By your statement you give yourself or a brain dead person permission to kill. Nowhere near funny. This is the same type of language that killed and brutalized Emmett Till and thousands of others for some other *theyre not human like us* reason. I wont be able to rationalize with you but maybe the universe will

Dehumanizing anybody is not good. Theyre a living breathing human being, just like us, they feel joy pain happiness sadness they want to achieve success like everybody else. We do not have to agree with their life choice to recognize that. Dehumanization is dangerous and is often the foundation of extreme violence against an individual. We dont support violence or extreme violence against anybody alternative lifestyles, criminals, politicians or regular citizens

"*While being nursed with oxygen via nasal cannula, Mrs Symonette-Darville complained of ‘not being able to breathe with feeling of wanting to die’.*"

She was immunosuppressed and unfortunately contracted covid.

covid still knocking around today, not as prevalent but there

Canada just like everywhere else, there are probably more areas where homosexuals can roam freely but just as equally they have racists and homophobic citizens just like every other country.

I think everybody deserves to walk the earth in peace no matter who they are as long as they're not causing harm, but I do not get the exaggerated feminism, 5 inch eyelashes, 15 layers of foundation, or on the opposite side the exaggerated masculinity, men and women dont act like that... or maybe they do somewhere and I just dont know.

I do wonder if sexual trauma confuses some people, this sounds like a common refrain.

"*the minister told party supporters that the NIB fund is “basically running on fumes*". That's a phrase I use all the time to boost confidence

The next thing we need to do is stop people from depending on these foreign investors for sustenance. Our greatest asset is our brain and we've been brainwashed into thinking that it can't produce anything of value except for trinkets for tourists

"*. I am totally convinced that it is coming,” Mr Carey said. We want to encourage you to do your part. And all of us have a part to play - every business house, every resident, there are things we can do to contribute to what is coming.”*

This cant be the level of economic advice we should expect, "*I'm convinced it's coming*". The last time I heard this type of loose non-visionary talk it was the issue of homeporting. Everybody was convinced this was it Bahamians were urged to put their ideas together and get ready!

Nobody knows the future with any certainty, luck could have been on our side. But looking objectively at the situation, the cruise ships only came to Nassau because the US govt asked them to enforce stronger COVID restrictions! It was bizarro world. Those people came to us to avoid checking their passengers for COVID at the height of the Delta variant that was killing thousands within weeks and we rejoiced. They told us what they thought of us. The next thing to consider, pandemics don't last forever. And sure enough within about four months they were gone.

When we speak about economic resurgence, we could have a miracle in the works, maybe one of the *decades talked about* projects gets off the ground, but let's use facts and trends please. The US just reported **weak** economic growth of ~1%, not encouraging

"*He said extending the retirement age, cutting benefits, or combining these two options would not address the problem.*"

I thought that was ill thought out when I heard it. They forcing people to take accrued vacation and early retirement to "*make space for the young people*" and cut costs and now the solution is the complete opposite?

Lol you cant make this up with the big PLP "everything ok" hand sign behind him

It's not a question of too much development, our economy is clearly in a terrible position, double digit unemployment and the govt doing the only thing it can brainlessly imagine, raise taxes everywhere while bending over backwards in word parsing exercises to explain that it's not additional taxation.

What we have is the WRONG type of investment. We give away our crown jewels when these investors wave the word billion in front of us. And we get nothing but a few jobs. Now if you're hungry calling it *just a minimum wage job* is not doing it justice, it's a lifeline. But how many more decades are we going to continue with this model biting off pieces of the Bahamas that Bahamians never set foot on **ever** again? And pricing land so high that it's impossible to own?

Our investment needs to be part and parcel with the advancement of our people. Not squeeze us all into the islands center and wave "*entrepreneur*" and "*share ownership*" in front of us.

Yes today you need the job, but there has to be a strategy to say this our situation today but in 5 years we'll move up. But ev eff n while we're in our current situation, we're making decisions today to ensure the Bahamas is there for Bahamians tomorrow.

**Nothing** RCI says makes sense. With their argument they will buy up land on every island and Cay and capture the entire tourism market for themselves. And as business people that's what they supposed to.... "*try*". It's our job to protect us.

The politicians clearly dont care so there has to be some benefit for them over or under the table, and the realtors dont care theyd sell all the land if they could.

We need to stop this *whole sale* of the Bahamas