I see a number businesses around the place promoting that theyre cashless!!. And I wonder what country they live in and who theyre marketing to. You cannot organize your business based on what people in Singapore are doing. You have to do market research to determine the willingness of the people where you are to do the thing that youre thinking of doing. Whats makes this even more egregious is this is the exact opposite of how innovation happens. People are complaining about your digital solutions rather than saying I never knew I needed this or I couldnt wait for this get here. Secondly youve cut off other innovators so noone has the opportunity to create a better solution.

From the story Id say theyre even missing the basic ingredient, cheap fast high quality internet services.

I wonder about the strategic direction of this country. It seems that when the govt changes certain islands get a windfall while others are completely neglected, on purpose. With focus constantly shifting every 5 years, how can we reach any sustainable goal?

whyd they disable commenting on the Haiti deployment story? Are we going to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we're sending these guys who were never trained for combat to a war zone? I hope they own it with just as much vigor and positivity IF a Bahamian in military gear is kidnapped. There is just too much PR euphoria coming out of this administration has anybody been briefed on the number of rapes murders kidnappings and hacking to deaths that happened this week in Haiti?

Saying we need an increase in productivity is easy. This govt is extremely good at saying. What does it mean? I know one thing if everybody giving contracts to their unqualified friends, taking 5000 for every house built, unfairly influencing awarding of contracts and giving their sweet heart high paying jobs, the "doing" is all anti- productivity.

**Corruption and influence peddling is ALL anti productivity and everybody know it from customs to immigration to the passport office to the ministry of works to dept of labour, everywhere. You want to increase productivity ... the first step.... stamp out corruption like Elliot Nest on Al Capone**

All bad for the economy, "just fire some people" how many is some and who will support them once these people who want to work no longer have a job? Economics is not simple, some of these people took the only job they could get because they were deemed too old, overqualified, too inexperienced etc, whoever proposed thse changes with no analysis is just as bad as Minnis and his seat of pants announcements. Either that or the senior managers have made the environment such that the experts know not to speak up

Are you obtuse?

Well, what do you think a gang is? Its a group of people with the wrong guide

"*once we get violence interrupters rolling,*"

"once"?? How many pay cheques has Rodney Moncur received?

Good! Now nobody need to tell y'all max 2 inmates to a cell, indoor plumbing, clean toilet facilities, regular exercise and access to 8 glasses of water a day. The punishment is confinement not torture or inhumane treatment

Theres no inalienable "right" to give medical treatment. Youre either qualified to or not. A major part of qualification is whether or not you attend an institution where some independent expert has examined the curriculum, the teaching practices and methods, quality of the students and deemed the institution credible.

like every profession not everyone in a white coat should be let loose on society