I believe that the planet is warming.

However, I dont believe every bad weather event, heavy rainfall or high temperature we call climate change is actually a climate change effect.

I recall a flood event on Exuma, If I remember it was attributed to climate change, it showed a car in front of a house with water up to the car windows.. But when you referenced another pic in the series, you saw the house next door situated on a rise on completely dry land, the house under water was in a bowl and was aldo adjacent to a body of water.

So my belief is that analysis should always come before a declaration of climate change. People had bad weather from the beginning of time, before fossil fuels, that wasnt climate change. It was bad weather. Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, fires, wild animal displacement...etc

Secondly Nassau, Andros, Freeport and Abaco are to this day suffering the effects of disasters that have nothing to do with climate change, simply bad actors polluting in the course of operation with no cleanup efforts and the govt does nothing because rich investors are out of bounds.

A few months ago somebody raised the alarm about environmental destruction happening on Athol Island, which in the report was said to be a small island that protects Eastern Nassau from hurricane waves. This destruction was permitted. FOCOL currently has a proposal to plant an LNG pipeline through protected environmental wetlands, the PM praised the plan.

So when I see these *high ranking politicians* begging for millions of dollars for the climate fight, I dont believe it. I've no doubt they want the money and every doubt that any significant portion of money received will actually be used on climate issues.

And just like the US knew what Curtis was into and werent fooled by an honourable uniform, the intl people know our every environmental desecration. They're not fooled

Will PBB give itself a Road Traffic contract? Henfield couldnt jump any faster. Something is on the other side of that door that keeps everybody silent, well fed and fat (is there an Inspector uniform size under 5XL?), and with post win rapid onset *do good* dementia

I'm doubtful. When will the practice of giving beaches and parks contracts to constituents for no equal valued service end? Shenandon Cartwright said ~"*this is how things work, everybody does it*", are we to expect more of the same? When will we stop normalizing what we can clearing see is not ethical practice? Will the opposition be allowed a voice when the FNM is in power? Will any steps be taken to immediately rescind the right to Bahamian Citizenship for illegal immigrants born in the bahsmas? This is the next *clearly visible to everybody* scandal about to explode. With extortion fees paid by illegal immigrants for passage and identity services a huge source of income to somebody with great power, or else theyd do something about it.

The Bar Association reminds me of someone, they stand on the seashore and seeing someone in the water in trouble, maintaining a watch and every so often making an assessment, "*they drown yet?*"

It was revealed during COVID that the kiddie carnival is required by every administration to pay the administration's political party 200k dollars. Why is a political party the doorway to a business license? It might make sense if there was a special contract between two entities but no, its whomever has *power*. A fee levied to the end of time. Can someone explain how this is at minimum ethical at worst not a corrupt practice?

Why when asked about contracts issued to multiple constituents for the same work and contracts issued to constiuents with no requirement for them to do work did the Deputy Leader of the FNM respond *in Parliament*, ~"*come on guys everybody does this*". This appears to be another corrupt practice.

"*This how the game is played*", is not transparency, accountability or ethics.

As long as we normalize these shady practices, why should a small police officer or the guy on the street who "*just playing the game*" do any different?

So let me get this straight, someone is being monitored by authorities and bases on recorded communication is indicted for planning to receive money to kill someone. The investigators arrest them after they get the evidence of intent. Your theory is because the murder never happened the person is innocent?

Its called "*conspiracy to commit..*"

"*I also advise the public that the DOJ defines a government official as any individual currently working for the government, from a member of clerical staff, to a senior politician.*"

True! But the indictment also made reference to a "*high ranking*", meaning not "clerical" staff, and "*politician*", meaning a very specific type of govt official. This narrows at least one of the accusations to a very small group of individuals

The most damning thing about this is the commissioner never thought these bare minimums were necessary before Tuesday last week. Even he must be astounded at the lack of leadership thought.

The rot, not *a few bad apples*, on the force has been clear to everyone except the leadership team who is today surprised that someone launched an independent investigation but did not think it necessary to include persons impossibly blind to the obvious. Personally commented about the need to change the screening of persons joining the force. What he did not mention is that police leadership will no longer be a political tool. As long as that remains everything else he said is vapour. At this point "*words*"

As to abuses, I'm still waiting for the commissioner to address the incident of the woman who was sexually harassed by an ASP, arrested for rejecting his advances
and punched in the eye with sufficient force to detach her retina. He then ordered by his junior staff to take her to a holding cell at *his* station, only God knows what short of .... he planned to do behind closed doors that he needed her totally under his control. The junior officers thankfully did not follow the order which according to the account left the ASP extremely angry. What has happened to that ASP? Is he really someone women of this country need in a position of power? As a potential candidate for promotion to commissioner? These things are obvious.

**The Commissioner talks about the importance of *voices* when battling corruption. The PMs first action, aided by 32 honorable parliamentarians, was to silence everybody, what are we to make of that?**

By means of **illegal** activity. Lest we forget. ~"*As long as we making money does it really matter how we do it*"? Comrade George Smith aka *honourable* Govt minister meeting Ledher at Normans Cay airport

I hear the new talking point is, "*everybody corrupt*". Boy these people have no shame. The answer to corruption everywhere are policies to detect it, discourage it and punish it severely. Like amazingly "*Financial Disclosure*" (all the man ask for is an *adding machine*) and "*Beneficial Ownership Registries*". These people want their acolytes to believe we're powerless against corruption. I wait to see what powerless committees, non transparent recommendations and absolute overrides allowable by a potentially corrupt Minister or cabinet, the new legislation proposes. Because that's what we do we engineer loopholes, as Fred Mitchell himself said derisively, ~"*Minnis cant do anything if someone doesnt declare, Theres no punishment in law*"