So the studies say most rapes are committed by persons known to the individual. Many of them date rapes. Just because girl is out with a male friend at 3AM, even one she expressed some form of attraction to, it does not mean she is open to a sexual encounter. I think that line confuses alot of men. She has the right to say no.

"*Cabinet can only act upon information provides by the Financial Secretary and others.*"

Exactly. Look no further than BPL, the mess we in by the PM's own admission is because "*the FS had some views*". None of them could see beyond what was a carefully constructed strategy to keep fuel costs low and let the FS lead us down another tax them till they bleed hole

Hmmm... it's hard to believe that Deltec had no statistical reporting of the large movements on this account, did not have any flags that the source of the funds was customer deposits and the destination was outside the country. That's 3 levels of failure for an established financial institution. But in the end its something they'll have to defend in court

**This doesnt make sense. At all**. If the problem is not with the portal but the payment provider, allows SeaZPass to change providers!???? For a govt to take action to virtually ~"*steal*" the IP of a vendor is mind boggling

And why is the information non-public. What's non public about 10 yachts arriving in Nov, 5 in Dec, 8 in Jan, each paying 10 dollars, $230 deposited to Omins account, minus transaction fees and one month processing time, 8 remitted to govt in Dec, 6 in Jan and 8 in Feb?? **It seems like theres a concerted effort to squash transparency, with the specific purpose of handing out 4 million dollars. Theres no aspect of this reporting that has to be a secret.**

Maury is very specific about evidence of a wire transfer to the govts account. So this isnt an issue of money sitting in Omnis account. It's an issue of what govt did with their money after it was collected

Maybe more correct to say different "*genetically*"

The thing we should be afraid of more than COVID, "today", is high blood pressure

The best wasnt done. The number of deaths skyrocketed due to mismanagement of symptoms. And that was a result of lack of knowledge, i.e. proper use of ventilation machines. The information is all there. I'm told that if those machines are used improperly you could actually end up killing the patient, I believe that happened. There are written accounts on cnn.com of hospitals throwing any staff available to manage these machines. The problem with COVID was the numbers, no hospital system is set up to manage such a large section of the population needing ICU care. That's why so many people died. In larger population centers a greater number of people died.

Btw, a group of medical professionals also came to the same conclusion. That article was also on cnn.com.

I believe we saw our version of NY. Having 800 people die of one iillness in The Bahamas over 3months is massive. And that number most likely didnt count everyone, because if you died outside the hospital system it was likely not investigated. We had people waiting in the hallways for assistance and doctors worked to exhaustion.The 800 also doesnt tell the tale of the persons who came back from the brink of death.

So the vaccine did provide protection. I was never in doubt of that.

My argument was always only 0.05% of the population was contracting COVID and there should have been more focus on why the 95% was unaffected then **target** the vaccine to the people most at risk. For the people most at risk the immediate threat was death, receiving the vaccine and living seemed a better option. For those in the 95% being forced to take a rushed vaccine with unknown longterm side effects seemed unwise.

We dont know the links between the vaccine and side effects "*for our conmunity*" (that's important, we're different biologically from the people doing the studies) because nobody thought it was important enough to track adverse reactions. Do I believe everyone who has a heartattack today suffered the result due to taking the vaccine? No because young people and athletes died of heart attacks before COVID.

The only thing I agree with in the article outside of wild speculation is the need for better information.

No foreigner "**has**" to pay these fees. They can leave. And they have. We can say good riddance but how did that help us achieve our objective? It seems the guys with the SeaPass app had the right idea. Just make the process easier. Now it looks like their IP will be stolen.

The model is wrong. They are using this heavy handed pay the oitlandish fees or else structure that does not work. The only people you can possibly get to comply is poor Bahamians who have nothing left to give. (case in point, BPL will end up with huge unrealized profit and possibly thousands disconnected for nonpayment, then decline in revenue from a reduced active customer base. How does that help?) The foreign man just pick up his boat, put it in his backpack and leave.

The correct model would marry a price thats in line with what marinas in the region charge. Then add on top of that proper enforcement whether thats overfishing fines, pollution fines, violation of protected species laws. The problem we have is, its easy and brainless to charge 10 times what other countries are charging and claim how well your doing because revenue increased (it didnt), its much harder and takes more thought and planning to implement and maintain a system of enforcement

I agree with @Oracle, everything from this guy ends up in a big bully tactics mess. Then the PM shows up in the chaos and says, *well the FS had some views, we're reviewing the process*. Why go through this over and over again?

It's what happens when theres no leadership direction, whoever has the loudest voice or is closest gets their idea pushed. Sailing is wonderful but still doesnt make sense as the national sport, its unsustainable and out of reach