And with the opening up of Cuba, the cruise ship owners will take any excuse our government gives them to channel their business elsewhere. The cruise ship owners have been complaining for years that Christie and Obie Wilchcombe have done virtually nothing to make the Bahamas a more appealing place for their passengers. What little has been done was done by the cruise ship owners themselves for the most part.

Christie likes to hold himself out to be a modern day Robin Hood by letting the poor think he will take from the rich to give to them. But whatever Christie takes from the rich never makes it to the poor......most of it goes straight to his wealthy cronies! Christie's penchant for buying votes any way he can has created a bloated non-productive public sector and a grossly mismanaged and dysfunctional social welfare system in our country, the cost of which is now impossible to sustain.

Coca-Cola's token gesture here in distributing water is appreciated of course, but our government should nevertheless proceed with its plans to introduce a special sin tax on all of the so called "sugar-loaded drinks", whether produced locally or imported. The special sin tax on such drinks should be set at a rate equal to or greater than the sin tax rate levied on cigarettes. It also should be in addition to any other duties, excise taxes, VAT, etc. that currently apply to these unhealthy addictive sugar-loaded products. Most of us know that consuming too much candy, too much ice-cream or too much of most other high sugar content products is bad for our health. But the producers of these other sugar-loaded products differ from the likes of Coca-Cola in that they do not aggressively and callously target their unheathy and highly addictive products at our children and young adults. Our Minister of Health (Gomez) should be pressing for this new special sin tax to be implemented at the earliest possible time!

I would not put it past Minnis to have offered "Tubes-be-Tied" Lightbourn a Senate seat appointment for taking his boot from candidacy for the HOA in the next general election so gracefully. Minnis is just that stupid!

This is the type of shamelessly named event that only someone like Sir Snake's son Frannon (sp?) could have dreamed up in conjuction with the crude likes of Sebas Bastian.

It was Christie's inability to control his innate vindictiveness towards Zarkis Izmirlian that resulted in the entire Baha Mar debacle!

You're so right....she is one nut-head that proves nuts like her never fall far from the tree....and we all know which corrupt tree she fell from....the one whose name has the initials CTM, deceased (praise and thanks to Lucifer!).

You're so right....she is one nut-head that proves nuts like her never fall far from the tree....and we all know which corrupt tree she fell from.

Don't be so naive. Each member of the PLP party apparatus (including the most senior stalwart councilors and "Big Bad Brad" himself) is beholden to whomever puts the most "feathers" in their nest.....with a dollar sign before "feathers". And right now, the numbers bosses consider Christie to be a "political has been" who serves absolutely no purpose for them going forward. Craig Flowers and Sebas Bastian know well to whom they must cut their cheques to serve the political ambitions of their annointed man - Sears! Poor Perry now has so many long knives drawn at his back that he dare not look over his shoulder!

I would be looking for pretty much the same qualities one would expect in a fair and balanced free press. Qualities the The Tribune sorely lacks!