*"...the vast majority of these signatures are from persons not in The Bahamas, but rather are overseas parties with no obvious connection to The Bahamas...*

What percentage of the Board and Senior Management of the "Bahamas" Petroleum Company are persons not from or in the Bahamas, but rather are overseas parties with no obvious connection to the Bahamas?

We are already 20 years into the 21st century. Receiving new credit cards and new checks can be done via mail; documents can be signed electronically, as can loan applications. I am shocked the banks kept physical branches on these islands opened for this long.

There is a reason you don't see other banks swooping in to fill the void left by Scotia Bank, Royal Bank, etc -- the paradigm of many physical branches scattered throughout a country (any country) has long been obsolete. The rest of the world has moved on to online transactions (Zelle, Cash App, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Direct Deposit, autorecurring payment schedules, DocuSign, etc) and closed many of their physical branches. The question shouldn't be "what happens when the ATM runs out of money"; rather, the question should be "why are we still conducting transactions dependent on dollar bills"?

And if we as a country still do not have the infrastructure necessary for online banking, is that the banks' fault or the governments' (both FNM and PLP)??

Don't shoot the messenger.

Such a shame -- Freeport was a goose with the potential to lay golden eggs, squandered by squabbling over who does what with the gold...

The samples are likely processed according to some sampling ID number (887, 888, 889, 890, etc). Once they know which samples are positive, then then need to go back to the database to find the demographic information related to that sample (name, gender, age, address, and island).
They are reporting the positive results first, and then later reporting the demographics associated with the positive test.
Hopefully they can devise ways to improve that timelag, as the location of the positive cases is critical to curtailing the spread.

Lobsters are actually closely related to snails!... Lobsters belong to the invertebrate phylum Arthropoda. Besides lobsters and insects, spiders and snails belong to this group as well. These animals are closely related because of two main characteristics that they share: they all have an exoskeleton (outer skeleton) and they all have joint appendages. 🦞 🐌

http://www.parl.ns.ca/lobster/overview.…

While we are at it, let us also get rid of the reporting of “no recent travel history”. It is a moot point now as community spread has become the predominant mode of spread within the country.

Agreed. What about the other three household members? Are they still negative (as they were exposed to a Covid-19 positive person)?? They were not suppose to fly either.

If any of them (or the other 91 people on that plane) test positive now or in the near future, this saga will be far from over.

Well_Mudda, presuming all you say is true, a positive testing individual (whether true positive or false positive) still should not have been allowed on that flight, with 50+44 additional individuals on that flight.

We can debate how to bring positive-testing patients home (N95 masks, separate plane, etc). but he/she should not have been on that flight.

I agree that more testing is needed, across the board

Wonder when Govt (PLP or FNM) will make it illegal for a lawyer (or law practice, for that matter) to represent both parties in the same real estate transaction?

Well_Mudda, after the "Dissident Seven", Minnis ain't trusting nobody. Will be interesting to see what direction Sands takes in the near future.