It should not start at all. Doctors, you have to stand. This will be the end of your autonomy and ability to provide quality care. If you want to sacrifice your years of education, more than these lawyers and accountants, to be a slave to the government system, so be it. This is a mess, another production courtesy of Perry Gladstone Christie. Congratulations. Failure is your legacy.

You took the words right from my fingertips. To the author of this letter: Seriously now: you would really rather have us under this geriatric, inept christie than see real change? I would honestly seriously consider the PLP if Alfred Sears is at the helm, but not the present 'leader'. You could try to diminish all you will, but the points of fact are that not all and sundry are eloquent speakers, but rather better at planning and executing plans. In going from Bain town to becoming an excellent physician and competent and successful business man, I think Minnis is that. He has assembled a credible, worthy team of candidates; not to the liking of some FNM party members, but necessary for the good governance of this country. Jeff Lloyd. Marvin Dames. Peter Turnquest. Duane Sands. All quality, and all experts in their various fields. He has put it together. Good with vocals he may not be, but putting together and implementing a good and sound plan? He is; and he has back up. Perry is a speaker, but look at what all his lovely words have gotten us. Four downgrades. Poverty gone to bed. Crippling taxes that they cannot account for: anyone know where the VAT dollars gone yet? Unemployment and crime at all time highs. Conflicts of interest, i.e. Bahamar. MPs who have become millionaires and very rich civil servants in the past four and a half years, and yes, civil servants are what they are. They are government workers, employed and paid for by us, the Bahamian taxpayers. The FNM needed a change in the status quo. Some just can't take it. Do not tear the whole party and ultimately country down because of your personal grievances. Those people in government today are straight, at least until government changes and investigations begin into their conduct and acquiring of much wealth while the rest of us suffered. Stability? Caring and compassionate leader? You cannot be serious. Put your personal grievances aside. Do you honestly think, with the state our country is in under these people's stewardship, that we are better off? How could you? Country above self, sir.

It is ballsy of this government to try and essentially manhandle some of the most highly educated and trained members of the populace to fulfill their political promises. Imagine spending an additional 12 or more years after high school, studying and sacrificing and all to become a lackey, nay a slave, to an incompetent government. Yes we need good health care, but no, it is absolutely wrong to go about it in this fashion. Can you tell the lawyer his signature on a document is worth no more than fifty cents? If they, the doctors, educated themselves so that they would not only be productive and contributory members to their society but still can have a well earned and decent standard of living, who are these crooks, thieves and disgraces in parliament to determine otherwise? Why not better educate the population so that they too can be productive and be able to afford better health care, by eating well, exercising, being prudent in reproduction? Make the healthier foods affordable? Work to make their own way so that they are not so dependent upon the government? These are the same people who introduced the disease of gambling against the will of the voters and made it legal for racketeers to pull in millions of dollars daily and yet they are doing this very nasty deed of punishing those who went the right way about educating themselves to legitimately earn a good living. They need to be removed and this ridiculous shit disbanded.

NHI! Whooo hooo!

Considering his great skill and intimate involvement in the medical profession, I think he knows what he is talking about. Just because the cover is being lifted off this half baked scheme doesn't automatically mean you make this into a rich vs poor issue. None of us are equal on the wealth scale, especially with this government so please, just don't. Have a seat.

WTH???? Perry why don't you retire out man? You won't even be around to fully realize the effects of your mismanagement of our country.

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Let them get your private correspondences and most deeply personal secrets and blab that in Parliament and see how you feel about it. What they are doing is a gross distortion of what parliamentary privilege was intended for, and being lawyers for the most part, they should know better. They are employed by us, the Bahamian public, and they have to be made accountable. These employees have been insubordinate to our wishes; they've gotten wealthy using our assets by means of this employment; they are most displeasing and must be fired. When this crew is voted out, they all must be made to make reparations for the damage they have done.

And who couldn't account for $800,000.00 in their Scotia bank account? And who built the mansion of skyline and sent all his children to boarding and professional schools on a public servant's salary (even if it was the highest position in the land)? And who allowed the Medellin cartel to run this country into the swamp? And whose actions amounted to victimization of any one who stood up against him running this place like the despot led to the breed of politicians we have in place today? And whose actions got us to the place from the late 70's onward where morals, principles, ethics and the belief in honest, hard work to get ahead is barely a memory? That was reasonable to you? Please. Country first, bird brain. It belongs to all of us and not a select few.

You are actually okay with what these "parliamentarians" are doing? How is it that they now have the "privilege" of trampling the rights of any private citizen in this country? They are NOT above the law. Separate yourself from sniffing high and deep in these people's rear ends. This is our country we are talking about here, and it is undeniable that it is being destroyed ad hoc by these egotistical asses! So what if the woman looks like Fred Smith! what's your point??? Have you ever looked at marguerite pindling? Using your logic, she could pass for their mother. You must have graduated with highest honors from pindling's University of Wulff Road. Disgraceful.