mmmm. Bishop Boyd, Is this also about his possible resistance to your appointment of a tainted, almost maybe priest in a family island? no matter what one says now about his performance in the public domain, Brown obviously has/ had the support - by and large - of his congregants. somehow his rough and tumble style along side the soft and feigning elegance or perhaps intellectualism of the rest of these priests made them palatable to me. This late response to the rumble - too late in my opinion- makes it sound personal as if Boyd is competing with Brown for attention- though he has the power. I don't know them but it's obvious Brown and Boyd don't like each other and Boyd's move is to finally be rid of him. to me Browns disrespect isn't to the office of bishop but to Boyd himself. though I know many will argue that they are one and the same - I don't agree. I have historically thought Boyd was ok, but recent events, including this move, cast serious doubts.

only in the Bahamas do taxes go up not 5 or 6 percent, but 100 percent without even a wink or public consultation or explanation in fact. this is a dictatorship disguised as a democracy.

Ridiculous

Name names please. And The Eastern road is long. Where?

Well... Dr. Sands lost his bid for a seat a couple times and he was in the first group named as candidates...Why him and not Bannister and Hunt for instance who lost- but ran well in my opinion. I never thought I would hear this come out of my mouth and PLP Roberts might have used flowery language in his rebuke- but he ain't far off. Disappointing Mr. Pintard. I expected better from you. So please do better with the next batch. And VET these people- Don't ask their friends and family about them- ask people who used to work for them, from the lowest to the highest on the totem pole. Frankly you should have asked some clients and employees of the first 8.....A couple of them won't be elected dog catcher after things get hot.

And one more thing. I was at the regatta over the weekend and for a minute I observed all the police officers on duty. Now I am not a little person, at least not in my waist, but I ain't no police either. 90 percent of the police officers on duty at Montague this weekend were severely overweight- Some were beyond huge. Some had gun, but the guns- and I am not joking - was sometimes up under their armpit in the holster- couldn't pull it to save their own lives much less mine. This may seem like a small thing, but I had no sense of protection, and felt not an ounce safer from the presence of these men and women. The first rule of law enforcement and the military is discipline. This discipline begins with physical fitness. From Greenslade down, the waistline of our military demonstrates an undisciplined force. One thing about Mr. Dames, I used to see him running all the time. I also was looking at some old photographs of the RBPF from the sixties and those fellas were FIT. Today? jc. a lazy undisciplined Police force.

An 81 year old retired minister of the gospel who lives in an older Bahamian community- not Westridge, not PI and five gunmen- not 1, not 2, not 3, but 5 armed men, enter his house at 3 in the morning to rob his family? For what? What did they expect to find? What exactly did these fools expect? Sociopaths. Our problem is deep. Guns coming in from somewhere. Obviously there is a market and obviously these people have no respect for anything much less life. You enter someone house for 'things' and threaten peoples lives for 'things'? Lord have mercy and you need five guns to do this? If it was just about things, thieves would wait until you left. But oh no. Now the thieves choosing to rob you while you are in your house. They are interested in terrorizing people, hurting people, inflicting pain. They get a thrill from fear and terror and the sick power they feel they have for a minute - not what they get. This is the problem. And politicians sitting on their duffs doing nothing and too many so-called Christians sitting around claiming nothing can be done because its the last days (so you know they ain't trying to do anything). One day soon these thieves will break into the wrong house, and some fella will have five dead thieves on his living room floor and the nation will cheer. He will then pack his bags, head for the airport and leave the country for the rest of his life. We have to turn this around. I cant imagine what this country will become otherwise.

Liar, liar pants on fire...unless you are counting every one of the two billion Chinese, wink, wink.

Good politricks Doc and Pintard. Take over ya party since u the leader. Unfortunately you have some incredible bad apples in this bunch. They have to be someones friend or lover for y'all to decide to run them. Can't believe this is the best the fnm can do. Very disappointed. Doesn't bode well for the election and for the Bahamas. Financial houses not in order and I wouldn't want some of these anywhere near the public purse. Very sad. But Maybe the other doc will get elected this time and we finally get to see what he can do.

A sign of ongoing colonisation of our mind that these things still matter. But since we are here- glad to see James Catalyn and Cleophas Adderley so honoured.