A politically correct characterization would be "*marketing*", the correct term would be "*buying silence*". I recall seeing an old lady selling fruit in a Ninety Knowles tshirt. I also recall the We love Disney tshirts for the sale of an untouched pristine beach to cruise ship mass tourism

The problem with this marijuana debate is it's all disingenuous. The people advocating for the passage of the law either want the ability to smoke marijuana openly as they move about the city, at times operating a fast moving vehicle, as they likely already do btw, or they want the right to sell marijuana openly to these people and make alot of money.

Literally nobody is *really* interested in easing the pain of cancer patients.

Nothing surprised me more than the rastafarians fighting for a license to sell marijuana, historically their fight was all about the trampling of their religious rights, now they see dollar signs.

Everything is vanity.

"*you need proper intelligence*"

The operative word being "*proper*", because intelligence can misguided i.e., youre collecting good but wrong and useless things, or bad, i.e. your info is faulty. I hope one day we get to the place where all 30+ individuals in parliament are critically assessing every dot and title in these proposed laws and only back laws they deem are in the public good and that they would want applied to themselves as ordinary citizens with no executive power.

Also this foolishness about putting "*young people in the senate so they can learn*" is stopped immediately. The Senate is a human intelligence (HI) structure and fact checking organization. Putting inexperienced people in that body who have no depth of legal knowledge or historical context for legal knowledge is beyond useless. You want people in the senate like Hubert Ingraham, Fred Mitchell, AD Hanna, Sean McWeeney, the brightest of the brightest in law and legal context

If our system is to work, these are the two basics that need to be transformed

"*According to Mr Ferguson, Section 38 of the Police Act outlines how the police may use images and recordings, which the act does not permit taking photographs of individuals who are not in custody or save facial images in a database comparing them with other facial images in the database*"

I hope this remains the case. It would be useless to store photos of individuals without cause. It takes alot of processing time/power just to do name matching, adding useless imagery to a search is counterproductive. I hope the intelligence gathering would be more strategic than this

The final piece of the puzzle is the immediate elimination of anyone without high moral character from the police cadet core. Stop the blight at the source. Make entry into the police force **hard**, and increase the salary to match the stricter requirements. On the backend start to do internal vetting from the senior levels. Senior officers have way more influence on law and order outcomes than junior officers. Investigate unexplained funds and sources of funds and weed out corruption from the top.

Every death is painful it doesnt matter how the person died. The mother establishes that "*she hurt herself*" so she eliminates any third party and "*she's no longer with us*" linking the two states, i.e. because she hurt herself she died. The only thing left out was whether the injury was deliberate or an accident. The pathologist will make the ultimate decision

The church is not a liberal institution. Its standard is a book of rules that doesnt akign with any of these permissive behaviours. It baffles me that Simeon Hall gets on all these committees to legalize these addictive behaviours. Even Franklyn Wilson is talking today about the ravaging effects of gambling addiction. This risk wasnt a secret in the debate, they just ignored it while blinded by all the money we'd make. I wont be surprised if he ends as an advocate for the legalization of prostitution

Lol. I dont believe that. I believe someone who knew the law signed up and alerted the Commission. They need to explain what their oversight entails, if someone always has to notify them.. what's the point? Shouldnt their regular oversight catch something? They may not be able to investigate everybody, but since they "seemingly" didnt investigate FTX .. what do they investigate?

Gated community doesnt equal bad, but historically and generally speaking, we've been one of those exotic locations where criminals appear to flee with their loot to avoid detection, enjoy the ill gotten gains and basically run the island apparently. And they never opt to live in Bain Town or Winton

"*We were not expecting that many people,”*

Unsure how many people is "*that many*" as the numbers given only state 100 asked to have records expunged and 80 applicants were accepted. Could it mean 200 people showed up? Unclear. If it was 200, they should have referenced the past job fair numbers from the labour department to prepare, there are thousands looking for work, 200 would be a low number.

"***destruction of borrower files**"

This is confusing, what is meant by destruction of borrower files? Was there a policy to discard files after a loan was paid off or was this the destruction of active loan info? Doesnt the law require you to keep at minimum 7 years of data? I'm not certain if this is restricted to financial institutions but its definitely for anyone involved in consumer loan programs

"*said Mr Salame had worked on plans to both monetise this nation’s carbon sinks - and protect its seagrass and mangroves - via carbon credits.*"

I wonder what would have happened to the carbon credits money. Would the platform have been any different than the platforming *securing* FTX clients funds? I also wonder how we got to appoint Salame as the key partner on an environmental issue but no Joe Darville or Sam Duncombe in the conversation. $$$$.

I think Bahamians as a body are digitally illiterate, not to denigrate, but that's the fact. And alot of these investors are fully aware of that fact. When was the last time you heard someone talk about how theyll revolutionize anything with blockchain? No? Because the new term nobody understands but everybody uses is "AI", it sounds cool and cutting edge.