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John says...

Shameful that many of the authorities and government departments still operate in a 'it's none of your business mode.' When persons lose loved ones anything that can bring closure and more comfort is welcome. And the authorities seem to be more forth coming about information about the plane than what human remains were recovered. And if the 'entire wreckage' was recovered and is on it's way to an air traffic investigation facility in the USA, surely some remains of personal effects were found. As simple as calling the concerned family members together and saying what is the procedure from here on in. Closed minds.

On Plane crash families ‘kept in the dark’

Posted 27 February 2018, 9:28 a.m. Suggest removal

John says...

Minnis must realize there is still an ‘unwritten ‘ economic embargo against Haiti. The Bahamas use to import lots of produce from Haiti. Then the US claim this produce was unsafe and stopped the exports. But they (US) went in, bought the produce for pennies on the doll, graded and packaged it and still sold it to countries like the Bahamas for fifty times what they paid for it. Mangoes, for example, were purchased at 3 cents each, and resold for upwards of $1.00. Haitian Coffee was purchased for dirt and rebranded and sold at huge profits. So Haiti remains poor while third countries benefit.

On Talks in Haiti on tackling migration

Posted 27 February 2018, 7:31 a.m. Suggest removal

John says...

If you hear some of the things that are going on in the streets you may be shocked to know that some of these murders are organized beyond gangs, regardless of what the police may report. But the police have gone back to randomly picking young men up off the streets, locking them up, abusing them both verbally and physically. Some of these young men were employed at Bah Mar. Sandals and Atlantis and others were college students who may now be unemployed because of police actions. These profiling and abusing tactics do not help in reducing but make young men angry and anti social. When you deny an individual his constitutional right to move around the country freely or disrupt his ‘one chance in a lifetime employment ‘ or interrupt his education efforts then you’re giving him no other option to drop out of society, join gangs and sell drugs. This is not policing it is a criminal cop out. Many of the problems the country faces today is from this type of police actions decades ago. And some of the same officers are involved. What doe this speak to their policing skills or the improvement of them?

On LONE KILLER SHOOTS DEAD VICTIM, 26

Posted 26 February 2018, 5:43 p.m. Suggest removal

John says...

Apparently even the former (PLP) Government saw red flags as they chose not to announce this project before the Elections but instead to call it a ‘possible project on the horizon.’ Minnis should applaud the fact that both the media and the Bahamian people are willing to dig deeper, do more investigation and put potential investors to the litmus test. Scammers, shysters and con artists are also stepping up their game and may be one reason a very popular bank is scaling down its operations in the country and the Caribbean. The oil industry is moving to larger and faster ships and the demand for fossil fuels is not currently increasin. Better to stop them at the gate than to let them get beyond and create additional problems.

On INSIGHT: Dealing with the devil

Posted 26 February 2018, 5:24 p.m. Suggest removal

John says...

Another deadly crash on East Street South.

John says...

Apparently the reason casinos around the world give high rollers complimentary rooms is to avoid them taking casino ‘guests ‘ to their private rooms and getting robbed.

On Two sacked in Baha Mar probe

Posted 26 February 2018, 1:15 p.m. Suggest removal

John says...

Telling an employee, one who has live access to the public, to stay within the corporations’s guidlines is not muzzling’, especially when there is the potential for lawsuits. And, by his own admission he was warned and cautioned and also by his admission he refused to follow the requests of management.

John says...

Are there any hookers working around the Webshops? Just asking for a friend.

On Two sacked in Baha Mar probe

Posted 26 February 2018, 10:59 a.m. Suggest removal

John says...

Adrian Francis lasted longer than many expected considering what he did weeks prior to May 10 Elections. His constant ranting and raving and praising of the PLP on the public station had many believing his PLP masters had bought the station. Outright. And to add to the confusion many thought he was the same Adrian francis, who was the then FNM candidate for Long Island, now MP for that area. And of late Adrian had gone on a tirade about the country's natural resources and how everyone was trying to steal them from Bahamians. This may be true, as is happening around the world, and especially in Africa, but Adrian was sending persons into a mass panic and/or stimulating an uprising to fight for the resources. He tied every topic of late to this subject, including immigration, legal and illegal and the passage of some 'strange' laws in the country. Maybe that is why management asked him to prepare a script for his shows, so as to be less emotional and dramatic so as not to create panic.Ironically Lady russet was tackling the same topic on her shows but she was less emotional and dramatic. In fact she hosted a guest who presented mot of the facts about the country's natural resources, even though with much egging on and baiting from the host. But the killing of the country's young men (by police and by murder, the common wealth of the nation and illegal immigration are hottest topics that needs to be addressed.

John says...

Well the NRA is telling its members to arm themselves against Blacks. But thus far 98% of mass shootings in the USA were carried out by non blacks. There are barely 40 legitimate subdivisions proper in New Providence. So your claim 40 shanty towns (haitian) is as fake news, And government officials have confirmed that Bahamians are also living in the shanty towns because they can no longer afford to live in regular communities.

On Homicides ‘down by over half’

Posted 26 February 2018, 7:11 a.m. Suggest removal