So let's see: she looking to issue a $25 million bond to build a government administrative complex in Eight Mile Rock, Grand Bahama? Meanwhile Cable Bahamas/Aliv looking to raise $19 million to complete their cellular build-out and Bahamas Power & Light looking to raise money to foot their new equipment needs and pension debt? Who you think people going to invest their money in? I thought when you get into these Public/Private Partnerships with government that you supposed to have your side of the money? But she wants to use other people's money to fund the private side of this deal. Going to have to do plenty explaining how I would get my money back out of those 10 years of lease payments. And you know government notoriously slow when it comes to paying their debts.

One more reason why we need our own national travel advisory system for travelling to the USA but particularly Florida. Have they stopped the bump and rob tactics where they bump your car from back or front and then rob you at gunpoint after you've left the rental car agency? Have they stopped teefing your purchases and other belongings out of your rental car or van while you are parked and eating or shopping or sleeping? Have they beefed up security in these low brand name hotels to stop them from breaking into your hotel room while you are out to teef your stuff, particularly if you're in a ground floor room? Have the car rental companies put real car alarms in their cars that go off when the vehicle is broken into or the door locks jimmied, or do their alarms only work when someone tries to steal the vehicle but doesn't have the ignition key? Yeah our people get robbed and raped in the USA too but we apparently don't make as big a deal about it as their embassy does for their citizens in this country. You can buy any weapon of death in the USA, obviously guns being the easiest to buy, then go on the Internet and watch videos on how to modify them and where to buy the parts. Then we have the mindless souls who bring guns here on their yachts and planes for sale or the others who import them hidden in personal goods and supplies. Time to put a stop these gaping holes in our borders whereby unlicensed guns find their way into our country and into the wrong hands. The same way the American Customs x-ray shipments from the Bahamas to the USA for contraband, maybe we need to get x-ray machines for shipments from the USA and elsewhere to the Bahamas.

Much ado about nothing. It's okay to be boorish and disrespectful and nasty but when the favour is returned then everyone wants to get bent out of shape and shout "foul". If I commit a flagrant foul, I'm liable to be ejected and maybe have to sit on the sidelines for a few games.

Actually @John isn't far off the mark in some respects. Fifty years ago when I was a teenager, the police embraced what suspiciously seemed to me to be a Wild West type policy of shooting criminal suspects who they considered to be Wild West type bandits. My first memory is their shooting a man named L'il Ounce who they accused of all sorts of misdeeds. Then in more recent times we have criminals on bail getting shot or shooting up others under mysterious circumstances and few arrests made, few charged and few convicted. But Commissioner after Commissioner complained about persons let out on bail possibly to commit more crimes but some of them get killed before ever going back to court. Commissioner Ferguson seemed unconcerned that civilians are being killed by his officers not all of whom are armed with guns or shooting at police officers. The persons investigating these shootings are police officers under the Commissioner's command. So there's no independence in the process. Who can forget the police shooting of the young man in the back of the old City Market near Kemp Road that was never satisfactorily answered by the force? Police officers are given the ability to carry and use firearms but it also comes with the heavy responsibility to be answerable whenever the firearm is used, not a cloak to kill anybody, anytime, anywhere and then holler that "it was justified" just because you wear the uniform. It's not a licence to kill indiscriminately but under very strict and controlled circumstances that have to be explained and stand up to public scrutiny.

In this country, we the public do not know what are the written policies, procedures and processes governing the use of firearms by police officers, particularly in the cases of killing of civilians and others while on-duty. Similarly, there is no independent body which includes civilians that investigates on-duty killings by police officers. The same way that the Attorney-General has been removed from involvement in criminal prosecutions in this and other countries, the modern approach is to have a body independent of the police investigate police-involved killings. Also, the entire coroner's court process needs to be reviewed to see how these matters can come to court and be disposed of quicker than is currently the case. Is 2.5 years or more a satisfactory timeframe to dispose of these cases? What are the bottlenecks in the system and how can these cases be concluded quicker? Time for governments to put some of the money that they make in fines and fees from the courts back into the system to improve it.

And Picewell was supposed to be a shining example of the New PLP! They are in more trouble than they know but I will wait the full 5 years before making any predictions about the FNM winning hands down again in 2022. The FNM is all over the place with everyone who was unable to speak on behalf of the party spouting off the first thing that comes to their head. They haven't shown yet what is their cohesive plan for turning this country around and fixing what's broken, corrupt, inefficient and ineffective in this country. The lesson they need to learn from their 2017 victory is that, once in office, you have to have a viable plan of action so that if and when you take over you hit the ground running with plans, policies, and the persons to carry them out. Right now everything is pillar to post and, taking marital rape as one example, they seem to get distracted from the job at hand by going off on something that is important to a small number of people without being able to say when they are going to fix the things that benefit the greatest number of people. Yes marital rape is important but not more important than job creation, fixing public services and public amenities and laying out for us what is your game plan and timetable. Too many things waiting out there to be addressed in some sort of order.

These Canadian banks are not making the kind of money in the Caribbean area that they used to make, coupled with significant numbers of bad, difficult to recover, loans that they are carrying on their books. Similarly they don't own many of the premises that they operate from. So, in these Family Islands they are suffering declining revenues, declining customer bases and heavy operational expenses. They do a cost/benefit analysis and conclude that it's less costly for them to take a one-time financial hit and close their unprofitable Family Island branches. DPM Turnquest is way off base if he wants you to believe that these closures are due to technology. The same technology that these banks have in the Bahamas is the same technology that they have available to them in Canada but you don't see them shutting down or consolidating branches in Canada the way they are doing in the Bahamas. It's all about what can you do for me today in terms of revenues and they are just not the same in the Bahamas any more.

I lost my job because my bosswanted to replace me first with his cousin and then with a PLP minister's wife. Happy to have had the job but when they don't want you then you move on and find another. What's the old saying: "As one door closes another opens". Bottom line when you work in any job it's yours for a time, not a lifetime. Under employment law, you can be let go at any time for a reason or for none, the only issue being whether you are justly compensated in notice pay or its equivalent at the time of termination.

Not true. You forget about the conviction of Wilbert Moss the plp mical mp.

Entire article is based on the views of persons from one company that is likely to encounter severe competitive pressure from Western Union. Don't see how that makes for much in the way of "diversity of views". These entities wil either engage in umbrella pricing like the gas stations and the phone companies where one company charges a few cents less than its competitors for the same product and tries to sell us on the idea that we are getting so much better service for our few cents. This is not real competition.