Yes all is well in the republic. All one has to do is listen to our worthy representatives in government. Nothing to see here. Move on.

So the position of the ruling party is that a sitting member of parliament can come the house, and do or say anything he wishes, whether relevant to legislation or discussion properly before the house or not, and such Member has a blanket immunity regardless of the law of the land? That is idiocy and there is ample precedent from Great Britain and other parliamentary democracies that such is not the case. This is typical of bullies faced with a courageous opponent. Make faces, scream and yell while cowering behind whatever bench or tree they can find handy. All this noise will simply "go away" when they are rebuked in court decision after court decision. God save freedom and the rule of law!

They will appeal. They will not win. They will lose cold. The law is quite clear. Parliamentary privilege does not trump rights guaranteed in the Constitution. There are numerous cases in point in Great Britain.

To paraphrase a great parliamentary statesman: "Mr. Fitzgerald, some hurricane, some privilege."

Pure fiction. This speech will be given serially for the next twelve months until the election is concluded.

These regulations are a cash cow for the "connected" in government service. You cannot operate without a license and without some form of periodic certification. That means you cannot operate absent regular, extra legal payments to those in power. Good plan, but not designed to protect the public. Designed to line the pockets of the corrupt.

Working well here in the Bahamas isn't it.

Fire Moody's. All critics, Black or White are racists. Nothing to see here, move on. A little soft corruption is just part of our national character. Don't like the news, kill the messenger. I will table a full report in Parliament soon.

You don't like the news? Shoot the messenger. Brilliant indeed.

Beyond silly musings from someone who has not a clue about business. What the Bahamas needs do is to recognize that far her biggest asset is her geographic location next door to one of the largest single markets in the world. If the Bahamas were to stop the silly preoccupation with viewing every foreigner with a job as "taking a job" from a Bahamian, there would be thousands of good jobs for Bahamians created by the advantages to many large U.S. engaged enterprises in moving some activities off shore while remaining geographically nearby.. Instead, the old Bay Street Boy mentality prevails, and the Bahamians are relegated to tray carrying resort work. Stupid, stupid, stupid.