You dont know the meaning of DEI. You're just repeating a narrative from a racist who thinks black people Hispanics and women are inferior and the only possible way any could excel or be at the head of any institution is through some form of social promotion.

DEI is the reverse of what you intimate, it's why is this police investigations department dominated by low skilled white men when you have a harvard educated black man with a PhD in criminology and 25years of exemplary service solving cases relegated to the copy room? Is it because he's black?

The goal is to ensure that qualified people arent robbed of opportunities because of discrimination...

What does having the head of CDU on tape asking for a bribe to make a criminal case disappear have to do with race?

"*just because the one doing the most abuse says another country is doing it does not make it so,*"

Well... **it is so**. How many years did illegal gambling flourish seemingly protected by high ranking politicians and police.

Do we or do we not have the Head of Police Criminal Investigations on tape asking for a bribe to make a robbery case disappear, hinting at examples of other criminal cases he's made disappear

Do we or do we not have the Head of the Police Airport division on video with whom he believed to be Colombian narco dealers asking for 2 million dollars for **police** to **assist** with the movement of cocaine through the bahamas.

Its widely whispered that govt housing contracts was pay to play. The person in charge would demand a 5000 kickback off any contractor awarded a contract. And if it was this out in the open, so much money involved, it would be hard to believe that even more senior persons did not know and did not put a stop to it immediately or allow it to continue and demand their share. Is only fair after all, its *my* govt.

Surprisingly to date only one man Fred Ramsey was ever convicted of bribery, and ironically its because the US held the irrefutable evidence of his crime. Left to our internal controls, anything goes and *he's a good man. He help plenty people*

**We have more than enough evidence that plenty financial funny business going on**

She's not looking at VAT as revenue. She's saying removing the VAT makes the price of an imported product more attractive than a locally grown product. (Though I'm not certain of the rationale since VAT is removed from local products as well)

Unfortunately it's the wrong fight. Nobody should be fighting to make healthy food (assuming most farm grown will fall into that category) more expensive.

She does go on to say though that the govt should be looking for more ways to lower the cost of inputs for local farmers and that is the right approach. Subsidies to farmers is also an option but I doubt we have the capacity or the markets to do it. In the chaos created by Donald Trump in cancelling "evil" USAID for example, it was highlighted that some farmers' entire crop is grown just for the USAID program, up to 380million (not certain if that's a US total figure or a figure for a single state, but the point is it's a huge number, missed by Elon Musk chaos). The farmers fill a need somewhere in the world and the govt assesses the goodwill earned as worth the subsidy.

Pre Dorian and COVID it was said that 1% growth is growth and people talking about *growing the economy* didnt know what they were talking about. Because how? And that's the question, with multiple answers all built on the elimination of corrupt *high ranking politician*s. Growth is our only way out.

"*The ground started shaking, and when I talk about shaking, I mean literally. I was so scared.*"

I wonder if this will help space tourism?

"Due diligence"

Clearly not. Starship this, Falcon that, doesnt matter. Accidents are a risk of both. And the uncoordinated reactive recovery mission is clearly a sign that nobody really had a plan.

The search began one week after the explosion with the DEPP lamenting that the "*larger*: pieces of the craft could not be found. Is anybody surprised. Forget rockets, would a plane or a sinking ship sit on top of the water for a whole week? That start time is really odd, you would think that a part of the planning was a recovery team had bags packed to leave at a moment's notice if necessary. The only other option is the delay was intentional. We will never know which.

This by itself tells us something is very wrong. The govt it appears depended on SpaceX to have a plan and it's clear that didnt. The "baseline" study of normal ocean activity, to our shock, was conducted on the day of the launch! Seriously? One day is sufficient day to map normal ocean activity? Suppose wilfred the Whale and Sullivan the Shark only swim by on Sundays?

Next, they appear to have no idea where the wreckage is, defaulting to social media to depend on random conversations.

**And in all of this uncoordinated activity they gaslight us with press releases about conducting a "full" recovery. The large pieces were allowed to disappear. There will be no *full* anything.**

I'm as shocked as you. The Out Islands Board has no control over the environment. A hurricane could have hit, SunOil could have had another Exuma oilspil... the environment is what it is.

You do not get to pick and chose which numbers represent your results. You "can" use that information in you "internal" strategy meetings to determine how you mitigate the risk, but that's about it.

"*Yntegra’s Environmental Impact Assessment confirms the risks, stating that constructing the marinas, fuel depot, and service dock **will disrupt critical marine habitats**. The study notes that the dredging and marina construction **will destroy an estimated 15 acres of seagrass**, a **vital nursery for juvenile fish, conch, lobster, and endangered species like the hawksbill turtle and Nassau grouper.***"

Exactly what is the point of the DEPP?? We just see a big wrecking ball to the environment over and over again. How was this project ever approved?

"*once the legislation is laid and the documents and the law is set, when NHI now becomes the authority responsible for chronic drugs, then the decision would be made, and we would consult.”*

Boy... he said it...consult after deciding

Appears to be an intentional misrepresentation of what the US is alleging. They are not saying the Bahamas is engaging in forced labour, they are saying the Bahamas is enabling it by working with the Cuban govt to contract labour.

I recall for example sometime between 2011 and 2014, a group of Chinese CCA construction workers marching in protest at the conditions under which they were forced to work *in the Bahamas*.

They did not claim that the Bahamian govt was forcing them to work under those conditions, but if those conditions were a reality, the Bahamian govt was certainly *allowing* it to happen. I still wonder about those men, it was the last we heard of them, we dont know if they remained in the Bahamas to work, we dont know if they were treated worse thereafter, we dont know if they were taken back to China, we dont know if they were tortured, we dont know if they were imprisoned we simply dont know. Because the govt wanted the labour, they didnt care to get involved in humane treatment policies.

And if we think that's passed us, just two(?) years ago, 62 Chinese nationals held by immigration for violations were said to not have passports. Upon investigation it was "said", that their employer the Hilton or CCA (since CCA owns the Hilton) was in posession of their passports. A call was made by Keith Bell, alledgedly after speaking with and directed by a very high ranking politician, to release the men.

There was no follow up on why any worker would have his passport taken from him. It is a telltale sign of human trafficking or slave labour. But our govt, "*allowed it to happen*", facilitated the prompt return of those workers more concerned about economic activity than human rights.

The very same thing could be happening with Haitian migrants. Is there a program of indentured labour that we turn a blind eye to? Are they facilitated in leaving Haiti then having to work to pay off a debt to the facilitator? We dont know. We just want the labour.

That is the point. Are we complicit?