sheeprunner12,
Be careful about asking pertinent questions.
The cost of enforcing these onerous regulations will far outweigh the revenue being brought in.
At some point, there will be a violent confrontation between the Fisheries officers or police and those Family Islanders who have simply had enough.
This truly seems to be an out of control government The people simply can't take any more taxes and rules.

Obviously not a boater and have no clue about the Family Islands.
A most ridiculous comment, birdie.

The most important takeaway from this report is that we need to completely replace the entire government.
Completely.
They have failed, or been part of the problem. Every one of them.
Yes, or no?

Now, also go tell everyone who wears a uniform in this country that a wearing uniform does not make them God. Especially the police.
"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely."
And, "The cult of personality" is a real thing, hey?
Crazy stuff going on in this world.

Isn't "bad optics" the same as bad reality?
What's the difference?

So the bible says the poor will always be with us, birdie,
Could that possibly mean to a thinking Christian that we will always have work to do, to take care of our brothers and sisters? Does it say we should get used to it? Turn our backs as we do now?
Illiterate people who claim to "read and comprehend" the bible, and then pontificate about said bible, are as dangerous as any devil.

Is it time to realize that no Bahamian government cares about The People?

Not everyone believes the bible is a property conveyance.
You can convert to being a Jew. Can you convert to being Palestinian?
I hear all this talk about solutions being ephemeral.
Nonsense. We have just been brainwashed to think we do not have the capacity for reasonable and just solutions. Not everyone will be happy, but that does not mean the solutions are not just.

These are pretty strong accusations themessenger.
With which I wholeheartedly agree.

Please dear editor,
Allow me one correction to your opinion piece.
You state, "The reprisals, with Gaza crushed by the Israel counteroffensive, has been equally shocking."
While you also state that this whole issue did not begin on Oct. 7.
Anyone who has taken the time to study apartheid, recognizes that Israel has imposed apartheid on the Palestinians.
Therefore, I would argue, as do many others, that this action by Hamas was the counteroffensive, in the context of being held captive in what most honest observers call an open-air concentration camp.
Israel's illegal occupation of Gaza, imposing it's unqualified cruel assault on civilians and collective punishment as defined by the highest courts in the world, is the first offensive.
Hamas, as anybody who is dignified would do, fought back. Context is not an excuse. However, nobody in their right minds,would submit, or subject themselves to Israel's unarguable dehumanization campaign against an entire population.
So, Israel did not launch a counteroffensive.
They launched another offensive against the freedom fighters who are literally fighting for their lives, against a totally immoral army and government.
Imagine the German government and people speaking like the Israeli's do.
Imagine hearing German children singing about killing Jews, while the Holocaust was being committed.
It's hard enough to imagine how the German people allowed the holocaust to happen. At least there was a plausible deniability, since they didn't have the technology available at that time. Today, we are witnessing a genocide by any reasonable definition, while the world stands by and has meetings.
Pretty sick, hey?