If that is his hair and he's not dying it, I'll take a vial of blood to go please. Lol.

"*Open to the public*".

"*Organizers anticipate the event will draw **hundreds**, and interested people will need to make reservations due to **limited capacity of 200**...*

"*..slated to speak at the Old Fort Bay Club*"

Ok fool me once.

And you are correct, this country is **sour**... at the moment. I often wonder if its fixable. 202**7** will tell.

As to suggested *Type of govt*? Theres no type of govt that will fix endemic corruption. Communist, socialist, Republican, democratic, none. Not even local govt. What would a local govt official bought by the money interests do? Or paid and bought for by the ruling party of the day? Or left devoid of funding to do any good work as Obie Wilchcombe claimed he was in West End.

Better discernment would have uncovered that the call was for a change to the party system and the selection process, and not a call to move from a democratic system. Because even within the party the selection process is skewed to a handful of members. And that's not the end of the solution because even with that change the system could still end up with a "popular" disaster. A change in the mindset of the people has to work hand in hand, as a body we need to cease the support of corrupt contracts once I benefit, we need to reject the purchasing of our vote and we need to judge candidates by their ability, learned and inherent. Theres no suggestion that it's easy or quick. Again 2027 will tell if this is fixable

I remember reading in geography books in school of how the hills in Haiti were systematically denuded of trees, then came the mudslides. We really need real teeth behind forestry but everything in this country is trumped by money over and under the table

I heard one commenter say they like someone for FNM leadership because "*they like how they sound*". On a fundamental level that's why everyone votes for anyone, but in this country all it means is you have a deep voice, you sound like a Baptist preacher or you are a Baptist preacher, you in a junkanoo group or you rowdy and have a union position. I also hear people say they voting for Travis because of how he sound. And it is admirable the example he sets in a sea of young men just falling by the wayside. But does he "*sound*" any different than he did last time? No? Well, what did he do last time? He got a job in the ministry of tourism and silence.... until he showed up on facebook. #piehole

Bahamians need to change their mental selection process. And the current party system needs to be obliterated.

I never believed that fire in Andros "*just happened.*" The problem is in the face of a completely broken system, we have no way to tell if that's true or not. Who's going to investigate for accelerants? Evidence of illegal burning activity? Cigarette butts as a commenter said? The trigger? Who? It's much easier to say, "*it hot*" then go get ready for the regatta race

In another year or so, we'll be forced to select from among ~100 men, the majority of which would be completely unqualified to run a neighbourhood tuck shop, giving them control over our entire country strategy and its multimillion dollar coffers. At the end of five years we'll see most of them either in fancier suits, fatter, more arrogant, associated with beautiful unqualified women theyve elevated in some govt position, caught in some *the money gone* scandal, well hear statements like *this how the game works*, *everybody uses govt funds to give overpriced contracts to their friends and hand out money for nothing in the neighbourhood, what wrong with that?* and then it'll be time to chose from the next batch

What does any of that have to do with 4 fires in Abaco? Everything.

On the one hand the govt says URCA needs to be the regulatory authority for electricity for GB not the Port! In the same breath, we need to remove URCA as regulator in Nassau so this new eldctricity company has flexibility to do what they want to get us best service.

Question: Is the company vying for this contract in need of a large injection of cash? Oil spills popping up repeatedly from "seemingly" failing infrastructure, most recent going on for a month now right into the ocean.... unabated with no real steps at a resolution (Vaughn Miller is *watching*... it happen though, so he could tell the tale I guess), a share offering... and this rushed deal which we're assuming will come with some large cash payment from the govt

"*the financial statement was not given to his ministry until January 24 this year*"

Both Mr Bowleg and Mr Maycock were aware of this "*unaudited*" report, from January, so either could have sent it to Mr Bastian from the moment questions were raised. As Mr Bowleg stated, *end of debate*.

**Or**....

Was the unaudited report given to the auditor general and did this weird unaudited report *start* the debate?

**Another curious question... what prompted Mr Bowleg to ask for an audit??** Wouldnt this have been unusual? Unusual isnt the right word, as the office is there to perform an audit function, maybe extra-ordinary. Does the auditor general audit every office? Why was this one selected by the Minister? Mr Bowleg didnt ask for an audit of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, he asked Mr Bastian to go down there and see what happening in that LOC. Curious. Maybe nothing, just curious

"**only made possible by a taxpayer subsidy over four times’ higher than budgeted.**

I really wish we could get one minister, just one, who would give facts and not pretend like we stupid. Presents an "unaudited" report with an overage 360% of what was budgeted and claims they made a profit???

What about the 2 cars bought with tax payer money and immediately sold to staff? Are we providing interest free car loans with tax payer money? Everybody should know about this deal

"*are giving the polluter, the one responsible for this, the opportunity to rectify it. If they do not, then obviously we will do what needs to be done.”*

Ridiculous. But do we expect any other kind of response? One week was the cutoff for a *timely* response. Complete the cleanup and send them the bill

"*Sun Oil operates the station.*"

Huh???? And it took a month??? Why is their infrastructure leaking all over the place? I cant recall which island, Exuma was it(?), where their oil transfer pipeline had some leak and seaped into the ocean, they got a secret fine for that, could have been $1 for all we know. Then there was the issue with the generator, I believe it was shell again, with the contaminated fuel messing up the BEC generator . Are we entering into a PPP to save a company that would sink otherwise?

"*an assessment was conducted yesterday, with a report still pending on what action would be taken against the fuel station.*

Yesterdsy... and the report pending.... 4 weeks later...
We een serious. Why dont we shut down the country until we sort this out. Just put a "*sorry folks, we're closed*" sign up in the sky so planes dont waste time