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.

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.