"Senator Forbes-Smith said local officials have asked the US Coast Guard and the United Nations' Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, to help by providing experts in logistics, warehouse management and distribution.

#"We believe this will greatly improve the NEMA-GB operation and the process of receiving and distributing aid on our island even more efficiently," she said."

Good job Senator Forbes-Smith. You are doing the right thing by bringing in experts to assist. Our NEMA have shown themselves to be unable to handle this alone.

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.