Interesting that the costume used for the photo is unfinished. Junkanoo is a mystery. They practice in open fields, people love it, flock to it, but then they argue, it dont sound good unless you on Bay St.

Why do we quote "*error on the side of caution so much*"? Since Dorian we've heard this alot with overhyped hurricane reporting. No matter how unlikely a storm is to hit us, people are driven into a frenzy to "*prepare*" because "*better to be safe*". No, its better to act on good information because it costs time and money to "*prepare*". And the constant false alarms lead to apathy.

I separate that from this. The air was quite damp on Tuesday and it could have very easily been a small rain shower. Ive noticed though that quite often their forecasts are off by several hours. Same happened last week with the gale warning. The promised rain was off by 24 hours. I dont question their competence, I question whether they have correct/sufficient resources to do their jobs effectively

"*Ministry of Finance, releasing August and September’s monthly fiscal numbers last Friday just as Bahamians were heading home for Christmas, *"

Good timing. Noone's paying attention... yet

"*disclosed that the deficit for the three months to end-September 2023 hit $58m as compared to just $20.5m during the same period in the prior fiscal year.*:

"*Mr Halkitis added that the administration “have met or exceeded all of our projections”, which contrasts with its recent June and 2023-2023 fiscal year-end report*"

Whats puzzling is, if this first quarter is the weakest all the time, as stated in the article, why would projections be so optimistic? "Reality for the first quarter showing a tripling of the deficit? They know their expenses, theyve been in 2 years and according to them tourism has historic numbers. The narrative doesnt add up. Better tourism numbers than expected but a tripled deficit.

As the article states, they have 3 quarters to make up. I hope the bet is on growth and not new taxes. Turnquest tried the new tax route with 12% VAT and collections dropped

This is the last you'll hear about it.

"*could understand last year when their shack was burned and they lost everything, but this year, I’ve yet to get the reasoning for it.*"

Once heard a story about a worker who burned down a building to avoid an audit. They have to have greater accountability handing out this kind of money. "*t burn down*" isnt good enough.

Hmm.. this is horrific.

She claims someone touched her, rape would be hard to prove, touching even more so. How in 2023 can there be no camera system in a detention facility to corroborate these claims?

An ASP recently made a woman walking down the street the subject of his vulgar sexual assault. After she rejected his advance, he punched her with so much force he detached her retina. He then had her arrested for apparently the crime of embarrasing him publicly, ordering his subordinates to take her to ***his*** station, reportedly exploding in anger when she was taken to another station. What could he have wanted to achieve by having the woman behind closed doors under his control? The Police Commissioner's only response to date has been one statement to basically imply that *something wrong with the woman*. In reality, it doesnt matter if she was a criminal, a drug addict, a prostitute, literally insane or participating voluntarily in a sex act, she was viciously attacked. By an officer. And she had pictures to prove it.

This lady unfortunately was "only" touched and "*what bruises*"? Thats the best response we can come up with for an alledged sexual assault.

We need to come to the realization that male behaviour is changing and at least try to re-socialize young boys. I believe there's too much loose sex talk, sex innuendo and sex jokes on radio making men feel that access to a woman is their right. Even if the woman has no interest.

Why was her hair cut? This was a practice we heard about in the 80s with sole purpose to humiliate rastafarians under detention. This would be psychologically devastating for a woman. Why would anyone need to cut a womans hair for a visa overstay? Why was she detained for 40 days? Flights to Jamaica are easy to obtain.

Horrific because its so ordinary.

Sharks or no sharks, throwing all that rotting material into the dock needs to stop. It just makes sense. And Sandals isnt that far from Arawak Cay... if youre a shark.

So option #2, he's knowingly putting a fine on inability to complete an impossible task. This is a new tax on businesses finessed as a fine.

I didnt hear John Ray concede anywhere that he was wrong and from another story the Bahamas has to turn over 426m in digital assets. The commission gets aid to retrieve 143m after spending 40m+ of the 86m they hold with a reported 78m loan coming from Ray to help with administrative fees. The creditors will have nothing left at this rate after paying all the fees.

I still find it extremely troubling that the head of a transport safety organization makes a statement that says every vessel has to come up with their own safety rules, it's none of our business and nobody in authority has corrected it, but surprise! After the story dies down the company back in operation. No press conference to detail what changed to save lives. Can you imagine the head of the FTAA making such a dumb statement about evacuation protocols?

I posted on the story about the govt demanding Bahamian businesses with revenues over 5m complete audits by April that in my experience large businesses run by Bahamians run with no structure in place. They run solely on the thoughts that pop into the leaders head. This is an example of what you see when a large organizations run without structure. They just "*do things*: They have a meeting, get the royal edict then spring into action. No research. No reporting, no plans. The reason they cant stick to the budget is because it means nothing. It's not a "plan", its words on a paper. They just present something because they have to present something then they go back to their office and start handing out random contracts that were never considered in the budget plan. Just the result of a brain pop. Audits require you to report evidence of your structure. That is why these organizations will have a challenge they have to report on something that doesnt exist, that they never knew about, and now has to be built from scratch.