Bahamians are always the ones that have to play within the rules while foreigners (of any skin tone, not just white) catch a break. Bahamians must buy land and have permits to build a home, but you can just build a shack on any piece of property and have the jokeworthy judiciary support your "legal" right to do so if you came in on a sloop.

We are a clownshow country.

Kabuki theatre. Any "anti-corruption" talk is nothing more than election time hype designed to rile up the 60 IQ masses that continually vote for the red or yellow corrupt parasites.

There will never be any improvement in this arena because neither the FNM or plp want to do any better, and Bahamians will never pull their head out of their collective arse to vote for someone else.

Our fate as a failed nation was sealed decades ago.

Remind me again how many hundreds of thousands of dollars are being paid to some FNM sweetheart to "manage" this disaster again?

The Bahamas is a failed state.

People are still playing COVID?

Whoever believes this needs to be committed into Sandilands immediately, they are clearly delusional and completely out of touch with reality.

God help us, the lunatics are running the asylum.

I highly doubt Putin even knows where the Bahamas is. We are a nobody nation in the international sphere.

> build confidence

Haha, funniest thing that I have heard all day.

I think that a lot of people are unnecessarily making this out to be some kind of moral dilemma; it is not, this is simple geo-politics running it's course. The pro-Russian government was toppled by a Western backed colour revolution in 2014 shortly after canceling a massive economic agreement with the EU worth billions signed by the prior pro-West government. The new Western backed government immediately put it out there that joining NATO was one of their primary goals, and immediately moved to ban Russian from being spoken in the East (which is what lead to the revolutions in Luhansk and Donetsk). It is important to note that the Ukraine has always been pro-Russian in the east, and pro-West in the western part. There has always been a division of allegiances. What is happening now is simply a mere subset of bigger events that have been in the run up for a decade plus.

Russia was never going to tolerate the Ukraine becoming a member of NATO. The best that they could have hoped for was some kind of deal like Finland during the Cold War, where the Fins simply stayed neutral in the conflict between East and West. It is worth noting that this is not the first time the West has used the "colour revolution" strategy to stir up issues with Russia. Study the Rose Revolution in Georgia and the 2008 war that shortly followed. The West tried to repeat the same in Belarus during 2020 and Kazakhstan earlier this year. These are deliberate provocations in nations that are in the Russian sphere of influence.

Does anyone think that the USA would tolerate a Bahamian government becoming allies with China and allowing them to set up a naval base here? Go ask Grenada, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and many more if you are unsure of the answer. One side is no better than the next, which is why framing this situation in a moral context is absolutely stupid. This is geo-politics playing out plain and simple, and people need to look at this situation without trying to create a Marvel movie out of it.

Jimmy Carter 2.0

Headline is somewhat misleading. Read below.

"The court ruled he had to be kept at Sandilands until he received an order of discharge from the Governor General."

He was sentenced to 7 years at first after being declared guilty, appealed and got the verdict changed to guilty but legally insane, which means that he could only be discharged by the Governor General. It is not like they shoved him in Sandilands and forgot about him, there was a clear cut procedure of how he got there.