Just like the fire brigade, the islands would benefit from a volunteer emergency response team, so that no matter where an incident occurs there is likely to be one or more persons with emergency response supplies trained to assist. Broken bones, blood loss, pain relief, resuscitation, But... if the hospital cant keep supplies in stock, could it work?

Wait to hear a ministry launch the new initiative they came up with.

Why? The answer is political. No politician questions the do nothing nonsense issued by any of the ministers who stand up to speak about the way forward. How many ministers of transport have now talked about how they're regulating the industry. Yet **every single day anybody with eyes can see jetskis and tourist boats scattered all over Montagu harbour where hundreds of Bahamians go to swim. It's an accident waiting to happen**. But someone in "politics" is allowing it to continue.

Pricing is a skill and a balancing act. Too often it appears that the only concern for the govt is how much money is to be made if they hikes taxes and fee-taxes 400% higher. Theres no balance in their act and they often enter the "*beyond the market can bear*" domain.

Where is the line between *not paying their fare share* and extortion? It's in the data. Unfortunately noone's given any.

Precisely!! And that pipeline going from Clifton to blue hills if I'm not mistaken. Which means lots of opportunity for a backhoe to have a mistake. FOCOLowned the gas station where the entire oil deposit drain into the ground in Abaco. An LNG fuel line won't be so forgiving of leaks. I hope FOCOL have the resources and equipment to tackle a large explosion. It's not about if it will happen. It's about demonstrating preparedness.

"*Recognising the importance of regulatory oversight,” the statement said, “the government has directed BPL to begin immediate engagement with the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA)*"

This upside down. If they "*recognized the importance of oversight*" why did they give Bahamas grid/ island grid/under the table grid, the right to set any rate they like free of URCA "interference" for three years?

Looks like a Sept Oct election...cant have it in the summer under threat of power outages

"*government has allocated only $30,000 to the newly established Independent Commission of Investigations*"

This could only pay the janitor and a clerk with a few dollars left over for office supplies. The Director will have to work pro bono

OR...

Better yet, have them in limbo and unable to accomplish anything for five years. That's a plan more likely to succeed

Roscoe has been a real example of how a representative should operate even more so with his party not in power. True true meaning of representation. I dont know of the other gentleman or how his Abaco advocacy compares.

This so strange. For five years nobody notice?

Hmmm... we are in a health crisis. (Financial crisis. Education crisis. Crime crisis)

How long does someone have to wait on a list for a donor?
On the National Kidney Foundation's website I see the following:

"*The transplant waitlist matches deceased donors with kidney patients for a transplant. How long it takes to get one depends many factors, but it can take 2-5 years or more.*"

But that's a US based stat and it doesnt indicate the wait for a living donor.

How many surgeries can be done per year? What is the rate of growth? How many persons are added to the treatment list every year? How many of those persons are in obesity related renal failure?

This new offering will be a miracle for some people but I wonder how far it will go to putting a dent in the problem. The true solution is probably lifestyle reform. But to know that you'd have to answer the other questions.