I see another firm talking about mortgage backed securities. I'm **very** skeptical

"*Bowe, writing in a social media post seen by this newspaper, said: “Many organisations in The Bahamas, including the Government, are refusing to accept cash payments. This is illegal. Bahamian cash in The Bahamas is legal tender. If you are conducting legal business in The Bahamas, you must accept cash as payment. The Government of The Bahamas and its agencies must desist from this behaviour.*

I believe what we're seeing is digitization programs throughout the country spearheaded by people who dont understand digitization. Up to thd Intl Food festival mishap, the central bank was indeed full speed ahead on a misguided path to total cash elimination

"*January 2, Prime Minister Phillip Davis said the government was hoping to launch a youth guard programme, which intends to capture the youth to build the communities and to help reduce the effects of crime.*"

I sincerely hope they will not try to turn this into a scare them straight or military torture them straight. It will fail. Your strategies should be based on research in the area of reform and on programs that have worked for similar communities and do not psychologically scar young people

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Have they defended him? I read things like the biggest financial fraud ever, I've even heard people allude to the *I didnt know I was committing a crime* as an orchestrated defence strategy.

As to the Bahamas, if you is a small theif you can't claim innocence and get mad if people confuse you with a big theif

"*Cultural*". Well... Cleopatra showed up in Rome and presented Juilius Caeser with a baby he knew nothing about, all in an aim to get an alliance with him

Funny, a few years ago Jamaican gang members holed up in an inner city community to battle for drug dealer Dudas Coke and keep him out of US hands. Last year Haitian gangs holed up in the mountains to keep a gang leader there out of US hands. This week, riots broke out in Mexico when the US tried to extradite El Chapo's son.

Totally unrelated, but it's amazing how regular people, some who have nothing, jump to defend high profile criminals who have everything, even at risk of their own lives

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.