Just fantastic! What an achievement in rising to the occasion and setting a national record for good measure. So proud to see the bahamian flag as he celebrated on the track in Beijing.

Oh how corruption is endemic in this country. Who in the FNM will condemn this abuse of power? This is a serious conflict of interest and if Dr. Minnis is a man of integrity he should resign for the good of the party and the country. Of course this will not happen, and is why the FNM is likely to lose the next election again as disenfranchised FNM's continue to defect to the DNA. Stop saying that the PLP is corrupt, we know they are even worse than the FNM, but if you are guilty of such a serious conflict of interest do the honorable thing and just leave. Until there is true accountability and we find politicians who are real statesman who put the common good above their own greedy self- interest this country will continue to deteriorate. The FNM and PLP are slowly but surely destroying this country.

How about a psych test for these delusional, hypocritical, narcissistic, corrupt members of parliament who are destroying our beloved country?

Minister Mitchell in his speech conducts himself more like a street thug than a statesman, it is really quite embarrassing and unbecoming in a cabinet minister, as such a narcissist who takes every slight as a horrific personal insult he is wholly ill-suited to his job of diplomacy, and the country's reputation suffers terribly for it.

It is counterintuitive but a mandated profit is required and standard in an industry where a company has significant market power as cable does in tv services. Otherwise they could deliberately underprice their service to prevent other companies from entering into the market. It is called price dumping. So a mandated profit actually encourages competition. The fact that cable has not had competition despite the fact that their monopoly ended five years ago is testament to how unprofitable basic tv is and why they deserve their price increase and then some. Content providers make a lot more profit in the current environment than service providers. So your argument is false. Cable is not gouging the public as you erroneously say. Again all else you say about cable might be true but supfurflous to this point.

What you have said is irrelevant to your erroneous statement that cable is gouging the public on its basic service. Which part of cable earning a profit margin of less than the mandated 10.86% on basic do you not understand? This has been independently verified by external auditors and accepted by URCA. The fact is that by earning less than the mandated 10.86% on basic cable is itself being gouged! Save your erroneous populace rhetoric for people without access to intelligence and facts!

You get what you pay for. It is true that basic programming leaves a lot to be desired, but what do you expect when the cost has not increased one cent in over 20 years! All the while the expenses associated with providing this service have increased drastically. And you say cable is gouging its customers - absolute nonsense. Cable is earning less than the mandated rate of return of 10.86% on basic. So URCA in not granting a price increase is forcing cable to be in violation of its own rules - utter nonsense again. If the price were increased then cable would be able to provide a better product and service. And the business license fees and URCA fees cable pays are 5.8 million a year! That is outrageous on annual revenue of 150 million and a net income of only 11.3million. And this is what you call gouging! In a real way cable is really only working to pay salaries and taxes, it's net income could and should be much higher if it were regulated fairly. It would be helpful if your argument were supported by the facts but it is not, the truth is cable deserves every cent of this increase and then some.

Gordon Craig is not interested in transparency, he is interested in protecting Rubis potentially to the detriment of the health of the public. He was proud to say the report on the leak at marathon done by black and vetch was outdated and that Rubis had hired Arcadis to do another report on the air and water quality in marathon. He shared this with the government but refused to release the report to the public. If he cared about transparency and the health of our citizens why the secrecy? Bahamians should boycott Rubis until they become more forthcoming and release this report. Of course it will never happen as Rubis is being sued by cable bahamas for $15 million in regard to this leak. So Gordon Craig is more concernd about profits than the truth and the health of bahamians. And we need a debate as to whether it is appropriate for Rubis to be leading this investigation of another potential leak. This investigation should be lead by the competent government regulator.

It is sickening in this country how the the rich politically connected white collar criminals are coddled and protected from prosecution. Yet the poor black young man who is found with a joint is prosecuted and sent to fox hill. Our prison is full of poor uneducated black men many of whom committed far less serious crimes that this bribe taking traitor who the attorney General continues to cloak. In the United states this criminal would be subject to a public walk of shame in hand cuffs to demonstrate no one is above the law. Our attorney General should be ashamed of herself, she refuses to even name this traitor much less prosecute them, the hard work has already been done by the U.S. authorities, there is a confession by Alstom. The injustice in the country and particularly with this corrupt PLP reeks to high heaven.

Mr. Nottage seems to have great difficulty with the English language, it is clear that as minister of national security he did not know how many murders have been committed in the past five years. If he did know then he intentionally mislead the house. Either way it shows how incompetent he is, and the need to have him replaced. We have such inadequate cabinet ministers it is farcical and depressing, no wonder this country is in the complete mess it is.