Is Rassin also going to be the army general of the more important COVID-19 voluntary army that should have been organized a couple of months ago?

He's absolutely right on this one!

Minnis needs to quickly decide whether he represents the interests of Bahamians or the greedy profiteering interests of Royal Caribbean's foreign shareholders. Which is it Minnis?

Now begins all of the excuses by the Minnis-led FNM government for its incompetence and unpreparedness, starting with its failure to take early aggressive containment measures notwithstanding its failure to secure an adequate supply of functional testing kits early on.

South Korea locked down its borders and was able to conduct early testing on many thousands of its citizenry to target hotspots for aggressive containment measures. No one is allowed to enter Israel without going through a mandatory supervised 14 day quarantine period. Japan shutdown its school system. All of Northern Italy has been locked down - persons are not allowed to roam around freely and only essential businesses are open to meet their most basic food, water and medical needs. Many schools, colleges and universities in large metropolitan centres in the U.S. have been closed indefinitely and individuals in these high population hotspots are being told to work from home if at all possible as their city officials contemplate the imposition of mandatory lockdown measures.

But here in The Bahamas we have Sands telling us our incompetent Minnis-led government is relaxing travel restrictions while making all kinds of excuses for not having long ago adopted aggressive containment measures. No doubt this is because Minnis has been keen to look after the interests of his foreign business partners in the cruise ship industry, namely Royal Caribbean, Carnival and Disney. These foreign companies clearly have a vice on Minnis's tiny rat size balls and are squeezing them real hard in order to get him and his fellow cabinet ministers to convince us Bahamians that we should just sit back and sing that famous song with the lyric: "Don't worry, be happy". And of course they will be telling us to continue merrily singing that song when the worst starts to happen. Persons infected with COVID-19 are most assuredly already on New Providence and this fact has simply not been identified because no proper testing has been done. One can only wonder how many deaths of older Bahamians have been misdiagnosed as having been caused by the flu during this particularly bad flu season.

My advice to all Bahamians age 60+ who have an existing medical condition like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease or lung disease (difficulty breathing), is to stock up on at least a month's supply of non-perishable foods, water, medications, etc. and avoid going outdoors to the maximum extent possible. Also stay at least six feet away from anyone who may visit you and remember that the virus can remain alive on most surfaces for up to a week or more. Use soap, bleach or alcohol based cleansers to clean areas in your home that may have been touched by anyone who visits you. Stay away from large gatherings of any kind, including church, family members, etc. and pray daily. All of this is consistent with what the CDC in Atlanta is telling 60+ year-old Americans. Good luck!

It's ashame Tommy T was not in Marsh Harbour at the time Hurricane Dorian came to town so that it's tornado force winds could have lifted him up by his large protruding ears and carried him some place far away from The Bahamas. He's such an incompetent doofus!

The marsh mallowed headed D'Aguilar knows full well that contracting COVID-19 is virtually a death sentence for those over age 60 with pre-existing medical conditions, e.g. diabetes, heart disease, compromised immune systems, etc. His efforts to play down the seriousness of the pandemic outbreak of COVID-19 only serves to evidence that he's much more concerned about the interests of his foreign masters (the cruise ship companies) than he is about the interests of the Bahamian people. Like Minnis, it's all too obvious who's buttering D'Aguilar's bread.

*Repost:*

As I've said over and over again for years now: The likes of Dirk Simmons and all of the former and existing senior regulators now on the 'payroll' of Sebas Bastian present a clear and unequivocal existential threat to the survival of both our offshore and onshore banking sectors. And the same goes for that other numbers boss, Craig Flowers.

And to think someone like Alfred Sears, who is a de facto business partner of these low-life thugs and their racketeering criminal enterprises, has the temerity to lecture us on what government needs to do to appease the likes of the fatf, imf, oecd et al. And even Worse still, Minnis and his crony senior officials within the FNM party are only too happy to accept funding for their political campaign and other endeavours from Sebas Bastian and Craig Flowers. What a flaming joke!

The cruise ships are well known to be massive incubators for all kinds of pathogens whether they be in viral or bacterial form. These ships are filthy because they are virtually impossible to keep clean. They are therefore the ideal breeding ground for just about every living organism known to be seriously harmful to mankind. The CDC in Atlanta are telling all Americans to avoid travelling on these ships, acknowledging that they are now simply too big to keep clean without driving up cruise prices by a factor of at least 10, thereby making them unprofitable to operate.

Will they each be equipped with properly fitted N-95 masks? Will they be given a sufficient supply of hand held fever testing devices? What about testing kits for the virus itself?

Note how neither Forbes-Smith nor The Tribune reporter (Khrisna Russell) thought it necessary we (the Bahamian public) know about the number of corpses to be buried at a total cost of at least $247,000 with no indication whether that total amount includes the cost of the grave site plots. Are these bodies to be buried on Crown Land?