no reasonable person would suggest that the bahamians and residents of Cat Island dont deserve medical care commensurate with our ability to fund it. so lets agree that the concern is only about cost, and it is a legitimate concern.

did they ever say they were trying to run the place according to global best practice? thats idle talk. not a single gov't corporation knows anything about or cares about so-called global best practice.. give me a break..

i wouldn't lose any sleep over this. we dont have much of an offshore banking industry anymore. the big crooks are in Europe like the Vatican, luxembourg and Switzerland to name a few. in any event, we have regressed into the era of jungle rule again, might is right and the bastards will exploit the might. if we were the US for example, they wouldn't do sh*t...

the GM should be fired immediately if not sooner based on his own words.. he cannot pass the buck with talk about falling through the cracks.. his duty as GM is to ensure that very thing does not happen by holding the responsible subordinate accountable. every day and every revelation shows why we are in such debt with so little to show for it. God help us coz all indications are this trend will all continue.. we are lost as a people..

nothing new here. this is precisely why these corporations lose money by the truck loads.. government should not be running businesses that are better left to private enterprise. this is textbook corruption.. using taxpayer money to by votes..

i can't fault these people for moving on to better things. you need to leverage your skills and experience to get the best life for yourself and your dependents. A post training bond is a good idea, if taxpayer money trained them, there should be some minimun service requirement. it wont solve the problem, just give us breathing space to find replacements. we can never match first world country jobs, so accept that and look elsewhere, like the phillipines, and hire their well trained people. such is the way of free societies where individuals make their own choices.

Bahamians are loyal patrons of Walmart each weekend, but if the opportunity arose to have one here, we don't want it? trouble understanding that. even a low paying job would be better than the current no-job environment. and if shares were offered, thats more than you can say about any of the current wholesalers... we bahamians are such hypocrites..

without speaking to the MD, i think we can safely assume Houston is a big financial drain on a company that is already challenged.. who knows bahamasair in Houston? what advertising took place? who is providing feeding connections? what airline group is bahamasair part of to get passengers from? etc., etc.

Bahamasair has contributed virtually nothing to the economy unless you consider the generous handouts to staff at taxpayer expense as a benefit. The time has long come for it to be wound up. it can never be viable and as in the case of Jamaica and Barbados for example, who have big tourism industries, you can get by quite easily without a home airline. And dont be fooled, those couple airplanes Caribbean Airlines flies, cant begin to adequately support their industry. For the entire Caribbean, the imputus behind these state airlines is mostly about the flag...

in small places like ours, the only way to develop real estate in prime locations is to go north e.g.Singapore and Hong Kong. apart from being a symbol of progress, high rise buildings bring usable space where investors want it as opposed to where you want them to go. high rise buildings with rooftop restaurants, condos, hotel rooms, nightclubs could reinvigorate town..