Didnt the govt PAY Franklin Wilson for this land? Or is this land separate and apart from the land purchased from Arawak Homes? In any event, how can the govt rush plans for a new hospital on contaminated land that they dont even own?

Hospitals have to be planned based on projectes future demographics . I've heard nobody justify the design of this hospital against the needs of a future Bahamas. And that takes more than saying what we "feel" like doing or what we "think" would be a great idea "today"

I think this is absolutely **fabulous**. The bronze medal is icing. The participation and drive is the amaxing feat.

I should add, many said *months ago*, myself included, "*are there enough auditors*"? I dont understand why we have to create all these "*nice*", unrealistic goals and force workers into these impossible stressful situations with the blood bound at their heel

"*The majority, I would say, probably about 75 percent of the businesses required extensions,” said Ms Strachan.We have given the extensions because this is the first time we are doing this as well and then there has been a challenge with sourcing auditors to do the work*"

Another ill thought out strongman policy from the FS

These statements are made as of who could have possibly known in January that there would be a shortage of auditors and many businesses would face challenges meeting the deadline.

**To come in August and report, "*guess what we found out*" is ridiculous. These are knowables**. We know how many firms have to complete audits, we know how many of these firms have a practice of completing annual audits vs those that dont. We can get a professional opinion from experienced auditors on the average time it would take to conduct an audit of each. We can get a professional opinion on how audits would be scheduled which phases for whom would run in parallel and which would have to be queued and we could tell almost to the exact month with some wiggle room added how long all of this would have taken

But no, let's shoot from the hip, again, and pick a nice date that we want to announce *everything is done*!

I see the hospital is barrelling ahead with the same plan as we go philosophy. It will lead to disastrous results one year in. Guaranteed. Who could have known it would be an extra billion dollars? Who knew we'd need to move the dialysis unit?

I saw more Pike trucks today, "fixing lines" and it just seems so crazy. Not only are we already paying them to fix lines, we gave them all our electrical grid assets on top of it. For what? Then Coleby tells us bills will go down after some engines are installed. When? Who doing the work? How long will it take? Are there any prerequisites for installing the engines? Are there a y risky technical challenges we might encounter. What are the milestones on this project. You cant hist throw your hands in the air and say "*well we had some dates we liked but things happened*". Can someone with a active mind please take over and report to the Bahamian people something that makes sense.

"*energy Minister JoBeth Coleby-Davis said Bahamians can expect a gradual decline in their electricity bills as efforts continue to introduce cleaner, cheaper fuel and more efficient generators.*

This is the same promise she made last year when bills skyrocketed because Brave Davis appeared to have abdicated his responsibility as Minister of Finance to Simon Wilson. So much so that the PM denied even knowing about any communication about the fuel hedge ultimately rejected by Wilson. The funny thing is the gradual decline in bills was supposed to have already started. Instead the minister comes to give another nonsensical *wait for it* explanation.

We clearly heard the PM say the bills would decline in July months after Coleby originally said the bills would have already declined. Neither happened.

And **they keep focusing on "*lower rates*". What's actually happened is they executed an elaborate *bait and switch*. They changed the formula. They did lower the rates, and they reduced the lowest inconsequential bills by 20 dollars, but at the same time, they doubled, tripled, quadrupled the bills of the highest payers. This was not an accident. "*OMG we have to investigate why some bills are so high!*". This was all planned. Its planned landfall new revenue for *no-assets to the table* Pike and Wilson. *The rates are lower* as if that means anything, has become *the 2nd greatest lie ever told*.**

And these Pike trucks are a slap in the face. We could have kept our assets and just hired them on contract to cut trees and fix lines.

The 3rd greatest lie is *when the cooler months start bills will go down*, as if they're doing something. Does the minister believe the Bahamian public is stupid? Of course the bills will go down. Unless.. they plan on introducing another new formula to tax **not** using electricity. As more people leave the grid in disgust, rather than focus on growing the economy, I can really see them creating such a blood out of stone policy.

I still do not understand how all the assets of BEC understated at 100m (BTC sold for 300m more than 10years ago) could be handed over to a company without a dime to their name, they use excessively inflated pricing to generate revenue from the Bahamian public then tell us we have to buy the company back

I'm still wondering if FOCOL was in serious financial trouble. No way of knowing but their infrastructure was failing on multiple occasions, multiple locations with their seeming inability to respond to the environmental disaster in a timely fashion sometimes not at all, the Abaco **disaster** was left for months until every drop had leaked from the storage tank. Then their fine for one of these breeches was a secret, who knows if they paid more than a dollar. Nothing on the fines for the breech in Abaco or any information from Vaugn Miller. A d after all this the govt claims they trusted theyd be best for the energy grid

What a climate disaster Brave Davis' administration has turned out to be

Sounds like CIBC has issues beyond card pickup.

This is easily fixable

Why is an honour being given for someone selling imitation goods from China?? Unless the honour is being given for someone maintaining bahamian culture through continuous sales of bahamian made crafts and original straw work.

Anyway these awards all boil down to popularity contests. So I guess...

"*I laughed at Slimy Fwreddy Boy saying "the internet doesn’t work here" *

That did stand out. When sitting govt ministers attempting to take populist stands act as if they're set upon and powerless to do anything. Last week Brave Davis was telling Caricom leaders, ~"*we must stop indiscriminate destruction of land*".

"*President Biden and Vice President Harris took on Big Pharma and won, and now millions of seniors and others on Medicare will soon see their drug costs go down on some of the most common and expensive prescription drugs that treat heart disease, cancer, diabetes, blood clots, and more.*"

Work with the US Embassy. It's not true that theres nothing that can be done about prices