Wow, and all the damaged to the corals, mangroves and the area's ecosystem is set aside as Resorts World comes up with a new plan to screw things up even more. Face it, it's DOA. As so many of us told you, it won't work, isn't working, and will not work. Another white elephant to deface our beautiful islands.

Just short of bringing guests in at gunpoint, no one wants to come! When will they see this?

That's funny -- those are the very words (plus a few more I can't type here) that I'd use to describe Glenys Hanna Martin.

And what record is she talking about? The woman has none that I can see -- and I've always wondered what her qualifications are for the Transportation and Aviation porfolio.

Good advice, Mr. DP. All too often I hear tales of visitors to the straw market who leave in disgust at the filth and aggressiveness of the vendors. I have witnessed tourists being threatened by a vendor who was annoyed that they had purchased from a nearby vendor and not her. She pounded her fist into her hand while making rude and threatening remarks to them as they fled back to their ship. What message does that send to our visitors?

While most vendors are extremely polite and helpful, there is a sizeable minority who should either learn to interact with manners and grace, or should not be allowed in the market. They do a great disservice to us all. And government needs to own this as well. Send decoys in if you have to so you can see how visitors are being treated and get rid of the rotten apples.

Oh, for god's sake people, why must everything be a race thing? If Bahamians are so concerned about getting beach access everywhere, why didn't the beloved governement of the day negotiate beach rights before the whole Atlantis circus came to town? Whose fault is that -- certainly not Atlantis'.

Private property is, well....private. That's kind of how it works.

And when visitors to Cabbage beach (or any beach) learn to behave themselves, pick up after themselves, and not harass others trying to enjoy the beach (yes, I am a Bahamian who has been harassed by other Bahamians to buy crap, rent jet skis and the like), then perhaps we might be welcome on pirvate property.

Technically, if this murder was committed at 2:30am New Year's Eve (ie, early morning Jan 1), then this is #1 for the New Year, not added to 2015's tally.

Condolences to this young man's family. The murders have to stop. We cannot continue as a civilised society like this.

What a joke this government is! They don't want anything to do with colonialism, yet they are very happy to jump up and down for the honours bestowed by the Queen (at their suggestion, of course) What a bunch of wannabe fools we have leading this country.

Who's next -- all the web shop boys and maybe a few drug kingpins too? Or maybe they can make an exception for Nygard? The Queen must be horrified at the Knighthood and Companions for this round. I surely am!

If this is true, then the manager is a complete disgrace to the hotel and should be dismissed. But somehow there must be more to the story, as no sane, right-thinking person would throw out a choir of children from a hotel. There must be more to the story.

If not, it reflects very poorly on the hotel, and certainly on the manager. This is hardly an immigration problem - it's a huge PR problem.

If anything, we'll need MORE cookouts!

See some of the comments above, and keep in mind the latest "facts" to come out of the NHI

-- Each doctor will be given 500 patients to see (how long will it take to get an appointment??)
-- There is NO catastrophic care included in the NHI plan that I can see (more cookouts...)
-- Each person will be covered for $221 in health care per YEAR! (that doesn't even cover the cost of an annual physical, much less medications)

NHI is doomed before it's even begun.

How short memories we Bahamians seem to have. As I recall, despite all the various recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry, there was not a single person investigated or convicted for the obvious shenanigans that took place during that shameful nation for sale era. And let's count how many of those named are still in politics today!

No, MonkeyDoo, I mean a damn alarm system that alerts when the temperature of the freezer goes below a certain level! It can send an alert to a cell phone, house phone, or any phone you want -- even Perry's phone! It's almost idiot proof and requires no idiot standing around to monitor it. Just an idiot to fix it -- which is where the problem comes in, I suppose!