It's quite bizarre. It's not necessary to say that the Tribune knows who the informant is and then give so much personal details about the person. It adds no value to the article and exposes the informant.

A step in the right direction, if they achieve the 50/50 split. Unfortunately, we don't have a large enough community of workers with experience building hospitals. Hopefully, at the end of this, we have developed skills and experience in the community to take on more projects.

It's a complicated issue. Yes, it's a risk to take this medication. But it's also a risk not being able to afford to buy any medication. Or a risk to spend what little you have on medication and have nothing left for healthy food or the things you need to work and exist in society (clothes, shelter, etc.). So people are doing their personal risk assessment and trying their best to afford to live. They decide in this brutal system and condition they are in that they can better take on added risk than spend extra money. Of course, pharmacies or any business will be profit-seeking; otherwise, they will soon be out of business, but they aren't seeking maximum profits, else they would charge the same as the regulated medication. They still have to pay for the products, logistics, staff wages, building, utilities, etc. If legitimate pharmacies/pharmacists are selling unregulated medication, then at least they are adding some value with their professional knowledge of how to handle the medication and when it may be too risky. If you push it out of the pharamacies then it will go to being sold out of someones house.

What's a solution? Help the consumer afford safe legitamate medication. How? Negotiate better deals with suppliers and countries that supply the medication, supplement the cost (essential and dangerous medication government assistance programs), and improve the earning opportunities for Bahamians. Don't waste money regulating and enforcing; instead, direct that money and effort towards helping people to afford the regulated medication. And that's my five cents. Good luck everyone

Horrible. Where are they getting acid from? Dangerous chemicals should only be sold to professionals who have a license/training on how to handle and securely store them, and first aid/WHMIS. People who have enough sensibility, responsibility and would think twice about losing their licensing/career if they misuse the dangerous chemicals.

Where are people buying acid from? Maybe these dangerous chemicals should only be sold to licensed/trained professionals. It seems like there's an acid attack every few years in the news.

Our government only cares about staying in power (passing it around their circle of peers PLP/FNM doesn't matter, it's the same group) and making money for themselves and their friends. Every action and decision is made based on this.

Yes, why is the government/enforcement allowing buildings to be occupied and businesses to operate that aren't up to code and without insurance? If insurance companies don't want to insure, then that means there's something wrong because they will gladly take your money if their risk calculations show they will get more money from insurance payments than what they payout in insurance claims.

And what will they do? After public officials let it happen and said it would lighten the load

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It's a joke. They need more people paying into it than taking out of it, plus more to pay for their cuts, operational costs and inefficiencies in managing the money. The way these programs are supposed to work is 1) working people pay into it, 2) that money contributed today is pooled together and invested intelligently (not spent today), and 3) at the time of retirement, that invested money has grown significantly to pay the person who once contributed.

Currently, the way it's working 1) they've already mismanaged and lost the money of the people who are currently withdrawing, 2) NIB is a complete mess, 3) NIB immediately spends current contributions paying retirees and operational costs and losses, 4) no investment of the money, 5) they need more people (aka NIB wants more money).

Let it fail. and refund+interest all contributions of people who haven't had a chance to benefit from it yet. Why should the people be forced to contribute to a plan that is mismanaged and regularly threatens that it will not exist when current contributors are old enough and need to collect a pension? Let people keep their money if the program can't do any better with it.