Makes sense.

And let us not forget the $100 million that goes missing out of the $00 million spent on health.

Bahamasair. Something does not smell right.

How does an airline that is over $500 million in the red borrow $100 million for new aircraft? May be a Government guarantee which means another $100 million to add to the national debt.

Well said.

When the only argument a person can find is to say he is not for intelligent and more wealthy people means that he has no plan because they will see through it.

He will rely on the grade"D's" to vote him in because they won't ask any questions and don't know enough to query anything.

Now there is a nation builder for you.

" I’ve said, over and repeatedly, that no foreign direct investment (FDI) is coming at this time because they don’t want to deal with this government."

Mr. McCartney is correct.

No legitimate FDI, that is for sure. Proper bidding, good transparency laws and the practice of transparency and The Bahamas would have some very good FDI, not to mention less unemployment.

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.