Pintard has an opportunity. Time will tell what he does with it. What people dont want are the same baseless promises then the fumbling around for the first 2 years. There's massive institutional knowledge of govt administration, budgets and challenges in the FNM, use it

And find a competent minister of finance, not Turnquest. Dont recycle people in positions just because they was there. I still cringe when people ask Renward Wells for advice on health matters because he held the title of minister of health for a few months. I'm frightened of the prospect of Shenandon as deputy Prime minister, not after Beaches and Parks and his casual dismissal of the contract irregularities.

They need to reexamine this clause that allows ministers to participate in govt contracts. If you have a painting company and the company only gets contracts when your party in power, and you're not recognized in the country as the best or one of the best painting contractors with superior quality work, something wrong.

The police commission needs to stop being a friend of the PM immediately. That decision is killing us literally. I'm not even sure if the senior ranks can be trusted for competence because of political influence in promotions. The commissioner first of all must have a keen mind, he must be able to speak properly, he must have leadership influence because of his competence. Someone with investigative skills would be good. Someone with integrity. I'd be ok with a foreign appointment, theyd really have to be good due to the inherent morale issues with that, because we have to fix corruption on the police force, poor quality recruits and crime in general.

They likely ran back from that commitment at full speed when the prison fell

He looks good with his gray hair.

There's no safe deployment in Haiti. Guerilla warfare is a 100% opportunistic effort. Need to use a road, bridge, airport, supply facility, "*opportunity*"

No bahamian is dress like Mickey and Minnie. Lol.

This doesnt make sense. A consultant is a consultant, someone not a member of staff that you're paying for a service. If you hire an IT vendor that's hiring a "*consultant*". If you hire a foreign lawyer who has expertise in an area we dont that's a "*consultant*". Hiring someone to manage the landfill using an expertise we dont have or to offer advice os a consultant.

You could class them as a contractor or a vendor the category is up to you, at the end of the day it all means the same, the govt has found more people to give money to for "*something*"

"*every time you see this consultancy line, people think it’s consultants, think you’re hiring consultants*"

The people are correct

He said JDL was not collecting any govt revenue, no customs fees, not doing any inspections they were only contracted to *construct* the air freight terminal, "*that's it*". A leaked memo sent by JDL to customs brokers referencing fees however seemed to hint at a greater management function involving collection of govt revenue. If customs officers would be responsible for collecting fees and JDL is responsible for construction only, theres no fee for them to collect from brokers

So the govt has alot of explaining to do. The real investigation needed is, was this freight management function entered into at the time Simon Wilson uttered "*that's it*"

Actually **Culmer spoke out long ago.** People just forget. when asked what type of candidates the FNM was looking for for the leadership race (post-Minnis, pre-Pintard) Culmer provided a list of wholesome qualities, then as if a light bulb went on he added "*and we dont need no petty connivin people*", was very clear who he was referring to

Dr Minnis is alledged to have sidelined many people some of them good workers. That action says more about Minnis than the person sidelined . His party chairman when asked what type of person the party was looking for leadership race candidates said "*we dont need any petty people*", it was clearly a reference to Dr Minnis. I cringe to think what further disruptive snipper behaviour will be seen after Sarurdays vote

Apologies are hard, **especially** when the apology is called for because someone offended you and your response to the offense was less than ideal. Now you are obligated to *humble* yourself to the person who offended you as they gloat. The very definition of difficult. But that is what you sometimes have to do.

The statement given by Mr Wilson was reported as an apology but it was anything but ss he apologized to everybody except the person whom he offended. That's not an apology

Actually that's wrong. Investigative reporters dig in to uncover pieces of a puzzle. And then they put all the pieces together. That's how the world learned about FTX conducting a multimillion dollar fraud under the nose of the Securities Commission

Have to dig into any discrepancies between today's and the last reporting and whether a reasonable senior official would have reported the previous details and taken over a month(?) to report corrections(?) with no outright statement of "*I have to correct the record...*" when 25m is in the balance. Its not good enough to say I didnt "intentionally" mislead, that's actually **exactly** what Salame said, the judge gave him 7 years in prison because the "*pattern*" of activity belied the intent.