We can't utilize them because of the condition of them? Nobody is asking YOU to use them, but people who are living in their cars or in tents and cardboard boxes in Abaco are asking you if THEY can use them. They see them as an improvement to their current situation. A part of your job is to "improve" the lives of Bahamians - but you are stating you "can't utilize" ? Seriously ?

So Mr Sands, yall wrote a law that has no teeth? Has no mechanism of enforcement like the ones yall write for us?
By the way aren't you supposed to be busy fighting Covid? How many thousand Bahamians died from Covid this morning?

Oh yes, the uniforms that equalize the rich and poor - LOL. It would be cheaper to juat buy grits by the 4oft containere and keep the kids home until it's time for them to clean the hotel rooms.

Government is not allowed to put an airport in the west or the east, so they can't create an economy there.

Why yall worrying about the Port? All you have to do is REMOVE the clause in the Hawksbill Creek Agreement that states that NOBODY can build and operate an airport on the entire island of GB (even outside the Port Area) without permission from the Port.

Then, use the Missile Base runway as a starting point to construct an airport there and develop East End. Make East End a fantastic place the way you think the Port should do Freeport and put them to shame.

Do it, don't just talk. When Freeport persons start moving out of Freeport to live and work in the East End then that will be an incentive to the Port - or they can just let Freeport be a ghost town - their choice.

But do something !!! Show them how it's done. Or develop south Eleuthera or North Eleuthera or Abaco or make some other place in the Bahamas a great place and put the Port to shame. If you can't do any better, then keep quiet. Yall might start by trying to keep the power on in Abaco, then you might get some money in the Treasury from there.

"...but refuse to do the right thing and eliminate VAT on bread basket items and medicines"

Yes - that seems to be the FNM agenda all along - make things easier for Haitians to buy rice and breadbasket items which is all they buy.

And this article seems to suggest that Bahamian financial hardship only began with the recent "inflation" talk since the war in Ukraine. What a joke. So things were all rosy while FNM was in power, eh? My memory must be failing.

But don't worry about Bahamians anyhow, they will vote yall back in in a couple years. Yall get to take turns every 5 years cause that's the only Parties they know. You can just relax. I don't even know why you bother making press statements. Just sit back and wait for the fingers to ink.

Wearing your mask reminds you that your mouth is covered, and you should try to keep it shut.

Wear your mask and be quiet.

Children don't need to talk - because as adults their voice don't matter anyway since we don't live in a democracy.

Please explain what you mean by "the banks are turning the away". I am not aware of this - and i'm not doubting you - just this one escaped my attention and I like to stay informed as I'm sure you can tell.