"***She also said that while the chief counsellor had reported the water supply wasn’t the issue, the fire had spread quickly due to the wooden structures.***

**This doesn't appear to be correct**. The gentleman said he saw smoke and went to get water but there was no water. He was able to walk in the kitchen when there was only smoke and there was no water.

Sounds like "no water" was the issue with preventing a fire.

Was there even enough time to do a forensic audit on the selection? She should have been made Acting Commissioner in light of the resignation and all the necessary checks completed in a 6month window before confirmation. What's to fear? If she's qualified, she's confirmed.

**When she's *qualified* **. And that could be today. We dont know because the first step to making that determination is a list of concrete skills, qualifications as nd qualities that a first world country would demand of a police commissioner. Not a vague list of *years of experience* that qualifies anybody, even Superintendent Curtis, Michael Johnson, Sonny Miller and Symonnette.

Once you have the list of objective concrete criteria, you compare it against anybody's resume, not just the next socially promotable person.

We need to stop this guessing game of leadership, followed by "give them time, they never do this before"

I see prodigal sons and music makers are 2 and 3. What's the point of showing up at 9PM? The junkanoo community needs to be realistic.

Are the costumes finished? Will gaps be filled with hours of non-entertaining boring scrap groups? Will anything change?

The problem with scrap groups is the fun is only in the participation, not the watching. You cant ask people to pay for a ticket to be "entertained", show them hours of *scraps* and then say, "*well, junkanoo for us*". Scrap groups should be moved to their own, "*bring your own costume*" fun rush day. Bahamians who dont want to spend months pasting but love junkanoo and tourists would love it. They would also love a true marquee event junkanoo parade now free of low quality "noise", with shorter viewing time, and goal of "*spectator targeted **quality** entertainment and pre-inspected costumes*". Nobody want to see the music makers or prodigal sons with one finished costume. They can be part of the fun rush. You cant argue that you have to be a part of the main parade if you have no costumes.

If wonder if Fox revealed any details about armed forces, planes or high ranking politicians...

Or they can put great pressure on *a high ranking politician* to make it happen.

**This is why this "*high ranking politician*" is one of the greatest threats ever to our national security and should be removed immediately from the seat of power**. Its only 10 possibilities if you want to be generous, 4 if you want to be realistic.

Literally anybody from the smallest petty criminal to the mightiest power broker can extort them to the great disadvantage of our nation and beleaguered people. The last thing we need is another 20,000 unemployed poor people with no Bahamian ties, some of whom will be hardened criminals. Make the Bahamas Great Again eh?

"*Let's all give her the time*"

Absolutely not. This is a crisis. Pick someone qualified to do the job from day one. She may well be that person, but we do not have time to "wait" to see.

A failure could also be the result of lack of necessary competencies... since none have been identified. Just pick someone who sat around long enough and has "years" of obscure "experience"

This nonsense about "*the first female to...*" is going a tad bit too far. Everybody loves Mother Pratt, but does anyone really believe she was chosen by Perry Christie as DPM because he thought she had had stellar leadership skills? Of course not, just the opposite, he chose her because he saw her as no threat to him. There was Brave, Obie and Fred, he steered clear of them and he went for the weakest. Now forevermore we get to hear a fairytale about "*first female DPM*" as a hard earned award. Lanesha Rolle was touted as "*first female Sports Minister*" she stepped in, had people standing when she entered the room, putting her face on medals and she break up the best china while she was at it. But again forevermore "*first female to..*"

I dont know anything about the new commissioner, we are basically now forced to accept someone with no job description. This selection process facade needs to end

"**Reposted from Thursday last week** I dont know why we cant be proactive:

*The PM, Fred Mitchell, Chester Cooper, Wayne Munroe and The Commissioner are unserious. The US and every citizen knows it.*

***The next shoe to drop will be illegal immigration. The US takes that as a serious threat**. Right around 2021 the US released Adrian Fox who was charged with smuggling Chinese nationals and they said he was very helpful, like a canary*