> "These same black Bahamians are sort {sic - sought} after and snapped up many times even before graduating from universities by foreign corporations all over the world, and are well known abroad as serious, productive, leading employees."

@SP: These words of yours would seem to suggest you believe racism is alive and well, but only in the Bahamas. I therefore can only conclude you must believe today's younger Bahamians are just as easily manipulated and divided as their parents and grandparents were by the playing of that tired 'ole worn out racism card, which is still being used time and time again by corrupt FNM and PLP dinosaur politicians alike. Well, you're wrong and you only have to look at the number of mixed marriages there are today in our country within a much younger and colour blind electorate.

These same black Bahamians are sort after and snapped up many times even before graduating from universities by foreign corporations all over the world, and are well known abroad as serious, productive, leading employees.

They too should have been locked-up after a jury trial verdict of their guilt based on sufficient and appropriate evidence that could and should have easily been gathered from a proper investigation by law enforcement authorities before the shredders started working overtime in the run up to Paul McWeeney's departure from BOB with a million dollar bonus approved by Vomit Christie. E-discovery techniques available at the time should have been used to obtain the relevant e-mails, e-messages, etc. of the directors concerned (like McWeeney) who were instrumentally involved in BOB's corrupt lending practices that resulted in the raping, pillaging and plundering of Bahamian taxpayers to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Do you watch anything but msnbc, cnn, cbs, abc, nbc, bbc, cbc, etc.? Do you read anything but the New York Times, Washington Post, Polico, Huffington Post, NPR, Buzzfeed, Economist, etc.? They are all mouthpieces for the left leaning agenda of America's new breed of socialists.....the kind who would have most Americans live one way as the "have nots" while they live in an entirely different way as the "haves".

That aside.....we, the Bahamian people and our government, would be wise to always align ourselves with U.S. foreign policy initiatives aimed at containing the lethal activities of the world's leading self-proclaimed terrorist organizations no matter the country from which they may choose to wreak havoc on the rest of world.

It's all too obvious that Dames has succumbed to corruption, and that our most corrupt PM has undoubtedly told him to tone it down. The appeasing tone and inaction of both Dames and Minnis will only embolden the officers who engage in unprovoked and uncalled for instances of police brutality with the blessing of our current Police Commissioner.

As for Bethel, he has demonstrated time and time again that he lacks what it takes to be an effective Commodore.

Bethel's time came and went. He was never worthy of the title of Commodore. His record of unpreparedness and underperformance during the height of the Dorian ordeal are well noted.

Bethel was incapable of doing whatever it took to ensure most of his ships were kept seaworthy and ready for duty at a moments notice, ergo he besmirched the RBDF and let the Bahamian people down in their desparate time of need in the immediate aftermath of Dorian. Thank God for the intervening efforts of the U.S. Coast Guard.

And let's not forget that Bethel also possessed a most dreadful record in helping us preserve our nation's sovereignty by fighting the invasion and onslaught of our country by illegal Haitian aliens. No, Bethel was never worthy of the title of Commodore.

These hovering foreign vultures in the healthcare industry are going to skin alive our dumb politicians and equally incompetent healthcare officials. And they will find the necessary foreign consultants to help them do so in the most merciless way possible.

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Carnival literally saves millions and millions of dollars of costs each and every year, costs that it would otherwise incur if its cruise ships did not very deliberately dump their shiit and contaminants in and about our territorial seas. Carnival will happily pay the Bahamas fines up to $30 million every few years for the privilege of continuing their illegal dumpings because it is economically advantageous (more profitable) for them to do so. The maximum fine of $30 million under The Environmental Planning and Protection Act 2019 should have been much higher; at least $75 million for each and every separate incident.

We're all soon going to be swimming in Carnival's dumped shiit and contaminants no matter where we go swimming in our waters....and savouring its deliciousness in our favourite locally caught seafood dishes!

Mr. Bowe is spot on in his insightful remarks here.

I would only add that Inflexible and irrelevant dinosaurs like D. Foulkes and J. Pinder need to be laid to rest rather than protected by PM Minnis.

I believe the real problem could well be Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson. Isn't she the same judge who foolishly ruled against the government's proposed demolition of the Haitian shanty towns long before the many deaths caused by Hurricane Dorian in Central and North Abaco? If so, she's likely a judge who has great difficulty seeing all of the dots that should be connected to create the bigger and more truthful picture.

Meanwhile disgraced Paul McWeeney, the former managing director of BOB who greatly facilitated its corrupt lending practices to politically-connected persons (both PLP and FNM alike), and who, upon his dismissal from BOB, was eventually given a cushy executive position at Sir Snake's insurance company, wrongfully gets to strut around with impunity notwithstanding the very serious nature of the dastardly deeds he was instrumental in facilitating while at the helm of BOB. Truth be told, McWeeney and certain other former directors of BOB like McWeeney, as well as Miller and certain other delinquent borrowers from BOB like Miller, should all be doing hard time in a prison cell for having literally bilked the taxpayers of our country out of hundreds of millions of dollars.