatand what it meana ro flourish.

By any measure the standard of life doe the masses in the socialist countries to which you refer has far surpassed anything ever achieved in America, and remains imeasurably better than whats been achieved or ever will be achieved in the Bahams.

#“IT’S a job well done,” National Security Minister Marvin Dames said of the police force’s arrest of two women in relation to a spate of child abduction incidents that tormented New Providence for weeks."

"Our police force is presently working to obtain forced confessions through the use of rape , torture, beatings, threats of death etc."

"Once we have the forced confessions we will fabricate supporting evidence and rigg some witness testamony as is usually done"

Marvin Dames

just thought id fill in what Marvin was thinking but forgot to say

we are not a world leader in tourism or finance.

what we are is a country who is host to large hotels owned and run by foreigners who are world leaders in tourism. And we are host to foreign owned financial institutions, be it large public or small private banks that are themselves world leaders in finance.

Note the difference!

We are less likely to become a leader in healthcare as not only are we a nation with some of the lowest educational stadards talking about an industry that relies on the highest levels of education; but also an industry that demands the best of the best when it comes to ethics, progressiveness, facilty and facility maintenance etc. There is not one attribute required in healthcare that would or could be considered a Bahamian strength. Not to say we dont have some good doctors or nurses.

With unlimited reasources and 50 years, we will not be able to match what the USA can offer in healthcare.
We can hardly keep the doors open in our hospitals. We cant pay the nurses.

How on earth would we ever get to the level of teaching doctora, having training hospitals etc.

As a nation, our strengths are not aligned with being healthcare providers.

We need to find our strengths, and build off of those. We need to stop talking foolish and move forward in realistic paths that will truely benefit bahamains.

Adding "for profit" to our healthcare will just make any improvements more expensive and further from the reach of our average people.

The obvious, its cheaper to buy most things imdividually from amazon and pay individual freight charges, than it is to buy from our local capitalist vendors who import in quantity and pay duty on cost.

it willl forver be cheaper And better to "pickup" your healthcare in Florida.

Well I must say I agree with most of what you say. However in your comment "When will these waffling buffoon-like politicians wake up to the fact that the people are already totally fed up with them and therefore they will forever more be one-and-done? ", we must note that while fed up, people have not yet been, either pushed far enough, or become fed up enough to act.
It is our responsibility to storm down town en mass and boot these guys out of the house.
Simply writing comments is not enough, we as as society need to take some very serious actions.

the phrase "wrong doing" was coined by politicians as a means of masking criminal offences as simple missdeads.

when you hear the phrase always consider what actions they are speaking about.

its helpful to consider what they would call the same actions if they were committed by you or I.

anyone notice the systemic moral decline all across the western world, if not the whole world.

who knows why, but it spans all of society from top to bottom

#The Group will meet a range of stakeholders in this context, including senior politicians, NGOs, trade unions, representatives from the private sector, the Referendum Commission, the Referendum Unit and other observers.

does anyone notice how wrong and missguided this is. why should any of these "stakeholders" be considered staleholders at all.
As poorly as our democracys work, those elected are the only ligetimate voices along with the citizenry of course. Allowing unelected groups to weigh in is the ultimate subversion of democracy.

what about all the lost applications

every government office has desks littered with stacks of paper and filea covered in dust

what about all the corruption immigration , so many who applied whos file " went missing " due to lack of or insufficient bribe money