What really needs to be addressed id Foreign Direct Investment and its real impact on the Bahamian economy. Many of these so called investments are syphons that actually draw value out the Bahamian economy rather than adding growth. And of late the FDI's are now coupled with foreign workers who also draw huge salaries and take them out of the local economy. Bar Mar and The Pointe are perfect examples of this. Very little of the invetment money is actually touching Bahamian hands ans staying, even for a short time, in the bahamas.

"Says the U.S. Fire Administration:

Prevention is key to managing landfill fires, and can be achieved by engineering the landfill site with fire suppression technology, operating in a way that focuses on monitoring potential fire sources, and having tools needed to manage a fire readily available.

Landfill operators should be aware of any odor changes, changes in temperature readings, unexpected changes in the makeup of landfill gases, or changes to the chemistry of leachate. Fires are most common in the spring and summer months, between March and August with the risk peaking in July when temperatures are at their highest in many places.

In addition, meeting with fire departments regularly to keep them apprised of landfill conditions, equipment and the state of facilities can help greatly in the event of a fire, according to Larry Stone, safety director with Waste Pro.

"if you're not preplanning in advance of a fire, it's not going to be a friendly situation when they show up to your scene," Stone said at a panel on fire safety at the annual WasteCon conference late last month.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Fire Administration recommend the following methods to prevent landfill fires:

Landfill Management: Prohibit burning and smoldering waste from entering the landfill through thorough inspection of incoming waste. ***Prohibiting smoking on-site and having good security measures to prevent suspicious fires is also key.***
Methane Gas Detection and Collection: Ensure than gas collection systems are not overdrawn, and that collected gas is either flared or converted into energy.
Compacting: Adequate compacting of waste ensures there is less air or methane pockets formed that could lead to subsurface fires at landfills."
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*** think at the moment we’re just very concerned about the damage to the equipment and obviously the extreme discomfort that this will cause to the residents in surrounding areas,” he said. “So I think for now what we’re trying to do is just to make sure that we try to protect the assets and try to get the fire out as soon as possible.”***

Notice how Jack Rabbit is trying to play on the emotions of Bahamians and draw sympathy. All of a sudden they want to play victims.
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***Yesterday’s fire marked the third at the dumpsite in three weeks.***
Tell me any business in any part of the world that has three fires in three weeks and will not be suspect, be investigated, have their insurances cancelled and their business licence reviewed. Obviously these clowns, parading as solid waste manager,s are in over their heads.

Whether the person, who eventually died, had Ebola or not, this should serve as a wake up call that the modus operandi at the Accident and Emergency section of PMH needs to be changed. Any patient presenting themselves there for treatment are either mixed in with persons in the waiting area, while they are being registered or they are taken directly to the treatment area and there is no pre-screening for communicable diseases. What makes the situation more volatile and hazardous is that the treatment area is also the recovery area where 20-30 patients may be recovering at any one time. Then you have porters and patients traversing back and forth to other sections of the hospital: for Xrays, MRI, the dispensary and even the cafeteria. So if a patient comes in with a disease such as ebola, one can see how a large section of the hospital population can be exposes to the disease even before it is diagnosed. The fact is there needs to be a pre-screening area, a treatment area and a recovery area, separate and apart from each other. Recently a sewerage pipe burst in the A&E section. Everyone was affected. Those waiting to be treated, those being treated and those recovering.as well as hospital personnel. And oftentimes patients are brought in bearing very foul odors. They are not isolated from from other patients but everyone including health care personnel are made to endure the stench. In fact patients and whoever accompany them have to share cubicles with persons who are bearing this unbearable stench. Some are vagrants off the street. Sometimes the nurses are extremely unaccommodating and outright rude. They tell patients, "f you can't stand the smell, then leave.' then NHI is coming,so pleanty will have to learn to 'stand the smell."

You have to buy dis cat (Bah Mar) in de bag and pay de full price fer 'em. China Bank say they want to recoup every dollar owing it on the mortgage. Well mudda sick!

While hospital officials are denying that the 51 y/o female paitient who was being treated in isolation and has since died was not being treated for Ebola, they are confirming that Ebola is among the list of communicable diseases the patient was being tested for by the centers for disease control. This is serious as if the test confirm positive for Ebola everyone that came in contact with this patient, including everyone who travelled on the flight from zJohnnasburg, South Africa, will have to be isolated and tested. Of course they cannot be treated st PMH

You must give credit to the amount of first responders and emergency personnel who responded to this situation yesterday. Despite all, this is still a most beautiful country where people do care about the welfare and safety of others. Some of the young men standing by on the runway appeared as if they were prepared to rush the plane under any circumstances to save lives. Give God thanks that no one was injured.

If you go to any police station, the first thing they should do is caution you and that you do not have to say anything, if you wish to say something or have someone write it down for you. Also whatever you say can be used in a court of law against you..duh! At the end of your statement you are again suppose to sign off saying you have given the statement at your own free will.

Stop being rude and disgusting like Donald Trump. Does everything thing you say have to contain assaults, insults and profainity. You must be paid well?

In the main time the republican campaign in the US has resorted to bragging about personal endowments and ripping down other candidates' wives. Nothing seems to be sacred or off limits. This politics!