"*The Bahamas must focus on “how we grow from here” because returning to pre-COVID’s $13bn economic output is “not sufficient to take the ship of state forward”,*

This is how leaders speak and how our "*leaders*" should be speaking. Feel good election campaign rhetoric does nothing to move us forward

They did not state that "*This is the 3rd time we've spoken to/communicated directly with this business and they refuse to comply*". The govt has spent 3+ million on digitization, sending, at the most basic, a mail merge email to the list of these 50,000 organizations in violation shouldnt be hard. And of course each communication is spaced to allow time to comply, not for example sending 3 on 3 consecutive days to say 3 were sent

If they had communicated directly, they would have mentioned it. I'll accept that I could be very wrong, but communication doesnt appear to be their strong point.

Has no correlation to whether the method used was overly aggressive and unnecessary. This could have been justified as the 3rd strike, not the first. Its clearly the opposite of Churchill's sane and wise statement on leadership, "*walk softly and carry a big stick*"

"*they also slammed Mr Ray and his team for asserting that FTX and its indicted co-founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, enjoyed a cosy relationship with the Prime Minister, Ryan Pinder KC, the attorney general, and the Securities Commission.*"

what was a member of the SC board doing with shovel in hand at the FTX ground breaking? It is odd. And if its bern standard practice for the regulator to be at the ground breaking of organizations they seek to regulate, they need to stop.

I suspect its the gf who's telling the tale of cozy relationships

It's not so much about *not being caring*, sometimes they simply don't know. You don't need to understand why a patient has a fever and as rash to prescribe tylenol or an antibiotic. Patient cured! But the knowing of "why" can lead to heading off the crisis 3 months down the road that was signaled by the fever

Exactly. People are praising this action but something is wrong with this process, these guys resolved the accounts in days. Even taking the equipment off the island... extremely stupid. Put some wheel locks on them, now you open yourself to the risk of transferring them back to Nassau then back again in rough weather. There must be other smarter ways to collect...

Excellent

If these guys could resolve their accounts in "days", there must have been a better way, seems like a pyrrhic victory. *Burning down the entire city to gain possess of it*. What happened to the tourists who booked vacations hoping to have a rental? Suppose being aggressive trumps the industry

Actually that's exactly what we need. Health Detectives, that's the job title. We could save thousands of lives. Their only function is to review cases and treatments for reasonability. Is the treatment reasonable for the patient's symptoms, are there any unexplained symptoms that need further analysis, are there any patients not responding to treatment? They have to be empowered to function independently of beauracracy, no time for power plays because it could literally be someone's life on the line. And for Gods sake dont give the job to your friend or based on high profile just to say look we have a Heslth Detective

I mentioned this case to a physician casually the first day it was reported in the press, and within 2mins (maybe it was seconds) they asked, *did he have Stevens Johnson syndrome?* They dont know because they dont know the details, have no idea what he was being treated with, they simply posed it as one known side effect of treatment of seizure patients that can cause skin peeling. We need health detectives like this in our health care system. They may not always be right but they have deep knowledge of pathology, and use that to think outside the box, somewhat like the Indian doctor in Africa who first posed a radical theory on the pathology and treatment of COVID

The people who actually treated D'kartar would have to say what drug he was treated with and if there was any evidence of a rash.

"*The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning the public that the anti-seizure drug Onfi (clobazam) can cause rare but serious skin reactions that can result in permanent harm and death. We have approved changes to the Onfi drug label and the patient Medication Guide to describe the risk of these serious skin reactions. Patients taking Onfi should seek immediate medical treatment if they develop a rash, blistering or peeling of the skin, sores in the mouth, or hives. Health care professionals should discontinue use of Onfi and consider an alternate therapy at the first sign of rash, unless it is clearly not drug-related*.

*These rare but serious skin reactions, called Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN), can occur at any time during Onfi treatment. However, the likelihood of skin reactions is greater during the first 8 weeks of treatment or when Onfi is stopped and then re-started. All cases of SJS and TEN in the FDA case series have resulted in hospitalization, one case resulted in blindness, and one case resulted in death.*