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Who knows? You could be wrong as well as you could be right. No annual statistics are ever provided of the numbers of foreigners here working on work permits and in what capacities, so no one ever knows the true picture. My observation is that there seems to be a lot of them a in the lower paying jobs such as construction and other areas of manual labour but who really knows?

Who cares how many FM radio stations they have in New York City or Jamaica or anywhere else? Do Jones, and Saunders and the Tribune want us to believe that no one else but them deserves to have a radio licence? The Tribune is no paragon of virtue when it comes to operating radio stations. Several of the stations that they "manage" don't even have human DJs; it's all run by computer so they don't have to pay overtime, vacation pay, NIB, etc. They had a dream to own an FM radio station and were able to accomplish that dream. So no one else can have that dream if they have the money to spend on the equipment and personnel? The arrogance of these people. What are they saying, that they can't survive in a competitive environment? Competition was the purpose behind the new electronic communications framework. Deal with it!

Like any of you all know what you are going to do with the information, even if it was available!

With all the problems that exist in this country right now, freedom of information is one of the very least important matters that needs to be addressed, and if we had a list of top 100 things that need to be done, this is not in it. We still got people with nowhere to stay, no job and nothing to eat.

We really in trouble but the cruise ships is only part of our problem.

With no cruise ships in town and none having been here for over a year, how do some of you arrive at the conclusion that they are responsible for the recent bout of conch poisoning that was going round? Truly, Jackass does as Jackass is.

The real concern here is whether the cruise ships have been discharging their washwater at their private island sites and polluting our waters in those locations? Further, based on the ICCT's projections, what steps, what protections does our government have in place at all these cruise-company owned private island resorts to ensure that they are discharging their washwater into our seas? We never heard what became of the one time that Carnival was caught discharging garbage into our waters some years ago. Where we fall down the most in this country is in enforcement. Just drive around on our streets and look at the number of speeders on minor and major roads, the drivers running through red traffic lights, the people pitching garbage out of their vehicles onto the side of the road, the policemen who book me for driving dangerously but have their own personal cars and the force vehicles tinted up so dark even spotlight can't see who is inside their vehicle, the illegal dumping anywhere there is an open space, the jitneys driving on the sidewalk, driving dangerously and at high speed with other people's children inside the bus, and stopping anywhere they like for $1.25. A pitiable shambles of a country. We can cuss Maura and D'Aguilar all we want but who is enforcing the laws to stop the pollution and other infringements?

I grew up under the concept "spare the rod, spoil the child". My parents meted out corporal punishment and so did my schools and I don't see where it has adversely affected me. The difference might be, as father always said, you don't beat a child while angry. When he punished us, he would tell us we were getting 3 whacks or 6 whacks with his belt and that was the end of it. Same thing at school, although it might be as high as 10 strokes of the cane, but it was either across the wrist or across the buttocks and it was because you had done something that warranted punishment. I asked my adult daughter the other day if she recalls me ever beating her while she was a child. She said no, although she did remember her mother beating her a few times. However, what we saw on TV the other night was was just wanton abuse, most of which seemed to be carried out in a fit of anger. I have never seen an incident of what I will call a group beating where other adults are holding children down so as to prevent them from squirming away from being beaten by another adult.

The only star that I give to the unions on this one is that when Sinclair says that "this is the most generous early retirement package not just in The Bahamas but the Caribbean", that scares me because few if any of the other countries where Cable & Wireless/Liberty do business in the Caribbean have currencies on par with the Bahamian dollar, so the package is unlikely to be as attractive, dollars and cents-wise, as Sinclair wants us to believe. However, to echo my deceased father in another context, how can you tell a man (or woman) not to want o be free. If you know how to manage money and have marketable skills, it may make sense to take the package. Otherwise, stay in place until you qualify for the pension, because it's difficult to live off the $1000+ per month from National Insurance without other income.

With all of the problems that we have in this country right now, how important is a Freedom of Information Act to the average Joe Blow who got no job and little or no money and doesn't know where his next meal is coming from or how he is going to make his bank payments or pay rent? Clearly, this guy's bread is buttered on both sides so he doesn't have the same problems as the rest of us and what keeps him up at night is passage of a Freedom of Information Act.

Get real some of you! So which country is Biden the elected leader of? It sure ain't The Bahamas. American presidents always do what they believe is best for the USA. If there is some small or side benefit for other countries like The Bahamas, great, but we are not on the top of their minds when they are deciding policy for the USA. Trump didn't care if we lived or died and who knows if Biden cares? We have to look out for our own country and do whatever is in our own best interests to get or keep our economy going. No one else is going to do it for us. Other countries might help here or there where they can, but that depends on how well their own economy is doing.

Well one way to look at this is that if Minnis thought D'Aguilar had crossed same line as Duane Sands then D'Aguilar would have been gone too, whether by resigination or by being fired. Presumably, Minnis decided that D'Aguilar had not crossed the line or Sands fell on his sword so as not to take down D'Aguilar, Ellsworth Johnson and others.

Obviously the comment about no visitors applies during this time of COVID 19. They are thinking that if they are not careful then history might repeat itself. Remember it was the colonisers from Europe that came to these parts over 500 years ago, bringing measles and other diseases that virtually wiped out the native Lucayans, Caribs and others whom they met here. So, when COVID 19 is no more or a cure or vaccine has been found that controls the virus and Cat Islanders and others at not in danger of dying from diseases brought there by outsiders, then the visitors will be welcomed with open arms. Their stance is no different than the one taken by Donald Trump and now emulated by every government elsewhere: We don't want you coming here with possible coronavirus and infecting our locals/nationals.