Btw and generally speaking, have you noticed that anytime a famous millionaire mentions a new venture and "millions in investment", Bahamians seem to go crazy? They dont ask any questions. Zero. Aided by the host, they go off on long tangents of how this will be wonderful for the country and create opportunities for smart young people. Homeporting, RCI, Cruise Port, Carnival, Grand Lucayan, SpaceX, OceanGate and on and on. As if they will personally get to meet Sam Bankman, Tiger Woods, Greg Norman, Elon Musk even Sebas and Nygard, and they will put their arm around them, smile as if they're best buddies now and hand over an envelope with 1million dollars.

And nothing could be further than the truth. Maybe, that's "*maybe*", if we're lucky, the operation grants 20 Bahamian jobs paying in excess of 50k. But that's it. Everything else is money out the country. Potholes still pop up everywhere, property prices get higher, travel budgets get larger, education plummets, food prices increase, electricity and water systems continue to fail and blight spreads across the country

We need a standard

I dont know... I've never eaten a "Hawaiian" branded pineapple and thought, "*I need to go to Hawaii*"... same for "*Alaskan*" salmon, "*Colombian*" coffee or cocoa...

Btw, it's somewhat ironic, but we are killing ourselves with all the money we're "*eating*"

"*shelter, which can accommodate up to 600 people*"

This number keeps going down while the cost of construction keeps skyrocketing, wasnt it 800 at last tell? Or am I mixing up with the GB shelter built for 500,000?

I'll bet the final cost was 8m or higher. It says alot that they didnt "*proudly*" reveal, "*on budget*"

No she's not vindicated, but in a different sense. It was her responsibility to ensure the program was run to audit standards and it clearly was not. That would make it easy for some hypothetical worker down in the basement, who Mrs Larson would not know and would never have met or spoken to, to pilfer hundreds of thousands in vouchers and inventory. Because who would catch it? That's the importance of the "controls" that both audits mentioned didnt exist. Ensuring those controls exist is ultimately the responsibility of Mrs Larson

**NGO staff are like staff at any organization. They get paid.** The more seniority you have, the higher the salary. What is wrong with your brain?

**NGO staff cannot possibly do all the work that there is to do, so they rely heavily on a large "*volunteer workforce*". Volunteers do not get paid.** Some volunteers work regular jobs and donate time in off hours, so their income comes from elsewhere. Some volunteers are super wealthy, they have time, they dont need the money. Some volunteers are retired or students, they dont work and they do it for the love of it.

**Mrs Larson was not a volunteer (as far as I know) therefore entitled to a salary** at the senior management level

**People at NGO's do not work for free**. Stop being ridiculous.

A portion of the funds they take in is designed to go to administrative fees. The only difference between them and a regular business is they the salaries should not be be mega mogul salaries and any money they raise should go to support shortfalls in reasonable administrative fees or charity work there's no piling up of profits for personal or investor benefit.

Seems like it. It's hard to believe the sports minister could get a law passed in parliament to establish a new junkanoo authority all by himself. It's also very easy to guess who gave the way forward faulty advice. It's more difficult to determine exactly what the rationale was at the registrar general's office

Post appeals court ruling, I guess theyll leave the sports minister to sink on the boat by himself

Ok, some environmentalist you approve of

When will BPL reveal the plan for the Bahamas in full and in writing with details and timelines? All we're getting are fancy videos and announcements of stunning profits