I agree, but having learn't to fly on a 150 the payload is very small and there is no room power wise for any unexpected changes in weather or other emergencies. Nothing wrong with adventure but pushing the envelope added to the fact he really hadn't flown for sometime and did a quick refresher course only add to the risks not to say those of the persons searching. Anyway Ta since when did I become a communist (comrade)?

To compare Minnis with Mitchell is like compring Hitler to Winston Churchill. Funny how we demand our politicians instantly change direction and be proactive but then along comes lawyers who themselves often have little in the way of a moral compass.

You conveniently forget that the last incompetent government wasted all the money and borrowed even more so just where are the funds to retain these nurses to come from.

How about this for stupidity from the PLP. Fired two foreign nurses from Eleuthera who wanted to stay, even better did not renew the contract of a long serving foreign doctor who wanted to stay. Consequently no permanent doctor in Central Eleuthera for over 2 years. Only just have a permanent doctor who I am told is worked off her feet.

Cessna 150 - a training aircraft not suited to a long flight like this especially over water. Small payload and underpowered in a headwind.

So very true its not only the building but some of the staff are downright lazy and some are dishonest. Waste of time ordering practical mechanics or National Geographic or any other periodical as it gets stolen and never reaches. I once had an annual subscription to an international newspaper. Got one edition then nothing. Newspaper company traced every issue arriving in Nassau. So where did it go. Absolute bloody disgrace.

Always has been a bloody disgrace. Aside from anything else theft of magazines and newspapers is rampant and has been for over 30 years.

Hate to say it but the economy is Bankrupt and things will get worse before they get better. The Christie administration would be in jail if they had been managing a private company.They continued on a path that they knew would end in disaster so it is even more perplexing why they would like to be re-elected knowing the ultimate looming fiscal crisis.

Very true but so many ignorant Bahamians think there is a magic money tree growing somewhere and have an I'm alright jack attitude. The drug days of free flowing dollars are over yet many Bahamians spend up to the hilt on non essentials. I think that even die hard PLP's are getting worried.

Try Eleuthera, where clinics have 52 week employees doing little or nothing, or extra security and and janitors in the schools, or hundreds of thousands spent on ripping a huge hill before foundations can even start for the dreamland hospital. Why hire Cuban teachers when there are trained unemployed Bahamians teachers.Why not retrain or take qualified Bahamians in the community for teaching ? The last administration only wanted to keep their cushy jobs and crooked contracts and now everyone will pay the price. How Brave Davies has the absolute balls to even consider leadership of the PLP when he is as inefficient and self serving as the rest is beyond belief.