"When asked by The Tribune whether testing is being done and whether the new case had any link to any of the prior cases, Mr Thompson said he would leave the latter to health professionals to address."

You are the Misister of Grand Bahama and you don't know if we are testing?

So you don't care to find out in the best interests of the health of Grand Bahamians?

Maybe we should find a Minister who cares about Grand Bahamains.

So a few days ago the Tribue reported how the Cayman Islands had obtained 200,000 test kits form South Korea and that they were keeping 100,000 for themselves and had shipped 35,000 to Bermuda, 20,000 to Barbados and had a further 45,000 available to sell "at cost".

No we are told how hard it is to get tests and need to grovel to get them.

Something smells.

"Once again, this is a waste of the precious testing kits."
It is not a waste, don't you see that is exactly what everyone else in the world is doing? You need to watch the international news coverage and educate yourself on this.

Also, the kits are only precious because The Bahamas has not taken the offer of Cayman to buy up to 45,000 kits at cost.

"Otherwise people should know if they're sick to stay home and quarantine themselves."
People can be sick and not know it for the first 2 to 3 days and go around infecting several more before thye feel sick. Only testing will find that. That is why the rest of the world is testing in an effort to stop the spred.

***"The approval issued was for the delivery of the cargo only. The whole world is aggressively competing for test kits – they are very hard to obtain. As Minister of Health, I thought this was a matter of urgency."***

So what happened to the 45,000 that the Cayman Islands were offering at cost??????

We let you flaunt our Emergency COVID 19 orders for 2,500???

Something definetly smells very bad.

Testing is the only way to go.

You can't open the economy if you don't know who is sick from who is not.

Right now we don't have a clue. That's why they government is being so evasive in its so called plans to open up.

Agreed, well said.

Another bandaid approach that will cost the people of The Bahamas tens of millions of dollars and not realize any real revenue.

He wants the Bahamian taxpayer to pay for a jobs program in Freeport.

Agreed, we must test more.

Six weeks too late!

Government has failed everyone in The Bahamas by not having testing in place.

They had the examples of Germany, Israel and Iceland to follow.

Lockdowns are useless without testing.

Why are we not testing?

This is terrible. All this lockdown is a waste of time if we don't test.

There are not that many people on many of the islands and yet we don't test.

This make us look like a very backward third world country.