Bi-partisan political corruption must be eliminated. What the Bahamian people are looking for now is alternative political parties not aligned with either PLP or FNM oligarchies that have purposely strangled economic empowerment of black Bahamians regardless of the useless so-called fantasy "black majority rule", which never actually materialized beyond a whole lot of baloney speeches given by empty barrels. Covid-19 has laid the proof bare through-out the country for ALL to "feel".
Bahamians have advocated the PLP and FNM for diversification of the economy and to pay more attention to our dying tourism product literally for decades, to no avail. Both parties proved equally incapable of removing UBP shackles that retards the growth of black Bahamians, and even maintain the shameful racist segregation practice of keeping black Bahamians from gambling in casinos 2020! How is that possible???
COVID-19 does not discriminate between rich, poor, black, white, citizen, or resident. It is an equal dispenser of misery, sickness, and death to ANYONE unfortunate enough to be touched by it!
Usually, people are too busy dealing with their own lives and situations that often times it takes a serious disaster that "touches" everyone to make everybody realize we are all equal, and forces people to come to terms with their mortality, leading to a bringing together of a community with the realization that we all need each other.
Hat's off to the residents of Harbour Island! We can only hope and pray this community sprit of togetherness and self help quickly becomes infectious throughout our country. Otherwise many people simply will not make it to the other side of COVID-19.
Popular synopsis is only the sickest of the sick end up in hospital for COVID19 tests, and that is how they're determining infection numbers. The U.S. is actually using the same criteria and estimates only around 10% of infected persons are actually showing up for the tests as the remaining 90% of infected are either not sick enough to seek medical attention or too terrified to further expose themselves!
Throw in the opening of schools while the virus is totally out of control and this instantly becomes an untenable situation that can and **WILL** only snowball to larger problems.
Why and how Jeff Loyd and Cabinet came to the conclusion that opening schools in the middle of a pandemic made any sense whatever is beyond comprehension. But these same people thought opening the borders to the U.S. was a prudent idea!
The idiots in the U.S. and the idiots here following the great orange wizard Trump stupidity of opening schools in the middle of this coronavirus pandemic are about to have their ass's handed to them on a thin paper platter!
The cane toad was first discovered in Lyford Cay in 2013, breeds twice a year, laying up to 35,000 eggs each time.......And they're happy about catching 400 of them???
If you could pull your head out of your ass so you'd be able to read first-hand realities of what's happening, and also learn that the great and powerful USA is having the same delays securing PPE's also from **CHINA.**
No excuses required. You obviously cannot comprehend what you read, and couldn't be truthful any more than Trump! Not one of your suggestions was even remotely necessary prior to Minnis's gigantic fubar of succumbing to pressure to open the borders! That was indeed an excessively bad judgment call with highly predictable consequences. Now that the error has been made, Minnis has no choice other than what is now being imposed to rectify his huge mistake.
Alternatively, Minnis can bury his head in the sand and act the fool like president Trump pretending an open economy, and a functioning school system can coexist with coronavirus!
The UK developed and about to roll out a new 90-minute testing system while Trump has the US buried in 7 to 10 days test results which are useless due to the long turn around time.
Unquestionably, Minnis screwed up and is far from perfect. However, I would much rather have him as a leader during this time than Perry Christie, Brave Davis, or Donald Trump!
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Lots of idiotic noises in the market place and **NOT ONE** sensible suggestion of what Minnis should be doing differently than other countries to irradicate COVID!
No apologies for PM Minnis missteps, however, coronavirus-19 is a new virus that NOBODY has any experience fighting. Minnis and crew are only human and bound to make mistakes while trying to navigate an unknown course dealing with this pandemic.
Look at the US for example. Regardless of The USA being the richest, and most powerful superpower on the planet, they have proven to be absolute, total, failures dealing with coronavirus-19! The rest of the world looks on with pity at the U.S. government's pathetic "non-response" to COVID-19.
The majority of what PM Minnis has done makes him look like a genius compared to what President Trump has done!
Yes, PM Minnis, you made a terrible decision by succumbing to pressure to open the borders. Now please ignore all these naysayers who altogether combined couldn't come up with a single positive thought for all the tea in China, pick yourself up, dust off your team, and move the country forward as best you can.
Carry on PM Minnis. We are beaten as is every other country in the world, but not defeated!
Unfortunately, we are only experiencing a small but growing groundswell in cases. The real "surge" will be upon us between August 10th and 15th.
The mess in the U.S. is proof that open economies and COVID-19 do not work. Governments' best course of action would be an immediate full lockdown now.
Will someone please enlighten me why we cannot close our borders to the U.S. but the U.S. can close their borders to whomever they want to?
Who would ever expect someone irresponsible enough to knowingly travel to a pandemic hotspot to self quarantine? Obviously, these people don't care about their own lives and well being so why would anyone think they would care about anyone else's?
SP says...
Bi-partisan political corruption must be eliminated. What the Bahamian people are looking for now is alternative political parties not aligned with either PLP or FNM oligarchies that have purposely strangled economic empowerment of black Bahamians regardless of the useless so-called fantasy "black majority rule", which never actually materialized beyond a whole lot of baloney speeches given by empty barrels. Covid-19 has laid the proof bare through-out the country for ALL to "feel".
Bahamians have advocated the PLP and FNM for diversification of the economy and to pay more attention to our dying tourism product literally for decades, to no avail. Both parties proved equally incapable of removing UBP shackles that retards the growth of black Bahamians, and even maintain the shameful racist segregation practice of keeping black Bahamians from gambling in casinos 2020! How is that possible???
On Bahamas confronts 'Sir Stafford Sands moment'
Posted 12 August 2020, 6:22 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
COVID-19 does not discriminate between rich, poor, black, white, citizen, or resident. It is an equal dispenser of misery, sickness, and death to ANYONE unfortunate enough to be touched by it!
Usually, people are too busy dealing with their own lives and situations that often times it takes a serious disaster that "touches" everyone to make everybody realize we are all equal, and forces people to come to terms with their mortality, leading to a bringing together of a community with the realization that we all need each other.
Hat's off to the residents of Harbour Island! We can only hope and pray this community sprit of togetherness and self help quickly becomes infectious throughout our country. Otherwise many people simply will not make it to the other side of COVID-19.
On Family Island residents get together to help each other
Posted 10 August 2020, 9:14 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Popular synopsis is only the sickest of the sick end up in hospital for COVID19 tests, and that is how they're determining infection numbers. The U.S. is actually using the same criteria and estimates only around 10% of infected persons are actually showing up for the tests as the remaining 90% of infected are either not sick enough to seek medical attention or too terrified to further expose themselves!
Throw in the opening of schools while the virus is totally out of control and this instantly becomes an untenable situation that can and **WILL** only snowball to larger problems.
Why and how Jeff Loyd and Cabinet came to the conclusion that opening schools in the middle of a pandemic made any sense whatever is beyond comprehension. But these same people thought opening the borders to the U.S. was a prudent idea!
The idiots in the U.S. and the idiots here following the great orange wizard Trump stupidity of opening schools in the middle of this coronavirus pandemic are about to have their ass's handed to them on a thin paper platter!
On EDITORIAL: US cheek to issue travel warning
Posted 8 August 2020, 5:07 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
**s-u-r-p-r-i-s-e** We won't be in the "true" surge of infections generated by the border opening and Florida shoppers until August 17th!
What we're seeing now is nothing compared to whats' to come.
On UPDATED: 69 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19
Posted 8 August 2020, 2:51 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
The cane toad was first discovered in Lyford Cay in 2013, breeds twice a year, laying up to 35,000 eggs each time.......And they're happy about catching 400 of them???
On Nearly 400 invasive cane toads caught
Posted 8 August 2020, 9:13 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
If you could pull your head out of your ass so you'd be able to read first-hand realities of what's happening, and also learn that the great and powerful USA is having the same delays securing PPE's also from **CHINA.**
https://www.wflx.com/2020/07/14/calls-g…
Try to equate that the Bahamas did not have any PPE shortage prior to Dr. Minnis's border opening screw up!
On Mountain of PPE equipment arrives from China
Posted 5 August 2020, 5:08 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
No excuses required. You obviously cannot comprehend what you read, and couldn't be truthful any more than Trump! Not one of your suggestions was even remotely necessary prior to Minnis's gigantic fubar of succumbing to pressure to open the borders! That was indeed an excessively bad judgment call with highly predictable consequences. Now that the error has been made, Minnis has no choice other than what is now being imposed to rectify his huge mistake.
Alternatively, Minnis can bury his head in the sand and act the fool like president Trump pretending an open economy, and a functioning school system can coexist with coronavirus!
The UK developed and about to roll out a new 90-minute testing system while Trump has the US buried in 7 to 10 days test results which are useless due to the long turn around time.
Unquestionably, Minnis screwed up and is far from perfect. However, I would much rather have him as a leader during this time than Perry Christie, Brave Davis, or Donald Trump!
On HERE WE GO AGAIN: Minimum two-week lockdown to try and halt new COVID surge
Posted 4 August 2020, 8:33 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Lots of idiotic noises in the market place and **NOT ONE** sensible suggestion of what Minnis should be doing differently than other countries to irradicate COVID!
No apologies for PM Minnis missteps, however, coronavirus-19 is a new virus that NOBODY has any experience fighting. Minnis and crew are only human and bound to make mistakes while trying to navigate an unknown course dealing with this pandemic.
Look at the US for example. Regardless of The USA being the richest, and most powerful superpower on the planet, they have proven to be absolute, total, failures dealing with coronavirus-19! The rest of the world looks on with pity at the U.S. government's pathetic "non-response" to COVID-19.
The majority of what PM Minnis has done makes him look like a genius compared to what President Trump has done!
Yes, PM Minnis, you made a terrible decision by succumbing to pressure to open the borders. Now please ignore all these naysayers who altogether combined couldn't come up with a single positive thought for all the tea in China, pick yourself up, dust off your team, and move the country forward as best you can.
Carry on PM Minnis. We are beaten as is every other country in the world, but not defeated!
On HERE WE GO AGAIN: Minimum two-week lockdown to try and halt new COVID surge
Posted 4 August 2020, 6:01 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Unfortunately, we are only experiencing a small but growing groundswell in cases. The real "surge" will be upon us between August 10th and 15th.
The mess in the U.S. is proof that open economies and COVID-19 do not work. Governments' best course of action would be an immediate full lockdown now.
Will someone please enlighten me why we cannot close our borders to the U.S. but the U.S. can close their borders to whomever they want to?
On 40 new cases of COVID-19
Posted 28 July 2020, 8:08 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Who would ever expect someone irresponsible enough to knowingly travel to a pandemic hotspot to self quarantine? Obviously, these people don't care about their own lives and well being so why would anyone think they would care about anyone else's?
On Grand Bahama women spread virus breaking quarantine
Posted 27 July 2020, 9:02 a.m. Suggest removal