@arudsel: These type killings have been going on for years where persons are in a group of persons and they are the only ones murdered. Some are playing dominoes or cards, or in this case video games. Others pull up in vehicles or are walking or simply sitting on the wall to their friends of family residence, others walking or riding a bicycle or motor bike and they are n mercilessly gunned down and left to die wherever like an animal. This country must come together and unmask this bold and brazen killer. Capture him, expose him and bring him to justice, regardless of the motive for the killing. Bahamians already have to lock and bar themselves in their homes. Let the day not come when there is the need to bullet proof our homes and vehicles. Someone knows something and they should say something, if only to prevent this from happening again

Back in the day everyone use to wear loose fitting white and light color clothing. Not only did it make the mosquito to be less arrtacted to you but once they land they were more easily spotted and it was more difficult for them to bite through loose fitting clothes. Those who could afford it slept under a mosquito net and the less affluent lit fires and put on green grass (no not weed) to chase off the mosquitoes, like they do in the family islands today. The Haitians used to rub their children with Vaseline grease (or moroline) and dab their hands and feet with kerosene oil to fend off mosquitoes. Those who came down with high fever and flu like symptoms were wrapped in warm blankets and given doses of bush medicine to help them recover. In all those years there were no cases of large numbers of babies being born with deformities and definitely not with small heads.

Now they need to station some of those boats in the Northern Bahamas and control the amounts of fish and lobster being taken by American pleasure craft and sports fishing boats. The catch of these boats should be limited and foreign (or visiting) fishermen be made to pay taxes on the excesses. Talking about tunas weighing hundreds of pounds each, mackerel, grouper and tons of lobster and conch being taken, especially on US holiday weekends. The Bahamas benefits nothing because these boats come loaded with fuel and supplies. They may buy ice and top off fuel to get back home but they hardly spend any money in the Bahamas.

Whatever the details the government needs to move swiftly to rescue this economy. It has hit a new bottom. Even the larger and normally profitable companies are finding that they can no longer meet their overhead. Many have resorted to post-dating cheques. A sure sign of trouble. Many, like the vendors on R. M. Bailey park, who were looking to back-to-school sales as a life-line are finding out it is not so. Sales are down, ways down and many of these vendors are carrying old inventory they had for three or even four years. Many persons are doing their back-to-school shopping on line and Bahamasair has cut its fare from $400.00 - $600.00 last year to as low as $199.00 (taxes included) to Miami/Ft. Lauderdale. The high unemployment and the VAT is taking its toll. The government must realize it cannot have the VAT and still hold on to customs duties and other taxes. Many retail stores are finding out that because they did not adjust their prices to cover the costs associated with the VAT, their businesses have lost profitability. If inventory shrinkage, for example, was 10% of sales before VAT it could now be 11% or 12%. Bookkeeping and accounting costs have increased. So has labor costs for most businesses along with a corresponding increase in national insurance due to minimum wage increases. Yet government is trying to maintain pre vat prices on breadbasket items. This is forcing many stores out of business, especilly when most of what they sell are bread basket items.

Another company went through a similar situation It was not a bank but its shares fell from $1.90 to 45 cents maybe even less. I took a risk and bought 60,000. The shares went up to $2.00 plus and I sold 40,000 of the shares. Now the price is back down to $1.50. But new government policy is expected to push the profitability and value of this company and persons are just gobbling up the shares.

You are trying to be technical and that way mislead. We (at least me) are talking about RBC as it relates to its operations in the Bahamas and, subsequently, its profitability in The Bahamas and the payment of dividends likewise. None has been paid by RBC, in those parameters, in two years, yes or no?

they should have given more time. there are persons interested in the rights offer and they should have allowed time for persons to sell their rights

The biggest concern is for the safety of the family as they are not sure who the intended victim is and the motive for the shooting. Pray the police are quick to find the killer(s) and lock them away.

Very troublingi incident.

Bah Mar is both a political football and an economic hot potato. It can easily go from being a cash cow to a white elrphant in an instant. There are not many potential buyers in the market willing to invest so heavily in a company that had a still birth and many labor pains. For the sake of all Bahamians and this economy let's hope the projects gets moving again and gets completed and opened. In the main time be watchful of this government to ensure they don't sell the soul of the Bahamian people for the sake of Bah Mar.