***"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.

They don't have to because they have a very high ratio of testing and have a good grip on the spred of the virus. Look at the ratios.

Last week Cayman Islands had 45,000 test available at cost.

They have 65,000 people and 100,000 tests for themselves in addition to ones for sale.

How can the PM expect us, the people, to take all his long winded speeches on the seriousness for the lockdown when he doesn't take COVID 19 seriously himself?

We need some real leadership to deal with this crisis.

We need people who understand how to handle COVID 19 and , like Germany, Isreal, Iceland, understand that testing combined with a lockdown is the only way to defeat it.

You make a lot of sense.