Bah Mar needs to be successful to help put a dent in unemployment and increase in economic activity and government revenue. Bah Mar needs the support of everyone involved to achieve this success. It is amazing to watch the fences come down and the trees and landscaping go up. That was not an easy project to complete and you can almost bet that not only was the opening date missed but the project probably went over budget. Now hopefully they will have a successful opening soon.

are these the chickens that came home to roost? Back in the 1980's / early 1990's teachers regularly reported that when they asked school children what they wanted to be when they grew up, a common answer was that they wanted to be 'a drug dealer' like their daddy, or their uncle or their cousin. Teachers had a difficult time explaining to the school children that drug dealing was not a (legal) profession. Back then the drug dealers had the fancy cars, the glitzy jewelry, the latest clothes lived in the most exclusive parts of the country and were always had a line of women trailing them. They had parties where they tossed money into the party (made it rain) and some were famed for giving away cars or walking into a bank and giving every teller a rolex watch. You could not tell any young person that this was not the life to chase after. But as more and more persons got into the trade, the drug boys started ripping off each other and stealing shipments that came from Colombia and Jamaica. This angered the drug dealers in those countries and they put a 'hit' on the persons who dared to rip them off. The problem was it was difficult for a Colombian and even a Jamaican to come into the Bahamas do a 'hit' and get back out without being caught. So they either had to lure the drug bandits out of the country, where they 'dealt with them', or had to get someone local to do it for them. Before this era Bahamians were not know as killers and definitely were not persons that would kill someone close to them, friends or family even. But as 'rip offs' became more common, the persons losing the drug shipments became more desperate and more determined to get revenge on the persons who were ripping off their precious, but illegal cargo. So not only did they increase the bounty to persons willing to carry out hits but they also made the persons transporting the drugs responsible for their security. And so Bahamian killing machines were born. There was instances where 'traps' were set for persons attempting to steal drugs who were ambushed and shot up. In more than one instance it was one family member shooting the other, and in at least one instance one brother killing the other. And so that is where we got to the position we are in today. Bahamians learned how to kill. They no longer fear the dead or respect life. Many of the persons doing the killings are still drug dealers or their offspring, or they are a gang member who use the younger, less exposed members, to carry out hits and do killings. They usually come from absent father, single parent homes and are lured into the killing to prove they are worthy or being a gang member and to earn their stripes. These are the chickens that came home too roost.

One lesson Hubert Minnis must learn is FNM's by nature are not political activists. They cast their votes during elections then they allow government to run its course. Then then the time comes they go back to the ballot box. Hence the low turn outs for the protests he has had. The FNM came out of the Pindling era where victimization was real and it was harsh and it lasted a very long time. So non Pingdomites learned to suffer in silence and to make their vote count when the time came.

FNM still practicing Politics 101 when they need to graduate and become qualitfied to take part in Election 2017. While they accusing the government of meddling in judicial matters and police matters they seem to want to take the law in their own hands. Rather than wait on the commissioners report on the Gray affair and rather than get all the facts in the Rolle affair they seem to want to be the judge, the bench and the jury in these matters. Is this an indication of how they will operate in they are voted into office? Guilty until proven innocent?

"Watch it sucker! " To take a page out of Aunt Esther's of 'Sanford and Son's' book. Whenever anyone accused this bible toting, church going, God fearing woman of any wrongdoing,they were her favorite words. Then she would slam down her bible, sling back her sweater, swing open her hand bag and challenge anyone to prove her of any wrong doing. Then when she is proven innocent she would approach her accuser and say, "you ole heathen you" and swing her handbag at them. Mother Pratt need to take a page out of aunt Esther's book and let them investigate. Then at the end of if she and her partner can say, " not only are our hands clean but our conscience is clear". Watch it sucker!

well muddoes! Mother has been around long enough to know that not everyone that comes around offering a helping hands has the integrity, the passion and the care for the needy and the unfortunate that she has. And Algernon Allen being a trained attorney should know that the report is not an attack on them and their character, but on the methodology they are using and the results that it is generating. The people have the right to question how their money is being squandered, err... spent (or do we?). The proper response would be to admit that there were challenges getting some persons to do or to complete or to complete in a satisfactory manner, work that was contracted to them, admit to the faults and promise to review the process and make necessary adjustments. No one is above scrutiny and if you wrong, you wrong. Not because you have on a church hat and carrying a church bag mean they have to trust you "all the way".

@Cobolt: you always use this forum to attack Bahamians, this time calling them animals, monkeys..blah blah blah. Why such a big chip on your shoulder and such despise for Bahamians....Are you mad, no angry, because your animal kingdom got away and are no longer your slaves...get over it! Be a man and say what you have to say about Bahamians independently rather than trying to piggyback your racial hatred on what others post and trying to encapsulate your hatred on their name. Better yet, change your living environment.

Will the DNA be making history come Elections 2017? Will they be the first third party to make two consecutive elections or was that the party with the man who use to go around writing. "Balance the budget" on the lamp poles. If the country had only listened to him!

Surprised that no one has been seriously injured by the way immigration officers have been operating in this country over the past two years. Not only are they rushing up on individuals in the street and demanding identification, then detaining persons who don't have any on them. They are also rushing into stores and other business houses and going into the most restricted parts of the business without a warrant and unannounced. Many businesses are on robbery alert and if these officers continue to rush up on people in their offices or even when they are using the rest rooms like goons or perverts someone is going to be mistakenly shot or injured being mistaken for a burglar. Need to start posting videos of how these goons are operating. Then they seem so disappointed when they find no one illegal in the business.

Well this may be a good plank in the FNMs election platform. That they will not hire contractors or give additional work to anyone who has incompletely contractual obligations with the government. And they will make serious efforts to recover any funds paid out to individuals and contractors where the work was not done or not completed.