Will never happen without changing minds. For some of these people the goal is to have a baby, for women it anchors a man to them, *supposedly*, and for men it shows how much of a man you are. The mind has to change. Minds change through assimilating new information and knowledge, but "rarely" through hearing how backward and ignorant you are

If he's spending 10,000 a week he must have a big backer. I doubt his small church can provide 40,000 in tithes every month. If he's not spending 10,000 a week and he just threw out a nice sounding number, then we'll have to ask the question, where the 50,000 dollars gone? I have yet to see a single reporter ask for evidence of this 10,000 per week bill. **Some food supplier must have a year's worth of records of purchases to back the figure. It's not being mean or cruel to a giving man doing good, its called accountability, every NGO is subject to it.**

**Shouldnt the police investigation be checking into this? I'm sure the US liquidators will be**

Adding to your comment, what I find troubling are statements from everybody saying **we're trying to figure out what damage will be caused**. To me this makes that oil spill committee just another group of empty suits, **just like the SCB with FTX, nobody brainstormed, before hand, what disaster would mean**. Further to your comment, the committee should have a listing of every vessel passing through the country, what its carrying, the vessel insurance, and the impact should the vessel experience a negative event in open water or near shore. We know the types of organisms in the water, so we can proactively list what 1 day, 2 days, 5 weeks exposure will do, the equipment needed to remediate, where it can be sourced from and the time it will take.

I have to agree, and not just this paper. the stories are rarely researched, they amount to whatever someone told the reporter, no information on what was independently gathered. Even pointing out some things commentors post as you did to say *we asked but didn't get answers*, I have to assume that this is a function of money and lack of it to either pay seasoned reporters or give seasoned reporters sufficient time to develop stories. But it's pretty bad.

"*The BNT’s key concern at this time is the impact of the ship on the seabed*"

the seabed they supposed to be basing carbon credit tokens on?

"*the pace of gambling in this country is having implications that few people are talking about.*

“To me, that is a big, big, big problem. It’s causing family instability and causing serious, serious problems, particularly in the Family Islands. The pace of gambling in this country, from what I see and hear, I don’t care how fast the economy grows. If the economy grows at such a pace, you make more but gamble more with it.”*

Replace "gambling" with "marijuana". They walking into it with a skip in their step. Who could have possibly known?

Going to bet St Thomas and St Martin attract rich Europeans. The ease and the low cost for which American tourists can reach the Bahamas is a blessing and a curse.

Yup it's anything but under control in China. The world developed a better understanding of how to treat COVID hopefully the world can assist in getting their numbers down.

The best news the world can hope for is that these are variants we've already developed immunity to. We just had a big tourist travel season which at the height of the pandemic **always** signaled the start of a new wave, we'll have to see if these 18 cases fizzle or if they increase exponentially, that will tell us where we are

I dont understand why they see this as a "betrayal". Maybe they need to explain the circumstances better. But it always made sense to me that companies would seek to find ways to make up for the extra 2400 they had to pay every minimum wage employee per year. And if that means cutting 2 out of 10 people making 13,000 each that is what they'd do. The statement by the labour department on January 3rd that they *see no negative impact from increase in minimum wage*was really astounding and premature, only time will tell if businesses feel they can generate activity to cover the cost increase or whether they will seek cost savings elsewhere. This is what economic analysis is all about understanding the ramifications of monetary decisions or even policy decisions that impact the monetary system. It's clear the administration launched a number of surface level feel good and not so feel good initiatives with zero research, "indepth" research

I hope this isnt the case, but it looks like stories that make Davis look bad are generally wide open for comment. Others involving people with favour are closed outright or closed quickly. I really hope that's not the case. A more kind take might be they no longer have the staff to police the comments? The *suggest removal button* should take care of truly offensive commentary as opposed to commentary that someone just doesnt like. If govt were open with information there'd be less conspiracy theories. I notice the police talking about prosecuting people for this prison break story, my mind wonders if there was a "*disturbance*" that was quelled or if the account was completely fabricated. Stop hiding information, noone thinks you're doing a stellar job anyway