*Repost:* Minnis just doesn't get it! He values politically motivated 'optics' more than achievements that serve the best interests of the Bahamian people as a whole. This serious weakness of his no doubt resulted in his very short sighted 'shoot-from-the-hips' decision regarding the students from Dominica.

***Repost of @jackbnimble's earlier post:***

"I admit this video affected my sleep because I made the mistake of watching it just before I went to bed but I woke up with these thoughts which I'll leave here for consideration.

We have a PM in office who has not given himself a portfolio so that he can be "free" to be PM. That is commendable. It leaves him free to visit ministries and the Family Iskands and this is all streamed live on Facebook on an almost daily basis. I know because I follow his page and the notifications constantly pop up on my smartphone.

In this case he has visited a mother who lost her 8-year-old son tragically as a result of crime, an issue that continues to plague our country year after year, administration after administration with no clear solutions in sight.

I don't know about you, but if I were PM I would not use these situations as a 'photo op'. In my opinion, a mother's pain is not news!!

i am the PM. I am the chief legislator with the right to pass laws that affect how my country is governed. The Bahamian people have elected me to make the necessary changes to those laws that would, among other things, put a serious dent in crime. Without a portfolio I am now free to focus on this.

I know that my citizens have a major issue with the fact that capital punishment is no longer enforced because of an out-of-touch privy council. What can I do to amend this? I know that the police force is frustrated with the in-and-out system that allows prolific offenders to repeatedly be let out on bail to reoffend. What can I do to fix this? I know that the streets are filled with illegal guns. What can I do to put a dent in that? So I'm not running around playing MP visiting a distraught mother who had lost her son to the crime that I have the ability (through legislation) to fix. Instead, I'm using my press conferences, live feeds and photo ops to demonstrate to my citizens that legislation is being passed to stop it. I may mention that I visited this mother but that her pain motivated me to do something about it.

We have had over 4 juveniles killed in the last 2 months. Did our PM visit any of the other mothers? And what's going to happen when the next child dies by violent crime? Will a visit to the parent be streamed live in social media? If that's the case then we may be getting weekly live feeds because it's getting worse and worse and further you're creating a precedent that may be difficult to follow because other mothers have lost their sons and you haven't visited them.

I say keep focused and do what we elected you to do. Get capital punishment entrenched in the constitution. If it's constitutionally correct to do so, anend the Bail Act to prevent persons charged with serious crimes from being granted bail to reoffend, and pass stiffer gun laws to make persons think twice about picking up a gun.

This is how Governments fight crime. We do not just see you. We FEEL you."

The money so desperately needed for the PMH roof repairs was possibly diverted to the students of Dominica by our 'shoot-from-the-hips' PM. Minnis really should have sent a US$200,000 hurricane relief cheque to the government of Dominica. What he so hastily went ahead and did, without thinking it through, is going to cost our country a whole helluva lot more at the end of the day. Hasty poor judgement indeed, entirely inconsistent with the interests and needs of our own people at this most financially troubling time in our history.

Minnis just doesn't get it! He values politically motivated 'optics' more than achievements that serve the best interests of the Bahamian people as a whole. This serious weakness of his no doubt resulted in his very short sighted 'shoot-from-the-hips' decision regarding the students from Dominica.

We can only hope and pray that Minnis does not fall victim to listening to the typical nonsense and hogwash espoused by IDB reps as they try to encourage our country to borrow more and more so that they can then turn around and bash us for taking on unsustainable debt.

You must be one of those well-to-do Bahamians who can drive through the more impoverished over-the-hill areas of New Providence without appreciating the significance of the easily observable abject poverty that many must endure day in and day out. Too many of us have unfortunately become immune to the sights and sounds of the horrific poverty all around us that has swept over our nation in recent decades. The Salvation Army and other charitable organizations are now struggling to make sure the thousands in need get at least one square meal a day, or every other day.

This is the strong visionary leader you found?!!!.....BOL

*Repost:* We would end up being way ahead by paying back the $100,000 in Hurricane Joaquin relief funds we received from Dominica and should think twice before accepting such token financial relief from any nation in the future if doing so somehow obligates us to do what Minnis has gone ahead and done without careful consideration and thought. If we could, I would support our government cutting a US$200,000 cheque to the people of Dominica and forgoing what Minnis has so foolishly committed us to do. Mark my words, the hidden costs for Bahamians behind Minnis's shoot-from-the-hips mistake will be much more than US$200,000 when all is said and done!

*Repost*: Millions of young children are living in peril and dying of starvation in many African countries. Surely you recognize that while we can feel for their plight and pray for them, there is little else we can do as a country given our very limited resources and serious economic problems. Minnis cannot tell the many thousands of under-privileged and suffering Bahamians, whose lives are imperiled by a lack of food, clean potable water, shelter, electricity and medicines, that our government has very limited resources to help them and then at the same time exacerbate the daily problems experienced by these very same poor Bahamians by opening our country's doors to non-Bahamians in what will undoubtedly prove to be a costly way. Minnis must regret his failure to realize that Bahamians are tired of playing second fiddle to corrupt politicians, exploitative foreign investors, illegal immigrants, etc. etc. But wait, isn't that why we the people elected him? How can he possibly justify putting the needs of others above the equally important and just as serious needs of our own suffering people?

We would end up being way ahead by paying back the $100,000 and should think twice before accepting such token financial relief from another nation in the future if doing so somehow obligates us to do what Minnis has gone ahead and done without careful consideration and thought. If we could, I would support our government cutting a US$200,000 cheque to the people of Dominica and forgoing what Minnis has so foolishly committed us to do. Mark my words, the hidden costs for Bahamians behind Minnis's shoot-from-the-hips mistake will be much more than US$200,000 when all is said and done!