It may be that the local meteorologists didnt have a voice in the decision making. The foreign man may have had his head filled with the word "*hurricane*" without the 30 years experience of what actually happens... I dont know, something was odd

"*storm’s core passed about 25 miles east-southeast of Duncan Town, Ragged Island, and 60 miles south-southwest of South Long Island,*"

I'd said the reporting was odd. I remember the communications pre melissa, there was always a focus on the eye position. But in this storm it was actually stated that "*the eye position doesnt matter*". Not true. My poor Bahamians who perish for lack of knowledge from the voices they listen to. The truth is, "**it all depends**".

If you have a massive eyewall with strong winds, you may be able to say that. But for a storm like Melissa at cat-2 with highest winds extending 30miles... if you're 500miles away, .. like Inagua, you're getting a strong breeze and rough surf. So it matters. Why was Inagua evacuated but Long Island ignored? With a big production over the jumbo jet sent to Inagua?

But it seems like the new weather service bacswrn was supplying the weather(?). Oddly enough, The focus was Crooked Island, Ragged Island and Long Island were side stories. People actually commented that every other weather service was focusing on Long Island.

**This was an odd one for information dissemination and response**. They need to examine what went wrong, because they cant do this with a stronger storm.

I'm not sure that anyone looking objectively at the response would use this for "promotion". So bad that today the response from the DRM was "*we've only been in place for*" was it a year or 2 years and "*we're always learning*". After 50 years covering numerous disasters and no less than Dorian.. we cant get plane flights or position of the eye of the storm and expected impact correct

It's TRUE that all politics is local

"*and it highlights the importance of BACSWN’s WX SenseNet and the Met Watch Office that we are setting up. It also shows how critical BACSWN’s role can be in national emergencies*"

If this is an example of the "*information*" directed response from bacswn, i'm beginning to have my doubts.

"*Bahamas Aviation, Climate and Severe Weather Network (BACSWN) played a key role in supporting evacuation efforts*"

**This is what I suspected**. Politics invaded disaster response. And explains why Inagua which was not in danger of anything but light winds, (yes I know people who dont like objective facts build some old wives tale in their mind about hurricanes shifting course, ... not by that much, **Inagua was never in danger**) and **it was very odd the big production they made evacuating people from Inagua but despite multiple questions 2 days before the storm hit, not one single person was evacuated from Long Island.**

"*the Fast Pay System will also assist in “solving the Family Island challenges, connecting Sand Dollar wallets through authorised financial institutions (AFIs) to bank accounts and extending the tentacles of the banks to the Family Islands without having to have physical infrastructure.*"

After 10 years of "*we're cashless*", it's my opinion that they still don't have an appreciation for the market in which they operate.

100% of the Sand Dollar marketing was offering an alternative banking solution to the Family Islands. It should be clear to them that the Family Islands want "a bank", with a physical representative they can speak to and store their money with.

The other problem they have is, the people with a tendency to lean digital already are and see no benefit to using Sand Dollar by a different name over their credit or debit card.

Solve those two problems and they may be at the starting line.

I wonder what happened to the *AI detection of potholes*. How the govt gets duped into buying these useless technologies is beyond me and by useless I mean they dont fit the need. I'm sure they work somewhere where support for the govt doesnt dictate your access to services

It doesnt sound like she'll be stripped of the opportunity for a junkanoo experience, there will be "something" to see. And to be honest, the alternative parade might shape up to be better than the drawn out production theyve given for the past 15 years.

No need to add that your daughter was born in Nassau. If you're Bahamian, you're Bahamian.

"*the NJC is committed to ensuring that the sound of the drums, horns, and cowbells fill Bay Street this Christmas on New Providence, as they have for generations.”*

Nonsense. Nowhere in there statement have they refuted the statement from the JCNP. It looks like this Christmas will have a new style, more entertaining, less drawn out, junkanoo celebration

It's clear to everyone with ears that politics corrupted the process. Any objective process would have seen the breakaway group taking a new name and all controversy quashed