Action speaks louder than words. All I hear out of this clown are words, empty words.

Remember that **"empty vessels make the most noise"**.

Where is your plan to change our society? Attitudes have to change to stop this behavior.

Priests are supposed to be equipped to counsel people; so where is the plan?

Hi Tal, it is owned by Lyndon Gardner. His companies also provide maintenance services, ground handling etc. for other airlines. He appears to have been able to acquire favouable licenses from various TI Government administrations which have helped solidify his position.

I stand corrected, it was a reminder that was sent out in 2017.

**We have known about this deadline since 2017**. So we wait till the last minute to enter into a contract for them.
**Incompetence** as no one is accountable. Who cares as we the tax payer will pay for their **negligence.**

**please shut this blood sucking airline "bahamasair" down.**

Now if we can only get the Members of Parliament to implement your suggestions this country would take off.

Thank you for your comments, they are a very valuable addition to these blogs.

I agree with much of what you say but must disagree about our education.

Countries like the UK have a high nationwide percentage of students who have a grade 'C' or above in at least 5 meaningful (i.e Religious Knowledge does not count) GCSE subjects. We don't even come close

I agree about the salaries and our local attitude that you don't pay a young person what they are worth. You need foreign investment to cause that and we are doing our best not to have any foreigners come in and compete with us.

Look at Cayman where they are having more luck in retaining their youth. But, they have also got a lot of foreign investment and a very low unemployment. Got to ask if the two don't go hand in hand.

Thank you for speaking out. We need more of our young to do so.

Did you attend a private school or a public school?

No surprise here, the Civil Service is packed with incompetents, hired for their political connections and loyalty rather than their ability. They are not capable of creative thinking or even working efficiently, they weren't hired for that. They are there to sit at a desk and collect a pay check.

As a society, we’ve done miserably in placing fear in the minds of criminals. Most hardened criminals in our country are not afraid of the police and believe they could beat the court system,” Bishop Hall said.

“…We must match this culture of death with a national approach where the fear of crime by the public will be outdistanced by the fear to commit crime by criminals...We need to send a strong message that if you do the crime, you will do the time.”

Talk about playing the blame game. Crime is a result of society. Criminals everywhere in the world never think that they will get caught. You can hang, electrocute etc. it makes no difference. Read all the studies.

It is a matter of fixing society. Yes, that is something that the church should be taking the lead in. The churches should be spending the collections on the community instead of buying fancy cars, big houses and first class tickets so that the Rev can live in the lap of luxury while members of the community suffer leading some to crime.

Thank you Sir Franklyn, we do need to support the Minister of Finance and resist the spending.

It may not be popular as we always want a no pain solution. I remember the December 1991 Budget and how unpopular the then Minister was.

Raising a nation is not the responsibility of the Business sector.

We need to stop making excuses for our substandard dumbed down education system.

To many of us have children and leave it up to the state to raise them. We need to point the finger at our culture and change it.

The rest of the world has passed us down and we are heading to "Haiti" status.