"*The ground started shaking, and when I talk about shaking, I mean literally. I was so scared.*"

I wonder if this will help space tourism?

"Due diligence"

Clearly not. Starship this, Falcon that, doesnt matter. Accidents are a risk of both. And the uncoordinated reactive recovery mission is clearly a sign that nobody really had a plan.

The search began one week after the explosion with the DEPP lamenting that the "*larger*: pieces of the craft could not be found. Is anybody surprised. Forget rockets, would a plane or a sinking ship sit on top of the water for a whole week? That start time is really odd, you would think that a part of the planning was a recovery team had bags packed to leave at a moment's notice if necessary. The only other option is the delay was intentional. We will never know which.

This by itself tells us something is very wrong. The govt it appears depended on SpaceX to have a plan and it's clear that didnt. The "baseline" study of normal ocean activity, to our shock, was conducted on the day of the launch! Seriously? One day is sufficient day to map normal ocean activity? Suppose wilfred the Whale and Sullivan the Shark only swim by on Sundays?

Next, they appear to have no idea where the wreckage is, defaulting to social media to depend on random conversations.

**And in all of this uncoordinated activity they gaslight us with press releases about conducting a "full" recovery. The large pieces were allowed to disappear. There will be no *full* anything.**

I'm as shocked as you. The Out Islands Board has no control over the environment. A hurricane could have hit, SunOil could have had another Exuma oilspil... the environment is what it is.

You do not get to pick and chose which numbers represent your results. You "can" use that information in you "internal" strategy meetings to determine how you mitigate the risk, but that's about it.

"*Yntegra’s Environmental Impact Assessment confirms the risks, stating that constructing the marinas, fuel depot, and service dock **will disrupt critical marine habitats**. The study notes that the dredging and marina construction **will destroy an estimated 15 acres of seagrass**, a **vital nursery for juvenile fish, conch, lobster, and endangered species like the hawksbill turtle and Nassau grouper.***"

Exactly what is the point of the DEPP?? We just see a big wrecking ball to the environment over and over again. How was this project ever approved?

"*once the legislation is laid and the documents and the law is set, when NHI now becomes the authority responsible for chronic drugs, then the decision would be made, and we would consult.”*

Boy... he said it...consult after deciding

Appears to be an intentional misrepresentation of what the US is alleging. They are not saying the Bahamas is engaging in forced labour, they are saying the Bahamas is enabling it by working with the Cuban govt to contract labour.

I recall for example sometime between 2011 and 2014, a group of Chinese CCA construction workers marching in protest at the conditions under which they were forced to work *in the Bahamas*.

They did not claim that the Bahamian govt was forcing them to work under those conditions, but if those conditions were a reality, the Bahamian govt was certainly *allowing* it to happen. I still wonder about those men, it was the last we heard of them, we dont know if they remained in the Bahamas to work, we dont know if they were treated worse thereafter, we dont know if they were taken back to China, we dont know if they were tortured, we dont know if they were imprisoned we simply dont know. Because the govt wanted the labour, they didnt care to get involved in humane treatment policies.

And if we think that's passed us, just two(?) years ago, 62 Chinese nationals held by immigration for violations were said to not have passports. Upon investigation it was "said", that their employer the Hilton or CCA (since CCA owns the Hilton) was in posession of their passports. A call was made by Keith Bell, alledgedly after speaking with and directed by a very high ranking politician, to release the men.

There was no follow up on why any worker would have his passport taken from him. It is a telltale sign of human trafficking or slave labour. But our govt, "*allowed it to happen*", facilitated the prompt return of those workers more concerned about economic activity than human rights.

The very same thing could be happening with Haitian migrants. Is there a program of indentured labour that we turn a blind eye to? Are they facilitated in leaving Haiti then having to work to pay off a debt to the facilitator? We dont know. We just want the labour.

That is the point. Are we complicit?

Still not sure of the exact timing... if I cared enough Id look, but it was **before the lockdown, before we reported our first case. It had not spread here**, so their thinking was people would avoid Europe and come to us .. which thinking back on it was purely crazy. We would have literally painted a "COVID welcome here" sign. COVID was spread by tourists.

Ok.

The last time I heard a positive spin on a pending global disaster/crisis was when DAguilar said in March 2019(?) "we'll capitalize on COVID"... not so well thought out and did not go so well...

When Trump inflation hits the US, it will hit Canada. Everybody will have less discretionary money.

"*We put down a pedestrian walkway from the vacant lot, where a lot of vehicles park across to the waterfront there, so her memory will live on.”*"

That's a bad location for a crosswalk. I often wonder if there's anyone who's actually studied the science of traffic management involved in the positioning of road safety aids. It's almost like they're trying their best to put pedestrians and drivers in danger.

Think of it, a car heads north on Prince charles, makes a right turn and accelerates, two feet in front of them is someone on a crosswalk... A car comes around the bend, in front of them is someone on a crosswalk, in both cases the pedestrian believes, because the crosswalk is there, cars must stop. And theyd be right. But can they?

If they wanted to honour the young lady they'd put lighting down the length of Eastern Road and Prince Charles

These guys could tell DEPP anything and they wouldnt know the truth from a fairy tale, it's simply not their area of expertise. Another trap not to fall into, dont start getting cozy with the people you're supposed to be regulating.... clearly what happened with FTX