Gaming, money laundering, sex, drugs and human trafficking are natural partners. High volume, small amount transactions

The ability to swim should be a public health emergency for all Caribbean islands. Just last week we had a young Bahamian die when her golf cart fell/drove into a pond

They should treat those 2 Bahamians like kings and put a dark cloud of potential life sentences over their heads. Put them in witness protection in the US and let them detail their entire career in human smuggling and who was involved while they dine on caviar and champagne.

Adrian Fox, a very wealthy man, mentioned being caught the first time he ever tried an operation. There's no evidence to the contrary. But you wonder about teenage girls who tell their parents they only had sex once and unfortunately got pregnant. Its "possible", but is it likely?

I was wondering what more you would want to know at the moment, read again and realized, 60 persons believed to be on board, 25 alive 17 dead but no mention of the balance or of efforts to locate more people. Was the 60 wrong?

The sad part is because they seemingly and deliberately refused to track persons receiving the vaccine and ill effects possibly caused by the vaccine, we'll never know either way. Failed us and failed us again

This is what I mean about telling the truth.

Just read a few minutes ago that yesterday, the WHO declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international health concern. And the Director gave this as part of his statement

Cnn.com:
"*Tedros added that while he was declaring monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern, "**For the moment this is an outbreak that's concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially those who have multiple partners**, that means that **this is an outbreak that can be stopped with the right strategies in the right right groups**."*"

This is sickening and no, not for what you think I mean. **A few weeks ago there was a GLOBAL push to deliberately IGNORE the fact that the spread was among gay men. All statements about the demographics of monkeypox infection were sanitized and then just like covid, all of the local media fell in lock stock and barrel to spread the propaganda.**

I couldnt believe it when our leading infectious disease expert completely glossed over the incidence concentration and the media host fell right in line. And this was after years of the exact same phenomenon in COVID, bowing to any position the CDC took, calling local doctors giving evidence based concerns quacks and citizens raising concerns conspiracy theorists

**It was amazing to me that a disease spreading based on "elective" behaviour was completely ignoring the description of who was exhibiting the behaviour**

Facts are what they are, sometimes they can be scary but hiding the truth does noone any good. In this case it most likely caused some gay men to continue to indulge in risky behaviour because the entire health community failed them. Now that they've given the disease the opportunity to spread it will likely reach bisexual men, then heterosexual men and women.

Our local media really needs to start thinking independently

**maximum fine of 20,000**

I hope all the parliamentarians immediately starting chatting in their WhatsApp group that this cap makes no sense and they need to update the law such that the fine reflects the damage done

I congratulate the minister for speaking candidly about his illness and very happy that he came through the ordeal, we've lost too many. A few months ago though, both he and Chester Cooper were doing all they could to convince the country that COVID was gone. Even when 50 persons were admitted to hospital, a dramatic rise from the *COVID is gone* 7, he tried to convince the public that there was no spike, that these admissions were people suffering from other conditions who just happened to have covid.

covid gone or COVID not gone isnt really the issue for me at this point, just tell the truth and stop with the tourism is god narrarives. This is public health after all

This is an epidemic and its affecting the brain. Every free years it mutates to affect a younger demohraphic. If we dont stop it, in 10 years we'll see the impact on the 9 years olds. Take a look around, the people spreading it are the ones getting super rich off of darkness with no explainable legitimate foundation, from parliament to armed forces, govt offices, the church and webhouses, white collar upstanding masked traffickers in guns, drugs and sex and human smuggling and purveyors of general corruption

There's a truth about ALL systems. Maintenance is minimum double the cost of construction. When you plan, plan for maintenance BEFORE you start. The donors should DEMAND this NOW