I think we have exactly the country we must want, as it is what we have.
We treat our Elderly like crap, beat our children for being curious, don't talk to them,
and yes, our prison is a disgrace.
We lead by example (thieving, beating, scamming) and then try to legislate the opposite.
There is nothing wrong with our laws, the fault is in the administration and adherence to the law.
We do not think abstract only two dimensions (hence the rock being thrown with little provocation, and usually while running away)
Degrading a society can happen in a few years, rebuilding one takes decades of effort.
We've been dismantling it for 50 years.
Oh, BTW, we love shooting the messenger.

Kudos to Jimmy and the Sands Crew, A serious come back from destruction.
Just can't figure out why the two GB Useless idiots are standing there.
Aside the "good Press" they desperately need.

Even incoming NGO's have to be taught the ropes, and cannot believe half of what they meet.
On checks and controls, one very defined and repeated phenomenon is the total walk back by most if not all Government departments initially, Customs, Immigration, RBPF and RBDF,
which lasts from 4-6 weeks. 6 Weeks in Dorian. They simply don't know what to do. So they stand back, literally. They facilitate. They want direction which doesn't come fast enough.
One day beyond that period the over control comes back, and hard. You can literally sense it, accompanied by conflicting rules, policies, and confiscations of relief goods.
And generators start disappearing.
the worst part of all are the political edicts that come with no operational guidance.
Individual officers can be great, or can be horrible. An operational manual is required.

And like the existing forestry act it will not be enforced or even implemented.
Much like any other act or law.

I'm all for asking for help from the international community in the wake of disasters and pandemics but,
at what point do we look within and realize it is our own lack of planning and decent funding for
medical care and disaster response that has us hat in hand to begin with?
We have a NEMA act already amended to over come repeated ineptitude, and still don't have an operational manual.
Each new storm finds a new cadre of Government and political Appointees with no clue of how to get things done on the ground.
No experience. And no manual which is critical if there is no first hand experience.

The problem with the Ingraham/Christie pre election hires is that they did no work!
Still the basic problem with the civil service.
Benniesun is right, It is all about who you know, or who knows you, rather than what you may know.

Freeport has never suffered from a lack of potential, it has suffered from a lack of Leadership coupled with Political misfeasance.
Anyone or any committee can plainly see what is wrong: but it falls upon the same lack of leadership to implement. As always, they could screw up a profitable fruit stand.
No, what I see here is another lip service Committee, recommendations from which will come to naught.
Further, the 5 on the committee from the Port companies are impotent in their legitimate jobs,
how will they do any different in their self appointments to the committee?
Who from the private sector on that committee can action anything?

Companies and investors find they need Expatriate workers.
Governments have figured out they can charge exorbitant fees for them.
Expatriate workers cost more money in permit fees, housing, transport, in every regard,
so there is an obvious savings to be had by hiring Bahamians instead IF
qualified competent Bahamians can be found.
Aside the Xenophobia, how can we fix the core problem and create more qualified competent Bahamians?
Meanwhile we have lost our $US earning export, hospitality.
What you gonna replace that with?
Ain't no foreigner coming here to be paid in a valueless currency.

For a Government ill acquainted with accountability or transparency they'll be damned if they let the public call them to account.

Bahamians are now migrating?
Ha Ha taxi Drivers aren't the only ones being denied or lost in the NIB paperwork in G.B.
From the inception of NIB i have been a contributor, even making up non payments by former employees who defrauded me, but from the outset I have understood it is a Ponzi scheme from which I will probably never receive any benefit.
An opinion reinforced the day the Government started borrowing the contributions for their purposes.