"***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?

Those children need to be placed in detention. This act is very serious and signs of troubling psychological issues in at minimum the alphas in the group and poor reasoning skills among the followers.

They also need pschological counseling and to be placed on probation for 5 years minimum. Their parents should also be assessed and if possessing the same serial killer in training, bullying mindset, they should also be placed into extended psychological counseling

Some general statements: Gambling inclusive of casinos is a shady business with a seedy underbelly including drug peddling, sex trafficking and human smuggling. Property acquisition is the most common form of money laundering. Money cant buy a good name.

A specific statement: gaming is causing havoc in our inner cities compounding an already significant poverty crisis.

These children didn't have marijuana cookies or gummies did they?

"*saying their care is on par with international institutions.*"

I'm not certain this is true. The other day the GG commented on how clean the nurses uniforms were and you dont see that when you go outside the country. It was such a profound statement, because nursing is a *dirty* job. Reflects the ill placed focus Bahamians give to presentation over substance. I recall someone saying, "*all I need to be an MP is a good suit*", and they were quite serious. And clearly correct.

The Bahamas' problem is corruption.

There are people who could fund 10 *1000 times better than PMH* hospitals but will not do it because they have no idea what will happen to 2/3 of the money once it passes through parliament, no idea what shady contractors will be handed overpriced contracts and no idea of when the project would actually be finished

Corruption is stifling our country in every way. Has North Andros gotten 10 ATM machines as yet? How much money has been funneled to Cat Island and Exuma in contracts?

"*businesses and residents had experienced frequent challenges with **that** (singular) ABM over the past **two years***"

The people have Stockholm syndrome.

I'm baffled how parliamentarians can walk into the House every week with head held high while Bahamians living like they in 1850 and billions in contract work and investment gets funneled to Exuma and Cat Island. This another story the world should pick up on

Lol. I hadnt thought of this! But as there's an overwhelming and neverending supply and feed cost is zero, price should not be an issue