Ranking near the bottom of yet another survey. How depressing.

I have advocated for some time that the Defence Force should be more properly reclassified as the Bahamas Coast Guard. That would help to better identify their purpose. Who are we kidding about defence? against who or what? Coast Guards do search and rescue but also inspections of boats, to avoid what happened in Exuma and they are responsible for patrolling and intercepting illegals trying to enter the country. so i say rebrand this organization and develop it accordingly.

better not be in a hurry to spend that money.. if one airliner goes down in our territory the search and rescue operation could quickly reach into the millions.. ask the Australians how much they spent searching for that missing malaysian jet..

way too much money put into this for a little village like Nassau. but i too wish them well.

Campbell needs to watch more Fox. Trump would have replied that he never said it, no matter how many witnesses or what you record on tape.. get smart brothers..

gov't always has a 'consultant' at the table when negotiating with the Union, so how could this happen? Why does gov't agree work rules for shift workers as though they are 9 to 5ers? there is a reason they call them shift workers and that in itself suggests their conditions of service will be different from most folks. The level of incompetence and dysfunction on display in everything touched by gov't is so shocking..

i think the question should be can we afford not too.. Business as usual means we continue financing public health care via the Consolidated fund and the debt will continue to rise because gov't revenue is not keeping up, regardless of the reason.

my concern would be that likely we will not get what we pay for.. but in principle i dont think we can argue about healthcare for those who need it, maybe one day even one of us.

Price Control on gasoline.. what a joke. Bahamas gov't has NO control over price. What they do is regulate the margin for distributors and retailers. not sure how you reconcile this with a free market but i suppose despite what some think, we are still more socialist than anything else.

'Nurses in the United States and Canada receive premiums of $5 or more, she pointed out.'

The Unionist just explained the issue and the solution. Issue: want to be paid like nurses in US and Canada.. Solution: Move to one of those countries. I take nothing from qualified people but you're in a developing country, deep in debt. its unrealistic to expect 1st world wages.. Why do you think all those qualified Filipinos are on the move? can't get what they want at home. We're in a global community, so take advantage of it..