LOL. Me thinks you're either a victim of having watched "Roots" way too many times during the "Poodling" era or just simply choose to believe all of the ChiCom propaganda being spread throughout our nation today with great help from our own corrupt politicians and their favoured crony capitalists.

This US visa risk issue over Cuban workers is just for openers. Next up is going to be our seriously misguided continuing relationship with the Communist Chinese. And things will certainly not go well for our corrupt politicians once the US turns that spot light on them. Unfortunately, the same applies for all Bahamians given that we are the voters who elected them to govern us. The US intelligence agencies no doubt have awfully thick dossiers on members of the ruling political elite in our country, including their favoured cronies and financial-backers.

And thanks to Elon Musk's highly skilled team of technologists assigned to DOGE who can write data base comparison algorithms on the fly, the US government likely now has details of every Bahamian born on US soil during the last 100 years who has never filed a US Federal income tax return. This list no doubt even includes those Bahamians born on US soil who have since officially renounced their US citizenship in the hope that their failure to pay US income taxes owed would never be detected. Many high net worth individuals among the ruling political elite and their cronies and financial-backers who are found to owe significant back taxes and penalties to the IRS may have great difficulty travelling to the US or doing business with persons in the US going forward. Yup, what's coming down the pike is not going to be pretty for many Bahamians.

Communist China is by far the most evil nation on our planet when it comes to the abuse of human rights, attacks on ethnic groups, and the persecution of Christians, Islamists, etc. What they've done to the African people over last three decades in the course of exploiting the natural resources of their countries using slave labour of the most cruel kind is nothing short of an abomination! The U.S. look like saints in their global exploits compared to the Communist Chinese.

You obviously have no real appreciation or understanding for just how bad things have become in recent decades in Canada, the U.K., most European countries, most Latin American countries, and most African countries; not to mention Australia and New Zealand. At least the U.S. is now trying to clean up its act under an intended disruptive new administration elected by the majority of its people. If only we had that happen in The Bahamas! And you can be rest assured "In God We Trust" won't be erased from the U.S. currency any time soon.

And we all know how quick Davis is whenever it comes to him opting to jump on a plane to get first class medical treatment abroad on advice from his daughter who happens to be a medical doctor living and working in the U.S. Yup, coward Davis is afraid to receive any kind of serious medical treatment in The Bahamas. Only truly pathetic PM could fear the quality and standards of his own nation's healthcare system, a system that his own PLP administration has responsibility for governing.

> US officials have claimed that the medical missions are “forced” labour, saying the programme enriches the Cuban regime while depriving ordinary Cubans of the medical care they desperately need at home.

BINGO!

For decades now our corrupt and incompetent politicians and their favoured cronies have focused their efforts on greatly and unjustly enriching themselves while the quality of life and standard of living for the vast majority of Bahamians have plummeted to all time lows. This has resulted in generations of well educated young Bahamians, who were fortunate enough to obtain advanced degrees from some of the finest universities and colleges abroad, deciding not to return home to join and strengthen the Bahamian workforce.

Only the third rate law students with their LLB degree in hand seem to want to join the ranks of our grossly over-lawyered Bahamian legal profession that is tarnished by much nepotism. Young bright Bahamian engineers, medical doctors, nurses, etc., are not inclined to return home because they (and their parents) see no real social and economic opportunities and benefits for them in doing so. Even Davis's own daughter, who is a medical doctor in the U.S., is a shining example of this harsh reality.

Yup, the brain-drain of our nation is one of the more costly, if not the most costly, outcome of the decades of waste, fraud, and abuse inflicted on our nation by the corrupt and incompetent ruling political elite, which includes Davis himself as a shining example.

And crooked and incompetent politicians are incentivized to put in place bad policies that are intended to result in the gross mismanagement of just about everything under the government's control in order to justify corrupt Public-Private-Partnerships of every kind that only serve to exacerbate the very great divide between the few super wealthy "HAVES" and many abject poor "have nots".

I can assure you my political face is neither PLP nor FNM. For decades now the leadership of both of these political parties has been financially controlled by an elitist group of Bahamians who have amassed their great wealth for the most part by bribing corrupt senior government officials, including the politicians they select and bank roll for us to vote for come election time. This will continue until we have either serious campaign finance reform or become a failed state like Haiti where only the most corrupt and wealthy few are not enslaved and victims of barely survivable living conditions.

And without a serious Freedom of Information Act, our corrupt, incompetent and most greedy politicians will continue to be emboldened to seize every opportunity they can to line their own pockets by selling the best our country has to offer to equally greedy and corrupt foreign investors, including the ChiComs, by way of devious and deceitful schemes loaded with ridiculously generous concessions that don't leave a morsel on the table for the vast majority of Bahamians.

Public-Private-Partnerships, our so called "Sovereign Wealth Fund" and a recently proposed new "National Investment Fund", are all designed to line the pockets of the wealthy few through the sale of our nation's most valuable and scarce assets. These Partnerships and Funds are intended to unjustly enrich a select few, especially if the likes of Tony Ferguson, Snake and Sebas Bastian are in any way involved in these types of most shady deals.

I'm not sure why you think my second post above accuses any one of anything or somehow endorses shopping at Super Value. It was intended to sensitize readers to the very real risks associated with eggs not produced, transported or stored in a manner that is safe for eventual public consumption.

It is a well established fact that dairy products as a food group, i.e., eggs, milk, cheese, etc., are prone to causing serious bouts of food poisoning if not produced, transported, and stored in a way that respects the safety and well-being of the eventual consumer. And not everyone has a good enough nose all the time to detect when dairy products may be seriously "off" and dangerous to consume.

Countries without food safety and/or health inspectors do, as a matter of fact, have higher fatality rates from food poisoning incidents among the more vulnerable in their society, like the very young or the very elderly.

You are free to respect whomever you wish whether they deserve it or not. But the nasty, evil, authoritarian, tyrannical and incompetent Minnis will never be able to divorce himself from his grave mishandling of both the aftermath of the Hurricane Dorian disaster and the COVID-19 pandemic. Too many Bahamians and a great number of Haitians lost their lives because of this man.

And then there is the $200+ million of our nation's scarce financial resources that he squandered on purchasing the Lucayan Hotel property from his wealthy ChiCom friends before proceeding to embark on a failed renovation project by handing out heavily padded contracts to his cronies and financial-backers. Tyrant Minnis has no shame or remorse for all the harm he has done to so many.

I suspect If the FNM party allows him to run on the FNM ticket in the next general election, a lot of voters like me will not vote for the FNM candidate running in their constituency.