If these students won't pay, cancel their driver licenses and car registrations until the loans are paid, or a payment plan implemented. Time to get tough on these bums. Garnish wages if we have to, but that is taxpayer money that needs to be put back. You got the benefit of a loan, so pay it back. It's really not complicated!

Publish the names of these deadbeats who steal from the public purse.

What does any private citizen need a damn automatic gun for? Gun control works! Ask Australia, the UK, France, Belgium, Canada and just about any civilised country in the world. The US has a major gun problem because any nutcase can get a gun! Enough killing!

And as for the Bahamas -- ever wonder where all our illegal guns come from? The US! Because any damn nutcase can get a gun with very little checks.

You guys shot yourselves in the foot with demanding total Bahamianisation of the fly fishing industry. The government requirements of 2 anglers requiring the services of a guide and no foreign boats allowed to fish on the flats (even with permits) has effectively killed the fly fishing industry in the Bahamas. The fly-fishermen have gone elsewhere -- to places that are regulated, but not with the same restrictive nonsense that you've advocated for. And now you've got the gall to cry about it when you're the problem???? Typical entitled Bahamian attitude.

Mr Miller, YOU should have initiated audits in your own department -- given what we know now. As for why an audit for WSC, maybe it's because the Bahamian people deserve answers as to how the PLP spent all that money during their term in office. And then there's the mystery of where a whole lot of money is missing or tiefed! (And yes, not paying your electic and water bills is considered "tiefing")

Birdie, as always, your shortsightedness (and those like you) are the reason our country never seems to get ahead. By your logic, we should deny children schooling because of petty government nonsense and overcrowding. What do you propose we do with those same unschooled children in 10 or 20 years when they have no education and resort to crime because they have no basic marketable skills? Oh wait, that was the PLP's vision -- keep them ignorant and stupid so they would vote PLP.

Those days are gone, Birdie! Thank heavens.

The basic UN charter guarantees education to every child -- why can't we?

No doubt half the nitwits there had no idea why they were there!

The PLP lost, Mr. Mitchell. Accept it and move on you deluded old cow.

We Rise ought to be going around the neighbourhoods helping people get ready for Hurricane Irma instead of wasting their energy on a fool's errand.

When student loans are handed out, they should include a contract that states that if the loans aren't paid back on the stated date, that their wages and or assets will be garnished/seized. Tying up the court system with more cases and expense makes no sense.

When will people stop looking for handouts and take responsibility? So much a Bahamian mentality these days by so many -- it has to stop!

Mr. Harreld and BPL aren't doing a very good job at keeping the lights on. A perfectly clear day, not rain, no storms, and we've been out of power for 6 hours now. What excuse will you use today?

Fred Mitchell is only trying to stir the pot and desperately try to stay relevant. He's a has been and should have been a never been. Sad pathetic little man just doesn't get it.

As a lawyer (granted, a poor one), Fred Mitchell should know that civil servants serve at the pleasure of the government. They can be recalled, laid off, posted to other positions, etc. and there's not a damn thing they can do about it -- except resign. For too long now, the PLP have lost sight of the fact that the government works for the people. They paid the price for that massive error in judgement in May 2017.

Now, please, Fred Mitchell, don't you have to go and do your verification exercise like a good little public servant?

When Mr. Shane Gibson shows the Bahamian people some respect, maybe he'll get some in return. Bishop Ellis should be ashamed himself for hanging Gibson's criminal behaviour on the people and not on Mr. Gibson himself. Doesn't the Bible teach anything about taking responsibility for one's actions?