Who is watching Jose? It seems to want to follow the track of Irma and even though it is a smaller storm it has the potential to impact the North East Bahamas, shortly after Irma.

Exactly what is price gorging? Gas prices are consistently going up because of the effects of harvey on refining in Texas and the claims that refineries still are not in operation. The law of supply and demand says as the demand goes up so does the price. It also says that as supply diminishes so does the price increase. Despite the threats by Dion Foulkes, there is little the government can do if a vendor decides to increase the price of his goods if the item is not price controlled. It may be immoral but hard to be proven illegal. For example persons are offering to purchase battery operated fans for $50.00 and even more. These fans usually sell for $18.00. They also want to but battery operated radios at a premium price And if someone doesn't want to sell his fan or radio and a buyer offers more for it and he accepts, what law has he broken.? Then the thing is persons will go into stores and buy these items at the regular price, then sell them on the streets for three or four times they paid for them.

In other words he is basically saying we will continue to collect dead bodies but you must now please tell us who did the killings . Then what? Persons continue to get charged with murder but never make it to trial because they get bail an an ankle bracelet then they too are murdered? And also the person who gave the police the information? Don't think so. Citizens know better.

New Providence and Andros should have at least 4-5 days of water and supplies on hand. Simply because the hurricane is expected to make the turn to the North just after it passes over Andros. So this will mean Andros/ new providence will get a second set of strong winds and most business may remain closed

Tal you need to get a life. You not earning your pay telling outrageous lies!

There is reportedly a shortage of bottled water in New Providence. Come on Water and Sewerage do your job. If you cannot find bottled water before the storm fill your containers with tap water. While it is still running. Then you can use this water for cooking and other stuff and use the bottled water you do have for drinking. and if worse comes to worse you can boil and use tap water for drinking. Better than having nothing at all.

@ Reality Check:? And so why do you not ever mention the Hundreds of Millions being sucked out by all the foreign banks in this country? Some who have been doing it even before Sebas was born. They have many many Bahamians leveraged up to their eyebrows and the exorbitant fees they are charging is taking a huge chunk out of a working mans paycheck. And should they not mention their attitude of after over a hundred years of making profits, huge profits in the Bahamas, they are closing shop and withdrawing of cutting back on their services as they encounter losses. If the correlation between Sebas and crime had any relevance or to the degree you are hopping on then explain why there is also increases in crime (and corruption) amongst the non gaming population. Gambling is a vice and its best that it be licensed and regulated as are the Casinos on Paradise Island and Cable Beach rather than ran as an underground operation. Close to 5,000 persons are legally employed in the web shops and, the web shops seem here to stay.

Abaco and Grand Bahama is now back in the cone

The cold hard fact is that the country has suffered over a decade of increasing crime and large numbers of murders, several years of double digit murders. And the recent spate of murders put the country on the road for having another record setting year for killings. This is the FNM's second time around being the government in a crime ridden Bahamas and a murder capital so there is no reason the gloves should not come off. And the message has not changed to you and your government, Mr Dames: You cannot continue to attempt to solve the murder problem by waiting for shots to be fired and another body is sprawled on the ground or in some vehicle or some building. St the cabinet level you must set a task force on crime. You moist identify all the inputs that contribute to crime and especially murders ; Conflict resolution, drugs, unemployment, rapid urban sprawl, an extremely mobile population, gang activity family and community break down and dysfunction, among other things. You must put measures in place to reduce the negative of each of these factors on crime. Eventually you will identify those elements that have the most significant impact on crime and especially murder and take corrective measures accordingly. Identifying our most at risk males for example and taking measures to ensure they are properly socialized , especially the ones who are not working or go on to college after high school. Then making more economic opportunities available for them. Then educating single mothers about the results of blocking fathers out of the lives of their sons. Statistics will bear out the fact that the majority of young men involved in crime come from single pareohomed where the father is absent and has little or no interaction with their sons. Much of this crime is rebellion and reaction to young men feeling rejected and abandoned by their fathers and by society as a whole. Then on the justice and punishment side:

Even though the storm is trekking more South the winds have shifted North of the eye meaning Andros and New Providence will get stronger winds (storm force)