"*we’re big exporters of lobster, for example, and fish.*"

Does the cracked conch snack place still have shortages of conch?

"*Justice Bernard Turner later ruled the amendment had not been properly gazetted, and prosecutors withdrew the charges the following month.*"

"*Court records show Inspector Ricardo Hanna once suggested under cross-examination that Neely “might have had some kind of insider,” noting he always seemed to be waiting outside his home with a blanket when officers arrived.*"

And there you have it. The system is working apparently the way it was designed to. Is it hard to gazette a new law? Is it hard to conduct an independent forensic review of the police force? Apparently so.

Since I'm not interested in a relationship with Mr Davis, I'm not too concerned about what he looks like. The foreign man cant tell any of us apart anyway irrespective of our accent. But, as he holds my future, that of my friends family and community in his hands, I am concerned about his ability to think and his character.

The police did the right thing. No good could come of viewing the body.

"*Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis yesterday expressed condolences to Montana’s family and acknowledged the need to strengthen fire response across the Family Islands.*"

More words. Five years gone.

The money sounds great. I hope we do not lose ourselves in pursuit of it. More and more developments are being approved that grab beaches, lock out Bahamians and export profits out the country. The return for us is a slew of minimum wage jobs while at the same time, politicians appear to generate magic millions in personal wealth overnight. What's the link between the two phenomena? The people who inside the room een talking.

Here's the real question: given recent history, we know that the possibility exists for one or more senior police officers to allow illegal activity, and at times ease the path for illegal activity to transpire. A senior police officer on video has also implicated a "high ranking politician" willing to do the same for a share of the profits. Do we have police officers and high ranking politicians aiding or cloaking gang operations?

What Mr Reid said "*could*" be true. The unfortunate thing is, if this gentleman was indeed the "leader" of the gang, whether or not he actually did this crime or that crime, he would be a high valued target for a rival gang. That's just the price of affiliation. At times even persons trying to break free pay the price

How many fiefdoms are there in cabinet? Exuma seems to have alot of buzzards around it.

They need to remove those buildings to the east of the port area. I'm not sure how they missed how junky the entire area now looks with buildings getting haphazard additions, new buildings popping up on what used to be a clear field and now buildings on what used to be a clean beach. How did the vendors miss all that? Its beginning to look the Potters Cay and who wants to eat in a junk yard? I'd opt for Marina Village too.

"*they just waited for the inevitable*:

We should change our expectations. As I recounted this story to an individual in the US yesterday, they told me a funny story of an elderly relative who sustained a hip fracture. They said to themselves, "*well, I guess that's it*". But the individual had surgery, aftercare and went home. They then contracted pneumonia.. again, "*well that's it...*", treated and went home. They cited four incidents in total, any of which in our public system could have been the last for an elderly patient but where meticulous care brought the patient back to recovery.

"*The terrible and very painful third stage bedsores, the UTIs, the onset of Pneumonia all indicate a fundamental failure to address and follow a proactive treatment plan (like constant repositioning & providing bed equipment to prevent/alleviate bedsores & the pain), as well as providing basic physician & nursing care required for such patients as Mrs Bain*"

This was my first thought as I read this story. Any one of these things could happen to a well cared for patient.. well minus the massive bedsore... but for all of them to happen to one patient?? It would be interesting to know the timing between the discoveries. Because together they indicate a complete failure of the safety precaution mechanisms at the hospital. The nurses on that ward over the course of her stay should hang their heads in shame.

Almost 30 years ago now, a physician said to me that the most vulnerable community in the Bahamas are the elderly, because when they get sick, people "**expect**" them to die. So if malpractice is hidden anywhere in their treatment, nobody raises an alarm, "*it was just their time*".

I recall the case of Dr Perry Gomez. It is a sad one for someone who contributed so much. All of us will get old and most of us, no matter how wealthy, do not have sufficient funds to afford sustained **best** health attention, or long term hospital stays in this country, at an advanced age

**The current and next administration need to be consultative, level headed, thoughtful and stop/stay away from crackhead games (like building a hospital on property purchased from a land Barron contaminated with sewerage) when addressing the strategic planning around healthcare.**