Unfortunate. The sad fact is that Julien was not a good fit for the show, and now he's getting abuse for no fault of his own but for the failure of the promoter. Had this been a soca or rake n scrape event he would have been a super opening act.

"*The days of top-down decision-making without listening to the people who live here are over.”*

Four years in?? It appears that Davis had no idea what was happening in the country as he travelled extensively abroad.

Hence why I said "pseudo".

"*I'm guessing this promoter is new*"

That's not a valid explanation. "New" is not an excuse for bad service. This is why I said some regulatory body should be looking at these events to ensure the person taking money from the public is sufficiently capitalized to deliver on what they say they will deliver

"*I can’t answer any questions,” he said. “All of our contracts are confidential.*"

Confidentiality typically applies when a vendor is delivering some product that is either innovative or whose execution would be negatively impacted if a competitor had access to implementation details

**To cite "confidentiality" on a road contract is complete and utter nonsense**

The article didnt say who the event promoter was.

"*arrived around 11.30pm but was not allowed in until after 1am — just before Spice’s performance.*"

That is nightmarish... I checked the average time to get into a baseball game. The commenters said arrive about two hours before the game, they calculated in that two hours the time to negotiate traffic and park, get into the stadium, buy food and get to seats. This lady stood in the line for almost two hours...sheesh. If Spice came on at 1AM what time did Vybz come on? An event at this scale is far from an easy thing to coordinate... but certainly they can guesstimate the number of tickets windows and drinks theyd need based on the expected crowd size.. and the average time it should take someone to negotiate the line. Seems like basic planning elements were missing or maybe they didnt have the money upfront to prepare for the event. This is something consumer affairs should look at. Another pseudo Fire Festival fiasco

I would say they're unlikely to be arrested because of the money their employer holds in his hand. If a high ranking politician is willing to make money off cocaine trafficking using police and govt planes, what wont he do? And PM Davis has done nothing to turn parliament upside down to find this public enemy. Its baffling.

Ive never seen a country that at a surface level projects law and order but is more willing to embrace criminals than ours. Rather than prosecuting these people the forestry department is making statements like ~*we're talking to see how we can make an industry of this*. These people are responsible for decades and decades of destruction, terror and toxic smoke for money and you're in talks with them to see how they can continue to make money?

When did this fire start btw?

From another Trubune news story last week:

"*Stephen Wilson, Family Island administrator for North Abaco, said bushfires are not uncommon on the island. He explained that **some residents light small fires to produce coal, not realising how quickly they can spread**.*"

But today, with **no investigation**, the national security minister then police commissioner declare, "climate change"

"*warning that climate change has resulted in an early start to the fire season*"

"*This is something as the PM says is climate change, which we don't contribute to in a very large way but it affects us in a very big way in terms of storms and fires.*"

**Please establish a regime for monitoring activity in our forests. Please. Especially Athol Island. It also wont be climate change that's responsible for the removal of the barrier thats reported as protecting eastern new providence from storm surges. It will once again be a mysterious thing called "money to be made"**

"*Mr Campbell pointed to the recent reduction in grocery prices at Super Value, the country’s largest grocery chain, made possible by sourcing products from a wider range of suppliers. *"

According to a previous statement in this paper by a Trade Commission spokesman, **Supervalue did this on their own initiative. Why does the govt keep holding it up as something they accomplished?** Its insulting to the hard work of the Bahamians who actually had the idea, planned and executed it.

This "*they dont know what they're talking about and their details are wrong*" attitude from officials is complete nonsense. Of course we dont know. Because you havent told us anything. Why is a plan to modernize the parliamentary process cloaked in secrecy? And when something is cloaked in secrecy, everybody has a right to start wondering what is going on and to assume the worst. The Bahamian people are left to assume the worst on practically everything because govt has proven to be untrustworthy with our money and resources. Every five years someone reveals another shocking look what they did while in power novel.

"*For the Bahamian public, we are creating an any energy dossier that will break down and explain every part of this project we are creating that, this government that will be a communication piece, in layman’s term, for the main public to understand exactly what is transpiring*"

Pintard is correct, they are "planning as they go", what is the point of creating a "layman's" document for public review after the country is sold off for pittance? What would be the point of that? To keep the public in the load shedding dark?A100mil valuation and a 40% stake for the govt? I'd question competence as well.