This is the last you'll hear about it.

"*could understand last year when their shack was burned and they lost everything, but this year, I’ve yet to get the reasoning for it.*"

Once heard a story about a worker who burned down a building to avoid an audit. They have to have greater accountability handing out this kind of money. "*t burn down*" isnt good enough.

Hmm.. this is horrific.

She claims someone touched her, rape would be hard to prove, touching even more so. How in 2023 can there be no camera system in a detention facility to corroborate these claims?

An ASP recently made a woman walking down the street the subject of his vulgar sexual assault. After she rejected his advance, he punched her with so much force he detached her retina. He then had her arrested for apparently the crime of embarrasing him publicly, ordering his subordinates to take her to ***his*** station, reportedly exploding in anger when she was taken to another station. What could he have wanted to achieve by having the woman behind closed doors under his control? The Police Commissioner's only response to date has been one statement to basically imply that *something wrong with the woman*. In reality, it doesnt matter if she was a criminal, a drug addict, a prostitute, literally insane or participating voluntarily in a sex act, she was viciously attacked. By an officer. And she had pictures to prove it.

This lady unfortunately was "only" touched and "*what bruises*"? Thats the best response we can come up with for an alledged sexual assault.

We need to come to the realization that male behaviour is changing and at least try to re-socialize young boys. I believe there's too much loose sex talk, sex innuendo and sex jokes on radio making men feel that access to a woman is their right. Even if the woman has no interest.

Why was her hair cut? This was a practice we heard about in the 80s with sole purpose to humiliate rastafarians under detention. This would be psychologically devastating for a woman. Why would anyone need to cut a womans hair for a visa overstay? Why was she detained for 40 days? Flights to Jamaica are easy to obtain.

Horrific because its so ordinary.

Sharks or no sharks, throwing all that rotting material into the dock needs to stop. It just makes sense. And Sandals isnt that far from Arawak Cay... if youre a shark.

So option #2, he's knowingly putting a fine on inability to complete an impossible task. This is a new tax on businesses finessed as a fine.

I didnt hear John Ray concede anywhere that he was wrong and from another story the Bahamas has to turn over 426m in digital assets. The commission gets aid to retrieve 143m after spending 40m+ of the 86m they hold with a reported 78m loan coming from Ray to help with administrative fees. The creditors will have nothing left at this rate after paying all the fees.

I still find it extremely troubling that the head of a transport safety organization makes a statement that says every vessel has to come up with their own safety rules, it's none of our business and nobody in authority has corrected it, but surprise! After the story dies down the company back in operation. No press conference to detail what changed to save lives. Can you imagine the head of the FTAA making such a dumb statement about evacuation protocols?

I posted on the story about the govt demanding Bahamian businesses with revenues over 5m complete audits by April that in my experience large businesses run by Bahamians run with no structure in place. They run solely on the thoughts that pop into the leaders head. This is an example of what you see when a large organizations run without structure. They just "*do things*: They have a meeting, get the royal edict then spring into action. No research. No reporting, no plans. The reason they cant stick to the budget is because it means nothing. It's not a "plan", its words on a paper. They just present something because they have to present something then they go back to their office and start handing out random contracts that were never considered in the budget plan. Just the result of a brain pop. Audits require you to report evidence of your structure. That is why these organizations will have a challenge they have to report on something that doesnt exist, that they never knew about, and now has to be built from scratch.

I never caught on to Janet Jackson as a performer, but in general as performers age, their fans dont leave them. Some get cult status, I "think" Janet is one. Pearl Jam, Kiss, Bon Jovi, Cher, Aretha. Ozzie Osbourne just stated that he wants to do one last concert. People dont care that they look older that they "may" not move as well or sound as good, its a memory. Madonna I think still performs well, she's always kept herself in excellent physical condition.

I believe that is a recent photo of Janet, she looks a little older. She was on an award show maybe 5 years ago and she was in tip top shape, Im certain she has the discipline to get back to that physically.

The guy who does the voice of Optimist Prime has a following. He looks nothing close to an active person but people like him.

How could I forget Tom Jones? And our Caribbean artists, Tiger, Cutty Ranks, Beenie Man, Buju, Shaggy etc

This is what Mr Wilson fails to see and his boss fails to recognize. His hard nose approach is looked at as him being a man who gets things done. They fail to link the deleterious impact of their "*bold*" actions. Exponential prices, less spending, business closure, lower govt revenue

Something is wrong at Finance. Mr Wilsons justification for keeping his timeline is that its only 113 out of 45k businesses that have to be audited. A 1st grader could work out that the main challenge would be that the same resource challenged audit teams would have to review all 113 companies "at the same time", which would be impossible. Either Mr Wilson couldn't see that, which is a problem, or he could see it, which is another problem as a ginormous fine was attached to inability to complete an impossible task. Why would the govt do that? rhetorical.

The majority of Bahamian businesses have no structure, they function off the "genius" of the personality who started or currently runs it. I recall DAguilar saying exactly this, "*at my company we dont do all this* new fangled (my word) *'planning', we just get things done*".

In general, any idea that pops into the leader's head is immediately actioned. No time to listen to all this "*book learning*". Thats how the govt runs and thats how Bahamian businesses run, thats why they will have a huge problem with this audit. Thats why they have so many errors. After Dorian I recall one prominent individual making efforts to go outside the country to find out how to create a disaster management plan for businesses as if it was some foreign thing that nobody had ever heard of..... No structure, completely unaware that structure exists

contrast thst to how international organizations with institutional knowledge run, and its not that they dont make mistakes, the process is more orderly with less knee jerking. Bill Gates once said, paraphrasing, *at Microsoft we get alot of good ideas, we select the ones with greatest impact*. Structure