Do we need or want another monopolist group managing both our freight terminal and our cruise ship port? If Minnis them want to empower people, then allow us all to become part owners of the economic vehicles in this country and not put them all in the hands of a select few.

And we wonder why we have a problem with unlicensed guns and ammunition getting into this country? This incident demonstrates how porous our borders are and how defective our border defences are. The Prime Minister says he wants a report. He should not have to request reports of exceptional or unusual matters from each Ministry as and when they occur but should be getting regular reports on the goings-on at each Ministry from his Ministers. He needs to watch the Prime Minister's Questions on C-SPAN where the UK's Prime Minister is able to answer parliamentary questions regarding the affairs of any government Ministry or agency. We could be invaded by a bunch of terrorists using wooden boats that cannot be detected by radar coming up on the south side of New Providence and we have no constitutional right to search for them, maybe unless we declare a state of emergency. What a country!

This is a growing Bahamian trend for family disputes over a deceased person's affairs to be played out in public particularly where the deceased has two "families" - a current spouse or live-in partner fighting with a former spouse and/or adult children. It is worse than sad, it is disappointing. If he were alive, Sir Arlington would be highly disappointed to see his survivors fighting over his body and his assets in public like this.

URCA's letter makes no sense and is laughable in the extreme. If the application was "ineffectual" as the licence was granted to 2 individuals instead of an incorporated company as required by the Communications Act then URCA has failed to comply with its own law and the licence was no licence so there was no licence to sell. An "ineffectual" licence is no licence at all. And the nonsense about having the power to "vary any licence granted to a licensee if it is necessary to comply with the laws of the Bahamas" is just that, more nonsense. If the 2 individuals supposedly owning the licence was "ineffectual" in law then they could NOT be licensees and URCA has no power to assist their breach of the law. Makes you wonder if these people know what they are doing.

If only Bay Street's decline was as simple as tee shirt shops and low end merchants. Due to poor traffic design and parking issues, many stores and businesses moved away from Bay Street. People only came out there to bank, go to court and go to work; they stopped coming out there to shop except maybe when John Bull is having a sale. Stores like the food store, pharmacy, shoe store, hotel, movie theatre, hardware store, clothing store, night clubs, restaurants and others that used to be on Bay Street closed down due to declining sales, crime, high rents, high renovation costs, high import costs, real property taxes, changing tastes and changing demographics. Bay Street property owners don't get the kind of tax evasion breaks from government that hotels, manufacturers and certain industries get. Then the bumsels moved in, sleeping around the courts and other buildings. The government itself is one of those guilty of neglect. Look at the state of the Rodney Bain Building (formerly the E D Sassoon Building), the Royal Victoria complex, the General Post Office building. Pollution from the smoke generated by cruise ships has added to the decline coupled with the general dirtiness and congestion downtown. What the Minister should do is put a few "secret passengers" on one or more of the cruise ships that dock here and let them report and/or record their experiences when they get off the cruise ship in Nassau. He will be surprised at what he learns. Tourists have to be given a reason to spend their money because they are getting something of value or memorable in returrn. It's expensive to shop in Nassau. What are cruise passengers getting when they disembark in Nassau? From what I've seen hanging around the dock on occasion, I would not get off the ship when it docked in Nassau.

Congratulations to both of these ladies for making it to the final. Not everyone in a final is going to medal but those that do can only do so because they are in the final. Ms Gaither is young enough that she has opportunities to return to more finals in the future and hopefully medal then. Mrs Uibo has added to her cache of medals and hopefully will return to future finals and win medals of other colours. They are both to be congratulated for the fruits of their hard work and their coaches congratulated for preparing them to get to this position. Well done and much future success.

No he's just distancing himself from the PLP in case some new idiot in the government is prepared to hire him as a "consultant" and until he's best able to determine how strong the wind is blowing in its current new direction and whether it's for more than the next 5 years.

Shane Gibson, Frank Smith and Kenred Dorsett have not been treated any differently from any other person charged with a crime in a Bahamian court of law. For those that have memories long enough to remember, the "perp" or "Bank Lane" shuffle came about after the girlfriend of a defendant on his way to court on Parliament Street some years ago threw him a gun which he used to run away from his police escort. I've seen the handcuffs and manacles used to transport other men and women to court, some of whom had foot, ankle or leg injuries but not crutches. What makes Gibson, Smith or Dorsett any different from any of these other defendants other than in many cases the others did not have all the high priced legal talent that Gibson, Smith and Dorsett have and the other defendants were not former PLP parliamentarians? I guess being an ex-MP or ex-Senator entitles one to different treatment than every other criminally accused person who has appeared before the courts? To coin an old phrase, who died and made these men kings?

As one of the architects of Resolve, Chummo ought to know what he is talking about. Maybe that's why Perry Christie only went after this half heartedly because he realised or was advised of the negative impact. The problem that with this whole thing that the Minnis administration has inherited is that it's government that allowed this mess to happen and so now they have to find the least messy way to bail us out. When the USA had the subprime failures, there was all the talk about certain banks being "too big to fail". Well the government is in the position of of not being able to allow BoB to fail, particularly when all of the Canadian banks are downsizing and reassessing their position in the Caribbean. Royal Bank pulls out of Bimini; who else besides BoB is going to go in there? The Bahamians there deserve a banking system the same way as the Bahamians in Nassau. Aranha as the new chairman already realises that, which is why he's trying to set it up whereby the government covers the bank's costs of going into unprofitable or marginally profitable locations. If BoB is to continue and comply with banking laws, then these debts will have to be taken off its books through the Resolve PPV. Not the best solution but the best of a bad set of circumstances.

They can file all of the lawsuits that they want but they will need to prove evidence of malice and bad or no intent on the part of the police and the complainants if they hope to be successful. By the time their cases come to civil trial in 3 or 4 years time, his former parliamentary colleagues probably will have been tried in a criminal court by then and we will know if they are innocent or guilty. A civil court is unlikely to try these cases before their criminal trials occur.