The cost of airfares FROM the Bahamas is beyond a joke and in part due to the usual high taxation on the tickets. Look at any Jet Blue cost going from and coming to the Bahamas. You can fly return from MIA to London return for around $500 today yet BA from Nassau to London is in excess of $1100. Nothing but nothing in the Bahamas focuses on lowering prices with lots of talk but no real action. Consider a family holiday to Eleuethera. Silver airways $350 -$1200
hotel room $150 -$500 a night. Average meal for one in restaurant with a drink $100 + 30 % tax. We have breathtaking beaches and friendly people but there are similar places all over the world a great deal cheaper.+

Check any Bahamian dictionary the words government maintenance do not exist .Furthermore when we have at least one school in the Bahamas with a roof that has leaked like a sieve for over 10 years, a clinic that does not have basics like printer ink/ear drops or blood pressure medicine and roads that have holes that break axles and you wonder why we have fourth world voodoo economics in these grandiose nonsensical vote getting schemes.

I agree but having said that didn't most of us as teenagers do stuff that we look back on and say "how stupid and how lucky I was to survive" ?

Yes repairs are going on but there are glaring examples where new concrete paths and flower beds take first place over a leaking roof.

Its a fact that should you want to murder someone with a gun or knife and get caught you are going to Fox Hill for a long time.Much better to kill them with your car as the price of a human life then is $5000 fine. Fact.

In my career I have seen vulgar, unqualified employees promoted simply because they had a relative in a position of power or their political loyalty. In fact given my time again and realising that hardwork,punctuality,dedication mean nothing I would take sick days, get sick slips from the GP even if I wasn't ill, and not volunteer for any thing.

Words, words and more words.. Sometimes you wonder who these speakers are actually reffering to they are so glowing.

Maybe Dr Sands would like to look into nurses (usually senior) selling medication,using two sets of books, charging but refusing to give reciepts,taking a slice of emergency flight charges and on and on..And when caught prosecute don' just move them.

So true about the negative comments .I am an atheist and show a damn site more Christian concern than many of these Sunday Christians. This is about a chlld's life not about who is right or wrong. America bends the rules when it suits them and anybody who debates the rights and wrongs that this innocent girl finds herself in needs to re-evaluate their Christian beliefs.

National lottery ,but there again most of the monies collected will disappear before reaching the treasury.