The hotel industry is too fickle for anyone to take seriously. I wouldn't advise anyone to work for hotels unless they are extremly desperate.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah! We have heard this same song and dance for decades. We are buried with foreign low skilled blue collar workers. Start with them or Please just GO AWAY!

They also know without any doubt, that historically they will not be reelected.

So they purposely did all the dirt in the first half of their administration.

This par for the course with the PLP and FNM!

What everyone seems to conveniently forgot, is that Bell repeatedly said he had Cabinet approval for all he was doing.

Bell knows where all the skeletons are buried, so Davis hands are tied.

They all profited from Bells unilaterally approval actions, mum's the word!

Jackass does as jackass is! Possession of under 30 grams should be legal, period! The prison will continue to be crowded with the poorest of the poor unable to pay $250.00 for being caught with a joint.

This is beyond stupid, however, highly expected.

**Absolutely!**...... LOL

Under the **guise** of using the Prerogative of Mercy, Minister Wayne Munroe is obviously looking for excuses to make prison space available for the revolving door for repeat hardcore career criminals.

His intentions would actually create hardships and massive burdens on ill-equipped families already struggling to survive.

How is releasing people who are terminally ill or very soon expecting to die, and those on life sentences for 20 or 40 years and unable to care for themselves going to benefit the country?

Granted it will reduce the strain on the prison system, however, where and to whom will this "strain" be transferred to?

Unquestionably, the inmates' families are not prepared and cannot afford to deal with such "strains", so who will support, and care for these inmates' medical and daily needs?

This is a foolish initiative, obviously not properly thought through.

If national Security Minister Wayne Munroe really wants to cherry-pick the best parts of the Jamaican general penitentiary system that would be assets to the Bahamas he needs to seriously consider their "**conjugal visits"** and sentences including **"hard labour"**!

Jamaica's penitentiary "conjugal visits" and "hard labour" laws, if implemented, would make immediate huge positive differences in curbing rapes and creating even more deviant homosexuals in prison, while prisoners sentenced with "hard labour" could be utilized as free labour to clean up the nasty inner cities and this unacceptably very dirty "tourist resort destination".

Since he needs to make space for hard-core repeat offenders, they need to stop dragging their feet on releasing prisoners incarcerated on frivolous none violent offences such as petty theft, and personal use drug possession.

We are not as stupid as you politicians have convinced yourselves we are Mr. Munroe!

A billion-dollar annual food import bill is significant enough to be taken seriously. Unquestionably, the Bahamas is perfectly positioned to produce more than enough food to feed ourselves.

Every year Florida alone loses billions in citrus and other food production due to cold weather. Why haven't the Bahamas capitalized on this potential?

Jamaica was once in the same boat as the Bahamas is today. Jamaica took unprecedented bold steps in the late 70s and early 80s to produce more food and all but banned food imports to force itself to produce more food. The immediate result was painful food shortages and sparsely stocked grocery store shelves for quite some time.

However, in the medium term, Jamaica began producing more than enough food to feed itself. Today Jamaica is a formidable producer and exporter of food and prices for food are less than half that of the Bahamas!

The only difference between Jamaica and the Bahamas was leadership with the foresight and the will to change directions for the betterment of the people and country.

There was overwhelming political hype about food sustainability during the COVID years. Politicians made all sorts of innuendos in Parliament about the Bahamas becoming food self-sufficient.

Let's hope the government is serious this time and can stay focused enough to implement strategies that lead to food sustainability and are not just blowing hot air to appease listeners.

If the ultimate objective does include removing the corrupt elites that have controlled Haiti for eons, the initiative will be a total failure and our troops killed in action would have died needlessly!

Removing the tens of thousands of gang members (which is albeit impossible) without decapping the elite crime lords is a total none starter.

This looks like a disaster in the making. Please get it right before sending our troops to the slaughter!

Fred Mitchell has a very valid point. The PLP and FNM are equally guilty of corruption and abuse of power!

It is now the PLP's turn **again**, so there really is nothing new about Keith Bell's actions which fully explains why he felt so comfortable and was totally blindsided by the oppositions questioning.

Time is longer than rope. The poor voting turnout in the last election proved the PLP and FNM had run out of rope. Time will resolve the problem!