can we add Fweddy to the list too?

lawyers don't need poor people.

current and former members of the Government and MP's should be added to your rich and richest list. So the cost for med school in the U.S., law school, are high and must be earned back, else no one would go through the expense. Last time I checked politicians only need to graduate the "lie, cheat and steal as much as you can" class. So the real winners are the D-average politicians that made it through high school and are filling their own pockets all day long. zero investment huge upside.

well, why then are there no doctors in the family islands?

who pays for the airfare from Outislands to New Providence under NHI?

Bana10: I agree, that NHI must be implement, but in a open discussion. My point is that it is possible to bring all to the table and find a way how to deal with that. The Government acts like an Elephant in the glass house, and honestly, PGC and the gang did not go to school long enough to understand what needs to be done and neither have the Sanigest people. I suggest you spend a Saturday morning over at the All Saints Camp, where HIV positive and other Bahamian humans were dumped by society and live off the crumbs give to them. No water, despicable sanitary installations, missing Aids medication paid for by the Clinton Foundation and stolen by the beaurocrats of this Government. Go there and see how "human" we as a society, you, me, PGC and all others have been treating the poor and unfortunate ones in the Bahamas. Our own people and blood. So hold your judgment and go save a life or two.

whats your point? Sands and PGC will be long gone and your and my kids will still clean up the mess this nhi approach will create (and pay for it). I am all for an affordable care for all Bahamians and non-Bahamians residing here. The Out-Island issue must be fixed, I agree. Health levels must be improved in the poor and middle class of the Bahamas, but this pi##ing off everybody approach by the Government is ridiculous. Its like Baha Mar, big words, big actions and at the end another white elephant. The people suffering are the people that will sign up for NHI, drop their private insurance and then get run over by a truck as NHI will not be able to deliver. These are the people with jobs, that consume to most to feed the VAT monster, buy cars, employ local staff, gardeners, go out on the weekends. The financial consequences of a wrongly implemented NHI will hurt the middle class in the Bahamas.

You are just a little dictator, right? are you also practicing your speeches in front of the mirror? The problem with the Nazi NHI approach of this government is that Bahamian doctors in med school and persons considering going to med school will never, ever return again. So the long term effect is that the Gov will be stuck with importing more and more foreign doctors as time goes on. This is not sustainable. I am all for Cuban doctors to be brought in to populate the out-island for a few years. Having said this, I would love to see the Gov taking a similar approach on the lawyers and destroy that cartel. But neither PGC, the DPM, nor Fweddy, nor anybody else has the cojones to do that.

the few Cuban teachers I met, had an outstanding professional approach and ethics. Bahamian are usually first in line to get their paychecks only.

now that we are at it, can you please also import (I) teachers, (ii) lawyers, (iii) farmers, (iv) rum factory workers, (v) servers, (vi) taxi drivers, (vii) pilots, from Cuba. THIS would really help our economy, and we would finally become a tourist market that can communicate with South American guests. P.S. yep and bring in a bunch of cigar rollers, we could use that as well.