"*Munroe replied that Mr Pintard should get legal advice from “a good FNM lawyer” to understand the “folly” of that request. He did not explain this assertion, although it likely relates to the Government’s desire to keep the details of PwC’s work confidential given that arbitration proceedings with the GBPA appear imminent.*"

I wish a good lawyer would explain this. Because by definition nothing in the report produced by Pwc would be secret. Its an accounting of govt services rendered and the associated cost and govt revenue collected

This auditor general has certainly proven his ability to execute his review function and to report facts as they are irrespective of politics.

It would be good if his office could also perform an operational control function, there is that new unit they created to oversee all govt projects the Delivery Unit, I believe Jerome Fitzgerald is now in charge. But something isnt working as it should as these abuses and anomalies continue to happen. To add a control function he would need more budget and more staff.

The cost for the added responsibility is something the public would get behind as in the end it would mean we dont hear about 6million dollar cost overruns on a sporting event that really shouldnt have many surprise costs as these are run over and over by us and others every year. over time the new function will pay for itself in the money we save from unjustifiable project padding.

This of course on the assumption that the role appointment doesnt fall prey to politics

"*100 temporary staff hired by the carifta Games Company Ltd, which was incorporated to organise the championships, were “assigned tasks unrelated to” the event, the report also detailed how $136,000 was lost on a Gospel concert that “bore no relevance” to track and field*"

These are common and under analyzed feeding grounds for corruption.

**The best way to commit fraud is to attach your money skimming activity to an initiative that has a "Good" cause**. Who can argue with spending more than expected on feeding hungry children or supporting our athletes? But nobody in govt recognizes the damage from the mismanagement, who will trust you with a bunch of money even for a good cause again?

Secondly this thing about giving out jobs on slack needs to stop. Yes people need to work, but who determines who gets to work? Are only the minister or ruling party's constituents eligible? Who determines that those with greatest need received? Or was it those with the best relationships? Who determines that the individual did "something" and it wasnt just a freebie to buy goodwill for the next election? Who determines that it wasnt fraud? Could a worker have taken half of the pay for doing nothing and handed back half as a thank you?

None of these are alledged, the point is the loose nature of these continuous Cracker Jack prize contracts by both parties opens the door for all of these aberrations to happen. Then the MP gets up in parliament and says why y'all coming down on me, this what we is do. You have to wonder would if they do the same with their own money. Hire double the people to clean their house and hard and be incapable of saying who did what or if the grass cut.

Finally the prostitution of religion has to stop as well. We dont need to subsidize gospel concerts all over the place because the minister likes gospel. Theyve never proven to bring in any tourist traffic or turn a profit

"*a 24-hour power outage knocked out all the area’s utilities and Internet service.*

I recall the 12 hour power outage after the BEC fire and the 14hr outage one of the hurricanes. 24 hours without power and then regular outages over the week.

Not sure if the govt should be lobbying to take over Freeport. The first thing that would happen is all of the utility companies would get double the staff complement overnight. the second thing that would happen the Board would be loaded with people who either barely finish high school or have no executive experience to offer, like Adrian Gibson they would immediately clash with the technocrats. Over time Freeport would be just as semi dysfunctional as Nassau.

Trump has a certain evil genius, I use that word very loosely and he has influence. It might be that if we had a population as large as the US we'd have hundred of thousands of fanatics in the COI too. The law of crazy. I wouldnt characterize Lincoln as Trump. Dr Minnis tried to create a narrative that he was just like Trump, I don't know about that either, just recognized the effort to emulate

"*I’ve talked to colleagues, and they’ve suggested going to the US embassy in Nassau and looking at diplomatic options. I really don’t want to do that.*"

Listen to yuh friends.

this could be the sum total of his lifes earnings and meant to fund his retirement accommodations. That would be devastating

I was just thinking the same as I recall they couldnt stop Nygard from absconding with his assets, also in violation of a court order, because "*a gate was locked*". If he is hiding under the bench in the court who would reasonably expect the police to look for him there?

It was more than "looks", looks if you have them are an asset, but they aren't required for success, Abraham Lincoln was a very unattractive man.

Bain was squatting in a house out Cable Beach, he was on the side of the road with 5 gallon bottles collecting money... for what? I can't think that he collected any vast amount and then the firing of the shotgun off carnichael road... all of those things "together" (because hard times can come to anyone as Dorian and COVID taught us)

Remember the party leader who claimed he had millions in funding *ready to go* as well as the cure for COVID, he drank some unknown substance at a political debate as proof.

Lots of Bahamians follow "*nothing*". If you mention a load of money, if you're white in some constituencies, if you're attractive and your makeup always looks great, if you have a great voice... you have a nice suit, people will follow you. And in politics all of those things have important they add to your ability to influence. The problem in this country is, for a vast number of our political candidates thsts where it ends, if you turn the tv off you'll hear the sound of the one marble rolling aimlessly around in their head.

At one point I feared for Mr Bain, he was acting unhinged, manic like Michael the archangel.

He's claiming that he got the documents "after" the court decision came down. So the dog would be wagging the tail I think... It's interesting. My first question is, is the information materially different from what was presented in the trial. Next question if it is materially different did the govt violate the document disclosure requirement, it wouldnt have been difficult to find these communications. But every hinges on whether this is really new information