As to your statement of only dumb people being allowed into the police force. I highly doubt its true **especially** in first world nations. Because they need intelligent people to work in labs, forensics and as detectives. Is it a fact that less educated people opt for the beat patrol, yes because that's a game of numbers, they need a job and people with PHds aren't running to compete for those jobs *yet*.

Haiti is in the problem it's in not because of external forces but first because of geography. It's not anything anybody caused. Geography put it in the path of multiple hurricanes and geography subjected it to devastating earthquakes. Hurricanes and earthquakes are both a challenge to infrastructural development, especially for a dev ed loping nation

The second problem Haiti has is corruption. All homemade.
Corruption soaks up all investment dollars for the people at the top and leaves the poor wondering when is the help coming?

Its convenient for them and others to point fingers all around (the latest thing I heard was the UN brought cholera to Haiti. I'm assuming they means the slums of Haiti with poor sanitation and limited access to clean water, made exponentislly worse after an earthquake.. ok) but their major problems are a result of those two factors and this current crisis stems directly from corruption, all the money soaked up, prices rise in the vacuum and corrupt forces kill a president.

I do agree with you on one thing. We do need to use our brains more and I mean that, we are on the slippery slope to Haiti

So this week or maybe last, Oprah revealed that she's using a weight loss drug and she spoke of all the harassment and bullying she endured because of her weight. Then she said something puzzling, that obesity is a disease. I disagree, that's my opinion. If you put an obese person on a desert island their obesity will quickly fade, they no longer have access to the addictive substance. You cannot do the same with a person with cancer, they would die, because cancer is a disease, it exists even when you change the external environment. Sure the argument could continue that addiction is a mental disease. OK.

But I feel the same way about the obesity is a disease argument as I do about the if they didnt produce guns we wouldnt kill people. Guns certainly make it easier to kill people. But without guns we'd still have drug dealers, we'd still have turf wars, we'd still have cars and road rage, we'd still have illegal immigration stretching our resources, we'd still have corruption in high places siphoning the limited resources we do have and leaving a population in misery, a population on the edge and closer to anarchy. Guns aren't the problem.Cuba for example has access to the same gun market

The problem is **in** us.

Secondly society is society because a body of people get together under some rules. It doesnt matter what the rules are there will be someone who feels I could make so much money if this rule didn't exist and someone bold enough to buck the rule. It's up to designated people in society to stop those people. We could argue about the methods used to prevent illegal activity, but illegal activity should always be stopped because it's illegal (and of course I'm not referring to the slave running away illegal laws)

Doctors arent forced to give patients opioids. Opioids serve a medicine purpose. Theyre more potent than marijuana and they give patients with severe pain some ease when no other drugs are found to. They are pain relief drugs of **last** resort.

Nobody argues whether marijuana or its by products have some medical value. So does fentanyl and the other opioids. But what happened in the US when noone was paying attention? first hundreds of thousands developed an addiction then drug dealers capitalized on the addictive qualities and hundreds of thousands destroyed their lives and many of them died. It wasnt the drug that was the problem it was the monitoring and its too late to roll it back.

My concern about this marijuana thing is we fool ourselves if we believe we have any systems in place to control the potential gang activity around farms and assault on farms, the illegal distribution, the quality or the fallout in the inner city. But Its clear that they will do what they want as Chester Cooper said since they in charge, let noone say who could have seen this.

When the home based unregistered school comes to take the exam, inspect the premises, do the investigation of the program offered, charge a fine and allow the child to take the exam. I dont see any real issue there for legitimate programs. It's probably worse to have children who have been educated walking around with no certificates.

The only alternative is having the resources to act proactively in the detection of schools, how to do that well you'd have to know every living child in the country and complete some analysis on who is or isnt enrolled at a registered school, they're either not going to school or going to an unregistered school. Possible if you have the right tools and system integrations, but we dont.

I cant determine what registration really does, is there an effort to weed out people just taking money and not educating children or having children in unsafe environments or is it just, here's the list of our schools.

I made the **very** clear distinction that the story pointed to **internal** hospital staff who are not likely to be hackers. They were detected fairly quickly, not likely to be sophisticated hackers. Theres no need to add drama to the story.

If we'd stop killing each other in drive by shootings on public roads with 7 year old boys getting shot in the cross fire I'm betting the US wouldnt put out travel advisories. Just a guess, but they might still warn Americans about the danger of sunburn.

We dont need anymore spaced out children. Some say they're using it anyway. The risk takers are using it, if marijuana becomes legal people who wouldnt have touched an illegal substance will be emboldened to try and some will not have good results. It's the exact same thing we experienced with illegal gambling which is now devastating the inner city. But someone getting very rich off misery.

The PLP are the masters of botched attempted spin. Talking about comparing travel records between now and COVID era.

"*They don’t know the identity of the persons or their intentions for accessing the records*"

The suspected access came from internal hospital staff, which means the person(s) had to have an account or access to the database. It is not possible for someone with an account to access any system record even at the database level and "*noone knows who did*". The only person who might be able to without a trace would be the system admin, and theyd have to jump through some hoops to "try" to erase their trail. but since they suspect access it's likely not them. And I'm referring to sophisticated systems as in healthcare

"*investigations are continuing into the oil spill and other environmental incidents in Grand Bahama*"

Dorian was in 2019?

An oil spill in Abaco last week?

Yes theyve failed.

You know that question people get asked post 50? If you could talk to your 20yr old self what would you say?

I want the reverse. I want Pintard to talk to his future self and tell him all the ways he would punish himself for acts of hubris. Then I want him to present the bills **with teeth** that he will use against his future self and his fellow parliamentarians PS', FS', Board directors etc should he or they engage in any unethical behaviour. Then I want him to promise to abolish the proposal from Chester Cooper to legalize the acceptance of gifts to politicians of unknown value or purpose. Because Tourism doesnt need a gift, if the IDB or a foreign govt wants to offer assistance they can do as theyve done for decades, provide a grant with stated objectives or deliver assets or intelligence for a specific purpose. Theres no need for a bill to legalize "gifts"

The bottom line is we need to eradicate this corruption scourge. It is directly responsible for our astronomical high prices. Every kickback that produces nothing means givt has to increase taxes to replace that money. Increased taxes mean higher health insurance, higher food prices, higher electricity, higher gas and on and on. Politicians talk about us being a high priced destination as if it's something that makes us exclusive when all it is is a symptom of corruption riddled governance.