"*Attempts are being made to get a boom that can go around and skirt the area to try to contain the oil that is leaking.”*

"*“There isn’t enough skirting in the country to contain this spill. I spoke to an official that was over here assessing the spill.*"

Well they "*showed up*". What more do we want? Something that's a complete solution where reality matches what we say we produced?? Thats impossible. Apparently... These guys have other duties and families too. On the bright side the statement put out on Friday about all the work that was being done was well worded and sounded great. Junkanoo to the world...

Oh this the oil spill story, not road traffic, the police, the potholes, minimum wage increase, price control, access to information, nib, digitization....

I heard one of the broadcasters make the comment "*we have to figure out how to make this parade better*". It's not rocket science. Take all the bad, low quality and boring stuff out. Have 2 events, a rush and a "Greatest show".

Hmmm... so I "suppose" you could look at it like that and in some cases you might be right.

I dont think this is one of those cases. He graduated from UWI with distinction in the 80's. This was at a time when finals were on the year as opposed to the semester system, would have been very very difficult and a tremendous feat.

Yes as a young lawyer he worked for Christie Davis & Co as did many lawyers, but he stood above the crowd and was recognized as a hard working talent and made partner at a very young age. Similarly he made chief justice at a very young age. You "could" put it down to nepotism but again I dont think so. He's a brilliant lawyer, he doesn't shirk difficult decisions and whether you agree with them or not, he always provides well reasoned legal opinions based in law for his decisions. Is he Michael Barnett? I dont know. But I dont believe Michael Barnett was Michael Barnett at 50.

As to character, they say you dont swear for anyone, but you would knock me over with a feather if you can show me any evidence of or patterns of unethical behaviour.

In years to come I'm confident our descendants will say of some other legal rising star, "*yeah, but.. he's no Ian Winder*"

Congratulations. Honours recognize people who stand shoulders above the crowd, and while some are clearly political favours this one is well deserved. He's an outstanding individual.

This is odd. Would like to know whether this was an unexpected event or not, for example does the contractor have to remove waste at regular intervals to prevent a backup or was this an anomaly. **In any event it is uanacceptable for the contractor to say they won't be back until Jan-1, this is a health emergency, where is the govt??**

"*still Treasure Cay residents are waiting for relief for their backed-up sewerage system that needs to be pumped multiple times a week so residents can live in moderately sanitary conditions.**

There's the answer, ok, contractor needs to be fired immediately. "Multiple times a week" and they went on vacation without a contingency plan? Get someone else.

Again, how many times must we do this. Sam was charged with giving out money that wasnt his. The money belong to someone else. Why is anybody surprised that the people whose money it was want their money back?

"*The UK Guardian reported that in criminal charges filed in the state of New York, the Department of Justice has alleged that the donations were the result of criminal money laundering, since the money was effectively taken from customer accounts.*"

Said this weeks ago. The same applies if you take your hard earned money to buy a stolen car "in good faith". It dont matter that you didnt know. The car stolen

Why we always shocked and surprised about everything? Chester Cooper surprised the airlines think the fees are exorbitant. All it would have taken was some analyst verifying revenues to compare what was charged today versus what was charged in previous years. Seems like a standard business exercise to see if a new revenue stream was bringing in earningas expected. I bet they just looked at the total and clapped their hands like they did with VAT

Thats the quote of the century!!

He doesnt appear to be a strategist. They havent done one thing to address road violations and it was the lowest hanging fruit possible, so many simple fixes that could have a huge impact on everyine, but they couldnt even think of that, just silly messages about drive with caution.

I hope this dont work out like the plan to *hold the line at 100 murders* back in September

"*as it takes full responsibility of the gaps in the Digital Assets and Registered Exchanges (DARE) Act.*

So is this an admission that absolutely noone was performing an oversight function for FTX? cause this isnt rocket science. This sounds like the SCB was in their 10th dream over the entire of last year and nobody trust them to stay awake in future

"*draft guidelines also call for SFIs to ensure customers are “adequately informed of the fundamental benefits, risks and terms of the products” they are investing in*"

This has been one of the really and truly baffling things for me, unless I missed it, I didnt hear one statement from the SCB warning ordinary Bahamians about the inherit risk of cryptocurrency when FTX'S arrival spurred all kinds of reckless talk about new industries and how we would benefit and opportunities for the young people. I saw excitement. So much so the regulator is now putting on a conference to advertise the jurisdiction... its just WEIRD