I don't get this line of thinking that just because our MPs don't trade blows on the floor (although it has come close to that a few times) everything is fine and dandy with our political system. Nobody is complaining about politicians being rambunctious, we are complaining that Parliament is completely useless and does nothing to fix this country anytime they are in session. Another summer is upon us and the power is still going out, making people sweat and burning up appliances/equipment. You would think that this issue would be fixed by now considering it has been happening for decades but nothing really changes no matter who is in charge. Power will still shut off, juicy no bid contracts will still be given out, and taxes will still be squeezed on a shrinking middle and growing poor class to pay for it all. What is the point in voting if nothing ever gets fixed/improves? I would rather have a competent dictator rule the country and keep everything in order than to keep marking an X pretending that that is doing something while the power and water shut off, crime spirals out of control, taxes keep going higher for no benefit other than feeding increasingly fatter politicians, etc. The only thing that matters is results.

The thing with you Minnis supporters is that you conveniently ignore the 32-7 spanking he took 4.5 years later. That is an outright rejection that cost the FNM several strongholds that were unthinkable for the PHellP to carry in the past. Even Perry had the common sense to retire from politics after he took his similar spanking in '17.

There is still a decent chunk of time left until the next election, but as it stands I think it is going to be the closest one since '07 as long as Pintard remains leader of the FNM. Davis is not nearly as unpopular as Minnis and Perry were, but neither has he done anything to inspire a lot of turnout for him. Pintard hasn't shown himself to be the next coming of Ingraham, but putting Minnis to head the FNM is just giving Brave a next 5 years considering how stink he is in the eyes of the public. Pintard is the least bad out of a bunch of bad FNM candidates, and should at least have his shot at an election. A good politician would have let Pintard had his chance and then try again for power if he took a big loss, but Minnis has not displayed political aptitude during any of his time in or out of power.

Prior to 1948, the area of the nation state of Israel was known as the British Mandate of Palestine (emphasis on that last part) and that area has always been called Palestine since the days of the Romans. The Balfour Declaration is what caused this entire problem as it promised a group of people land that they had no rights to. Another example of the British (controlled by Zionist finance of course (Rothschild and his money was key to the declaration)) mucking up parts of the world that they had no business being in. Picking apart the claims of "persecution" is another matter entirely (and a rabbit hole that can go on for hours), but it really reflects poorly on a group of people as a collective if they have just finished being "genocided" and "ethnically cleansed" only to go to another part of the world and do literally the exact same thing they just alleged happened to them. Turns out expelling and killing your neighbors arouses a certain degree of hatred, who would have thought. The only reason Israel as a nation state even exists today is because Arab military commanders were two cents short of a dollar and made incredibly incompetent military decisions; the fact that literally every Arab nation in the region put aside their differences and allied to fight against them (for a time atleast) speaks volumes.

"This is a democracy. We have a right to protest. But we don’t have a right to destroy property and harm individuals.”

Funny I didn't hear any of that in 2020. Thing is I haven't seen a single one of these protests turn violent on the part of the protesters, and have certainly not seen the degree of anarchy that was prevalent in four years ago. The only violence I have seen has been from LEOs firing rubber bullets into crowds and beating people with signs. One can only wonder if leftists will finally wake up on who owns the institutional power in the United States, turns out "free speech" only applies when you are criticizing certain regime approved groups.

Your analogy is backwards, Palestinians lived in Palestine for millennia before Zionists created the nation state of Israel and ethnically cleansed the region of the natives (Christian and Muslim) while bringing in boatloads of people that had zero connection that region to create their own little enclave. Palestine is a testing ground for the policies that they want to enact on us in the future.

I also have to laugh at the irony regarding your mention of Abaco and the governments argument of "self-determination" considering that Abaco was denied self determination decades ago because it was conchy joes that asked for it. Abaco had (and still has to some degree) a distinct heritage and had every right to choose to remain as part of the UK (or become it's own independent nation), but yet "self-determination" didn't apply to a group of White people that wanted to have a say over their own affairs. Hypocrisy at it's finest from the government.

Matter like this kind of blurs the line between public and private affairs. I'm fairly certain Tribune locks comments on matters pending before the courts for liability concerns, but I imagine they probably left this one open out of public interest.

Sad but true. Decriminalizing weed is the right idea but we all know ordinary Bahamians will never be able to establish themselves in the business should it ever become fully legalized. Rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

As much as it is in your interest to cause strife in the FNM camp, you know full well comparing the 2017 general and the recent by-election is a huge false equivalency. It didn't matter who the FNM leader was in 2017, people were sick of Christie and ready to vote in a potcake if they had to in order to get him out of office. West End & Bimini has always been a PHellP stronghold, which is why Papa told the FNM not to waste money competing in the by-election there. Davis has not aroused public scorn to anywhere near the levels of Christie or Minnis, so there was no reason for the FNM to ever think they were going to win that seat in the first place.

The Minnis era is done and over with, Minnis should have completely retired from politics considering the catastrophic losses the FNM suffered in the last general election; some of the seats they lost have never voted PHellP in the entire history of the Bahamas. Anyone still clinging to Minnis as the future of the FNM is blind and delusional.

Davis would deserve re-election if he had the balls to completely privatize BPHell, finding a competent company that could keep the power on and preventing thousands of dollars worth of appliances from being fried every year. Ideologically speaking I am opposed in principle to a private company having complete control over our national power grid, but honest to God BPHell is so incompetently run that the service could only improve by doing so. Get your generators and candles ready, summer soon reach.

The problem with this topic is that most Bahamians are not capable of discussing it logically and separated from emotion. Rape between two strangers is simple to prove, 1.) there will be physical signs of a struggle 2.) there will be DNA of some sort left behind after the act. The problem with proving marital rape (and rape where there is any sort of established relationship) is that the first proof is often lacking with these claims, and the second alone isn't sufficient to prove that rape occurred if there aren't other concurrent signs (documented history of abuse, physical signs of struggle, injuries etc.). Davis is correct, divorce is simply the best solution that doesn't run the risk of unjustly imprisoning an innocent man. With a crime as heinous as rape, the burden of proof has to be exponentially higher and the testimony of the victim alone is not enough to fairly convict someone. It's not like the courts are in any way favourable to men, a woman, even without the claim of rape, should be able to secure custody of any children and associated support and alimony with relative ease. It really is the most convenient solution to this issue but people do not want to think logically regarding this matter.