The problem is Dr Dahl Reghis. She is scared of testing so we don't really know what is happening until the virus has spread.
Cayman has tested over 38% of its population and we have tested only 0.62%. Bermuda, Barbados, Jamaica, Dominica, Turks & Caicos, St Kitts, St Lucia, the BVI, and the list goes on, are all ahead of The Bahamas in testing.in testing.

The Bahamas is now 142, in testing, in the world having dropped each week from 123. Cayman is 4.

We have no idea what is going on which is why the PM is shutting down the beaches and parks. He hasn't got a clue where the pocket of COVID-19 are.

"He argued that the Government’s failure to mandate joint venture partnerships between Bahamian contractors, and their foreign counterparts and developers, meant that the necessary skills and knowledge needed to participate in work on major foreign direct investment (FDI) was not being transferred to locals."

JV won't do it. Tha Bahamians will just "tag along" and not learn anything much. A JV where Bahamians also work abroard and have to pull their own weight would work. Then when the JV has something going on in The Bahamas there will be more qualified Bahamians.

**"They need to save Bahamian workers, and not contract workers, especially at this time. They’re not looking into what is happening at these properties."**

Will Mr. Beckford work for less salary doing the same job?

All businesses are suffereing from a very limited cash flow but need to maintain the property as best they can.

We can't keep running to government to force this business or that to do something beccause we want it. You are not a child Mr. Beckford. Go and negotiate with the hotel or start your own business.
The world is changing and the COVID-19 wave is washing over our shores as well, the government can't stop the wave.

Well they are way ahead of Grand Bahama International Airport.

All of Grand Bahama is made to suffer at the hands of Hutchison.

It will have to go to the Ethics Committee means she will delay it.

Maybe when she goes to buy a car we should create a Car Ethics Committee to see if it is safe for her to drive.

This woman is such a waste of time.

Agreed, Cayman has the 4th heighest testing per capiter in the world. Bermuda is 12th.

The Bahamas is way down in the bottom half at 131st.

I think that you will find that Dr. Dahl-Regis put a stop to an order of 10,000 tests because she felt that they were too expensive. Yet Bahamasair can burn through $10 million in 3 months.

Guess bahamaair 600 or 700 staff more important tha the lives of 390,000 Bahamians.

It is the FDI business investor that we need.

Not only those like Atlantis, but also the businesses like Buckeye, PharmaChem, GB Shipyard, Bradford Marine, Polymers, etc. all of which invested tens of millions of dollars and are the ones who provide the only real employment in Grand Bahama.

In addition, these foreigners all pay well and provide good benefits.

But you will see that these are industries that came when we were less xenaphobic than we are today.

Very good Dr. Rodgers. Agree completely. It is time that we, as a people, grew up and joined the rest of the world. It is much more difficult to do business in The Bahamas compared to other countries.

We are scared of change insted of imprasing it and moveing forward. The rest of the world is leaving us behind.

Insted of folowing the Cayman Island,s to success and low unemployment, we are folowing Haiti, to failure and high unemployment.

Every other airline in the world has been laying off staff, even the ones owned by governments.

I did not see anything about layoffs for an airline that is already overstaffed and, as correctly stated above, has NEVER made money.

Cooper just wants us tax payers to keep paying. This crazy.

Shut Bahamasair down it is not vital to our ifrastructure, indeed it is holding back our infrastructure becuase we spend money on Bahamasair rather than the ifrastrcture that the islands badly need.