"*Munroe did not address reports of failing equipment, saying he does not keep track of operational issues in the Royal Bahamas Police Force.*"

Im reminded that these are very hard jobs.

We are always calling for competent people to be placed at the head of these agencies, I doubt anyone could be more competent and analytical than Mr Munroe. So we have another problem, can a functional member of parliament also run a constituency and a ministry, **effectively**, in modern times? Do they have the capacity to execute all functions?

I think Mr Munroe gave the wrong answer here, he **should** be aware of operational issues in the police force. If their equipment is failing how will they address national security?

As I said before if Keith Bell wants to address productivity he should start with Parliament, and Im being serious. We have lots and lots of issues but some are fixable by getting the right people at the top, getting the right advisors, empowering them to speak, ensuring every member understands the job responsibility, delegating power and responsibility, ....

and constant constant monitoring of operations. Its actually one of the most important jobs in any business/organization

"*The higher salaries will increase the disposable income available to the employees, improving their access to better medical care and enabling them to contribute towards their retirement. Additionally, the employees can choose to invest their excess income in revenue-generating projects, hence further boosting their standards of living.*"

What kind of Stepford Wives propaganda is this? Wrho wrote this paper? They clearly dont live in the Bahamas. Where as soon as your income increases the govt suddenly finds a new source of revenue. Look how much money they have, they dont need all of that.

The surest route to increasing productivity is by example. When you show how you made parliament more productive with MPs actually doing what they're hired to do and learning skills to be effective, then you could tell us the secrets. Word to the wise, above food and shelter minimums, money is the worst motivator

This is fairly recent, I remember that ugly building, thought they were trying to duplicate Toby's project. Just said last week that these guys must walk out the PM's office laughing at how easy it was to buy us. Also if theyre already convicted of fraud it means they were jetting around here, rubbing shoulders with the MP and the investigation was in full swing. How do all these fraudsters with no money get to the PM's office anyway?

"*whistleblower’, described as a “relator” in the lawsuit, was alleged to have been “told by Carll that a new project was being started, known as the Bahamas Grand Sur project, by defendant Kingwood. Under the new project, the company is starting to sell lots at $400,000 and that they planned to inflate the prices of the properties by half. Defendant Carll joked and told relator to ‘Google Fred and see what you find out about him inflating real estate’.”*

I think they're out of touch. These people can afford to jet set to private islands and fancy resorts to escape the press of the city and they likely live on the seafront. Whats losing one more public beach to them? They wont notice until to affects their children and by then theyll be powerless to stop the tsunami, be that ocean waves or the angry mob. Just examine the history of widening economic divides

4 homes and 11 families? Why would the PM rush to a house fire? Isnt this something more suited to the disaster agency? And even the head of that shouldnt be flying around to *see for themselves*. Their job is to coordinate with their point persons on the ground to mobilize supplies and response... I dont know, we've accepted these non helpful PR displays for too long. As @Engineer pointed out, a better use of the PMs time and flight expense of the entourage, would have been to examine the needs of the constituency and organize the purchase of a fire truck 2 years ago

Was he the only person on the court? Whyd they approach him?

Just said the same, I can see these guys leaving the meeting and laughing at how cheaply we sold ourselves

If they dont examine these projects strategically, The Bahamas will soon be off limits to the Bahamian

So Im a little lost. This Modulo Investments that received 400m from Alameda had to declare a source of funds when they applied to be a Bahamian IBC.

The principals were clearly connected with Sam. Anyone regulating FTX would have had knowledge that theyd provided loans for Alameda and should have had a finger on the fact that the money was coming directly from customer funds. Its one unbelievable unregulated mess.

Im waiting to see what Ray details about this calculated strategy to win over the regulators and the power brokers. Because somewhere in the islands tomorrow someone will be smiling ear to ear because they got invited to the cocktail party. We need to up our ethics.

If only someone else would do something the problem would be solved. Its the same issue with climate change, If guns were to disappear from the earth the young men would use bottles and knives. What are we doing? We appointed Rodney and expected that to have a positive result. We beat up the young men when theyre detained to force a confession. We slap young men and body slam them to the ground for asking a question at a traffic stop. There are so many things we could do before pointing a finger.

When we can stop people from running red lights as a first step, Ill believe it, we're not even trying

**Our main problem is corruption.** When we accept the monthly delivery of shingles and exchange it for a nice house, a nice car, fancier clothes, we call that getting ahead, being smart and knowing how to play the game. We dont connect that with the destruction that's happening 10 miles away from us in Tin Shop Corner and Dog Flea Alley and we definitely dont recognize that its moving closer to us. Corruption also puts the wrong people in charge, people who have a reason not to do anything because it benefits them or people who have know clue what to do, both end in the same result.

**Corruption is way more damaging for us as a country than any semiautomatic, and is in fact the cause of the proliferation**