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

On a side note why would police prosecute anyone for saying there was a prison break? I'm still trying to sort the merits of that. Just put out a statement to say its false

Village Road is not safe. A car fell in a trench. A car would not fall in a trench on a safe road. As @Sickened says, in developed countries they would make it impossible for anyone but the suicidal to drive into a trench without intentionally bypassing double, triple, and quadrupled warning layers

What does this mean for home run businesses where you dont own the building? In the past 10 years I've never seen such anti innovative tactics ever. It shows an increasing inability for either administration to run revolutionary programmes and foster growth through innovation. We just simply have the wrong representation, they're just interested in ensuring they give out 300 school bags in August, roses for valentines and a Turkey for Christmas along with the obligatory smiling photo billboard. That's the extent of representation for 80% of our MPs. And the FNM will cry foul about it now but they'll come in and continue the same dystopian policy. **Its also rather interesting considering that the govt just raised road traffic fees, minimum wage, electricity rates and reduced margins for retailers all at once. And dont forget NIB, that coming. Along with the floating of increased borrowing from the IMF, I'd really like to see the economic study that suggested all this. The only thing I can imagine that would cause all of this nonsensical tax pressure is we are on the verge of complete and utter collapse, dont mind the PR and fanfare on tourism numbers. What are they actually doing.** The danger is if we are, noone will admit it, it would be suicide for the country. We need a different kind of representation