Ok and what is going to happen if the PhellP or FNM win another 5 year term? We will be sitting here talking about the same problems again with literally nothing to show for it. As the situation currently stands these parties have zero incentive to provide good governance because even if they completely stink it up for 5 years all they have to do is sit in opposition for another 5 to get their turn again to juice what they can from government. Add a third party into the mix and suddenly now they cant sit on their backside and treat government like a given anymore, even now Lincoln has brought a lot of light to issues like immigration that they have been forced to at least talk about. This country absolutely needs a third party for any serious reform to ever take place and for all of it's blemishes the CoI provides the best chance of forcing real reform to occur in this country. There's no other way.

> At the final rally before former prime minister Hubert Ingraham’s last election--which he lost--the FNM had a massive crowd. In the event, the crowd was not a bellwether of what was to come. The FNM suffering a terrible loss.

Tbf 2012 was not that bad of a loss for the FNM, the seat total was just very lopsided due to how unrepresentative FPTP is. The popular vote total was 48-42 (compared to 2007: 49-46, 2017: 56-36 or 2021: 52-36) and quite a few of those seats were only lost because the DNA drained too many away from the FNM and gave the PHellP a plurality. Again, yet another data point in favour of ditching FPTP for a more representative system but sadly we are not politically mature enough to have that conversation.

That said it's likely the PhellP wins IMO albeit they will lose seats (obvious ones like the 2 Abacos, freetown, etc. plus its just likely that they lose at least some of the coin flip NP ones) but the FNM is disadvantaged in a few aspects 1.) the election has not even started and they are looking at possibly loosing an otherwise safe seat in Killarney depending on how the vote splits 2.) Brave has been much more shrewd and politically apt than Minnis or Christie were and has avoided angering the Bahamian public too too much like not flipping off the public on live TV or arresting homeless people for being out of their dumpster on lockdown and 3.) the PhellP has a lot of big money and names behind them and being real a significant portion of the voting public only cares about getting fried chicken rum and a marlin in a hat in exchange for their vote so that numbers money is probably going to come in clutch for them and 4.) the coalition is absolutely going to drain votes from both parties and that might put some more seats in play for them. It's still a tossup but honestly going to give the edge to the PhellP this go around, likely mid 20s seat total victory, Brave gets another term and retires at the end of it and we then we will have PM Sebas and the transformation of this country into a third world banana republic will be complete. We will just have replaced the drug lords of the 80s with the numbers boys of the 2000s.

Any Conian that votes for the PhellP or the Foreign Nationals Movement is a giant ass and I have no problem telling them that to their face. This island has been neglected since Ingraham left office almost 20 years ago now and despite legitimate concerns over one of the CoI candidates there really is no other choice if we want to do better. 5 more years of PhellP or FNM is just another 5 more years wasted with nothing improving on this island, we really need to do something different, this whole country does really. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I'm sorry but why is an individual with a six figure salary in a country with zero income tax (besides NIB which is fairly small) being given a rent allowance that is larger than the salary of the vast majority of working class Bahamians? Bahamians making the average wage don't get a rent allowance and have to pay rent or mortgage directly from their salary so it really is bad optincs for someone making six figures getting to take home nearly all of that to get this level of treatment. It's not like this is foreign where a good 35-40% of that is getting taken out.

Ok but who is verifying the accuracy of these declarations? I'm sorry but do you really believe Rick Fox has a higher net worth than Sebas or even Symonette as declared years ago? Like don't get me wrong I doubt he's hurting financially but I certainly don't believe he is Sebas or Symonette rich. This is not only to focus on him but point out it's all a bunch of stage theatre not to be taken seriously.

Can only speak for Abaco but fact is not a single government has done a shit for us since Ingraham. Power is still shutting off, water is still shutting off with it, the highway going north is riddled with craters and in the worst state I've ever seen it, the cost of living is the worst it's ever been, we still have to fly out to Nassau for any medical emergency worse than a cold, foreigners are undercutting both blue and white collar Bahamian businesses, and the worst part is that neither the Plunder Loot and Pillage party nor the Foreign Nationals Movement will ever do anything to seriously address the problems we are facing. It's incredibly bleak and it baffles my mind there are still people stupid enough to drink the koolaid pretending either party will do something to help us. I've long decided I will either vote third party or not vote at all as long as the status quo is what it is. I really hope and pray Bahamians at least have enough sense to give CoI some seats this go around because otherwise another 5 years is going to be wasted with nothing to show for it.

> Mr Telarin said migrants who work often pay into NIB

This here just shows what a bunch of baloney this whole article is. 90% of y'all are getting paid cash under the table, could miss me with these fairytale stories. Those who know know. Say pay NIB lmao.

Real. It's only logical to assume that there's a significant portion that is not being detected and considering that some seats have been decided on a handful of votes in past elections the fact is it's a very real threat that can impact our elections.

Fixed elections should be very low on the list of political reforms as ultimately it's quite meaningless. What we really need is wholesale political reform that finally dumps the outdated and unrepresentative FPTP system in favour of a more representative model. Ever since 2012 between 4-8% of Bahamian voters have supported third parties and their voices have been completely unrepresented in our system of governance. The Coalition would have had 2 seats in a representative electoral system last election, the DNA 3 in 2012. Even if we aren't willing to adopt a proportional system at the very least a system of ranked choice voting is in order considering the fact that third parties are an established fact of the Bahamian political system and no MP should ever be elected with a mere plurality of votes. Sadly none of this is likely to happen because the red and yellow circus clowns will always put their own political interests (and those of their financial backers) first before those of the Bahamian people.

Not just Bahamian growth but worldwide the longer this war drags on. If this drags into summer we will be likely looking at 150 oil and that will have very adverse effects on the global economy. We are potentially heading into a severe recession simply because the American political scene is completely captured and owned by Zionists and the AIPAC lobby. It's quite embarrassing and sadly they will gladly take the rest of the world to hell with them.