I think you should all calm the f**k down and await the results of the full investigation.

Accidents happen everywhere. People die in those accidents everywhere. Tragic as these deaths are, they are no different to the deaths that happen all over the world in similar circumstances every day.

How one can immediately jump to the conclusion that all boats operating in the Bahamas are unsafe when they have operated for decades every single day without incident, is just beyond all logical comprehension.

Over the next few months we will get a reset in the Bahamian economy. This pretence that commercial property on new Providence has some huge value will be killed off once and for all. None of these properties will come even close to finding a buyer at appraised prices and finally people will realise that the true market value is about 10% of what estate agents have been "appraising". Only once all this has happened and commercial property hits rock bottom can we start the long march back to rebuilding the economy.

Observer2, you are just plain wrong. For a Canadian to avoid paying income tax in Canada he has to prove that he was physically outside of Canada for a certain period during the tax year. No one asks him or cares where he was. He could have been on the moon or in the Bahamas, it makes not a jot of difference. He could own 10 houses in the Bahamas, it still makes no difference.

1. It will not be a "private company's" database, it will be the government's. The private company will set up the system and database, the government will populate it.

2. All this information the government already has. It is just in different departments and in paper format. You can't add to a database anything you don't already have.

3. It exists everywhere in the civilised world and operates with minimal dangers, if well protected and run.

So, unless the argument is that Bahamian civil servants are a bunch of useless...wait, you are right!!

LOL. Impossible to manage for the largest and most developed western countries? What do you think a Social Security number is in the USA, if not the single number they talk about. And that has been around since before computers.
There isn't a single western country that does not have this system. The UK is 100% online. The difficulty will not be in setting up the system, it will be in running it. The government simply does not have trained staff. They should outsource everything.

You might as well say: if they were not part of the Bahamas but were in the USA.

Then almost the whole world would agree with you.

Tech workers have families. Families consist of wives and children. Wives have to have something to do while their husbands are at work and children need to go to school. Where does the Minister suggest they do this on Grand Bahama?

Take up will be embarrassingly low. Let's face it: would you choose to live on Grand Bahama?

You are so right. We should appoint Loretta to be Head of State. Only problem is, we would have to make the stamps twice as large to fit her silhouette onto them.

I read this wrong first time round. I thought he said: "Grand Bahamas can be the new sitcom valley."

Then I realised that is what he probably meant.

No, that is the way it is designed to work and SHOULD work. The fact that we are a banana republic and bastardize and spoil anything and everything is an entirely different matter.