Maybe they searched but "*would have searched vigourously*" if possible...

but seriously, dont believe the coast guard does half hearted searches. Not sure if these rash of jumps are drunk people, people taking bets or people committing suicide. These waters een waters to be playing in. Maybe the cruise ships should relay that message about shark infested waters, and favoured location for filming shark week, doubting that they would

No. Not thinking about tours. Talking specifically about taking tourists from the as airport to the hotel. I believe I've seen at least 2 accounts of taxi drivers charging per person rates

Added to that I also believe these mysterious "tours" driving tourists on Eastern Road, maybe Arawak Cay are dubious at best. I wonder how they sell those to the tourist. *We just going for a drive, 30 dollars*.

"*Davis, who was **addressing a crowd of Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) supporters** at a party branch meeting in Grand Bahama Saturday night*"

That's all we need to know, this is clearly an **election ploy**. Freeport is one small part of Grand Bahama. Why didnt the PM tell these same supporters about why the rest of the island is back in the 1920's?

"*for the fear it would damage the livelihood of taxi drivers.*"

And this is the problem. We continue to prop up dying systems. This is anti-innovative **and** inflationary, because in 2024 we are supporting the taxi driver wanting to maintain their lifestyle off an unsustainable model. The tourist must thrrefore pay quintuple the price for taxi fares and the Bahamian must be left without the service

His tone will change again once the election date is announced. He simply wants the masses to believe that's he's reasonable. And I believe he can be and has demonstrated that ability. Outside of the election day-30 period that is .

Sparky is banned. He did something off air to trigger the banning which hasnt been revealed on air but that must have been pretty unsavoury to follow him on air. He has a history of these cycles.

"*With the traditional Easter Season upon us, as a professed Christian nation, I will be as neutral as possible*"

Lol. I stopped reading there. God een please.

"*the salary and wage bill for every ministry, agency and public sector employee in Freeport as well as spending on infrastructure.*:

So this includes the salaries of the "*Ministry of Grand Bahama*"?

My question is, as Grand Bahama is the only out island that has it's own minister why has nothing substantial happened there over this disputed period? They rode Obie Wilchconbes name in the by election, Obie Wilchcombe a man who complained about not being able to get funds for infrastructure work in GB, "*we doing this for Obie, the man we ignored*", replacing him with Kingsley Smith who was to have "*a seat at the table*" and has been all but silent since. To their credit they did not say anyone was going to eat from this proverbial table with exception of Mr Smith.

**I cant envision an outcome where every bill submitted for govt employees attached to this ministry is not summarily dismissed by any legal process as a bogus invoice for work not done, like shenandon Cartwright admitted happened at beaches and parks**. Everybody *in the club* know how this works

The issue I find with taxi fares is the argument always sounds like they want you to subsidize their lifestyle. Driving the tourist from the airport to a hotel for 30 dollars per person is easy money and ridiculous. Taxi ferrying is also not an easy job, it's not meant to be. It's a job taken up in most countries by immigrants because of low wages typical of unskilled non technical labour. Here, everything is upside down, the unskilled and non technical want to be paid as if they're highly educated/skilled professionals. What we should be doing rather than encouraging these vote buying adjustments is seeking to raise the educational level of our people and supporting as opposed to stifling/robbing innovators of intellectual property. Notice that whenever govt talks about protecting IP they always refer to singing, dancing and writing, things that not anybody could easily grab and claim I created this or came up with this idea.

We need growth and innovation not more of this subsidization

The govt has been moving swiftly to do a wide range of "*good*" things within the past maybe 6-8 months. Good that they're doing them but their good is constantly undermined by hubris of multiple ministers, "*we dont answer to you*", a prime minister often out to lunch on key issues as well as supporting excessive spending for his travel and some really bad decisions on the things that touch bahamian pocket books, energyprice control in addition to increased taxes/fees everywhere. If they had come out the gate with these initiatives or even laid out a plan to say these are the things were going to do and this is the timeline with visible evidence of things moving along the reasonable non campaign modelled timeline, I might have a different view of these initiatives.

True. My point was had this been a person in exact same circumstances but not as wealthy or well known or phenotypically "*blessed*" as Mr Lewis they would have likely been sent to prison. The 50m is neither here nor there just meant to show an amount an individual "*might*" feel the loss of. I dont want an ailing elderly person to be jailed, so I dont even have an argument that Mr Lewis should have been, just pointing out that it's unlikely that "*everyone*" would have been granted this grace.