Maybe.

What is going on in Lewis Yatd anyway? I heard one gentleman call the talk station to say he made a complaint to the police about noxious fumes, the police advised him to call the radio station, basically saying I assume, this was politically sensitive, there was nothing that could be done but put public pressure to cause a remedy.

This is scary. People are dying in front of our eyes possibly from slow, painful, hazardous chemical poisonings and noone in govt is doing anything about it. Noone is explaining what is happening. It is frightening that those men will sit in cabinet know of oil spilling into the water system in Old Trail, know of persons working next door at Rev who are getting sick, know that the company abandoned the building because of concerns of contamination, watch as people in the neighbourhood contract cancer, in reality you dont know if it's related but it must cross your mind and you sit there and say I cant say anything, I'd lose my job. People dying. Children.

Clint Watson please check on the people of Grand Bahama. Do an expose like you used to do.

As with most of us, our greatest strength can turn into our greatest weakness when applied in the wrong circumstances.

Clint likes to be in the middle of everything. Which is a good goal as a reporter. Not such a good goal if you control the purse strings with no constraint on the real need to be in the middle

This trip made no sense. Go to GB and report on the persons dying of cancer near Lewis Yard is it? That's a story that "matters" and a good story to be in the middle of

What are they afraid of?

"*saying his administration does not foresee an economic slowdown just “right yet”.*"

"*Just yet*"???? This is past tense, the slowdown has already happened. "*Did not **forsee***"... and did not realize its passed... well, dont depend on this administration to get ahead of anything

"*The ones in ethics(?)*"

You would be surprised how many people, trained by smart God fearing parents, do not understand the principles of ethics.

There are likely hundreds of Bahamian men on the social scene who fancy themselves to be successful who would see nothing wrong with giving their company a contract. Some unbeknownst to management others with very little effort to determine if the best was being chosen. We call this being smart and getting ahead. Unethical.

There are many more in the govt service who would accept expensive gifts, like Rolex watches, trips to see a Miami Dolphins football or Miami Heat basketball game if said tickets, plane trip and hotel were being paid for by someone lobbying for a contract with the govt. Perks of the job. Unethical

Anything that involves sizeable money in this country cancels ethics. Cause we being smart.

Chester Cooper proposed a bill to make acceptance of gifts legal at Tourism, the ministry he heads. You might ask, what's wrong with that? Well the first red flag is there were no parameters around these gifts. Was there a value limit? Were any gifts off limit? Could Tourism accept a shipment of 1mil in gold bars from a Saudi investor? Who would be the ultimate recipient of said gifts? Who could gifts not be accepted from? None of this was detailed, and for smart men who must have taken one ethics training class in a long financial services career, **giant** red flag. Second, how has the country accepted "help/gifts" for the last 51 years?? The US gives us stuff all the time, free of charge, they're gifts. No need for a special law to accept them. So what was the real purpose of this "gifts" clause?

But the people did fire him

I literally had the same thought, "*this is a mess*". A 33yr old working part time at McDonalds dating a man who's charged with murder, been warned "*by God*" multiple times and has to go to a friend to get gas money for an economy car.

And no I'm not ghettoizing them, I'm talking about the scenario likely being more common than not. The solution to this *mess* is to transplant the people at risk, show them that they are worth more than their environment tells them they are. But how do you transplant 75% of the population?

We need education and the stranglehold on the economy by the corrupt cocaine and gun smuggling *high ranking politician* to be released so that the education actually does what it's supposed to do, i.e., allow people to rise exponentially not neing subject to the whims of their MP or a political connection and increase the intellectual capacity of senior management.

"*import a car into this country, you have to go though a broker/. Why?*"

This was beyond odd. I could see if I opted to go through a broker because I didnt want the hassle. But then again I dont know what the import process is world round, maybe the broker is specially trained to do something a person with a working brain cant.

"*God has warned him too many times.”*"

How many times had God warned him??

The thing that all these plans about increased revenue seem to forget is said *high ranking politician* likely has a cohort of *high ranking* colleagues who have a stranglehold on the economy and exact a personal tax through corrupt practices. If they are baseless and soulless enough to deal cocaine, they are also likely exacting taxes from human smuggling, sex trafficking and forged document dealing to illegal migrants that's why the problem cant get fix. Not to mention million dollar kickbacks for awarding contracts to the right persons. By the time the amount sucked out of the economy by this treasonous cabal of vampires is added up, it will double any gains in taxes taken in, leaving the public at large stratching their heads wondering *where the VAT money gone?*