Nonsense as usual with these people -- they are always saying how everyone misunderstood what they really said. .

Pure and simple, the PLP promised 10,000 jobs. They have not delivered. As usual.

Actually, you are the moron.

When money does not buy what it used to, the currency has been devalued (ie, does not buy what it used to) When the items in the grocery store are priced higher, but our incomes are not raised accordingly, that is inflation.

Take away all the jitney franchises and make them one public transportation company. Hire drivers that will follow the rules or be shown the door. No union nonsense, and no racing to pick up riders. One ticket for every route or bus and even a monthly pass or whatnot that is good on ALL jitney buses. Make it a professional operation with established routes and only pick up at designated bus stops. Where are the police when this nonsense occurs.

No one is arguing that we don't have a serious illegal immigrant problem and there needs to be solutions that enable people to be treated with dignity and respect. They are human beings.

That said, preventing children from receiving an education is fundamentally wrong, and this is what we will be doing if a permit is instituted for non-Bahamian students. What family is going to be able to afford $125 for a permit other than maybe US Embassy staff children and children of foreign bankers?

Institute a registration program if you wish, but for no fee. The children born in the Bahamas, even to illegal parents have the right to apply for Bahamian ciitizenship once they reach the age of 18. Discrimination is a very dangerous road to go down -- the Haitians and Jamaicans today - who will we pick on tomorrow?

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Personally, I'd love to see the "mandatory gratuity" (a real ocymoron for real morons) done away with. Let the union nrgotiate proper wages for the workers so that tips are not figured into the equation, and basing them on a higher government-mandated minimum wage.

Let employees EARN their tips instead of them being mandatory handouts. This way, there is more motivation to provide good service. And having lost our prime spot in being #1 in tourism -- largely because of high costs and lousy service, we can't afford not to improve in this regard. Doing away with "mandatory gratuities" would be a good start.

I happily tip for good service, and tip the waitstaff/housekeeper/etc. directly as I never know if they actually see the 15% gratuity. Many whom I've asked either say "no" or give an awkward shrug. Let tipping be a reward for good sevice, not something for nothing.

Unions do little for their members as it is, and often make employers less inclined to work with them because of the entrenched "what's in it for me" entitlement attitude that comes with it. If the union was really wanting to protect their workers, they'd be howling to government to raise the miniumum wage to a livable standard instead of posturing and whining. .

So if the contractor was required to have insurance on the structure as per his contract, and the building was not yet completed, then how could Minister Gray state he didn't know if the insurance had expired? Isn't that the requirement of the contract?

How much will this folly cost us, the Bahamian taxpayers? Over budget, over time, and still not completed after how many millions of dollars -- which no one can agree to how many millorns? Oh, that's right, PGC has probably agreed to give the Chinese the project, along with many thousands of acres of our Bahamaland to save us from ourselves. SMT. Business as usual.

Let me see, I am going to have a contractor come over to have a look at my site and give me an estimate. He says he'll do it for free. Do I then sign a LOI with him for 600 million dollars just to get a free estimate?

This is what Mr. Wells and our PLP government would like us to believe happened. For an engineer, Mr. Wells seems extremely stupid -- for expecting us to believe this nonsense and for believing his PLP plas wouldn't hang him out to dry.

The mandatory 15% gratuity should be done away with entirely. A gratuity should be voluntary and for good service. In our Bahamaland, poor service seems to be the norm and we have lost our way in providing customer service to our own people as well as visitors. In one instance, not too long ago, I got such appalling service at a West Bay Street establishment that I called the manager over and refused to pay the gratuity charged. He took it off my bill.

That said, when I do get good service, I always tip an additional 10-15% in cash that I give directly to the waiter/waitress, as I never know if those mandatory gratuities actually are given to the staff. Restaurants should be made to pay a set minimum wage to workers and not use the excuse that tips make up their salaries. That way, waitstaff will earn regular living wages, but have an incentive to provide good service for tips.

Too much entitlement in our Bahamas has made us lazy.

I'm not sure why USAhelp seems to think this is a Bahamian problem because Disney asked the guests to leave the ship because they felt they could not provide adequate care to such a young child on board the ship. Just because she was "grandfathered" in prior to the new age policy, it does not absolve the parents of common sense. Anyone with a little common sense would think twice before taking a 4 month old child on a cruise ship with minimal medical facilities. Just the fact that the infant was seen and declared healthy by the Bahamian hospital shows that no harm was done so what is the basis for redress? People need to take responsibility for their own choices instead of always blaming others!