Barbados is also not a communist state.

Noone can know for certain unless they have access to the internal data, but I get the distinct impression that prices are being driven up by a demand from shareholders to make a given return on investment and not really a ~direct response to cost itself, meaning while costs may have increased, the business is still making a decent profit but the shareholders want more profit. Some also got used to the exorbitant profits they made during COVID and theres a demand to maintain that... but again you cant "know"

"*He woke up today feeling like ‘I am playing today’ *"

It's good news that he *feels* like he's ok to play.

Take it easy Jazz, better to rest up than to create greater damage.

*And* at the same time, ensure that you're setting your finances, education etc up for post major league life in about 10years.

I hope Pinder isnt trying to get a nomination. In fact the govt should reject anyone from the previous slate who was less than impressive. Name recognition and sitting in Parliament for 5 years should not be eligibility criteria.

The first set of criteria should be character, ethics and honesty. Too many people look to an MP posting as a path to riches or at minimum a nice salary.

Then we need intelligence and good comprehension skills. Because the job is about reading and critically analyzing **documents*? Not, handing out back to school bags and putting up happy valentine's billboards. When did that become something a minister has to do???

"*I don’t think we need to have the Barbados example to hang our hat on*"

True. But the reality is Barbados has a sophisticated thinking class and its been active for decades. If they had had the blessing of our location I believe we would have seen exactly how to revolutionize a 14mil tourist tourism product. It may be due to the longstanding presence of a rigorous university, or it may be that they're simply smarter, more analytical. Nothing wrong with following a smart, sensible example if it does not fundamentally contradict your objectives.

While Barbados is giving their banks sensible guidelines like you *cant charge fees on transaction lower than 10,000 and at least one bank account should be fee free*, we still have voices here saying, it's a business, een nothing you could do.

They also need to look at their usage agreements. They're brutal. How am I responsible for fraud in your system if you cant create a safe environment for use? And what happened to data privacy, how do you have the right to share "details" about my financial transactions with vaguely defined actors and by your language, for any reason, "*curiosity*" might even work, without notifying me?

The irony is, the digitization push which they forced on customers was accompanied by a host of cost savings. Cost savings which would have outpaced any cost incurred to digitize or they would never have done it. They let go staff and closed multiple locations. Now they want us to believe that the fees are a *result* of digitization. It doesn't make "*cents*"

I dont know about the adjectives but I'll tell you noone was more shocked than me to hear Mr Ferguson was on the Board of Bahamas Grid. This coming out after he appeared in a lengthy interview to demonstrate why this was a good deal. But nowhere in the interview did he mention he was on the Board. And as a member of the Board, his first duty is to ensure that his shareholders interests are served, to the exclusion of everything else. What a sense of betrayal.

It all comes down to good work.

The actors, the singers, the saints, the kings,the carpenters, the painters, the writers, the scientists, the athletes, we know and remember all of them through their work. For the under the radar parents we recognize them through their children's work, which is an extension of the parent. Our life's mission is a good work.

Well done.

Sincere condolences to the family.

This is disgraceful. Where's the fire truck? Weve been talking about this forever. But the govt spend 2.5m on a plane so they could fly around for election

"*Mr Davis highlighted the challenges of governance, noting that many important initiatives often fall through the cracks due to competing priorities like healthcare and education.*"

Healthcare and education cant be the priorities. Can they???
Anybody hear any kind of healthcare strategy? All we know is we buy land from Arawak Homes that's contaminated. That's about it.

Fair enough