That "we" is an instruction to the church, a real church, not a marketing junket. Its not to a nation. It would be great if everyone in the bahamas subscribed to the christian faith and upheld the bibles moral standard... but they dont. The pastors need to get off the talk shows and go talk to their membership. We keep up this farce of a christian nation, I dont know who we think we fooling, certainly not God, not when we was partying with all kinds of Colombians right after writing the constitution

I know someone whose life was drastically altered very recently by a COVID infection. But I agree as was true during all of the pandemic, most people will be fine.

That will never work. Gangs are given life by disaffected people. Thats all we gat. Solution make no one disaffected.

I dont like to use scripture too much to a non christian audience, I personally think its the wrongly placed. Im particularly put off by the abundance of preachers looking for national relevance through talk show appearances.

**But**, since the PM brought up prayer as a solution, I also responded with *thats not how it works*, my message was not to the "secular", but to the religious and semi religious ones who say "*just pray*". God gave guidelines for how to prayer, for not praying foolish prayers and the prerequisites needed for him to answer... this message only for the Christians "*turn from your wicked ways*" thats the prerequisite.

I dont know if its significant or not, but I know someone died. I'd be interested to know their age.

COVID affects veins which means you could be the unlikely one person in a 100k to catch it, experience severe symptoms,...as opposed to the majority who have mild symptoms and lose critical function to a vital organ... since every organ gets its lifeblood via veins.

I'd take the precaution, it's not hard to wash hands, and worry about whether its significant or not later.

"*As you can see coming out of the Christmas holidays, a lot of people travel abroad, and we’re exposed*

So you can only catch travel related COVID if you travel outside the country. Not from a tourist who travels here?

And they would have to be strategists to return the country to law and order.

As they dont seem to be able to do that, which is achievable, they are clearly neither clairvoyant or strategic. Stop one person from running a red light, ...please

When these leaders quote scripture they quite often use it of of context. Does prayer work? Yes? The question is for "who"? Its quite clear:

"**If MY people**, which are called by MY name, shall humble themselves, and **pray**, and seek my face, **and turn from their wicked ways; THEN** will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and **will heal their land**.*

Prayer is a tool for Gods people who are willing to stop giving overpriced contracts to their buddies

I agree with you, there's enough there for a senior leadership direction change. Strangely someone told me exactly what you listed, recognizing the need for change but saying nuttin guh change cuz we is *run like a s-hole country*, people get promoted on personality

The weird thing is, when theres a spate of murders they say "*theres nothing we can do to stop it, its everybody's job*", but when theres a lull they say "*our strategy is working*". Pick a side.

Ill go with the former, there is nothing anyone can do to stop someone intent on murder. Because It's already too late. Discussing bail and trials is too late. What you can do is the things you can do. Act to prevent the "intent". Stop sweetheating, its a scourge on our community. And for example, these are hypotheticals: stop people from running the red light. Stop (hypothetical) accepting bribes from bad actors like Nygard. Stop looking the other way if an MP commits a crime. Stop abusing illegal immigrants. Stop those things you can control. In general return a sense of law and order. At the moment everybody believes no action is too lawless to act on.