This grossly incompetent miscreant bears great responsibility for the D- dumbing-down of thousands of young Bahamians who pass through our dysfunctional and inadequate public education system, leaving them border-line illiterate and without the means to succeed in life.

As the saying goes, a mind is a terrible thing to waste. And this wickedly wretched Hanna-Martin, with the baffling blessing of PM Davis, has been instrumental in overseeing the wasting of thousands and thousands of young minds. She, of all people, is not fit to be minister of education, and PM Davis should now know and appreciate this simple fact. Davis needs to do something here, and the sooner the better for his own political stake.

> equipment and road paving materials arrived yesterday morning in south Andros following a protest by residents on Monday about the island’s deteriorating road conditions. The Minister of Works and Family Island Affairs, Clay Sweeting, also provided updates on roadworks in Eleuthera and on Tonique Williams-Darling Highway in Nassau.

Who would want to walk a day in Clay Sweeting's shoes when he is hamstrung by the corrupt duo of Stumpy Davis and Chester the Jester from doing anything for the people until a major political crisis develops. Of course it doesn't help too that this most corrupt and incompetent PLP government has mismanaged our nation's financial affairs to the point where little money is left-over for the people's needs. Meanwhile the nests of the likes of Stumpy Davis and Chester the Jester have been greatly feathered by unjustly enriching favoured cronies and 'financial-backers'.

Not even a clean shaven face would help Sweeting's dire political predicament.

> Dr Sands stressed that the public should not have to “beg for” updates surrounding the investigation.

Sands is apparently unaware few Bahamians are begging for anything because it is now well known that "the fix" is in on the cover-up of the details surrounding the killings and attempted killing(s) related to the "$1.5m airport bank car heist", with the leadership of both political parties (PLP and FNM) participating in the cover-up for their own very misguided reasons that are not at all aligned with the interests of our country and its people.

Comments were blocked to the following article in today's Tribune with no explanation for why JoBeth was never charged, found guilty and locked-up for a similar crime she committed a while back when she very deliberately attempted to run over a police officer with her car. And her attempted homicide using her vehicle was captured on video by three or four bystanders that went viral all over the internet at the time.

By pavel bailey

#Tribune Staff Reporter

#pbailey@tribunemedia.net

#A MAN was granted bail yesterday after he allegedly threatened to run a woman over with his car in Fox Hill last week.

#Senior Magistrate Anishka Pennerman arraigned Ravano Lightbourne, 35, on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon.

#Lightbourne after a verbal alteration allegedly assaulted Parraneka Davis with a car on Fox Hill Road South on August 16.

#The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge. With the prosecution raising no objection, Lightbourne’s bail was set at $2,500 with one or two sureties.

#Lightbourne’s trial begins on October 31.

10 acres on New Providence. Seriously!!

This project needs to be immediately halted. Land does not grow on trees!

There should be a public outcry for a full blown investigation of the corrupt activities at the highest levels of the Dept. of Town Planning involving elected senior government officials. Such an investigation is long past due, and we are running out of land for many more important things that the Bahamian people are in desperate need of.

Hanna-Martin and roughly 75% of those employed by the ministry of education (including Belinder Wilson) need to be given their walking papers. They have all proven themselves to be detrimental to the quality of education received by students who enroll in our nation's public education system. And they all constitute a major impediment to any changes for the better. The door needs to be opened wide, very wide, to foreign qualified teachers. The grave harm done by Pindling and Loftus Roker to our education system in the early 1970s, cannot be undone in any other way.

Bottomline: We desperately need asap the best qualified teachers for our children no matter where on this planet they may hail from. And all work permit, residency and other government fees associated with their employment by a public or private school should be waived.

Slimy Fwreddy Boy, Stumpy PM Davis and Dumbo AG Pinder all need to explain to the Bahamian people how is it the corrupt Davis led PLP government can continue to slap layer upon layer of regulations on the local commercial banks at the behest of the globalist bureaucrats running the alphabet soup agencies like the imf, oecd, etc., and not expect significant increases in bank fees.

Also, Slimy Fwreddy Boy and Stumpy PM Davis know full well that the government's influence over rbc, cibc and Scotia Bank is seriously compromised and limited by its reckless and spendthrift policies. Our minister of finance, none other than Stumpy PM Davis himself, finds it necessary to constantly beg for additional credit facilities and debt covenant waivers from the larger banks controlled from Canada. This is just another reason why our useless politicians can do nothing but bloviate hot air on these most burdensome increases in bank fees.

I laughed at Slimy Fwreddy Boy saying "the internet doesn’t work here" as if he believes this most corrupt Davis led PLP government bears no responsibility for that too, not to mention so many other things plaguing the economic well-being of our nation and its people. Yup, Slimy Fwreddy Boy is indeed as certifiably stupid as they come.

> “This road break up my car over a year now,” said one protestor, “I’m without trans and I’m a lifelong PLP but I am ashamed of what’s going on in South Andros. Lundy ain’t doing nothing in South Andros.”

This protester is certainly ***not*** correct in stating that "Lundy ain’t doing nothing in South Andros.”

Lundy himself would be the first to tell anybody that he is extremely busy eating all day every day of the week with little time to do anything else when he is neither eating nor sleeping.

Can't help but wonder whether our government knows exactly who it is dealing with and whether the info below was revealed during its due diligence work on Eric Pike.

Morgan & Morgan Announces Investigation of Sale of Pike Corporation (pike)

new york, Aug. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Morgan & Morgan announces that it is investigating the proposed sale of Pike Corporation ("Pike" or the "Company") (nyse: pike) to Court Square Capital Partners in partnership with J. Eric Pike, the Company's Chairman.

On August 4, 2014, Pike and Court Square Capital Partners entered into an agreement whereby Court Square Capital Partners and J. Eric Pike, the Company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will acquire Pike. Under the terms of the agreement, Pike shareholders will receive $12.00 per share in cash for each share of Pike they own. Mr. Pike will remain as CEO in the newly formed private Company.

**Morgan & Morgan's investigation concerns whether Pike's Board of Directors breached its fiduciary duties to Pike's shareholders. Additionally, the investigation will determine whether Pike's CEO, J. Eric Pike, took advantage of his position by structuring a deal that pays an unfair price to Pike shareholders.** Pike stock traded at $12.57 in 2013 and one Wall Street analyst has a $13.00 per share price target.

Morgan & Morgan is one of the nation's largest 200 law firms. In addition to securities fraud, the firm also practices in the areas of antitrust, personal injury, consumer protection, overtime, and product liability.

Contact: Morgan & Morgan Peter Safirstein, Esq. 28 West 44th Street Suite 2001 New York, ny 10036 1-800-732-5200

source Morgan & Morgan

What exactly does our government know about Court Square Capital Partners?

We need to be wary of all Communist Chinese investments made in our country. They come with debt-trap strings attached, not to mention ideological positions culturally ingrained that could never serve the well-being of our people and geo-political interests of our small nation on the global stage. Too many other countries are now learning this the hard way.