> “Though these persons would have been tested negative for COVID-19, protocols have been put in place to ensure that anti COVID-19 spreading measures are practiced while they proceed to their eventual destinations,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) statement said.

Shockingly the Covid-19 Repatriation notice published on MOFA's official website states:

*"The phased {repatriation} approach will ensure a seamless process that allows for adequate preparation such as COVID 19 testing before departure, **unless otherwise approved to have the test administered upon arrival in The Bahamas**."*

Surely this cannot be! Why on earth would Minnis as Minister of Health, D'Aguilar as Minister of Aviation and/or Henfield as Minister of Foreign Affairs allow any passenger or crew member to board this first Bahamasair repatriation flight in the US without having been properly tested for Covid-19. There should be no one on that fully packed flight tomorrow who has not been tested within the three-day period immediately prior to the flight.

All of the passengers and crew members who will be tomorrow's fully packed Bahamasair repatriation flight deserve to know well in advance whether anyone travelling with them has received approval to have their Covid-19 test administered upon their arrival in The Bahamas rather than in the US.

Did the bush mechanics ever really close?

Bannister alone is going to take down both Minnis and the FNM.

Lloyd no doubt arranged for every student registered in the public education system to also be registered by his ministry of education staff in the virtual learning programme using the same registration details that were already on file for them. This got him to the big number of 45,000 that he's now touting, but how many of those students are actually using the virtual learning programme? The user logs maintained by the virtual system presumably show how many students are actually using it on a regular basis as intended.

Ben is right.

Don't despair. We didn't get to where we are in a day and we certainly won't get to where we should be in a day. So just take it day by day and keep doing what you've been doing, i.e. wisely using your voice. People still listen to well reasoned view points, albeit some much more reluctantly than others.

I believe in the science behind global climate change and appreciate the risks global warming presents for our country. But I have great disdain for those who would use that topic as a 'pile on' scare tactic to make us believe it's okay to borrow like there's no tomorrow because tomorrow 67% of us will be submerged. Hope you understand.

On the subject of equal justice for all under the law, and the laws of the land applying equally to all, we now seem to have some judges who all too quick to strip certain of us of our most basic Constitutional right to freedom. Minnis himself is to blame for having set the tone for some most unfair and unduly harsh rulings by certain judges pertaining to his lockdown orders. If he has not already done so, our Chief Justice would be wise to politely remind his robed colleagues that even in times of a declared state of national emergency, judicial temperance must remain the order of the day.

In the case of Minnis, I suspect the jury will remain out for an extended period of deliberation.

Minnis more than anyone needs to fully understand and appreciate that the laws of our land apply equally to all, including medical doctors who may be prone to self-aggrandizement.

Fully agree with you @bogart.

Over the past decade we have spent a fortune on CCTV monitoring systems for Nassau that have not been properly maintained or intelligently used. All instances of major damage to public property captured by these systems should be reported to the appropriate authorities so the culprit(s) concerned can be tracked down and held fully accountable. CCTV systems should be strategically placed to record the more common instances of costly damage to public property, e.g. road traffic signals banged-up by large trucks.