“salient” and “valuable” Patrick would not know what is salient and valuable if it came out and kick him in the face! ...Bahamians and Medical Professionals should be allowed to make their own scientific assessment of what vaccination is best and safe to entre their bodies and not following political patriotism' which could put the lives of Bahamians at (a known) and unnecessary risk.

**A much bigger problem, but fixable:**

After a seven-year battle with the Bahamas government, Bahamas Auto Safety and Inspection Centre (BASIC), retired its efforts to offer, (at no capital cost) to the Bahamian people a comprehensive solution for enforcement agencies to detect vehicles driven on our streets with expired or no insurance.

At a Cabinet presentation detailing the critical need of the road safety and violation detection technology in March of 2020, the former Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Finance describe the Vehicle Verification and Testing initiative as

> "seeing no benefit for the Bahamian
> People"

leaving the company with no option but to retire the effort after many attempts to re-engage the government on the matter.

The new Minister of Transport up to yesterday has stubbornly refused to reply to our many emails requesting a meeting to discuss other critical issues plaguing his ministry (like a reliable vehicle plate issuance system) where BASIC has offered our expert resources to fix this frustrating but essential government service.

Another senior government official commented that the "government would never give three black boys a contract like this" while asking us "who are we fronting for?" ending a meeting seeking his support for the road safety initiative earlier in January 2020.

Pete sound like another fellow who feels that he win the presidential election but everyone cheated on him. go quietly and pray your situation doesn't develop into jail time ...hahaha

K Peter Turnquest is a liability to the party, he needs to go and 2 others need to follow! then the party may stand a chance of winning the next general elections once it ditches itself of some infections it picked up in the last elections.

Press Statements and denial will not change the fact that the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance, of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is the subject of this level of corruption-probe that is now a matter before the Supreme Court of The Bahamas and now reported internationally. The alligations are stating that while as a sitting Member of Parliament and Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Turnquest siphoned off $3.026m "as at December 31, 2017".
The court documents also allege that the Minister and his business partner "dishonestly caused" Alpha Aviation and Advanced Aviation to "pay-away" $20.68m and $5.917m, respectively, to Sky Bahamas via "some kind of bogus loans".
As this shameful development unfolds, it should be an honourable gesture from an Honourable Minister and member of the government in as high an office as the Deputy Prime Minister to vacate his Public Office immediately until such time that this matter is adjudicated by the courts of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
For many years, successive PLP Administrations, led by now-deceased Prime Minister Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, and his government that maintained a dark cloud of suspicion in the global business community, where it was widely believed by many that The Bahamas was a nation for sale because of corruption at many levels of government that eventually caused its downfall and ushered in the Ingraham Administration with its Government of Transparency, Government in The Sun Shine mantra.
The Minister along with former Minister Wells with responsibility for transport (who himself is named in a 'multi-million dollar waste to energy deal that went bad while he was a Minister of State under the past PLP administration) also recently submitted to the House of Assembly, budget approval for 900,000 dollars worth of Vanity License plate printing equipment that is listed by the manufacture for just $95,000.00.

http://tribune242.com/users/photos/2020…

Beyond the ease and corrupt culture in the Bahamas, of obtaining a driver's license, the more critical and important government obligation of the annual fitness/roadworthiness inspection of vehicles is seen as unnecessary and a burden on Bahamians.

there will come a day soon when they will all be asking "what happened" ...Disconnected? these guys on a different planet 🌏 maybe Pluto!

Our 2014 Proposal to the Bahamas government to relaunch the RTD, and resubmitted to the current government for consideration - had a Cabinet Presentation but no official response yet on whether the proposal would be accepted. There is no capital cost to the government for the 30 Million Dollar Bahamian Investment where the RTD would have 9 fully equipped State of the art facilities to house the department permanently -

- creating over 300 new jobs,
- giving the Bahamas a total of 31
inspections test lanes - 12 in
Nassau, 4 in Freeport and the other
major populated islands get 2 lanes
each.

- Reintroduction of the School Driver's
Ed,

- and room for 25 driving simulators
to conduct the driving test.

Our culture of belittling each other and not believing in Bahamians is the problem.

http://tribune242.com/users/photos/2020…

quoting the article, it clearly said:

Mr Van-Ginkel said LNG pricing, which would be linked to the Henry Hub benchmark index, would provide stability necessary to "move The Bahamas away from all the volatility experienced in the crude market over the years".

Is FOCOL, chaired by Frankie 'the Snake' Wilson. The PLP financier. Also, providing LNG?

If the cost of electricity doesn't get down to 8 to 14 cents per kWh, none of this makes any sense.

one thing is certain, should the PLP win the next general elections! the Bahamian People could kiss that project goodbye!