These dolphins were much too weak and ill from their long period of abuse to survive simply being released into the open sea. They need appropriate medical care that might take weeks to restore their ability to survive on their own anywhere, let alone the open sea.

Davis, as both PM and minister of finance, really owes the public a full throated explanation for why his government has effectively done away with the Fiscal Responsibility Council (FRC). As Bowe rightfully points out, the FRC was intended to play a vital role in carefully scrutinising and commenting on the government's annual budget projections and actual spending.

When first established It was well recognised that the FRC had to be as independent of government as possible in order for its reported findings to receive the credibility needed both at home and abroad. Any other similarly tasked body that is directly dependent on the minister of finance or ministry of finance for selecting its members and determining its operational funding would have the effectiveness of its mission and credibility neutered to the point of having none.

PM Davis has an opportunity here to do the right thing by the Bahamian people before the Pintard led FNM opposition start jumping all over this matter as the most shining example of why the current PLP government seems to have great disdain for transparency and accountability when it comes to their stewardship over our nation's public finances.

No doubt the international lending and credit rating agencies are also carefully watching how PM Davis reacts and responds to the sensible recommendations put to him by Bowe and others who have a good grasp of the important role an independent body like the FRC has to play in providing much needed objective credibility to the government's annual budget projections and actual spending.

> The Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources said more details will be shared during a press conference on Monday.

The only additional details Bahamian taxpayers really need to know is that all costs associated with the emergency rescue and medical treatment of these poor suffering highly intelligent aquatic mammals will be billed to and borne by the very greedy and soul-lacking Damien Gomez. And if he refuses to bear the total cost, he should somehow be made to spend not less than a week in the same small water-pen without food.

Nice try Economist at deceitful reverse psychology, but you have it all so wrong.

It was a Vomit Christie led PLP government that ignored the will of the Bahamian people as expressed in the outcome of the last duly held national referendum on PLP proposed changes to the most sacrosanct citizenship provisions of our Constitution. Back then most Bahamians saw through the many deceitful nationwide tirades of intellectual disingenuous clowns like Sean McWeeney, Sr. and Rubie Nottage, with many Bahamians (men and women) being so disgusted at the PLP's hideous objectives in changing the citizenship provisions that they even refused to bother voting.

Vomit, Sean and Rubie ended up being so embarrassed by the outcome of the referendum vote that they unconstitutionally dismissed it as a mere "survey" in an effort to try save face.

You are so right. It was difficult enough finding impartial jurors. Finding an impartial sole judge would make it exponentially more difficult to obtain an impartially and fairly determined judgement which is one of the key reasons why this new legislation is fundamentally flawed and unconstitutional.

Your last sentence would be especially true in most criminal cases where a corrupt political official obtains his or her judgement from a sole judge of the same political persuasion. And you can bet these situations would more often than not arise by design.

What has and is happening here should be reported to every institution of higher learning in North America that has a marine biology centre, a veterinary school, and other similar programs concerned with the treatment of aquatic mammals.

And that moronic minion Damien Gomez fully deserves to be named and shamed internationally for only being concerning about growing his own personal pocket book rather than doing the right thing by these suffering highly intelligent mammals.

The questions asked here require forthright answers as they speak to the possibility of very serious, deliberate and material fraudulent financial reporting by senior government officials involving many millions of dollars that have not been transparently accounted for.

All right thinking Bahamians should be screaming for a better public education system and for their constitutional rights to be fully preserved and not in any way watered-down by the granting of unconstitutional choices that should never be allowed to exist.

And all judges who are lazy and pompous really need to take a serious look at themselves in the mirror because the next notch down on this slippery unconstitutional rope is to do away with our judicial system altogether and allow an authoritarian dictator to be the decider of who is innocent or guilty of whatever in our society.

There cannot be two standards of justice in our constitutional democracy. The blindness of Lady Justice demands the power to pass judgement on any matter determining one's right to freedom not rest with a sole judge who may not bear any reasonable semblance to the defendants own true peers in our society.

Fully agree; especially in the case of this brain-dead idiot Munroe.