The failed referendum has merely meant that certain large multi-nationals will not consider investing here. It may have played a small part.

Governments inability to get the wastage (PHA $100 million a year, Bahamasair $30+ million a year, zns, baic, bamsi, and so on....over $200 million of corruption.

Add to that the fact that it is nearly impossible to start a business in The Bahamas, takes forever to do a land transaction, immigration keeps out the necessary skilled labour while the Defence force let's in tens of thousands of Haitians.....now those are some reasons for a downgrade.

This attitude about women is pathetic.

The UK may be about to make another woman prime minister (Thatcher being the first), Germany is run by a woman, the US is about to have its first woman candidate confirmed by a major political party (Shirley Chisholm was the first woman candidate that I know of), India has had a woman prime minister, as has Israel, Canada, Australia, Chile, Jamaica, Argentina (2 women leaders already), South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan; to mention a few.

When will we mature as a people?

If the "big red bus" wins with Minnis it will roll over the Bahamian economy into the abyss of massive poverty.

Move it to Freeport and build a proper campus. COB Freeport has tens of acres doing nothing.

**“Leadership that will root out the crime that is infecting our communities, and leadership that will do the hard work to get our economy growing again,” Dr Minnis said.
“The Bahamian people deserve a government that will lead it to a more prosperous future, rather than a government that continues to run it into the ground. The FNM will provide real leadership for the Bahamian people that they desperately need and ought to have.”**

May we have your plan for how you are going to root out crime? How do you plan to get the economy going?

If you don't give us this then you are no better than the PLP in 2012.

When six MP's are disgruntled you have a leadership problem not an MP problem.

On several occasions I have driven down the main road by the plant. It stinks.

Same stink smell you used to get by the pumping station near the Eastern Parade on East Bay Street in Nassau. Mr. Hepburn has a point.

That sounds about right. The modern legal code would need to include immigration to allow the necessary expertise in.

That will upset the masses. Mind you they would soon find that there were more jobs available and better paying ones at that.

no court actions would have occurred if the government had followed the law.

The blame lies squarely at the feet of the government.

I don't know about Roc with Doc. Perry would put a "Soc in Doc" mouth right from the get go ......all we would hear would be Perry and Bran.....Minnis eyes wide open and sock firmly in mouth.