**It's challenging to listen to Cooper. At the same time, he continues to exist in the Bahamian Political Rahm and not explain the issue of A $25m public-private partnership (PPP) to establish a new Road Traffic Department headquarters on Tonique Williams Darling Highway in a PPPs arranged by the Christie Administration where there was no existing RFP for the same?**

Administration of the industrial and economic development of the Bahamas, by now, should not be in the hands of politicians with the baggage of a five-year term agenda. But they are still producing the same 60-year-old result of oppression, bias, corruption, and the Black Bahamian's marginalisation. These practices are the ways of a passed oppressive system of colonial control that has never changed with the change of majority rule.

How can there still exist a mindset that Bahamians are only limited to the small "backyard" developments, "start small", they say to industrial minded Bahamians, with interest in industries with global impact, and professionals with 40 plus years of business experience?

As was the recent experience of my group of Bahamian Developers, we approached the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries with an effective plan to develop the overlooked potentials of Industrial Scale Aquaculture Development in The Bahamas, then told to "think small". And "no way this government would approve 1000 acres for that kind of development." Then we are told that a foreign company presented a similar proposal and that maybe we should "link up with them."

In a free and open capitalist democracy, where politicians act to discourage Bahamians' ambition, suggesting from an unqualified position that you are "too ambitious". Then continuing with the insult of ignoring months of emails as our group pursues our goals of developing and protecting this potential for exclusive Bahamian Development, regardless of the influence of "Big Money" that always prevail over national interest, local development, and the Common Good.

Until the total elimination of the political control system that fosters a culture of corruption and pettiness, and the grudgeful mindset that the growth and approval process for the future development of the Bahamas, which in some circles, is the unique ability of the sitting system of politics, and not honest and unbiased professionalism. Until there is a change in the system, the Bahamas will continue on a questionable integrity path.

**There are folkes who would pay their private physicians to have the vaccination administered, like polio, and all the other vaccines, why not do the same with COVID?**

The thug life of this Minister won't go away; he sees himself above the law, and with his Zionist training, he perceives himself without reproach and is answerable to no one.

Stellar Energy Bahamas -?
Vanity Printer -?
Honorariums -?

And only God knows where the Minister's other bodies are kept buried.

Again, more examples of what is fundamentally wrong with our politics, and here is where I will repeat my mantra:

"The faces may have changed, but the policies and structure of the past system of oppression have not dismantled oppressiveness, and abusiveness; elements of the past colonial political structure that divided Bahamians into (have and have not)".

Change The System, Fix The Country.

Welcome to a day in the life of a Bahamian when you're not being called worthless; you're fronting. Reading my Brother Collie's side of the story is a typical card played on Bahamians; find a guy who is in trouble where his (valuable land that a foreigner has his eyes on for development) and crush him. Only in the Bahamas do we break down each other while giving hotels concessions, tax breaks and concessionary terms, but a Bahamian, you need to run, get away from here, who he think he is, my Bro I have no time for you.

Al Collie, the last of the other great Bahamian Nightclubs Legends, is now targeted for extinction. Peanuts Taylor, Freddy Munnings and King Eric Gibson and the many other Black Bahamian Entertainers were the giants who took on the Hotels and an unsupporting Bahamian Government who did everything possible to kill their business; but supporting unfair opportunities for hotel operators. Al Collie, the last of these warriors we will witness, will die out, and I predict that Club Luna/Zoo location is only the first of beachfront properties now targeted for a future high-end highrise, beachfront residential developer - my prediction.

The DNA and The Independent candidates, and others are not putting forward anything that changes the structural defects that have decayed the spirit of being a proud Bahamian, as it were. "The faces may change, but the policies and structure of the past system of oppression are not being dismantled as it should by any modern organization seeking the office of government.

The oppressive economic structures of the past divide Bahamians into (have and have not), and our economic and industrial growth over the past 50 years has not risen above 1.5%; in fact, it has declined from 5% 50 years ago to today 0.5%.

The secrecy of how we are governed is still the nemesis in the darkroom of political corruption. So the idea of a new government that maintain this structure is a losing proposition.

If you are not talking about a complete change of our system of government, you are putting forward nothing more than a fool's game of Bahamian Politics.

The politics of state victimization, petty disregard of anything Bahamian, and a public service that serves and creates elitism of elected officials and division is still the old enemy of The Common Good and has no place in a modern government.

Dont just vote to change faces, demand more, demand change for the Common Good.

Brave is really the last person to talk about accountability and transparency; he is yet (after 6 years) to explain how bfg ppp Ventures I Limited (PPP1) ended up on the Floors of Parlemant, Or the issue of Ron's Auto and 5 Million Dollar Purchase Deal that turned into 4 Million by The Time the Check got to the landowner. And lets not for get about the wells loi saga and the guarantee of $ 40,000,000 in favor of Stellar Energy to secure the FEL (feasibility) studies. hello!

The 30 to 40-year old culture of Government Administrative gameplay culture had a field day with some of these new Ministers, many of who still don't know simple governmental protocols and their PS and technical people running shop right under their nose while Flambéing them with the Public Service (breakfast, lunch and laundry special)

And may I add, in no way is this report implicating a single Bahamian Government Administration.

In my experience, in the past ten years of trying to participate in the development of this country. I know of experiences that "holds true" to this Report of Corruption, including senior government advisors, managers and technical staff, plus some well-known family members of top government officials who held the top post at a Government Department.

We all remember the PTI Proposal that ended up on the Floors Parlemant as bfg ppp Ventures I Limited (PPP1)

Or the issue of Ron's Auto and 5 Million Dollar Purchase Deal that turned into 4 Million by The Time the Check got to the landowner.

The Fake RTD Bahamas 2016 License Plate RFP - and the plagiarism of the state of wisconsin request for proposal (rfp) # rme-1625, this program now costs the Bahamian people $29 to produce each Licence Plate.

We all remember the mess at The Road Traffic and the TMS system where the top man at the department, even after leaving the job, still represents the company that won the contract under his watch. And his radio personality family member holds the rights to the imaging on our driver's license. Not the mention the $30,000 service call fees in the worse contract deal that ties the hands of the government into an unbreakable contract for five years.

Or the vanity printer that is listed as $95,000 but is presented to the Bahamian Public by a former Minister as valuing $900,000, knowing the printer was already on site.

Or the local company (BASIC) who could not get a deal with the government unless a former swimmer and digital currency company owner, with extensive contacts with this government and who is the son of a wealthy party financer wasn't a part of the deal. "if my son is not a part of the deal, then there is not a deal in a September 2019 telephone call from the party influencer.

“The Public Disclosure Act requires senior public officials, including senators and members of Parliament, to declare their assets, income, and liabilities annually. ...should also include PSs, their families and government technical staff where most of the actual dealing occurs.

You can sit back while the only industry striving in this country is Politics; I am not so selfish as you suggest to ignore the abuse and decay of this country; but yes, the concern is for my children who would not think of coming back to a today's Bahamas, as it were. The Bahamian people ask one thing of their servants, "do your job". My face, my family name and how much you didn't like me when we attended high school, should not prevent you from respecting me and simply providing me with the service of government. But it is typical to bury one's head in the sand and look at the problems in this country from a fairytale point of view while the floor and walls around us rotten away ...then we ask why? or call on the Lord.