Thank you.

Wrong.
Our internet is so bad that no business would get done on the Family Islands without cash.

Mr. Straughn,
Your statements are a joke.
You should find another career.
You say,
"It’s not profitable. None of the Family Islands are profitable. Zero. That’s why all the other banks pulled out. We’re there. The shareholders [the Government, through NIB and the Public Treasury] want us to be there to service the island.”
Mr. Straughn, banking is a national service critical to the functioning of a society..
Bank of Bahamas was, and could be profitable, except for the historical incompetent management and sticky fingers of far too many in your organization..
You must know this from reading this paper for the last 20 years, yes?.
BOB has failed, just like every other SOE in this country. Correct?
Maybe NIB and Bahamas Air and Water & Sewerage should all "pull out" too?
They are also losing money.
I have personally spent 15 years asking BOB for sensible improvements on our Family Island.
BOB officials have not been honest, responsive, or seem to care about the Family Islands.
Get off your high horse Mr. Straughn. You are a mouthpiece for a failed company.
For you to suggest that the Family Islanders don't support BOB is crazy.
Maybe, like me, they are tired of the empty words, the shitty service and the pretense that you are doing us a favor. Do you know how much time I have spent trying to get BOB to do the right thing?
And, you want to know why anyone would waste their time coming to your silly Photo-op meetings. KMA
Your statements are an affront to all Family Islanders in this country.
I have heard 10 year olds make more sense than you, Mr. Straughn.

Perhaps there will come a time when the Bahamian government will see green that is not money.
Mega yachts have no place in the Family Islands.

And it takes 5 times more time to accomplish the same things.

Why are "the officials" and "The People" always opposite, and contradicting each other?

We continue to vote in people who have no vision for The Bahamas.
Things will get worse, before they get better.
It almost seems like The People just don't care.

Please understand ThisisOurs, that the diet of hate started decades ago.
The hate started as the Zionists started ethnically cleansing Palestine.
You have to read things other than what the media puts forth for you to read.
The State of Israel should not be in the Middle East.
If anywhere, it should be in Europe, where most Israelis come from.
Do your homework.
The Palestinians were in Palestine. for 4000 years.
How long have Bahamians been in The Bahamas?
So, if an Arawak comes to your door and says, This is Ours, what would you say?
Let's be intelligent and fair-minded here.
The hate has been unleashed by the Zionists since before Israel was created in 1948.
The world is finally waking up to what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank.
Some, it seems, take longer to see the truth.

"As a result, this source voiced fears that the procurement portal’s administrator, namely the Government, could have been able to access various bid submissions with officials potentially able to pass intelligence on rivals’ offers to favoured groups."
I cannot imagine that anyone in the government would pass along restricted private information to their family, friends or business partners.
That would be wrong, yes?
Without a robust freedom of information act, there will NEVER be any honesty in government. And, perhaps why there are so very few honest politicians here in The Bahamas.

With results like these in the news headline, how do we also not acknowledge the national failure of our educational system, in helping to produce a political class and a populace that performs at this level?
The swim team did great. How about our political class? Winners or losers?
Not a hard question to answer, hey?
The people of The Bahamas are becoming poorer and poorer, due specifically, and solely to the actions of our government.