I agree Sickened, It is past time to start looking for
a) ethical, b) intelligent, c) competent people to serve as a Government
It is time to break from the entrenched graft, fraud, criminal, personality driven
nepotistic cronyism that has ruined not just the country but the people that make up the country.
It is also time for Campaign finance reform and strict disclosure, along with Personal finance disclosure rigidly adhered to.
Personally I'd like to see ill gotten politician wealth confiscated with prison terms if found guilty.
Go back to 1973.

Get ready for the lawsuits!
These idiots cannot see that they themselves are the prime reason for Grand Bahama's economic stagnation, and that of the whole country for that matter.
As for "reporting" that has already been dealt with and will be dealt with again:
As to "penalties" is not living under this type of arbitrary idiocy not punishment enough?

If the Judge is wrong, and if there is an error on every judgment rendered,
it should be placed squarely at the feet of the PLP and the FNM for their political court appointments and interference in the Judiciary!
I believe the fear of parliamentarians is their exposure to prosecution, largely overdue!
None of you are above the law, and yet you evade the law at every turn, and do not follow the rules.
If you are not following the rules, then who or what are you following Mr. Mitchell?
Your whim and fancy is not to be trusted, the wind and tide blow you wily nilly all over the place!
The People of the Commonwealth need the accountability from the courts if you cannot or will not provide it.

Apparently you have not been able to get a drivers license in Grand Bahama for at least 3 months because a) they ran out of the plastic cards and b) the machine was and is still broken.
Issuing a letter/slip showing renewal cover to the Bahamian police is fine but no foreign car rental will accept it!
Mine is up this month so we shall see! Typical though, missing millions of $$, totally unaccounted for via road traffic, probably selling their stupid stickers under the counter.
There is nothing that can be run efficiently or above board by the Government of this country.

I agree Banker, however the question is,
why is he the only one? Out of our multi thousands of Lawyers,
why is he the only one?
Until he moved for Judicial reviews, No judge had even heard of them!
Certainly the judges were scared to entertain one.
And that belies the problem we have had since majority rule:
Adhering to the law, and using the proper mechanisms to challenge the laws
"as interpreted" has been our failure. Typically we receive a wrong political interpretation, which stands unchallenged.
People do not seem to realize, dilute or ignore, or selectively apply the law and you undermine the stability of a society. Keep moving the goal posts and try to play a fair game of soccer!
Funny how they still love the pomp and circumstance of the Colonial order including the queens honors, but do not even hold a pretense of adhering to the basis of it.
How many times has the privy council ruled against Government, only to have the ruling ignored?
They undo themselves and us with them!

All with ever increasing costs, bureaucracy and taxation to burden our Non-Manufacturing nation.
Insofar as the Standards of other nations are to be adopted, well done, those are wheels we could never recreate, but to what degree will importers, wholesalers and retailers have to fund this new bureaucracy? The Act was poorly written, a number of years ago passed,
with zero private sector input, to satisfy The EU which is fragging itself.
Anyway, this article seems to be a public begging letter to Government in any case, needing funding, staff, all the other trappings of Government office.

In a country where the wife needs the Husbands permission to tie her tubes?
Get real people, sure he put his foot in his mouth, and that is on him.
but there is an underlying situation which drives the errant stupidity coming out of politicians and their blind and rabid supporters, and that is the almost complete breakdown of polite, self accountable society.
Both parties claim progressive outlooks but suffer from total regression and myopia, both parties members expect personal reward, appointments and contracts for support and service and via position, all exit worth more than at their political entrance.
We are right where we belong given our long standing deplorable behavior both personal and condoned and to a man. What upstanding citizen would waste his or her personal ethics, standards and good name to be embroiled in the gutters of power?
Meanwhile the power brokers who bred this contentious freak show are horrified by the unknown, the apparent loss of control.
Laughable, disgraceful, myopic, and oh so Bahamian.

Immersed in Rum?
no doubt they'd pee in it and claim it was blessed!
To the economy being as low as it can go,
Garbage, it can and will get worse.
It could also get drastically better but no moves have been made to that end.
Wallowing indecision, blissful in B.S.

A neophyte Scion cuts a deal with a convicted U.S. Tax dodger while Bahamian Competitors hire a QC card carrying member of the PLP to dig.
Hmm.
The Del Zotto U.S. tax write off benefit probably exceeds the Gross of all Freeport businesses in total!
Might change when WTO is signed.

Ok, K.P. has officially drunk the political cool aid!
Good grief man, I'll admit the Port Authority is sub par but still miles above Government standards!
URCA pushing in is just typical Bureaucratic progression, ever increasing the scope of their power and control, inevitably with the cost being the total destruction of whatever it is they preside over.
We will soon have a minister of flatulence, with an appropriate permitting schedule and fee !