It is not a black and white choice between FPTP and pure PR. We can easily have a STV or ranked choice system, which I think would help third parties gain representation at some point.

Complete waste of money, they could have easily been cleaned and stored in reserve just in case another hurricane strikes. I thought it was a very stupid idea to buy them in the first place, but might as well have put them to good use since we are stuck with them.

My biggest hangup with the whole marital rape issue is the fact that no one has explained how an accusation is supposed to be handled. Everything that I have seen so far suggests that a man is supposed to be thrown in prison for decades just because a woman says so. How can you be in a marriage and have him "rape" you for years on end? It is not like the divorce courts are favourable to men in any way, so why not divorce him and get child support, alimony, the house, etc.? For as much as the anti-clericalists of our country love to accuse the religious segments of emotionalism and wishful thinking, it sure seems that they are as guilty of the same as I have not seen anyone explain to me in a logical manner the process of how a case of marital rape is supposed to be handled from the accusation to imprisonment. Come up with a detailed process instead of spouting meaningless platitudes.

While we are talking about "gender equality", why are men paying child support and unable to see their kids in some cases? Why are men paying alimony in the 21st century when women can easily find employment and take care of themselves? Why are pre-marital assets now being touched by divorce courts? It sure seems that a lot of the "equality" activists have a hard bias in favour of one sex. Some animals are more equal than others I guess.

Why bother holding a referendum? It is quite clear that our opinion wont be respected anyways.

Both. The borrower for being stupid enough to piss away all this money, and the lender for giving out these usurious loans knowing full well that it will never be paid back. It is like pairing a crackhead with a loan shark.

Truss makes Boris look competent. I think it is safe to say that the end of the decade+ Tory rule is coming at the next election. A new election needs to be immediately called whenever there is change in leadership at this level IMO.

May her soul RIP.

Quite frankly, y'all need to worry about keeping the power on before trying to talk about renewables. BPL cannot run diesel or bunker C plants for crying out loud, I can only imagine the disaster that would be them trying to maintain wind turbines and solar panels. Creep before you crawl.

> There are a lot of people employed by the Government every day who provide nothing of value and get paid.

This is a very under-emphasized aspect of our economic woes; the Bahamas does not have an organic middle class, we literally spend our tax dollars hiring unnecessary, otherwise unemployed, government workers to pretend that we have one. Needless to say, this is (and has not been) a sustainable policy. The private sector cannot take them on, so, imo, the only solution is to get them overseas. Canada has been a major economic release valve for the Bahamas in that regard.

Considering that summer is almost over, I would think so. Now comes the fall power outages.