It is the governing bodies of yesterday who started this cycle of inefficiency and slackness that causes the youth to leave. Because said governing forces have not gone under any major reform from the 90s.

As much as I would like the advancement of infrastructure in this country, this proposal just give the SOE of BPL an excuse not be responsible in producing enough power..

That is the same issue that is happening WSC in South Eleuthera, a National Water Corporation that relies on a private vendor for its water. In reality it results in the Nationalized Company paying more.

Their has to be higher than normal fees associated with our airspace in order to ensure equipment, facilities, and training necessary for us to take over our airspace can be payed for.

The airlines re going to have to get accustomed to the extra fees they have managed to avoid for the past 50+ years.

So True Lmao :D

Plane and Car manufacturers have been sued many times for the misuse of their product. Especially when it comes to health and safety. Companies can be held liable if they don't properly ensure the use of their products.

What I don't get is why are you arguing against this case, Are you in favour of the loose restrictions on guns? Do you think that America and the US government shouldn't be responsible on cracking down on smugglers operations.

This is more than a blame game but an action against the ease of smugglers operations, whereas your argument offers no solution to fight gun menace.
Do we just hope bad guy stop being bad? or do we make any effort of their harder!

Do you realize this country is spending millions on the easy flow of illicit drugs, weapons. ammunition, poachers, and illegal immigrants.

Now let me ask how do we stop illegals from coming to our shores do we continue to chase the bad actors locally or do you fix the problem in Haiti.
Wonder which is more effective?

I'm not surprised about the presences and ideas of "Ameriboos" in the Bahamas, but this is really taking the cake. Why would the USA want a island right next to it for any purpose.

It doesn't really help them militarily, it confuses the immigration situation, and doesn't eliminate the problems that plagued GB development in the first place.

If they want a military base they can just ask to build a new one or expand the one they have already in this country.
Secondly, it will stir up the immigration situation evermore in this archipelago. Instead of boats trying to make their way west they'll be doing all types of funny matters to get up the chain. It would give the US coast Guard a bigger job then they have now which I doubt they want. The rest of the Bahamas would be a mess. Evermore, the US doesn't want another Guantanamo Bay, this time instead of terrorist being housed, you get immigrants. Not good in their political climate.

Next thing I'll retort is the issue of Gb development. If you look at the development of the Bahamas historically, Grand Bahama was touted as the least developed island. Its lack of of a natural harbour and its flat terrain has made it a unattractive development. The Hawksbill Agreement may have been flawed but it was just a bubble that struggled till it pop due to the harsh nature of developments.

In reality the one good industry GB is stellar for Lumber is not looked at and turned down due to the mistakes of the past.

But lets say the Handover of GB cause a major boom in their economy. Is really all good? It seems that if the US acquired GB it would just disenfranchise the rest of the tourism industry in the Archipelago as well as ensure that no local Grand Bahamian will be able to afford a house in the coming future. The Bahamian Braindrain will be even more intense and economically the entire country will move closer to ruin.

If you know geopolitics and history you would know that you should never separate islands or archipelagos into 2 states. They'll only be less successful.

I mean America always hounds it neighbors about standing against the drug trade and even sent soldiers to other countries to deal with the situation. The least they can do is keep the guns in their own country and out of smugglers hands.

Imagine if the Bahamas legalized every drug under the sun and built a migrants camp on the westside of Andros. Then we decided that these were constitutional matters, so we couldn't intervene with peoples rights. Would the USA respect our internal rights or would they be planning an operation of regime change.

We are taking all in and repatriating all the migrants from Haiti, yet what are they doing about the guns/ammo. All we get is new police cars for our hard work.

If South America gets the flak of being a Drug Nation, America should get blamed for being a Criminals Walmart.

I think Minnis did well with the Covid19 Crisis, he did not delay to take it seriously, and shut down the country as soon as it was confirmed to have come in.
However, when it came to Hurricane Dorian, the money was wasted and the plan for reconstruction was absolutely braindead.

What the Minnis administration should really be hounded for is leaving Ragged Island 5 years in the dust.

Drugs at a customs facility, Who would of thought? Somebody was supposed to waive that through, hopefully they find them. Now if only they could find the gun stache

How can anyone not feel disgusting with the state of affairs if a Bahamian has to wait 10 year, a decade of their life just to get approvals. Then the foreign company comes in and stirs the pot and gets it in less than 5 years.

What else is needed for this approval?