Why are people shocked at this? Just business as usual for the banana republic governments we have grown accustomed to.

Awesome news.

Ahh yes, the Biden strategy is in full swing. Blame all of the countries problems on Russia and pretend that they didn't exist prior.

Are we going to have five years of Brave them doing nothing but digging up dirt on Minnis?

Blind leading the blind.

I agree with you in principal that you have to look at all aspects of a situation, but we on Abaco have never had properly functioning infrastructure (pre or post-Dorian).

I give this government credit that the power and water interruptions have not been as severe in the past month or two, but prior to that they were a nearly daily occurrence. It took my community about a year and a half after Dorian to have running water again. I had to bathe out of a bucket and tote water in containers prior to that. It wasn't just post-Dorian either, the central government failed at basic utilities for decades prior to that. Power and water have been going off since I was a young child.

None of the above even considers how cruelly Abaco was treated in the aftermath of Dorian by the cursed Minnis government. The first people to find my family were the Dutch, the RBDF never bothered to come looking. Lawlessness was the norm for a very long time, you could just take anything you want without repercussions.

I agree with the basis of your argument that there are a lot of things to consider, but the central government has mistreated and abused Abaco for a very long time. I get that all the islands have to pitch in together as a nation, but the central government has not held up their end of the bargain when it comes to Abaco for the majority of our existence. I truly believe that our island would have been better off as an independent nation as opposed to relying on the central government for our existence. Local government is a complete waste of time if we still have to beg Nassau for all of our funding anyways.

Subliminal messaging.

The only solution is for Abaco to go independent. Nothing will ever change otherwise.

It is a fact that Abaco was the second largest revenue generator for the Treasury prior to Dorian, go ask the government for the statistics if you think we are lying. Communities like Treasure Cay, Hope Town/Elbow Cay, Guana, Green Turtle, and more are filled with second homeowners paying property taxes on multi million dollar properties. This is not even mentioning Baker's Bay and the resorts that attract a multitude of visitors every year, or the real estate industry where the government collects millions in stamp tax and VAT from lawyers and realtors. Abaco is grossly undercompensated even for the amount of money that it sends to the Treasury even post-Dorian. It would have been much better off going independent.

Abaco is getting too crowded, they are having to find other prospective shanty town building sites.