No government minister should ever have absolute say over anything.....we are a people living in a land of laws who recognize and accept the rule of law.....we are under no obligation whatsoever to recognize and accept any arbitrary or whimsical rules, edicts and findings purporting to have been promulgated by any cabinet minister who might think he sits as an all-powerful dictator. Any decision of a cabinet minister must be properly and transparently grounded in relevant laws and regulations that do not run afoul of our Constitution. Accordingly, no decision of a cabinet minister should ever be beyond reproach or appeal to a higher authority with the minister being held personally liable for any gross negligence or misconduct on his or her part that constitutes an abuse of office that violates the public trust.

@Norman_t seems to be acutely aware of the bigger political picture as well as some of the more obvious costly difficulties of doing business in our country today because of the very dysfunctional communicative and information sharing issues we have between our various government departments and agencies. He certainly appreciates that there is a very greedy economic ruling class who are hell bent on making sure they do not pay their fair share of taxes and fees to the government by supporting our existing very regressive tax structure rather than a progressive one that would have them pay their fair share of our country's revenue needs. This is no laughing matter as we have seen families like the Symonettes and Wilsons unjustly accumulate massive amounts of additional wealth over the last decade or so. The playing field has never been more uneven and the resulting gap between the haves and have nots has never been greater. This is no laughing matter! Capitalism must be played on an even playing field and those capitalists who do best financially should have no problem paying their fair share of our country's tax needs through the implementation of a much fairer progressive income tax structure.

Stop crying for patience. Anyone who knows anything about law enforcement and the criminal justice system will tell you that time always favours the criminals....records conveniently get lost, witnesses disappear, the memories of other witnesses become foggier, etc. etc. Successfully prosecuting criminals requires an aggressive gathering of the relevant evidence at the earliest possible time and court hearings on the earliest possible dates. It may be the people's time, but time is working against the people as regards their desire to see senior and other officials in the last government held accountable and responsible for their abuse of the public's trust by engaging in corrupt and other illegal actives for their own unjust self-gain and wrongful enrichment at the expense of the Bahamian people.

It's also very important that those involved in gathering the evidence of wrong doing and illegal activities by senior officials in the last administration keep their traps shut until such time that criminal charges can be filed. Prosecutable cases can be irreparably harmed by politicians wagging their tongues for no good reason, and Kwasi Thompson is a classic example of an immature politician with a loose tongue!

And we still don't know whether his "pre-arranged commitment out of the country" related to his own health. His refusal to say that his absence was not connected to his own health says it all. It certainly seems Mr. Bannister does not feel the least bit compelled to allay the public's very natural concerns about his health and fitness to serve the Bahamian people as a cabinet minister with responsibility for the very significant Works portfolio. Where is all of that transparency Minnis keeps talking about?

A close friend of Minnis.

Re-post: Sadly it's the pharmaceutical enterprises that are driving everything today when it comes to labelling, diagnosing and treating the myriad of different types of mental illness. Psychologists and psychiatrists are steered for the most part wherever big pharma research and pill producers choose to take them with the goal being the maximization of profits for all concerned from writing scripts for expensive pills to charging hefty hourly rates for talking softly to patients. Keeping it all much more simple and less costly with typically better results was thrown out of the window many years ago by big pharma in the U.S., Germany, Switzerland and France. The long term effects of many of the medications prescribed today are intended to create permanent chemical imbalances that leave patients dependent on expensive pills for the remainder of their lives. My brother was a victim of all of this greed and foolishness....and it's also why most health insurers refuse to provide affordable significant coverage for most types of mental illness.

One of his/her weird friends on the very dark side of the internet has probably already 'checked you out'....they just love a challenge of almost any kind, especially one framed as some kind of threat to a friend....tread lightly and be careful what you wish for.....anonymity is not what it used to be thanks to hackers putting many of the intelligence agency trade secrets and tools in the public domain.

The OECD countries also don't like the idea that we have an exchange control regime with the Bahamian dollar supposedly still pegged at par against the U.S. dollar. They would like nothing more than to see our country destabilized (as a result of their ever increasing burdensome requirements) to the point where our Bahamian dollar is significantly devalued and made to float against the U.S. dollar. This is their ultimate goal which will allow them and their greedy corporate interest groups to acquire our natural resources, utility enterprises, etc. at bargain basement prices, leaving the Bahamian people to be nothing but economic slaves for their new foreign masters!