GB Power's owner (Emera) has, once again, pulled the rabbit out of the hat. They have proven to be an excellent investor who have delivered a professional approach to the supply of power on Grand Bahama.

Nassau would do well to have Emera own and operate BPL.

We could learn from the Florida Keys which has a building code that has taken into account both wind and surge. Their code is much more stringent than ours. It also looks at, foundations, walls, doors, including garage doors, windows and roofing systems.

They also make contractors pass exams on the type of construction they will be doing. This includes roofing systems. There is many a Bahamian contractor who does roofs but miss matches materials with the result that the roof fails.

This is not rocket science. Many of the solutions are easily available to us.

Suggest you start with the Bahamas Defence Force as they are supposed to protect our boarder. They have let over 30,000 illegals through so far.

Immigration is swamped because the Bahamas Defence Force sits back and lets the illegals in.

Western Air can handle the traffic to Abaco and Exuma.

The big problem is Bahamasair(Government jobs and votes program) is able to use the taxpayers money to put other Bahamians out of work and out of business.

Imagine if Sky and Western Air were each given an extra $30 Million a year by Government.

The Minister does not want to get involved because he knows that he is a big part of the problem as he has helped fund the destruction of Sky.

Watch out Western, the Government will be out to end you as well. They will use millions more of tax payer money to shut you down to keep the Bahamasair Government jobs and votes program going.

Mr. Pickstock is absolutely correct.

However, I fear that the Government seems to think that these cruise ports are going to save the economy, which they are not.

These ports put little or nothing into the economy. And, under the Heads of Agreement the cruise ship companies are given a 20 year tax and maybe VAT free time.

This Government must introduce these reforms or the Bahamian economy is doomed.

Same old PLP. Nothing changed, nothing new.

Banker, thank you for telling us how it really is.

I agree, if we can be so hypocritical about being a Christian nation then why can't we do the same about Sovereignty.

***"Submissions will be vetted and you will be advised by the department within five days from the date of presentation."***

This is a very good step forward. A government department that can get back to you within 5 days. WOW!!!!!

I hope the rest of the procedure will work just as fast.

Good infrastructure goes a long way to a good economy.

We need to grow up.

Agreed that he should resign. Now accept the offer and fix the roads and airports.

We badly need both of those to boost our tourist product.

46 years of independence and we are still arguing like a bunch of children to the determent of our own good.

This country will lag further behind if we don't join. How bad does it have to get before we start to do the right thing?

I guess some people must love high unemployment as it will only get worse the longer we wait to join the WTO.

Once we were the leaders with very low, if not full, employment. Today so many others have passed us down and taken our business away. In many respects, we have given, and continue to give, it away to what was once our competition.

In case no one noticed, we are no longer competition for Bermuda. We have helped make Cayman, the BVI and Turks & Caicos and they have passed us down. Indeed, those four are so far ahead we can barely see them.

None of them worry about us anymore.