Always have been. Rules for thee and not for me is the motto of any aspiring politician worldwide, not just the ones here.

"“I think the problem is the Senate. These men and women face the voters only every six years. They’re supposed to be part of a sober, deliberative body that sees and responds to the national interest."

Story aside, Americans have no clue how their government functions (or was supposed to function for that matter). Prior to the 17th amendment, Senators were appointed by the individual state legislatures, the Founding Fathers never thought that they should be directly elected. Hard to be sober and deliberative when you have to pander for votes from an electorate that is completely the opposite. That aside, they are supposed to represent the interests of their state in the bigger scope of national ones, not think top down from national to state.

> “The portal’s up and running but we’re getting so much push back from the Port.

Now, now, can't have records of anything in this country. Would mean that there is a paper trail that could be followed.

> Mr Georges said the government is to blame for allowing the situation to get out of hand.

BS. We would have never heard the end of the weeping/wailing about "human rights" if the government rounded up every resident w/o papers and sent them back home.

> we saw that the overwhelming majority of the shanty town dwellers were actually legal residents of the Bahamas.

Makes no difference. The issue isn't one of residency, it is one of constructing unauthorized dwellings on land that these people don't even own. Asfaik, only one of those houses back there is legally owned, the rest all need to be torn down. If these "legal residents" are in the country on work permits, I would advise them to read the stipulations attached to those permits. If they are have PR or are citizens, they have no right to build on land that they don't even legally own (much less not pay BPL, water & sewage, etc.). I would like to see these people try this in Canada or the US; this wouldn't fly even with how pathetic the current administrations are on the topic of immigration in those countries.

The FNM's reasoning in not nominating Turnquest is based off of the fact that they don't want the ongoing lawsuit being a drain on the upcoming campaign. The biggest thing that Minnis has going for him is that his competition is Davis, they don't need any more negatives to add onto the pile what already exist the eyes of the average Bahamian voter. Imo, it will be a lot more telling whether or not Sands gets a nomination.

This is why I never got up in a huff and puff like so many other posters here. If oil was truly present in any large amounts, it wouldn't be BPC doing the drilling. ExxonMobil or one of the other big corporations would have been drilling a long time ago if they thought that there was money to be made.

I feel really bad for this dude, he gave up his US citizenship to get involved with the clownshow known as Bahamian politics. At least Ryan Pinder was able to get set up with Deltec and then Graham Thompson after leaving the political scene. James is still young and has a whole life ahead of him stuck in a country with declining economic prospects. Must suck to be in his shoes right now.

"How hard can it be to make sure that a bill gets in the hands of someone who owns a piece of property?"

The Bahamian government has yet to discover the technology of electronic mail, apparently.

Pot calling the kettle black.

The United States should be the very last country to talk about corruption and political patronage.

Yep. This will be the number houses 2.0