While I do not agree with the profane manner in which you voice your concerns, I certainly agree with the premise of your message. Silly, incompetent, short-sighted citizens like birdiestrachan and John can't see through their own clouds of ignorance because they possess an unwavering, blood-bought support for the PLP (no matter what nonsense they do). Any fool living in the Bahamas knows that Christie's gambling agenda was nothing more than a payback arrangement involving the numbers bosses who funded most of the PLPs campaign. Years ago, it used to be that the PLP campaign trail was funded by drug-traffickers like Samuel "90" Knowles and Sean Isaacs. But now.... under the watchful eye of the United States' DEU, this is no longer a feasible practice.

The IMF and other major players in the global banking industry have already warned the Bahamas that regulating webshops will prove detrimental to the Finance Industry and financial stability of our country. Not only have they warned us, but they've gone as far as to place the cons of this practice in black and white for all to see. Yet Christie, who is listed as the Finance Minister, has chosen to ignore the impending danger associated with gambling, and shoved it down the throats of Bahamian people, although we voted against it. Are we as Bahamians suppose to believe that any government in this country is capable of regulating a multi-million dollar entity such as national gambling??? As a matter of fact... every entity that has been placed in the hands of the Bahamian government has proven a colossal failure!! Just look at the BOB!!! Look at BEC!!! Look at the legislature!!! What successful project can this government boast of???? Not a one!!! On a 7 by 21 island they can't even keep the damn lights on for crying out loud!!! So how in the world can they regulate a complex practice such as gambling where the tendency, and temptation for theft and corruption is prevalent???

The only thing that Perry Christie and his PLP government have done for the past two years is align the pockets of PLP contemporaries like Margarite Pindling and Leon Williams just to name a few. And the passing of this bill was just another tell-tale example of which. In the meantime, the masses of Bahamians remain ignorant, desolate, powerless, and unwilling to do anything about it. As far as I can see, the entire Bahamas is on a sloped collision coarse with catastrophe.

All y'all people who complainin, is da same ones who vote in Perry, Leslie Miller, an da rest a deez crooked, do nuttin PLP's. So stop complainin. Ya reap wat ya sow. Deal wit it.

Why did you leave out Hubert Ingraham, Shavargo Laing, and the rest of the FNM executives??? They placed a huge burden on the people too! It ain just Perry dem!

I thought Perry said the PLP's motto was a Bahamas for Bahamians!
Now he's ushering in a foreign festival and attempting to merge it into our culture??? I guess all he really wanted was another opportunity to do the Perry shuffle!

We Bahamians must be the biggest suckers on the face of the earth. SMH

I'm really sick of these irresponsible mothers raising and farming these little criminals then attempting to portray them as decent, kind-hearted citizens whenever they're gunned down or arrested!!! Where are the fathers of these young men????? Did this mother ever teach her son that when you live by the gun you die by the gun???? Did she ever teach him that when you take the life of another then you must render your own??? Did she ever teach this boy that bad choices eventually lead to death and destruction???

It seems that the only skill that some of these worthless mothers possess is how to lay down, spread their legs, and breed more criminals!!! I wish that I could say that I'm sorry for her loss. But I'm not.

The real elephant in the room is that too many of our children simply aren't interested in education. Just take a look around or listen to some of our children when they speak. They've been indoctrinated into a culture that has disregarded the principles of hard work and education. Instead, they continue to been influenced by a "something for nothing" culture that not only exist, but is rampant here in the Bahamas.

Yes, our public school system is broken. But so are the homes in which these children reside. Street violence and a dysfunctional society are the residual effects of dysfunctional homes. The sum of the majority of problems that exist in our country, is the direct result of non-functioning homes!!!

home is where you refine your education! HOME is where you learn the value of a good education! HOME is where you learn that nothing in life is free! HOME is where you learn that sex before marriage is wrong! It's time for us Bahamian parents to take responsibility for our children and stop placing all the blame on the system of government.

Our schools are over populated aswell.

Ha. I wish. These illegal Haitians are a huge burden to our country.

Ummm... Hubert Ingraham made Brent Symonette relinquish that contract because it was a conflict of interest! That's what leadership does!

No matter what follies the PLP is guilty of, you always blindly attempt to justify their crooked and incompetent practices! You're just another bias, partisan PLP fool.

Shouldn't Bell be in Grand Bahama at the homo festival with the rest of fags???