Seems to me, that the last person one should place trust in is a criminal defense lawyer.
Just my opinion.
I hire and vote for a person based on character.
Enough said.

Funny these comments.
A free market is what we boast about, yet few seem educated enough to see the difference of what we practice.
What is seriously gouging the Bahamian people is the level of theft and corruption by those in political office.
This other stuff is merely a distraction.
What we need are 30 secret shoppers in the Office of the Prime Minister and other offices to route out the real corruption and theft that is much greater than what the private sector is doing.
Were we to prosecute and punish those politicians who are stealing from the Bahamian people we would see prices, licenses and fees drop across the country.
Any business person knows this, yet we keep playing the game, tight lipped.
We need some independent outsiders to come in and police our politicians. Period.
We are obviously incapable of finding the moral courage to stop these crimes.
Year after year after year.
Transparency, freedom of information, just meaningless words to these politicians.

I do not disagree, however, these clowns have indebted The Bahamas with their odious loans which will never be repaid. The next few generations of Bahamians will pay dearly for the criminal activities of these two jokey parties.

The very idea that money must be brought up, and worried about, in these unfortunate instances, suggests a dreadful level of criminality and sinfulness in our health care industry and our politics, in general.
Somehow, if even basic humanity, let alone Christian ethics, were to come into play, the very idea that a person's life could hang in the balance due solely to having the money to survive, suggests a true failure of the human spirit, and a repudiation of everything we say we stand for.

Maybe just legalize the drugs and eliminate the underground drug trade.
Is there really something that much worse than the legal alcohol?
Do your homework and see who is the biggest drug cartel in the world.
Hint. It is a government.
Supply and demand. At least the drug runners provide a service.
What do politicians do except live off of other people's hard work and money?
We gave up on critical thinking some years ago.
Now, we've almost lost the ability, haven't we?
Wasn't this country founded on pirating and rum running?

100% correct.
Poor Mr. Todd.

Mr. Todd doesn't seem to grasp the idea that his ability to speak from this position comes on the backs of those willing to shun a non-productive government job, like his, and who actually pays his salary.
It requires the initiative, the planning, the capital, the follow through to produce the funds that run a government and pay Mr. Todd's salary.
It takes an immense amount of economic ignorance not to see that the country's ability to function comes from those who produce, not politicians who merely speak, do little, and than hire government people because of family and friend ties.
The rapid descent of this country, can be completely tied to hiring practices that elevate the politically connected, while shunning those with the brains, education and professional experience required to do a specific job.
There is almost no Bahamian government position in this country that isn't populated by people who are utterly and certifiably, unqualified to perform their basic job duties.
Since independence, it has been a rapid race to the bottom.

The solution to this, and many other problems here, is quite simple.
Pass a law that states that ANYONE who has even been in politics in The Bahamas, can never participate in politics again.
Right from the start, it is impossible that things would not improve.
The chances of getting a more dishonest, incompetent, immoral, lying, self-serving, greedy, arrogant, uneducated, uncouth, and downright criminally oriented group of people to lead this country is extremely low.
Hell, even if we randomly place recent high school graduates, with no experience of any kind, into key positions, including as Prime Minister, we could do no worse than the sordid group of people we now have at the helm of this once great nation.
Who sold the only cash cow we had in this country?
To a company a relative was involved with.
And, have we seen a real benefit to the sale of BTC?
Nope. Worser service, lesser staff, a few million in profit for the deal makers.
Yes, or no?
But, we're still listening to these people.

“This is particularly significant given the observation that, by and large, 70 percent of the land is controlled by the Government,” she said. “That leaves only 15 percent of the land, which is in private hands, not in dispute. Expressed differently, an IDB study in the early 2000s found half the land in private hands was in dispute.”
Half the land in private hands is in dispute, hey?
And, we wonder why some may call us backwards.
Who profits from this?
Lawyers alone.
At some point, it should be recognized that we need some independent outsiders to come in and administer our government. It is beyond clear that we are incapable of doing so,
Far too many older people here have outright stated that they will no longer vote for either the FNM or PLP because of what they have seen in their lifetimes.
Far too many older people have said to me that this is the worst they have ever seen it.
Take this present PLP administration, seemingly devoid of the competency, and the honesty to run anything.
Anyone who would vote for the present political apparatus is part of the problem.
Seems like far too many Bahamians are compromised and dependent upon politicians for their livelihood. The PLP and FNM are two sides of the political failure we see today.
A true recipe for ultimate disaster.
The present political status quo has unquestionably failed the Bahamian people.
The good will flee and the compromised will continue to vote for buffoons.

This is not a Berry Islands problem.
This is a national problem.
Clearly, we need to import some people who can actually function as managers.
Instead, we get a bunch of bumbling fools called PLPs.
Enough already of watching this country go backwards, and then to pretend that the PM and his lackeys are professional, moral and smart.
Losers all.