Jeff Bezos and William Shatner are astronauts too I guess having also participated a single time in this, or like, paid for passage tourist flight to space

"*The technology embedded in this agreement represents a monumental development in rocket reusability, providing substantial economic advantages to The Bahamas and elevating its status in the global space industry, “said Chester Cooper, deputy prime minister and minister of tourism, investments and aviation.*"

I wonder if they believe the things they write. We have cutting edge technology today at the AUTEC base, I'd like to see what the press statement was when that agreement was signed. *Bahamians will become smarter through osmosis as the US military opens a research centre. This will propel the Bahamas forward.*

**Please stop. The only thing that will propel the Bahamas forward is a plan actually designed to propel the Bahamas forward. Not something that we hope and dream will happen as a byproduct of proximity**

I marvel at the number of agreements we've signed in the past 5 years that were supposed to bring revolutionary changes that were just simply a businessman making money for his company. Remember home porting that got everyone whipped into a frenzy? "*Get your ideas ready!*". Remember the Starlink launch where Bahamians got excited that they could pay Musk for internet services? And the yet to be topped drives of poor Bahamians excited to see Sebas land in a helicopter at the stadium as a show of his wealth.

**This like the Columbus landing all over again**

Be reminded that the damning evidence in the illegal dumping conviction of the cruise line in Florida were the internal emails, ~"*just alter the logs on waste disposal*", same for the Bahamar case, ~"*you have to fake it(construction work) better*"

"*What was "teeth" supposed to be graded against with us being a leader on crypto regulation*"

**You've swallowed the koolaid.**

One of the first things that was clear when FTX imploded was they had zero oversight.

At minimum anybody monitoring their operation should have noticed the millions flowing out the country, at minimum. At minimum someone should have noticed there was zero governance infrastructure. At minimum someone should have known the open secret that **Bahamians** were sending in money to trade crypto, an activity that wasnt licensed. At minimum someone should have then noticed that client deposits werent segregated, were dwindling and grouped with the money flowing out. At minimum someone should have noticed that barring the unlicensed activity, Sam was calculating margins on billions on his fingers and toes. **These are just some of the surface level oversights that are mindboggling when someone is claiming to have exercised exemplarary regulatory control where nothing else could have been done to stop this**

"*want to assure persons who are listening that The Bahamas remains safe," she said. "What we see happening are isolated incidents.*"

Everyone who's listening knows "*something*" unusual is happening that doesnt negate the fact that it's happening and safety is at risk.

It does seem badly rehearsed

"*Again, it goes back to the family, when persons are not trained properly, when they are not taught to respect people’s property, and people, this is what you see spilling out.*"

No it goes right to Parliament, corruption and a general sense of disorder that's been allowed to go unchecked for at least 7 years. Did it miss the spokesman that a **police officer** is currently in custody for this weekend's drive by shooting with multiple rounds of ammunition found at his home? Assuming they're not police issued...

"*Officers said they would increase patrols in the area*"

Shouldnt this area already be "*saturated*" with patrols? And it's probably the rival turf that'll be the next target, not this one.

15yr old murdered in drive by shooting? Pretending that everything ok doesn't make it ok. The world can see the bruises

"Kaboom". Lol

"***new claims, based on nearly 7,000 pages of Telegram messages provided by Caroline Ellison**, former girlfriend and crony of FTX founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, who has herself admitted wrongdoing and gave evidence against her former lover as part of a plea deal with US federal prosecutors, alleged that Deltec and its chairman, Jean Chalopin, played a key role in crafting the DARE Act.*"

"***the lawsuit also seemingly drew on Telegram messages from Ryan Salame, head of FTX Digital Markets**, the crypto exchange’s Bahamian subsidiary,*"

Well.. contemporaneous accounts hold great weight in court proceedings

Has anyone else noticed the number of persons going before the court for drug position? Not marijuana, strange stuff.

I mentioned to a foreign friend in relation to the crime spree that I did not know if we still had big drug problem. How big is this really?

I see businessman Hield was before the court for distribution, I'm assuming to most people who knew him he was a regular hard working family man. But here it is he has an assortment of drugs stored in the wall of his house. We've had cases of a few persons dying and fentanyl found in their system, one young lady was before the court last week for possession of Indian hemp.

How big is our drug problem? Did the 70's and 80's just go underground simply eliminating the visible thick gold chains and over the top Broncos or is this something lesser?

And who are the customers?