the root problem continues to be a political system where every decision is ultimately made by 'the Minister'. why can't we have processes and laws to follow and when they are not, you go to court.. can't appeal too many Minister decisions....

i'm sure this body will be properly setup with all necessary procedures to be satisfied as part of their deliberations. Minnis, rightly so, just wants to take the politics out of it.. any if you old enough to remember D'Arcy Ryan and the PLP? man was denied by politicians only... finally, i dont think there is a queue of non-bahamians dying to get citizenship, so everyone relax..

Dr. Nottage is an accomplished citizen of this country. regardless of his politics and whatever i may think about that, i respect his contribution and wish peace and comfort for his family and a speedy recovery if it be the Lord's will..

if civil servants did not ensure that required contracts and proper procedure was followed, we will have a hard time in a court of law getting any money back. The government needs to check its own people and see who among them failed in their duties.. a lot of what is being reported now is due to slackness in the civil service. Finally, if instructions were given to not follow procedure, then those civil servants have a duty and obligation to give up the politicians who interfered.

As usual, Davis is doing a good job of trying to muddy the water. The issue is not whether those folks are any less bahamian, the issue is does it really require $14m to provide what will be no more than places to get your temperature checked and blood pressure... with that cavalier attitude to expenditure, any wonder why they ran up billions more in national debt? As an aside, isn't it interesting that after 5 years when you could not get an explanation for anything from Davis & Co. suddenly he has an answer for everything...

why not offer to share a percentage of the sums looted as an incentive to whistleblowers.. times are tough and all the administrative staff who know the who, what, when, where and how can save us a lot of time and money investigating and get something for themselves in return..

we are not the united islands of the Bahamas.. there is one government, one consolidated fund where all the money goes and from where its also stolen.. we have one parliament.. thats the way it is.. i've lived in the small island villages.. nepotism and corruption is an epidemic.. if you want something, lobby your MP.. make him/her do their job.. isn't that why you voted for them in the first place, to represent you?

i dont think there is anyone in this country above the Grade D academic level who is unaware of the mess we are in financially.. yet, more borrowing, no cutting cost, no closure or selling of all the government owned failures, no initiatives to grow economy.. only plan apparently is to pray we dont have a hurricane.. my God...

problem can be mitigated by 60 day amnesty to surrender any illegal firearm e.g AK 47 and unlicensed firearms. if course these are the gangster's tools so dont expect them to respond. then back to the days of 4:00am house raids where you suspect them to be and random traffic searches day and night indefinitely. if caught, $10,000 fine and 10 yrs in prison.. or how about mandatory death sentence? they have it in Asia for drug trafficking and they dont seem to have a drug problem...

comments like these from arguably the biggest non-performing Minister of Tourism in the history of the independent Bahamas, help to explain why so much money is spent by MOT while visitor numbers remain flat and our neighbours flourish....