Someone turned on a lightbulb for me. They said "*it is exactly 2 weeks after which thousands congregated at junkanoo*". Would be interesting to find out the percentage of this influx of cases that represent respiratory emergencies and benchmark against years when we did and did not congregate in a similar fashion

I wondered if anyone else got it. I dont know who approves these things. We brag about our tourism numbers, and what's the biggest draw? Our "water", but somebody in some ivory tower, looking at a computer screen calculating that they could make 6000 per month in billboard revenue if we hide the seaview with giant pictures of the seaview. The backwards thinking never ceases to amaze me.

My mind just ran on days being picked up from school and driven over a giant hill near Gladstone road, I recall it was a very steep descent off that hill rivaling any natural rise we have today. I dont even remember the exact location of the hill, I just know it's gone. What are we doing???

I wonder if any customers will launch a suit against the SCB for dereliction of their fiduciary duty...

The more I think about it, this is extremely weird. Why wasnt the Central Bank involved in oversight? This is what they do. Is it possible that Sam **told** the PM, as the CEO of Albany told PM Minnis, *stay out of our business*?

"*given FTX’s lack of accounting and corporate records, systems and near-total absence of corporate governance. *"

**Anyone who's participated in a Central Bank audit understands what a monumental failure this was on the part of the SCB**. The CB looks at roles, separation of roles, systems, what's captured by systems, processes, monitoring processes, who has access to what and risk.

Companies regard CB audits with great trepidation and put priority one on ensuring that all people and systems are in place and ready for the audit. This goes on months in advance, it is no small task. The fact that Sam was in the corner calculating margins said he had no such fear.

There is literally no way the SCB conducted any regulatory oversight of a company that would have seen them operating in this unprofessional manner in Nov 2022 with the SCB unable to even provide basic info like how many clients they had registered and what was the valuation of the portfolio. I also have a sinking suspicion that even those basic questions were prompted by the AG asking the SCB questions they couldnt answer.

**The Central Bank would have taken this company's license on Day-2... maybe Day 0.3**. PM Davis can only go around the world and brag about the strong regulatory framework because he does not understand fully the colossal scale of what happened.. more like, did not happen, here.

"*because now you have new taxi drivers who just entered the industry who knows nothing about taxi driving, who doesn’t care about the industry and don’t care about tourists nor the government, all they want to do is make that money so the taxi industry is now in turmoil because of the minister being so reckless in her behaviour.”*

**since the minister came in in "2021" fares got unreasonbly hiked, taxi drivers refused to pick up Bahamians and tourists got charged ridiculous per person fares??? We sure he didnt mix up year 2000 with 2021? That was a year of turmoil**

This is a very interesting story reported on cnn.com. It sounds so familiar

By Tara Subramaniam and Vedika Sud, CNN
Published 6:47 PM EST, Fri January 13, 2023
CNN
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*.**For YEARS, residents** in the northern Indian city of Joshimath **have complained to local officials** that their homes are sinking. **Now authorities are being forced to take action**, evacuating nearly 100 families in the **last week** and expediting the **arrival of experts to determine the cause.***

***Cracks running through the city are now so wide** that hundreds of homes are no longer habitable, and some fear that India could lose a key gateway to religious pilgrimages and tourist expeditions on nearby mountain trails.*

*Kwatra added that the natural factors which put Joshimath, home to around 25,000 people, at risk of sinking are **“being exacerbated by large scale construction projects** as well as climate induced flash floods and extreme rainfall.”*

***Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami visited the affected areas last saturday inspecting the homes** of residents who fear the structures may collapse.*"

This is what we do with everything. Ignore it, scurry around when the problem becomes too big to ignore then some official shows up with cameras and a large entourage to *walk around* to see for themselves.. as if that does anything. The next update I expect to hear is the city gone and the officials have arrived with remediation equipment

Their info is really lacklustre I can't get a sense of what's happening. They reported 18 cases a week ago and nothing since. Did those people recover, did noone else get sick, did they perform testing on family and coworkers of those individuals... is the wave over... nothing

If this were a dangerous strain, and I havent seen anything to say it is, it's too late to protect the border. We probably looking for the wrong suspects anyway. That strain has already infiltrated the US and is travelling around with blue eyes now.

The problem with COVID is, dangerous strain or not, our bodies are unique chemical and biological compositions. While 99.5% of people were always fine, even with delta, there's the 0.5% for which this is deadly. To this day nobody in the Bahamas has given us any data on what is likely to put you in the 0.5% at risk. Just this blanket vaccinate everybody campaign. Enough people have been impacted for some study of "us", not the US, to have taken place. I expect government by social media to adjust their statements shortly

I find this extremely troubling. I dont think they understand that there is nothing to get. This focus on squeezing as much as possible out of the public will have a disastrous long term impact, it is not sustainable. They will find in the long run businesses will simply fire more staff or shut down completely. Then they'll most likely come up with a bright idea to tax you at every street light.

Im trying to figure out what her husband have to do with this? He's not in the Ministry of Sports is he?