ROTFL

This from the parliamentarian who when accused of abusing the procurement process at beaches and parks said ~"*come on, we all know how govt contract awards work*", fake outrage

Im also really puzzled by the new BAMSI egg initiative. At first I thought they said they would use existing farmers, but in the last story with comments disabled from break (weird), they talked about how much eggs theyd produce at BAMSI and giving opportunities to young people etc etc.... sounds like they going down another road with the govt trying to run a business in direct conpetition with citizens who actually know what they doing

Our proximity is literally everything.

"*Kenneth Romer, the Ministry of Tourism, Investments and Aviation’s deputy director-general, and acting director of aviation, told a panel discussion at the same conference that **officials are “constantly advocating” for commercial airlines to reduce ticket prices and travel costs to The Bahamas**.*"

**Really?** High taxes make perfect sense to me with the airlines complaining that the overflight fees charged by The Bahamas are **exorbitant**. The arbitration exercise conducted to examine the fees also found that the fees were **exorbitant** and asked the question, *how yall come up with them? Anyway since yall is a soverign country you have the right to charge whatever you want.*

**So the Bahamas govt charge the airlines fees that everyone agrees are exorbitant, then according to this article, the govt goes back to airlines and ask them if they could lower ticket prices please?** Who doing the thinking?

A very important system... thats been around for decades... like Parliament... like the PAC like the economic committee... that doesnt seem to work.
My hesitation on local government *saviour* is nothing says it wont work exactly like the current system with unqualified yet popular persons in the community handing out contracts to their friends. Because the criteria for an official appears to be, *I live in the community*

I had no idea assault weapons were legal. For what? Pigeons?

"*He said the reform commissioner would conduct and manage a revision and consolidation exercise to ensure the country's laws remain updated and consolidated.*"

This describes the role of Parliamemt and the Senate. They've basically created a committee to do their work so they can spend time making sure the Happy Mother's day billboard gets put up and each house in the community gets a rose

True but the phone directory also contained house numbers. Unless you personally know someone you cant replicate that, *but* homeowners dont pay for ads... so thats that

How many people currently leave the cruise ship when theyre in port? I found it particularly repulsive to hear Bahamar and RCI at an upscale event agreeing that neither had a problem on a project that had so many open questions in a country neither had any ties to. Who cares what the natives think.

Seeing that DEPP approved Oban, I have no faith in their ability to withstand self serving, *love of money*, hungry political pressure. Never thought of it this way but if you wanted no trouble on environmental concerns who better to place as Minister than someone who has zero knowledge of the area, is clearly not a standout and who the govt thought so little of on environmental issues that he wasnt even in the COP27 delegation.