I completely add agree with criminalizing marital rape. But I do not believe a court would or should accept "*I didnt feel like it*" as justification for a rape charge, because rape is a serious charge. I'd expect the judge to say find other accomodations. I'd expect that this charge would be levied when evidence of serious abuse mental or physical is taking place.

That said, 60 is a very small sample size to make generalizations about the entire population. If these married women are all employed by COB or live in a particular neighbourhood you might be able to generalize about that subset

Nobody destroyed them. They were designed for temperatures below 0 degrees. That fact by itself should have given someone pause. The Tribune has detailed accounts of issues with mold

Do we understand the full import of what happened here?

"*people have been writing in, asking for domes for certain purposes and we have approved these on a case by case basis.....People want to use them for chicken coops...*"

**We spent 6 million dollars for 100 repurposed chicken coups.**

And that een the problem. The real problem happen when Minnis announce he'd found some new housing technology that could withstand 200mph winds. The 1st day the tribune posted the photo I said, "*but thats an igloo, are they designed for tropical climates*"?

Where was the cabinet minister out of 39 ministers asking, *why we buying igloos in the Bahamas??* Ask DAguilar or Iram Lewis if anyone ask that question. Cause if 39 men at the head of the country could approve 6m dollars without asking it, and we have a pastor erecting roofs at schools that crumble like London bridge, what are we doing??.

Let's just have a fire sale one time. Sell us to Saudi Arabia, our men and women could benefit from their summer dress wear, we dont need all this wool and spandex. Ain't someone say our flag design belong to them? That solve that problem, we dont need a flag anymore either. Just shut everything down. I tired.

"*However, Philip Simon, Royal Caribbean’s Bahamas country chief, in today’s paper argues that the cruise line will expand the market for all and not seize it all for itself via the Royal Beach Club. He added that plans to increase the number of passengers it brings to Nassau by 150 percent by 2027, taking this to 2.5m compared to pre-COVID’s one million, **will grow the pie for all** cruise-reliant businesses. Of that 2.5m, only 40 percent will go to Paradise Island (see Page1B).*

Poppycock. The black face for FTX sold us a similar story. The cruise industry's new model is clearly to create a *cruise country* on the outskirts of the Bahamas that excludes Bahamians. Its basically the Albany of the Sea. I wonder what they would do if every weekend a flotilla of Bahamians showed up with their own tents and refreshments to enjoy *our* beach *up to the high water mark*?

Nassau gone, PI gone, Eleuthera gone, Long Island next and who knows what the next parliamentary realtor will sell off for 6% and porridge.

And Pamela Musgrove said about 5 years ago, ~*the model is wrong*. More tourists diminishing returns. It doesnt make sense.

Why is our infrastructure crumbling as tourism minister after tourism minister gets up to crow about cruise arrivals? It doesnt make sense. The model isnt working. The focus on body count hides the true picture

When you said most Bahamians are blissfully unaware of certain aspects of the tourism industry, I thought you were getting at the reason the project was approved, i.e. "*money and where it goes".... and it's not trickling down

I see they sell off Long Island too. We'll soon see another black token telling us how wonderful it will be for the local economy with 1 fire truck and a broken down "*regatta site*" more minimum wage jobs for us, yay (not knocking honest work, but where the billions going?"

Wilson is seeing the reaction to his tax more and more policies. Peter Turnquest saw this same reaction when he raised VAT using simple math to project all the money that would be made from the increase. Then customs revenue started dropping.

A few months ago Rupert Roberts told us sales were down. About 2 weeks ago he told us he'd stopped selling a more expensive brand of a product because noone was buying it. Thats what happens when cost goes beyond what people can or are willing to pay.

Some fishermen have decided its too expensive to go out with the exponential increase in registration fees from a few hundred to possibly 10,000 dollars. yacht registrations are down as their fees jumped exponentially as well. Occassional Event promoters say they cant afford to pay 750 per event.

**Halston Moultrie described it correctly, they're trying to charge us for their inability to think.**

The next time you hear someone say, *it was only an idea* or *anyone could come up with an idea* in an attempt to diminish the value of an idea that someone did come up with, think about the high cost we're paying because nobody was able to come up with an idea.Think about RCI, Minnis and now Brave and Toby's idea.

"*Where a person is in that Cabinet does not take away from that so that we have collective responsibility. *"

4 months later when its clear the public won't be distracted from calls of honour and accountability is too late to recognize this. The Parliament is further and irrevocably damaged by the terrible and unimaginable precedence set by both administrations.

I see alot of people cleaning their personal stock of fish and throwing fish guts right where people swim. They need a major education campaign around this. As I wrote I simultaneously said, what's the point, they dont even stop people blatantly running red lights and people also continue to park in the path of cars on a speedway near Shell prince charles. Does the commissioner own that business? I dont understand why the owner hasnt gotten a gigantic fine for repeat violations.

The gutting needs to stop. Its ignorance. Arawak Cay Potters Cay and Montagu are basically live baiting sites

Criminals go where the money is. If there's no ATM, they'll get it in the cloud. Eliminate one risk take on another. The first place where the local cashless marketing goes wrong is when its assumed it removes ALL risk. It simply converts risk.

A year ago the Central Bank was the main proponent for the cashless trend with major "*cashless*" marketing behind the food festival. When the payments options bombed they started backtracking, which was a good thing, if something doesnt work, pivot.

The major difference between our society and Chinese society and US society is mass. Those societies also have their rural sectors that aren't tech forward, but the tech forward sectors are so massive it makes sense to make the major cities cashless or near cashless, the uptake is still huge. Not gonna happen here, "*soon*", "*by choice*". But in Armageddon (and recently lockdowns) cashless will be king. I had this *not ready for payment provider takeover* conversation with someone 10 years ago, it was obvious.

As I said "*because thats where the money is*". If someone had the bright idea to start doing cash drops using all these useless pigeons floating around, plenty robbers would learn how to targer and shoot birds