It's the same old story.. those replaced know best so that's why they were replaced and BEC is hundreds of millions in debt.. I suspect the real issue is money isn't being paid out hand over fist to the Union and election buddies so that's the source of the noise. Miller says the last hurricane was worse than this.. must be living in a different Bahamas. His own boss said the destruction is hundreds of millions greater than Joaquin... he figures power should have been on in 2-3 days.. must be frustrationspeaking coz I remember earlier this same decade having to move to a hotel for 4 days when my power was off after a storm passed so I don't know what he is talking about.

some merit to John's comment, but i think most who suffered losses were likely uninsured, since too many weren't even paying their mortgages so judge home insurance hurricane coverage, as costly as it is. further, government borrowing (since we always had governments that did not see the wisdom of having a disaster fund) will rise in a big way. while that money will find its way to merchants, the question still remains how will that borrowing be repaid. perhaps VAT may have to be 15% after all or we can have a hurricane tax with a sunset provision (maybe 3 years) to cover this one situation.

need to be careful with these 'knee-jerk' responses. can give rise to badly written laws which may be abused in future for other purposes.. what this experience does highlight is the impotence of our legislative bodies.. not a single worthwhile piece of law-making is discussed proactively.. always need a crisis of some kind to trigger a response..

i dont know when we will ever accept that government aka taxpayers can't possibly pay for every damn distress that happens, whether natural or man-made.. regarding infrastructure i would ask.. any studies done to determine how building design/construction may have been an issue and what improvements can be made going forward? all those damaged roads washed out, maybe reroute vulberable segments or build concrete barriers to mitigate subsurface erosion? if we dont take this approach, we are doomed to keep spending money we dont have to fix the same things each time a storm comes by. government ever assess feasability of insurance for buildngs versus self-insurance?

the big question here is how effectively is Civil Aviation monitoring these people's maintenance and training? is it free of government interference? for such a small country, the accident rate is awfully high, probably matching those African countries we typically use as the banner toters of incompetence..

what a waste of public funds.. just another example of why we are $7.0bn in debt . how,come they didn't evacuate all bahamian students from the US when the cops started shooting all the blacks.. surely soneone must have been concerned about their safety..

same old story.. u dont like the outcome of something, start fishing for some dirt to try and cloud the issue..not surprising since as citizens of this 'christian' country, the bible readers would no doubt have learned this from the pharisees and Co. who were constantly seeking to discredit our Lord during his earthly sojourn. the more things change, the more they remain the same..

doesn't matter that Chipman is out. except for Ingraham, i cant think of any worthwhile contribution made by anybody since independence. if not for FDI, the country would be just another nowhere place... at least Ingraham allowed opening of airwaves to counter the propaganda mouthpiece ZNS that all of us are forced to pay for..

i agree that the % system is BS. there should be flat fees for these transactions. realtors in this country do nothing to earn those obscene commissions in many cases...

Looks like Mr. Smith read my previous post..
*Brothers and sisters, this may be the dawn of 21st century style colonialism.. more subtle than before and with no obligations for the power brokers namely OECD countries and the coming beast empire, the EU.*