So much nonsense.
1. Get rid of Sands the director. He is a liar, I know from first hand experience.
2.Get rid of the deputy director who goes and recruits Cuban teachers often with no expertise in that subject area and little interest in the system other than getting all they can from Amazon to take back. I know this for a fact.
3. Separate academic from practical students.
4. Simplify the subjects offered at Primary level. Why the hell teach Spanish when they can't even write or read properly when they reach high school.
5. Stop this nonsense of making Heads of department to give "them the experience" when often they are junior to experienced members of staff in that department.
6. Stop all the nonsense 1/2 days, teacher appreciation days, visiting gospel groups and all the other time wasting events.
In effect the system is broken, often with poor vindictive and insecure Principals.

There are many ways to start to solve the financial crisis which has to happen if a final downgrade and devaluation is not to occur,
1. Retire all these so called political consultants ex:Baltron Bethel
2. Allow natural wastage in the civil service to reduce salaries bill.
3.Find an efficient method of taxing all the winter resident homes being rented.
4. Apply a small but daily "hook" tax on popular boating destinations such as Exuma.
5. Re evaluate expensive projects such as the election grabbing Palmetto Point hospital. $30,000000 ??????
6. Take legal action to reclaim monies paid as political rewards such as the purchase of land for the P.Point hospital from a former minister when crown land is available.

Birdie you are a classic example of the old ,frayed, corrupt , mindless PLP supporter who will not or are not capable of seeing the absolute mess the country is in and a stubborn refusal to see the need for urgent change.

All I can assume Birdie is that you are one of the favoured who has had handouts, jobs or other benefits from the PLP. Can't you get it through your more than thick skull that the past government not only increased taxes dramatically and not only spent it but borrowed more. In simple English there is a recent warning by educated financial experts that very soon without action the national debt paytments will equal the entire national GDP. That means zero cash for infrastructure, investment, etc etc etc. We have got rid of the old guard PLP who have run this country like their own club, just throwing a few crumbs out to people like you knowing you would be happy. Minnis has one hell of a job treading the fine line between economic recovery and taxation, but it is now or never and whatever you might think he inherited the financial mess created by your hero.

The government has to be tough and decisive. Natural wastage in the civil service, dismissal of all the so called in house consultants, Taxing winter residents on rental income, total review of projects such as the mini hospital in Central Eleuthera and many others, taxing visitors boats using a hook tax inplaces such as Exuma where there are 4 or 500 boats enjoying our waters for free. In short cut expenditure.
Mind you crafty Christie pulled a smart one with the Police back pay. If re-elected in all probability that promise would have been delayed or stopped. Not elected (as we now know) he leaves the problem with a new administration already cash strapped.

No Birdie, the FNM government will not have it easy as they have one hell of a financial mess to clean up created by your corrupt ex government. As for transparency you are so deluded when you consider all the unexplained VAT expenditure, the extra hirings , the money handed out prior to the election, the 52 week job hiring just before the election, the purchase of property in central Eleuthera from ex PLP minister for a so called hospital, just before the election, the contract signing for the hospital just before the election. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. One thing Minnis needs to do is get ride of the rest of the old farts milking the public purse -Baltron Bethel for one.

I agree that outright discrimination is wrong but there are wrongs that need to be righted such as unqualified persons assuming top positions above senior experienced staff in the same dept. Look at the staffing at National Insurance in Governors Harbour as a great example.

Great victory but now reality sets in and the FNM is burdened with all the debt, extra hirings, infrastructure failures to deal with. I look forward to seeing some of the skeletons in the PLP closet being exposed especially the use of VAT unless of course the shredding machines were working double time last night. Now what happens to the 12 month hirings made just before the election, the 30 million dollar hospital for central Eleuthera. If Minnis is sensible he will review everything very carefully and prune were necessary. As a suggestion instead of rapid and instant downsizing of the bloated civil service use natural wastage like retirement and death as a way. Less political fall out. The reality is that unless a proper fiscal budget is prepared and implemented we still face downgrading, devaluation and IMF. At least we have a chance and hopefully have a Prime Minster who doesn't believe in "pissing away money". I guess Austin Knowles Junior must have wasted a lot of money in the lead up to the election and his wife's position as head of National Insurance in Governors Harbour definitely needs reviewing.

Thank God OB W is out. They screw up and now Jibrilu says vendors will be paid. And if that ever happens I guess we the public will pay out of VAT money. Furthermore how was stuff inported without customs duties being paid and where is all that stuff now. Any half wit could tell you that the MOT should never have sanctioned this to coincide with the Exuma Regatta for many reasons. But we all know that if this event had been a success then OBIE and the MOT would be claiming how well they worked.

Hey were having a $30,000,000 hospital on Eleuthera with operating theatre, morgue, dental, trauma treatment and more. Um! It took for ages to get a permanent doctor to come to Central so how are we going to staff an operating theatre. Oh the pigs just flew past the window.