Mr. Young,
You are living in a colonial mindset world.
The dissolution of NATO is long overdue.
Thankfully, the youth of the world, along with the remaining moral thinking class is abandoning your way of thinking.
The international isolation is not Israel's alone.
The U.S. and Britain are also isolated now, due to their unwavering support for obvious genocide.
In your above article, you failed to mention how the Palestinians have been dehumanized, tortured and killed for the last 70 years by a state created by England in a land they had no business in.
Why did you fail to mention that?
And furthermore, most honest scholars would challenge your assertion that Israel is a democracy.
It is not.

Precisely!
Very, very few foreign vessels cruising in Bahamian waters are ever searched. Even if they were, do we not remember prohibition? Despite heavy fines, what curtailed the flow of liquor? Nothing.
Think of where Bay Street would be if the.........
There is NO WAY to stop the flow of guns if people want them. Period.
Why do we refuse to learn? Why do we embrace the silly statements by men in uniforms? Do we ask the operating room janitor why the patient got sick? No, their job is simply to clean up the mess. Just like the police force.
We somehow refuse to accept that we have raised a group of young people who have no respect for anything. Not each other, not adults, not even life itself.
All one has to do is to look around Nassau to see what we are creating. Guns, knives, gasoline, acid, rocks, it doesn't matter. If people want to create harm and chaos, they will do so.
No thinking adults in this room, hey?

"However, the judge found that Mr Turnquest breached his fiduciary duty to Alpha Aviation, as one of its directors, over the deed of release with Mr Kaiser asserting that he was “attempting to justify the unjustifiable”. The former deputy prime minister argued that there could be no breach because his actions were approved by the Sky Bahamas principal.

“I find that the first defendant procured the execution of the deed of release without the knowledge of the beneficial owner, the other director of the company,” Justice Card-Stubbs found. “I find that he acted alone - without the knowledge of Mr Kaiser.... The actions of the first defendant do not reflect the conduct of a director required to ‘act honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the company’.”

Immoral and illegal have rather different, convenient meanings, don't they?
Suggesting to an observer that we are rather good at straddling that line.

After the sale of BTC to Cable & Wireless our cell phone and internet has gotten worse and worse.
We used to have 2 full time technicians and regular business office hours.
Not anymore.
The phone and internet service on our Family Island is deplorable.
Yet, BTC continues to charge as if they are delivering the service they advertise.
They do not. That is called fraud.
I would bet there is not one person on our Family Island who is satisfied with BTC.
BTC, and URCA have been informed of this for over a decade.
Nobody seems to care. Both organizations appear useless.
Especially now that most all government business is online now, BTC is failing us.
Thank God for Starlink.
They will soon put BTC out of business.
Good riddance..

Mr Mitchell had previously said in the House of Assembly he was “irritated” by journalists contacting him, saying it was none of their business.
This sums up the attitude of most politicians.
I believe that everything "governmental" should be known by the public.
No secret nothing.
These people are paid with OUR money.
Amazing how they think they're something above the rest of us.
These attitudes exemplify the minds of small people.
Those who have no business involved with The People's business.
Wonder what really keeps them in power?

Stand your ground.
You are right.
The history is there for all to see.
Most just choose not to.

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.