They likely got it from U.S. health authorities in connection with the recent Delta flight en route to the Bahamas that had to be stopped.

> ".......surveillance at our ports of entry and health facilities are always on alert, and remain ready to respond should a need arise.”

Oh, really? Come now Dr. Sands, why do your words ring so hollow? Besides, as we all well know, many Haitian nationals choose not to use our conventional ports of entry.

>"........my ministry has engaged agencies throughout the country to identify people who could be at risk for the virus."

This certainly sounds like a lot of hot air of the kind most politicians are well known to produce.

> “We are absolutely on alert,” Dr. Sands said. “So when the public health teams go out and do surveillance they are looking for evidence of diarrheal diseases, water borne diseases, vector borne diseases and they are working even in the post Dorian reality and it’s working.”

Wow! Since May 2017 you have been telling us over and over again, Dr. Sands, about how our public healthcare system suffers from a serious lack of financial resources and has a grave shortage of doctors, nurses and other healthcare personnel. Yet somehow you have managed to get teams of public health personnel out there doing Ebola surveillance on a regular (sustained) basis. Truly amazing, but unfortunately not very believable.

>"“We live in a world of Ebola and there are international health regulations that define what constitutes a risk or hazard."

No argument there Dr. Sands. But pray tell: Exactly what tangible steps have actually been taken by the Minnis-led FNM government to protect the Bahamas, as much as possible and in a meaningful way, from an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Bahamas?

In the case of visitors travelling to the Bahamas via more developed countries like the U.S., we are able to derive considerable comfort (protection) from the effective screening procedures of those countries. A good example being the recent Delta Airlines flight in the United States en route to the Bahamas that was stopped when it was discovered a passenger had travelled to Uganda. But what about all of those visitors travelling to the Bahamas who do not transit through a developed country, e.g. legal and illegal Haitian nationals travelling to the Bahamas directly from Haiti?

We can ill-afford another teachable moment from the Minnis-led FNM government like the one we have received in the aftermath of Dorian. Lack of preparedness by not having appropriate training in contact tracking and isolation techniques, effective quarantine facilities, adequate supplies of proper medications, etc., etc., combined with no luxury of time for delay, could prove fatal for all of us Bahamians if we find we must endure yet another teachable moment from the Minnis-led FNM government. The U.S. might just find it necessary to quarantine our entire nation and that would certainly prove to be a greater disaster than multiple future Dorians.

BTC is reaching new lows in having to invite the likes of the very corrupt slime ball Sebas Bastian to be a guest speaker at its conference.

> ....the World Bank had misunderstood the real estate transfer tax structure as a result of multiple switches between VAT and Stamp Duty.

Just more excuses from the political elite who refuse to take responsibility for anything. Responsibility for miscommunications and misunderstandings like the one quoted immediately above properly rest with Turnquest and Holowesko in this particular case, notwithstanding all of their very long winded duckin' n dodgin' efforts.

Lloyd was always a lost soul.....he couldn't find Christ if he looked up to heaven with arms raised and prayed to the top of his lungs!

For Lloyd, his government job has never been anything more than getting the money he needed to educate his own children abroad.

Alfred Sears was just as bloody damn ineffective when he was Minister of Education and caused us 'true' Bahamian taxpayers to be saddled with over $150 million dollars of worthless student debt, most of which was paid to unaccredited or otherwise sub-standard colleges and universities in the U.S. that were only too willing to enroll our D minus high school graduates in a four year vacation abroad useless degree program.

Mandela, that's not news to anyone. Most of us have known for a long time now that the entire corrupt Minnis-led FNM government has been running in the dark without a true leader ever since May 2017.

And just think.....the insurance companies will be only too quick to deny your insurance claim if the driver of your vehicle involved in an accident is not in possession of a valid unexpired Bahamian driver's license. Well muddo!!

It's because of all the muck-a-mucks in government that must collect under the table for any and everything!

In what country are you living? Just about everyone living in the Bahamas knows that the number of corrupt officials within the Ministry of Works is only exceeded by the number of corrupt officials within the Ministry of Immigration and at the Registrar-General's Department. It has been that way for decades now.