Mudslinging - *make malicious or scandalous allegations about an opponent with the aim of damaging their reputation.*. I didnt make a scandalous allegation, I made a statement of fact that was broadcast on national television.

Theres one American historian that I love to listen to, his name escapes but I could find it, he's a presidential historian, and he delves right into character traits of historical figures. I never hear him try to make them appear like Santa Claus or Saint Paul

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**Your theory presupposes that people who do bad things are not likeable**. Not true. Some are charismatic, some are magnetic, some are beautiful. It's by what they do that you distinguish character. Recently a psychologist was on radio talking about young men who commit crime and the parents referring to them as "*good*" children. The psychologist said, in most cases, the boy on the street is a totally different person to the boy at home. His family and friends never see the other side.

Nobody was found guilty in the commission of inquiry btw. Ledher was the only bad guy running drugs through the Bshamas, leaving a trail of addicts and deaths that noone was aware of, he did it all by himself, so noone could sanction dorectly or implicitly, or stop, and he was the only person who profited from it.

Also please, if the FNM were in power would George Smith have been chosen to chair the Independence celebrations? No. He was chosen because he had "**favour** with the party leadership. Our country runs on favour. That's why its crumbling

I also have a theory about people who pass whether natural/illness or unnatural causes. And I stated that theory here, to those who love even persons of the vilest nature, it doesnt matter what they did, the passing is painful.

Acknowledging a passing is one thing, historical fact is another.

If by "*all*" you mean everyone who's commented here, this may be the 4th time I've written a comment **in this forum** about George Smith in utter disbelief of his theory that any money is good money. I watched him say it with my own eyes. I've also previously commented on what would be written of elected officials who miraculously gain access to wealth on a regular salary. I made that comment based on the trend to report "**first**" and "**length of service**" as the shining accomplishments of many. When every Bahamian has heard story upon story how this one and that one was pushed aside to allow the favored one in. If we want to use their term in office as a reason to hold them up, tell us what they did for the country in that time compared to the time they had, *first*, "*youngest*" and *duration* have been rendered meaningless.

How many Chinese, Porruguese nationals enter the country? Do they fly into Freeport or are they leaving Nassau by stealth? Where did they originate? Tourist visas or work at the Pointe? If the problem is workers at The Pointe do we have a biometric tracking program? Dont all passports now require finger print scans? This is just one example of the type of techniques we should be hearing about, not the same decades old someone called in a tip (which can work) reporting.

It does seem as if we're constantly celebrating people buying off bits and pieces of the Bahamas that they can exclude Bahamians from and as more and more gets bitten off the country sinks deeper into debt and blighted neighbourhoods and the ministry of finance looks for ways to take more money from the middle class to give out to cronies

Hmm.. bahamian insurers didnt invent the concept of co-pays or deductibles. It's a fundamental principle of insurance to reduce the risk of persons either deliberately or carelessly destroying assets because theyd get 100% of value anyway. For health the principle prevents seeking unnecessary costly procedures. You might argue that deductibles are high...

Shacks **and** lean-to's

True. They most likely think the recent murder trend is bad as we've had it, not knowing about the briefcases of money, dead bodies, disappearances, burned bodies and headless bodies of the past.