One more thing: Since the two of you seem to have so much inside knowledge and affection for BPC, please enlighten us - how much did they actually owe in the first place before this settlement was 'negotiated'?

@laallee - You must work for BPC. I am a Bahamian. i don't care how much their pre drill expenses cost them. That is their problem. And they were prevented by the government for drilling for years to protect the Bahamian public. Oil drilling is dangerous and proper regulations need to be in place before it can even be considered. For the good of the Bahamas. BPC is supposed to be headed by industry veterans, they know the game. It might takes to get approval after you get the license. Too bad, that is what you signed up for. In the meantime, they agreed to pay the Bahamas a set amount of $$$ per year of the license and they need to pay it in full. And like I said to NickB - please point us to these "royalty fees" in place and the section of the Sovereign Wealth Act to which you refer. I fear the Bahamas is going to get swung in this deal while you all go on playing apologist.

@NickB. Have you seen the license agreement? Where does it say that? Can you show us? I for one have never seen anything from this company indicating a commitment to share major royalties with The Bahamas or pay 'major' taxes. It would be helpful if you could point to the facts.

Because it's against the law to publish people's medical information. What would be useful is a general picture of where this person lived and worked. So the people in those areas can monitor themselves carefully.

Mitchell is full of s***. He sees everything issue as an opportunity to destabilize the government and he has no moral issues with using this national tragedy to score political points. Scum.

Exactly. Brent didn't "give" himself or his friends or relatives contracts, as the PLP like to do. He is not the minister of works. He did not make the decision. Bahamas Hot Mix was chosen, as it often is, because it is an excellent company which just happens to have some shares that benefit Brent's children. They do great work, that is why they are chosen repeatedly and there is no other reason. Should we follow the PLP logic and give the contract for paving the runway instead to Bobo and Toggi's newly established paving company, with zero experience and no skills whatsoever? Should we just look the other way when the planes start sliding off into the bush? Seriously we have to stop this nonsense. If a company is the best for the job they should get the contract, regardless of who the owners are. That is how you create benefit the Bahamian people, not by "spreading" the contracts evenly among the very qualified and woefully unqualified alike. That is just stupid. It is a dead philosophy and it has to stop.

You people are incredible. The man is a suspected housebreaker and enjoys the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. How do you know it was him breaking into the house? Because the RBPF say so? He is not guilty of a thing until a court of law says so. They watched a man who was innocent in the eyes of the law, drown. God forbid if it is you or I they accuse next - and the public just writes us off.

Well said. Ignorance is a hell of a thing.

What a load of utter nonsense. No lobbyists are dictating anything to the government, it is already illegal to kill a shark in the Bahamas. People are only asking for the law to be enforced. Also, there is absolutely zero evidence that shark killing bans put humans at greater risk or that killing them within a particular jurisdiction lessens that risk. Many sharks are migratory and do not respect international borders. There is no way to lessen their number in the Bahamas itself, because thousands are always traveling in or out or through our waters from elsewhere, it is an ever-shifting population., But you certainly cause damage to various ecosystems by removing vitally important predators through and informed actions. Your suggestion about these animals becoming "overly aggressive" over food sources betrays a total lack of understanding about how food chains and ecosystems work. The whole point is that nature inclines towards a balance when free from the ignorant interference of clueless humans.

LOL prevent a new Pindling?? We can't even keep one in for more than 5 years even if we wanted to!