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.

Obtaining 9 megawatts, in containers, is not a problem. There are plenty of 2 megawatt machines, that are capable of operating in parallel, available in the US which should have been rented, imported and hooked up within 48 hours.

The General Manager of BPL should have dealt with this and failing him the Permanent Secretary (the Civil Service are the professionals who run this Country) responsible should have dealt with this.

They both should be dismissed.

We need to bring in people, even if they are foreign, who know what they are doing to clean this mess up.

There is no reason for delays other than the competence of the Air Traffic Controllers.

There are many single runways airports around the world and they run tens of millions of passenger through each year.

Get some professional Air Traffic Controllers please.

Mr. Beckles is correct. Business likes certainty and they plan purchases and sales projections based on the current market or on what they know is going to happen. If the Government is going to make changes then they must let business several months in advance.

But now that the VAT department is involved again that may slow things down. When they were involved a couple of years ago they slowed the whole process down.

Good points Mr. Symonette.

I am pleased to see that finally something is going to get done. The special interest group known as the "Conveyancing Lawyers" have a strangle hold on the conveyancing market and are the reason that land transactions take so long and cost so much.

Registered Land would enable land sales to happen quickly and greatly help move the economy forward.

I hope that Mrs. Smith is successful where others have failed.

The days of the "bush" mechanic are fast coming to a close.

Passing Religious Knowledge in school will not a mechanic make.

BGCSE's at grade "c" and above are required.

Need to have a good knowledge of English Comprehension, Math, and Computer, as a minimum, to be a mechanic in the coming years.

Those who feel that they should have got the posts will now need to up their game and show everyone how much better they are. Alternatively, they can go into private practice and beat up, if they can, on these new foreign appointees in court.

Competition is healthy, we can't expect to get an appointment just because we are Bahamian.

Look to the UK where their current head of the Bank of England is a Canadian. Just because you are a UK citizen does not mean you get the job.

Welcome to the real world.

Good comment. Agree completely.
These unions are killing our economy.