Are the activities that are conducted in the various foreign owned casinos in this country considered gambling as well? If we are going to talk about gambling as a morally issue then all gambling activities emanating from this jurisdiction should be subject to the same criteria because as a moral issue there is and ought to be a moral equivalence.

That giant sucking sound is the around the clock fees that are being charged by the PL and the Receiver.

What an extremely inappropriate and ill-advised public statement for the PM to utter even as the events and issues surrounding this matter are still evolving. From a legal perspective I get the feeling that this is far from over and the government's behavior is likely to be an issue that is thrown into the equation. Therefore, for the PM to talk about interested investors in this project is very premature especially after the Baltron Bethel snafu.

Where have you been! The fact that as a politician Bran is no different from the others have already been established in the dust-up with Edison Key. The problem with us Bahamian is that we are selective in what we accept as facts and then we disregard all other facts that appear to be inconvenient or inconsistent to our position or interest.

Well, who the cap fits let them wear it! For me it is more an economic statement than a racial one. It, I assume you would say, is only coincidental that the greatest shakedown of our people, our economy and our country over the past century has been these foreign owned branches of financial institutions operating here, aided by our politicians, that are happy to provide financing for your gold chain, vacation and fancy car but little else. Who have very little real assets here compared to their profits earned from our sweat and who promptly repatriate those profits back to their home country providing little to no sustained economic development of our local economy or incentive to local entrepreneurs. It is a bothersome trade-off and we deserve and must negotiate more from it.

Yet we Bahamians put on our gold chains, jump in our fancy cars and walk around with that condescending smirk on our faces, using our energy to judge and belittle as we fiddle and watch as the Bahamas burn. We are at a perilous crossroads. The status-quo has obviously failed and doing and electing more of the same will yield no different results. We need a new era of economic and political consciousness and awareness that quite frankly I am beginning to fear we are not up to at least until we begin to change our existing mindset. So it is not racial. Today it may be the white man but tomorrow how things are shaping out it will most likely be the Chinese but it is really not about them it is all about us.

Where have you been! The white man and foreigners have been doing much worse to us for over a century. Wake up my friend.

What an exceedingly shallow article! What about his track record in public life, or one solution ever posited to any societal problem or merely his scope of knowledge of current issues facing the country. I guess these are not as important as his appearance, attitude and wealth. In truth his main issue is that he is a Deer facing a headlight.

A very good synopsis Banker. The underlying issues, however, may be even worse than the spot-on picture you have painted above. The fact is even before we address the economic structural issues noted above we must address our failing Westminister political system that encourages short-term partisan economic planning, the systemic and structural political & governmental corruption, along with our anti business and antiquated laws all in a socio-economic and legal environment devoid of the rule of law. Public resources, favors and contracts are unapologetically and unlawfully misappropriated by politicians for their or their friends' personal gain to the detriment of the rest of our society with impunity.

What is beyond idiotic is your silly explanation that the government expropriation of private property by way of a compulsory obligation on citizens is not a tax but a savings plan. I have said repeated, if we are going to have a debate let's do that but let us not talk nonsense. Who in their right mind would voluntarily give their hard earned money to this government to invest or more appropriately to steal with zero accountability. There is a much larger debate to be had over the NHI proposal and we should be focusing on that.

Where is the legitimate public debate. We have the Police Commissioner making a philosophical statement about the administration of our criminal justice system, of which he is apart. It is a BIG issue as crime impacts all of us, is he right or wrong?
. The Tribune reporter totally misses the point and diminishes the issue by quoting Bran, who as usual offers no more than a surface, shallow political assessment. During the last election the PLP blamed crime on the FNM because they realised that society believes crime is the problem of the government of the day. This obviously has come back to bite the PLP but make no mistake it is us, the general public or society, that has the most to lose from this way of thinking. What has happened to us? We are quick to criticise and belittle fellow Bahamians trying to do something positive yet with respect to the BIG and important issues in our society we are prepared to sit back and expect the government or someone else to solve those issues for us. My friends, democracy is a wonderful theory and it works often not because of good government but because of the vigilence in which society holds government, even good but especially bad government, to account through public awareness, discourse, debate and activism.