This is by far the most well written piece I've seen in this paper in months... I applaud whoever wrote this. Nassau the priceless jewel in a crown of 700 islands. I'm sure many odes have been written and many more can be written. Why is that we can write the solutions on paper and publish them in a daily newspaper, yet the persons who we have entrusted to legislate and make things happen don't seem to read and understand them? We have arrived where we are because people are scared to make the hard decisions.

Helpful hint 1 - Decriminalise marijuana and watch the criminal justice system become unclogged. We are seriously going to wake up one day and have marijuana legal in countries all around us. We can grow that at BAMSI and export it, regulate it, tax it, allow tourists to come to hotels and smoke it in an 18+ environment. We need 22nd century visionary thinking. The old myopic mindset must be done away with.

Helpful hint 2 - We can change our public education system from within...it is not too hard as some may have you believe. It will just require the right curriculum, and a whole lot of love. If one person can change the world, then the many of us who want real change in Nassau and the Bahamas at large can change the Bahamas. Not doing so is not an option.

When your electricity usage is $80 and the fuel surcharge is $400. But your electricity been off for half the month, but they bill you by estimate... No escape. Stuck with a government entity that does not work properly, managed by foreigners whose sole job is to take flack for the government. BEC/BPL does not make a profit... It's obvious that we need to start from scratch. Can we drop a bomb on it? Do we even have insurance?

We have lost 2 generations to gangs and drugs because of the violence that accompanies those two things. What we are reaping now was sown long ago. When we were a nation for sale and turned a blind eye to drug running and glorified the people who showed off their ill-gotten gains. The only hope now is for the children. If we can intervene and give them a strong educational foundation while teaching them people skills and manners, and at the same time grow industries so that there will be work for them to do in the future. A hard task when 50% of the jobs of the future have not even been invented yet. It's a long bumpy road ahead...

Decriminalise marijuana and our young men's chances improve significantly. Some people want to smoke a little weed on their holiday. Jamaica has whole hotels dedicated to such. Tax it, make it benefit the poor, cut down on criminality in the country. Many countries see it as a cash cow and are stockpiling it to export when needed. It actually grows on our islands. We need to think about it as an industry...

Education is the only key that we can use to transform this ailing Bahamas. I believe that we can turn things around and do it quickly if sweeping changes can be made to Early Years learning in particular. It's not rocket science nor do we have millions of people to cater to. This problem is fixable... The current director of Education must be replaced with someone with new ideas and a fresher, younger perspective. Such a shame that this article has 2 spelling mistakes that prevents me from sharing it on my page. Please up your editing game.

Renward Wells must be good at something notable, I'm just not sure what it is yet... Definitely good at changing parties and signing things and keeping his mouth shut. But a Cabinet position? I would have locked him in the cabinet. If only he knew how many people covered his name to vote. Everyone else in this Cabinet has a chance to make a name for themselves good or bad. He already has the bad one, so are we hoping for good this time around?

For once @TalRussell you are asking the pertinent questions! This whole thing was an embarrassment to us and while it was free publicity it wasn't quite free or positive. Who signed off on this? How much money went under the table that caused the organisers to be unable to pay the talent? Who thought to schedule something on the same weekend as regatta? There are too many questions and not enough answers...

The main difference between Brent Symonette and the rest of the persons running is not 100+ Million dollars but the fact that 1) He has declared most of his money and 2) Most of his money is in the Bahamas. Maybe some of the 55 Bahamians who have billions squirrelled away in HSBC Suise bank accounts are also our politicians or their friends, family and lovers... The whole thing is a joke. If Brent can halfway report on his declaration imagine those who just outright lie and at the end of the day does it even matter? We all know its a sham.

On June 17th 2016 Andrew Allen wrote on his public Facebook page "what a monster the PLP created by fostering and and encouraging this uneducated 'little man' persona among so many black Bahamians to keep it in power. Now the graduates of the University of Wulff Road are coming home to roost and the party that created them cannot control them. Discussions on social issues quickly degenerate into theocratic religious psychobabble and conspiracy theories about sissies. The slums have come to claim their country and anyone who speaks sense, or even has an education is considered a despised, untrustworthy 'elite'. well done plp"
How amazing that a few short months later Mr Allen is now praising the supposed achievements of the PLP that in his words are "visible and solid". I completely disagree with Mr Allen and say that any man that calls the actions of the DNA sensible is not operating with a full deck. While we are all entitled to our opinions, Mr Allen constantly airs his in the National papers and on Social media and his flip-flopping political views are like those of a schizophrenic who has been off their meds for a while. He should take the time to think of something coherent to say before emailing drivel to the papers.

PGC is absolutely corrupted. He will never give up power unless it is wrenched from his hands by the Bahamian people. It does not bother him that he is washed up, speaking in cryptic crossword puzzle clues, but it sure bothers me! Five more years of his ineptitude would be a fatal blow for the Bahamas. I personally would like to see him visit every outdoor toilet in his constituency and hand out toilet paper... that would be more useful than whatever it is he is proposing.