Too many Bahamians are supporters of Maxine Waters and her friends in the US Congress and are only too happy to bash President Trump every chance they get because they are so called 'Never Trumpers'. On top of that, after all of the mass media coverage in the US about Hurricane Dorian's impact on Abaco and Grand Bahama, many Americans now think the Bahamas is predominantly populated by Haitian immigrants. Therefore the probability of the Bahamas ever becoming a US territory is about the same as a giant meteor wiping out the earth tomorrow.

Perhaps that simple under a dictatorship or a republic with ineffective checks and balances, but not so under our system of government. In any event, the PM was elected by a majority of his peers in the HOA to be just that, the PM. He can only have temporary (albeit renewable) extraordinary powers under the Emergency Powers Act with no power whatsoever to transform our constitutional democracy into a monarchy with himself as King.

One thing is for sure: The hospitals are going to end up needing much more government support than the very well-off shareholders of health insurers!

One thing is for sure: The hospitals are going to end up needing much more government support than the very well-off shareholders of health insurers!

Bingo! Not to mention her showing off all of that personal protective gear that is in such short supply for the loyal and dutiful Bahamian nurses who are expected, under the most trying conditions, to help their fellow Bahamians who become infected with the Red China Virus and require hospitalization. Even right now the US government has greatly relaxed its visa restrictions for foreign medical doctors and foreign nurses as it seeks to poach these people from countries, like the Bahamas, which already have a most serious shortage of such trained medical personnel. She certainly seems to be soft-selling herself as a poster-girl for 'a come join me' campaign.

> " ......we had to assume great authority through the Emergency Powers Act, my government will have to make major changes to our economy."

Having Minnis assert 'his' right to make generational changes to our economy under an the Emergency Powers Act is a most frightening thought. One would have thought the Bahamian people living in a nation formed as a Constititutional democracy would have some say over profound long lasting changes to their economy through normal parliamentary processes. Or is Minnis of the belief the Emergency Powers Act, which was intended for temporary emergencies only, has transformed the Bahamas into a monarchy and coronated him King for the remainder of his life?

> “We will also shortly be making an announcement about rental assistance.”

Let's hope whatever Minnis announces about rental assistance does not involve government giving taxpayers' dollars or borrowed funds to landlords of property who are already much better financially well-off than their residential tenants just by virtue of being property owners. And certainly commercial (business) leases not connected in any way to the provision of housing should not be given rental assistance by government.

Are you trying to goad me into revealing a few names that you can then bad mouth? KPT knows who he can go to for help and sound advice, but unfortunately Minnis won't allow the advisors to help steer the sinking ship to a safer place. For him (Minnis) it's all about having to have control of everything, to the point where nothing of any significance or import can ever be done both expeditiously and properly.

> "Our Bahamian people are not honest, so it is difficult to deal with them..."

What a profound thing for Bradley Rolle to say.

Typical banker telling us how much we've over-extended ourselves with unsustainable debt while at the same time encouraging us to borrow even more, as if we could somehow borrow our way out of the deep financial hell hole that our corrupt elected officials and their cronies, both past and present, have put us in.

You will soon have no light from BPL....trust me. And it won't be too long before you have no water from W&S Corp.

The bill for decades of ever increasing corruption and incompetence throughout government, the civil workforce and all government controlled enterprises is finally being tabled for payment and the piggy bank was long ago emptied by the now very wealthy few.