Much too little, much too late, which is par for the course with Minnis and entirely consistent with his well established mantra of "Que Sera Sera".

Joe Biden is being pressed by the likes of Barrack Obama and Bill Clinton to select none other than Hilliary Clinton as his running mate.

*Re-post:*

And of course Minnis as parliament-appointed supreme ruler by decree of the police state he wishes to create would be the sole determiner of all information and news that can be publicly disseminated by those he rules over. Really?! This certainly would not bode well for civil liberties and freedoms of the citizenry, not to mention the free press like The Tribune.

It seems Minnis is so thin skinned he now wants to take a page out of the playbook Xi Jinping, the leader of Red China's ruthless communist regime. He no doubt has his minister of national security already investiagting many of us under the "spy" legislation that he suddenly took a great liking to notwithstanding his ferocious opposition to it when it was first tabled by the last government.

No government and/or PM under our Constitution has the right to suppress opinionated criticism of their governance by any Bahamian/voter/resident, even in the time of a declared national emergency. A declared emergency may allow for the temporary curtailment of certain civil rights and liberties to enable government and/ot the PM to better address the emergency, but it certainly does not permit them to simply tear-up the Constitution. One would have thought the AG would have cautioned Minnis against over-stepping certain constitutional bounds.

LMAO. I didn't get past the caption at the top and the writer's name at the bottom.

These emergency measures are where the rubber finally meets the road. Now we get to find out which is worse for us - the life threatening Red China Virus or our new Supreme Ruler Minnis !

Bingo!

> “Should it become necessary, the Government could consider among its funding support options accessing the International Monetary Fund’s non-conditional Rapid Credit Facility, with current eligibility placed at a maximum of $200m."

What Turnquest is not telling the public is that all kinds of draconian conditions would flow from any instance of default on amounts drawn down under the IMF's US$200 million Rapid Credit Facility. We should therefore avoid using that credit facility for fear of possibly putting the IMF in the driving seat for all financial matters pertaining to our country's economy.

Turnquest and Minnis must tread very carefully here, no matter how much temptation the IDB and IMF may lay before them given their known inclination to govern by borrowering rather than engage in the kind of painful belt-tightening most elected government officials naturally hate.

Not exactly the best example of your bravery, but stop being afraid. No government and/or PM under our Constitution has the right to suppress opinionated voiced criticism of their governance by any Bahamian/voter/resident, even in the time of a declared national emergency. A declared emergency may allow for the temporary curtailment of certain civil rights and liberties to enable government and/ot the PM to better address the emergency, but it certainly does not permit them to simply tear-up the Constitution.

>His comments came after Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis declared that the country is “at war” with the novel coronavirus, saying new regulations granting him *sweeping emergency powers over the Bahamian society are needed to save lives.*

>*“The new emergency measures we are enacting are to save lives and to protect our country and only those that are against such measures are not interested in lives nor are they interested in their country,”* he said in the House of Assembly on Wednesday, a day after Governor General Cornelius Smith issued a proclamation of emergency.....

>.......*It would also be a crime to publish or cause to be published in traditional media or social media, information that the person knows or suspects to be false.*

No government and/or PM under our Constitution has the right to suppress opinionated voiced criticism of their governance by any Bahamian/voter/resident, even in the time of a declared national emergency. A declared emergency may allow for the temporary curtailment of certain civil rights and liberties to enable government and/ot the PM to better address the emergency, but it certainly does not permit them to simply tear-up the Constitution.

> A LOCAL health official {Dr Melisande Bassett-Collie} said if the government can minimise the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak, which occurs roughly 45 days after the first case is reported, the amount of deaths can be reduced.

The time for imposing the containment measures necessary to have achieved what's only now being hoped for here came and went about 6 weeks ago. And both Minnis and Sands know it!