Murder cant be trending down 16% and trending up 150% within the span of 2 weeks. They're just playing telephone notes with these numbers

"*, he didn’t mention the death in New Providence, and persons admitted to critical care beds even now,” he said*.

*“I was surprised that he didn’t mention the fact that the COVID ward in Grand Bahama was full.*"

I did not know this, it means we've been exposed to a variant for which we have little or no immunity. I agree with Dr Sands, when your ER and hospital beds start to fill with persons having difficulty breathing your entire health system could be facing an issue. Nobody fakes a pneumonia. and its not a pleasant experience.

Someone died. Yes it was one in 450k. But to their family that doesnt matter. Ive always thought that our COVID death numbers were underreported, still a small fraction of the population but underreported. The only people who are reported to die from COVID are those who die in hospital. If you collapse at home, even when otherwise 100% healthy, thats just a sudden death.

Washing hands wont hurt anybody is what I say. And no I never supported mass vaccination, not when it was clear less than 1% of the population had severe symptoms. I supported definition of vulnerable and targeting them

Im not certain how much notice employers have to provide employees, but Im believe theyre required by law to give govt more notice than 1 week. The question to be asked is how long was the cabinet aware that this was coming.

I think speaking to the perpetrators is the way to go, unfortunately this was a badly bumbled attempt at it. They did this in South Africa I believe led by Desmond Tutu. I know the Commissioner means well and he wants this problem solved, beating suspects doesnt work, advertising that youre trying to get information out of gang members is a death sentence to them, as odd as that sounds. They will speak when they trust that the person on their boss payroll doesn't report back.

The strategy was odd. (They probably saw their boy walking by the door in red stripes). And then to broadcast it, noone really will say anything now.

You know this is no different than a normal Bahamian citizen. Ask any MP how so and so get this contract? Silence. Ask any PS to speak to the public. Silence. Ask any civil servant what going on in this ministry. Silence. We are all in our own gang of some sort and we all know the danger of speaking. **Unless** you trust the person youre speaking to

"*said there was “tension in that room with those young boys” and “everybody head is down”*

Its no mystery, they dont trust you.

This sounds eerily like the Commissioners statement maybe 2 years ago(?) May have been the former commissioner.. Paraphrasing, "*Bahamians dont need to be afraid, only those known to police are being targeted*"... and then the collateral damage started.

What if the criminal hides in a movie theatre where his girlfriend works?

Lol.

"*We are going to launch an attack on Atlantis in the magnitude they have never seen.*"

Seems wrongheaded. I wonder if we'll see the day where the cruise port and the hotels just employ their own transport personnel. If business is up they hire more, if down they furlough. Why the taxi drivers cant organize themselves in an orderly fashion is strange. They do weird things downtown as well, loading passengers in the path of moving oncoming traffic, directing tourists to jaywalk in the path of moving traffic, stopping in traffic to load people

"*They are bringing guests from around the island for tours featuring Atlantis,*"

It's amazing to me that a hotel is an attraction. I get it that the structure is beautiful but I'd feel cheated as someone paying for a tour, that that's the "top". I'd want to see wonders of nature or something filled with history... but I guess those buildings all collapsed or burned to the ground. And the straw market, which had history, is no longer a straw market.. painted in ghastly colors but it too burned to the ground... unless they meant to say they're bringing them to the water park.

"*Historically, financial institutions, whether customers like hearing it or not, used to effectively subsidise what I’m going to call the professional services that they obtained in the branch.*"

A bank's compensation for services in the past came through use of money deposited by customers, those deposits funded their ability to make loans and earn interest income from other customers. That is born out by the fact that banks competed to attract people to deposit their money by offering attractive interest rates on deposits. In today's reality they no longer make the profits they made from that model so instead of paying an interest they're now charging to hold your money and if that model fails they will find more ways to introduce more fees. If everyone for example stopped going to the bank and did everything online, the narrative would switch to the cost of maintaining the digital platform. The spiral would continue until such time as there's actually real growth in the economy. The govt is doing exactly the same thing.