All good ideas, unfortunately never to see the light of day, unless complete collapse occurs and whoever takes over after has the will to do what is needed. Though on the first point i disagree with some of it, agree with taking the money if obtained illegally.

On Thursday look at the obituaries, there are far too many middle age Bahamian dying long before they should. We are getting close to a time when the life expectancy is going to decrease for the first time in a long time. Government has a social duty to do what is best for its people. They can do this in two ways, the carrot or the stick. The carrot would be to encourage healthy eating with tax reductions on healthy food, and encourage an active lifestyle by ensuring adequate and safe parks in neighbourhoods. The stick is to tax those things that are unhealthy. Everyone knows fast food is unhealthy, as with Cigarettes, drinks and a number of other items. Tax them to raise the funds to pay for the subsequent health issues and people can then deiced if that Number 5 biggie size is worth it or not.

Problem is a lot of these foreign workers are being bought in to help tackle the health crisis PMH is suffering from due to all the unhealthy eating. Also once these foreigners are here they should be being contributing NIB, Paying VAT when they make purchases , having a work permit fee paid to Government, all of which contributes to paying for those school fees etc.If they are not it will be because their employer (a Bahamian) is not doing what they legally should. Or should we pass a law saying if you haven't contributed for X years (say 5) then you can't benefit from any Government Service. Of course this will affect many Bahamians as well. .

I hope they knock it down and then plan a large rebuilding of downtown from the library up to the post office. Put a new Parliament where the post office is and make sure plenty secure parking there. The new post office can be in any one of the Government buildings they have downtown. It would be a waste of some very good land to build a post office back where it is. Also don't use the same buddy contractors who build it for 10 X the price and then it needs serious maintenance within a year or two.

AS always we think short term and not long term. Yes we can go out there and fish the oceans, but once the fish are gone, then what? Why not do as has been mentioned before and look at banning the export of items we would all like for years to come. In addition encourage fish farming on the islands so that we can then export these fish. We have been spoilt in Bahamas due to our abundance in seafood, however we are getting close to the time when there won't be much left. Anyone who has fished for the last 30-50 years can tell you how much harder it is to get good sized groupers, conchs and crawfish then it used to be, and it will only get worse.

They should adjust the breadbasket items to healthier items AND tax the fast food places. Government needs to use both the carrot and the stick to encourage us to live a healthier life.

From what i can read, Govt should do nothing to change the bread basket items. Leave it as is and wait until more people come in with health issues. So what if people lead a less health life and do not make it out of their 50s. Yet again people are jumping on the anti whatever the govt does bandwagon without seeing the outcome. Surely improving the health of the citizens is a must for government.

Ahh typical comments. They talk about banning plastic bags and people decide to deride them, without know what it is exactly they will do. Maybe they will implement a $0.25 charge for each plastic bag. They did something similar in the UK and use dropped by 75%. Surely most of you are sick of seeing these bags in the water, on the beach or somehow (and this always surprises me) 100ft back in the bush when a lot is cleared. Or maybe they will ban all non bio-degradable plastic bags and force us to use more expensive ones. Or maybe it will be something else. This is a step in the right direction and hopefully will only lead to a cleaner and less polluted environment for all. And yes after this they can move on to abandoned cars, and Clifton Pier etc but you have to start somewhere,

I agree cars need to be off Bay street, but how would that occur. We would still need a two lane road going west to east for those cars. Where would it be? I can only think they would have to build a new road right through areas near shirley street, which due to the cost won't happen. This of course makes turning bay street into a pedestrian area a long term solution. Quicker ones would be to ban parking on Bay, have a free bus service to safe car parks outside of nassau, along with a toll to enter nassau so people would rather use the free bus (though those passing through would not like this). Also make sure there are bathrooms to be used (at night especially) as in the morning down town stinks of piss. Finally clean up the sidewalks with something that lasts longer then a week or two, clean the lamp polls and trees as there are still wires from the 1980's hanging on them

AS someone with a N post box are these to be moved out there? Or will they stay downtown? I already tell friends to not send boxes via regular mail as you won't get it, or it will come in time for your next birthday. Seems to me you must have something downtown for people and businesses in this area.