Some of you posting here do not fully appreciate the extent to which the ChiComs who now effectively control our government policies will be influencing whatever changes occur to our laws on cannabis use.

There is no recreational or medical cannabis market in Communist China. Under the PRC Criminal Law, cannabis is legally classified as being equivalent to heroin, opium, morphine, and cocaine.

Take comfort though that the ChiComs will not mind you smoking hemp in the Bahamas which is a species of the cannabis plant that contains very little THC. You would of course have a great difficulty getting high while smoking hemp. A head ache is the much more likely result. LOL

Our corrupt political ruling class is not the least bit concerned about our country being the latest victim of the debt trap diplomacy that the leaders of Communist China (the ChiComs) have used to seize control of many other nations, especially financially strapped nations in Africa, Latin America and more recently the Caribbean.

It was Hubert Ingraham who invited the ChiComs to our shores back in 1992 when he foolishly took the bait of having the ChiComs build us a national sports stadium in exchange for, among other things, severing diplomatic ties with Taiwan and instead establish diplomatic relations with Communist China.

Since 1992 the leadership of the ChiComs in Beijing have wasted no time in securing their dominion over us by capitalising on the pervasive and incessant corruption within our political ruling class that has left our nation with a mountain of unsustainable national debt and no ability to continue borrowing in the international debt markets. Having to depend on borrowings from the racist Chinese Communist regime led by the very cunning and exploitative Chairman Xi Jinping speaks volumes to how financially destitute and desperate our nation has become under this most corrupt and incompetent Davis led PLP government.

This hospital project will do little for most of the Bahamian people when all is said and done. Only the evil ChiComs and our corrupt politicians who have sold our sovereignty to them stand to be greatly enriched from its construction.

And sometime soon the American people are going to wake to the grave and existential national security threat our ChiCom controlled nation presents to the U.S. at which time the U.S government may have little choice but to treat us as they do Cuba. That of course would deal a death blow to our tourist industry.

I smell a corrupt PM who, using his dumbo AG Pinder as his pied piper of choice on all matters relating to "juicy" BPL contracts, is paving the way for the Bahamian people to be bitten by a poisonous Snake. And lying in wait with their already selected foreign partners are the other greedy and financially interested local scoundrels who are also licking their chops at the prospect of feasting on the wealthier electricity consumers using an income based rate structure.

I would encourage all persons deeply concerned about the disastrous consequences to flow from the new Electricity and Natural Gas Bills to read Claude Hanna's excellent letter to the Editor of The Tribune that was published in a late April.

The letter concisely addresses the unconstitutional, national security and many other most serious issues that these two new statutes will expose and subject our nation and its people to.

The dire consequences Bahamians will face from the enactment of these two bills should deservedly be politically owned and worn around the neck of every current sitting PLP member of parliament and all future candidates for a PLP seat in parliament.

Opposition leader Pintard and the entire leadership apparatus of the FNM party should be taking immediate appropriate steps to publicly announce their intent to fully repeal the two statutes for constitutional and national security reasons, not to mention the frightening impact of extremely high costs for electricity consumers, especially those deemed to be wealthier. This should be one of the first acts of Pintard and his cabinet if the FNM is successful in winning a controlling majority of seats in the next general election.

No private investor supportive of the passage of these egregious statutes for self-gain at great cost to the Bahamian people should be allowed to reap and enjoy the huge windfall profits they so eagerly await to receive while leaving the Bahamian taxpayers on the hook for most if not all of BPL's debts amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. Pintard needs to get off of his duff and make this unequivocally known to all concerned, especially Bahamian voters.

I smell a corrupt PM who, using his dumbo AG Pinder as his pied piper of choice on all matters relating to "juicy" BPL contracts, is paving the way for the Bahamian people to be bitten by a poisonous Snake so that the other greedy and financially interested local scoundrels can feast on the wealthier electricity consumers with their foreign partners already lying in wait.

LMAO. Every Tom, Dick and Harry who has lived in our country knows full well that our public sector procurement laws and procedures are inadequate and lacking in way too many respects and not enforced. Yet Simple Simon would have us all believe there is no systemic and pervasive wheeling and dealing behind the scenes by cabinet ministers to determine who should benefit from often heavily padded government contracts of significant value, especially during the year or so before a national election.

And every Sally, Jane and Sue knows Simple Simon is unprincipled and dishonest to his very core which explains his willingness to dutifully carry the rank water of our minister of finance whenever PM Davis tells him he must do so, or else!

Justice delayed is justice denied. The rightful beneficiaries of this pension plan and their families have been royally screwed by our corrupt legal system and judges beholden to their political paymasters and others.

There are too many a crooked lawyers only too willing to bend or skirt the law to continue drawing fees for as long as possible while at the same time offering protection to those likely guilty of activities tantamount to theft and/or fraud.

Truly a sad situation here for the pension plan's beneficiaries and their families who have had to watch over many years the wrongful depletion of their pension entitlement.

Government workers are going to find themselves in a similar situation with respect to their civil service pension benefits as a result of the plans having effectively been robbed by successive governments not properly funding them and now being financially unable to do so. Same goes for private sector workers who are still hoping to receive their retirement benefits from our national insurance scheme which is now seriously unfunded.

At least this woman was charged for her assault of a police officer.

Jobeth Davis on the other hand was never charged for having very deliberately attempted to cause serious bodily harm or death to a police officer by running him over with her car.

And the police commissioner at the time simply refused to press charges against the ill-tempered Jobeth notwithstanding the irrefutable video evidence taken by several different eye witnesses to the incident.

The videos went viral over the internet shortly after the incident. The police officer concerned did not even have to initiate charges himself in this incident although many suspect he was fearful of losing his job had he done so.

Our nation should continue to have a zero tolerance policy to illegal drugs (including cannabis) similar to the one many sensible nations have. During the Pindling sponsored drug trafficking era, when in the 1980s we lost nearly two generations of young Bahamians to the dreadfully debilitating and mind frying effects of wide spread drug addiction, the great precursor was unchecked heavy recreational use of cannabis by a wide swath of young people..

Fully agree. Government should have long ago required that a comprehensive and up to date list of properly described price controlled items, clearing showing their prices, not only be posted at all times in an easily accessible place, but also **very visibly displayed** right in the entrance area to each and every food and grocery store location licensed to sell food to the public on a retail basis. And more frequent and regular inspections must be done at all locations to ensure this is indeed being done by the store owner(s).

I would encourage all persons deeply concerned about the disastrous consequences to flow from the new Electricity and Natural Gas Bills to read Claude Hanna's excellent letter to the Editor of The Tribune that was published in a late April.

The letter concisely addresses the unconstitutional, national security and many other most serious issues that these two new statutes will expose and subject our nation and its people to. The dire consequences Bahamians will experience from the enactment of these two bills should deservedly be fully owned and worn around the neck of every current sitting PLP member of parliament and all future candidates for a PLP seat in parliament.

Opposition leader Pintard and the entire leadership apparatus of the FNM party should be taking immediate appropriate steps to publicly announce their intent to fully repeal these two new frightening statutes for constitutional and national security reasons as one of their first acts if successful in winning a controlling majority of parliamentary seats in the next general election.

No private investor supportive of the passage of these egregious statutes for self-gain at great cost to the Bahamian people should be allowed to reap and enjoy the huge windfall profits they so eagerly await to receive while leaving the Bahamian taxpayers on the hook for most if not all of BPL's debts amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. Pintard needs to get off of his duff and make this unequivocally known to all concerned, especially Bahamian voters.

I smell both a PM and AG only too willing to let the Bahamian people be bitten by a most poisonous Snake among the other greedy financially interested local scoundrels and their foreign partners now lying in wait.

This is an excellent letter that concisely addresses the unconstitutional, national security and other most serious issues that this new Electricity legislation will unwisely subject our nation to. The dire consequences to come from its enactment will be fully owned and worn around the neck of every current PLP member of parliament and all future PLP candidates for a seat in parliament.

Opposition leader Pintard and the entire leadership apparatus of the FNM party should be taking appropriate steps to immediately publicly announce their intent to fully repeal this most dangerous new Electricity legislation as one of their first acts if successful in winning a controlling majority of parliamentary seats in the next general election.

Thank you Claude Hanna for your well written letter.