So what you are really saying is that Bahamian newspaper editors, in operation for 229 years, are so bad at succession planning that they still have to import foreigners. Well, our first newspaper editor was an immigrant, I guess it continues...

However, after speaking to many of the Bahamians employed in junior positions at the Tribune, a different picture emerges, and that says that they are not given opportunities to gain additional qualifications.

Perhaps all these cabinet members - Christie, Fitzgerald, Halkitis and Pinder - ought to take a couple of English classes at the institution they may, deliberately or not, destroy. Then, they may be able to make public statements that actually make sense.

And might I suggest that the PM drags his Acting Financial Secretary, Ehurd Cunningham, who wrote the letter to COB along. In between classes, Mr. Cunningham could fill in the PM on what other letters he sent out on ministry letterhead that Perry might otherwise claim not being aware of.

Perhaps, the Progressive Young Liberals should take some basic college level math classes, then they might realise that the budget reduction requested cannot be realised without reducing the headcount and the quality and level of service. However, that would require them to sever the umbilical cord that feeds them the party's Kool Aid.

I really don't have the time go tget all worked up about an ignorant member of the clergy spewing nonsense. However, it is really sad that the Tribune considers this newsworthy, which it is not, for a variety of reasons.

For isntance, if the Tribune has any journalistic integrity, simple factchecking would have shown that Simeon Hall mixes half truths with myths to push his agenda.

Or because he has been at it for years, and did not add anything new to his latest round of hate mongering.

Bahamians beware! Soon, you will be unwelcome strangers in the heart of your own nation's capital.

Fitzgerald make it sound like spending funds (investing) in education was a bad thing...

At Orlando, Bahamasair dealt with a backlog from Friday night, when the evening flight was cancelled due to maintenance issues, and allegedly they didn't operate a full schedule on Saturday either, due to maintenance problems. While dealing with the backlog, one of their new jets appears to have been stuck in the hangar in Nassau.

The policy the Orlando staff adopted was "Foreigners First." On Monday morning, they segregated the waiting passengers into two lines. One for tourists and one for residents. They then flew out the tourists and some expats, before giving any seats to Bahamians. After about nine hours waiting, they told the Bahamians to come back Tuesday.

No first come, first serve. No stuck the longest, out the soonest. No familes with children first. No confirmed reservations for the actual flight first. (Some foreigners actually got on earlier flights than they had booked!) Just plain old discrimination against the people whose taxpayer money keeps that airline going.

This is almost as if they'd won the Hunger Games.

But seriously, I've got news: the GOLD medal *is* the reward for olympic achievement. There is no logic to demand rewards *for* gold medals.

I didn't even notice the taxis were gone. Most of the lines were still yellow indicating that mere mortals such as myself had no business there, and whenever I walked down Bay Street, I was harassed by taxi drivers soliciting business.

Let me see if I understand this correctly. Jerome Fitzgerald, Minister of Education and as such in charge of the country's government schools, boasts that his ministry spent so much money over the summer that the recipients of these tax dollars can now send their kids to private schools and no longer have to rely on the government ones they just repaired? Got it.