"*...people who work in this industry*"

which industry is that? buying tshirts and towels?

This all well and good but creating a false reality wont solve the problem. The reality is some family members will cover for their relatives no matter what they do because they love them. This is reality. Some family members will allow relatives to do want they want because they fear them. This is reality.

Did they simply flash their lights or was it a chase? Because this is not the first second or 3rd time that officers chasing a car were shot at. Why do we constantly play this we're so shocked and surprise game? The world where the criminal just gives up because lights are flashed at them doesnt exist. The police need a smarter way

Who is "y'all"?

Anyway, I'm on the fence on the push for local govt. I dont believe anything is a cure all and Im wary that that's how the local govt conversation is being framed, as if its automatically organized and scandal and abuse proof.

In reality, they could fix our administration issues without local govt, just hire and empower a competent administrative "team".

I'm also skeptical of some of the persons putting themseves forward as "obvious" local govt officials. Really really wary of them. More of the same, elected on celebrity and talk show appearance vs competence or character

It was a poor response. Coming from Mr Munroe Im going to assume he said something before he gave it much thought. Can happen. This fire for that small community was actually a "*disaster*", the response to disaster cannot be *who could have expected me to know if the response equipment was working?* The foundation of disaster response is to be constantly in a state of readiness

"*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?