Either that or tax them to within an inch of their life. A max profit margin of only 10% like the port. They are destroying family island communities, at least tax them to pay for all the social ills they create. FNM we are watching and expecting action on these number houses!

Oh what could have been.... the LBT saga would make great source material for an interesting and instructive book. An attractive, ambitious, articulate candidate from a prominent political family, but one fatally flawed by a terrible sense of judgment, lack of wisdom, and unbridled ambition.
She was a decent representative, one who passionately advocated for Long Island in the house, was phenomenal during hurricane Joaquin, but one who could not even keep the potholes fixed. When she named the misogynist Rodney Moncur to the senate, she lost my vote forever. Any person with such terrible judgment as that should never be in power. I wish her the best, but she got as good as she deserved. She paid the consequences for the terrible choices she made. So no need to blame us long islanders, she need only blame herself.

Dear birdie, I intend to curse no one but I intend to relentlessly criticize the FNM when they engage in corruption, graft, and poor governance, all of which was rampant under the PLP and all of which with your blinders you refused to criticize. This is where partisans like you have failed our country, we will never become the greatest little nation that we could and should be until we put party affiliation aside and speak the truth to leaders who have failed us. Not party first but Bahamian first.

Where does the corruption end? Are we sure these funds were spent as Minister Gibson said they were, where is his proof? Our country desperately needs campaign finance regulations, which includes a ban on foreign sources of funds. These politicians are for the most part no more than employees of these contributors. No wonder nygard acts with impunity in this country, degrading our environment at his whim and without fear of our laws and courts, he has bought these politicians protection. We have a democracy in name only, really we are governed by unnamed wealthy political contributors who have bought our politicians body and soul.

What an absolute corrupt scumbag. First the rubis scandal and now this. He should be criminally charged by the attorney general. Who knows what other dirt there is that has not come to light?

Yes when does this never ending, unmitigated stream of " teachable moments" end? Meanwhile the youth of this country lie in blood, daily hunted down like animals. It is enough to make you weep.

Mr. Christie had his chance and FAILED, it is time for him to shut up and leave office. He will never leave of his own volition so it is up to the Bahamian people to vote his incompetent administration out. He failed , it is time to fire him and try someone new.

"Five masked men with handguns", how many handguns are on the streets in this country? They seem as common and as easy to obtain as sand from the beach. Yet the govt. has increased the fees and drags it feet in approving a gun license for law abiding citizens. This is wrong in the face of such ubiquitous guns in the hands of thugs, law abiding citizens need these fees reduced and the process streamlined and expedited so they can protect their families in their homes.

One of those schools is NGM Major in Buckley consistently one of the most outstanding public schools in this country. There is a serious problem that the govt needs to address immediately. There are students there on a government assistance meal program, where they are provided with lunch paid for by the government. Well the govt is now late in paying the food vendor and they are no longer providing the meals. The school has now taken upon themselves to cook a meal for those children each day. This is ridiculous and shameful, the govt needs to see that this is corrected immediately! How can students study when they are hungry? Please see to it that these vendors are paid and our children provided for.

#Commissioner Greenslade said if police are able to arrest some prolific offenders, he believes there will be “no murder report this evening, none tomorrow and none in the weeks and months ahead”.

I have been saying this for a long time. The vast majority of serious crime is at the hands of maybe 100-200 prolific offenders. We need to get serious. The commissioner needs on his desk the names of the 100 most wanted profiled thugs in this country and be relentless in taking them off the streets. If the will was there this could be done in a week! Everyday one is incarcerated strike his name off the list. If the courts release them have surveillance on them 24/7 and lock them up for even jaywalking. Make their lives living hell. This country is so small there is no where to hide, the police know who these thugs are, why do we sit like helpless victims.

And our laws need to be stiffened, some of our judges pass sentences that are far too lenient. If you commit a felony, especially so if you are a prolific offender you are incarcerated for decades not months. Judges that continue to put these thugs on the streets need to be weeded out and removed from the courts.

NHI is such an absolute farce it is hard to put into words. We can not provide the most basic level of care at our government clinics. This is my experience with Simms clinic in Long Island I went there for back pain, beautiful facilities, competent doctor but no supplies or drugs. The doctor asked the nurse one after the other for four different drugs not one of them available. These were all basic, cheap generic drugs. I laughed and asked the doctor about it and he said we order the drugs and they come late or usually not at all. They ended up giving me panadol for my pain. What a joke. They felt so embarassed I was not even charged for the visit.

My wife needed a simple test done, we wait two hours to see the doctor she orders the test, only to be told it is not available. The doctor tells us to buy it locally on the island and come back to her, we drive 30 minutes to a mini mart grocery store and buy the test for $3.09. Why the hell can this frigging clinic not have this test? Absolutely pathetic.

Eleuthera has no doctor, at all on an island 110 miles long. Let that sink in.

Another family island is staffed by a close friend, they bemoaned the lack of drugs, especially an injectable pain medication used constantly. They have it now intermittently because a second home resident who is a doctor flies in to the island to supply the clinic. And we have the the absolute gall to talk crap about NHI. Please supply these damn clinics with the most basic drugs and then move on from there.