I think viewersmatter, that with respect you are wrong.
The cameras work as a deterrent, connected or not, as long as the public do not know which are live which are dead.
either way 1984 big brother, here we are.

Thank you Mr. Sherman, you can see what progressive thinking persons are up against by the comment posted above.
sheeprunner probably really believes that heaven has a place for him and all our gay brothers and sisters are going straight to hell. Hopefully he will be in for a big surprise when eventually he finds out St Peter doesn't allow bigots in.
As for the cabinet minister bigot, how about if we punish father's when their sons become drug dealers, this should count out not only the minister but the chairman as well, the last surviving one time UBP politician still in politics.
bbb spent most all his working life selling alcohol the most damaging drug in our society bar none, so what he has to say should be ignored as much as we can. Perhaps the media could just act as if he was not here. Imagine how much better off we would all be if the media had not catered to Mitchell the twitchell all those years ago when he launched his self promotion exercise.

About 5 percent of any population is sociopathic. Sociopaths apparently are attracted to positons of political power and can make effective leahders. However by definition they totally lack empathy such that they really cannot feel the pain of others. This gives leave to make decisions that will hurt others without troubling a non-existent conscience.
Now which members of our cabinet show sociopathic tendencies? I have identified 3 of them, who do you think they are?
Sociopaths often also suffer from Narcissism, they are the one overly concerned with outward appearance, $2000 suits, $200 hair cuts. Remind you of anyone?
On another note, if we had a leader who being prescribed medication and if that medication was a mood altering one such that you were unreasonably optimistic, should we, the voting public right to know what medications our leaders are being proscribed?
And just for the record I wish the LGBT community every success with being accepted by the bigots in our society.

having worked in the private business sector for over 25 years I have hired and terminated many employees. during the pindling rule particularly in the 80's, the cabinet spent a lot of energy trying to persuade the Bahamian voters that high prices in our country were solely due to greed of the (white) merchant class rather than their lousy fiscal policy.
as a result I, and I suspect many other business owners and managers do not believe that the government is our friend. this lack of trust means that we have never even considered supporting a government institution with it's inherent corruption, unless no other alternative is available. Nothing much has changed since that time with this new bunch of jokers and the private business sector will continue to mostly ignore the ministry of labour's offerings.
it should be noted that nottage and Christie were both part of the cabinet that devised the tactic of blaming the white merchant class to strengthen their racially divisive policy. The plp has sown many bad seeds, this is just one that has come home to roost. Excuse the mixed metaphors.

I am a white Bahamian. This racist rant by sp is offensive and it would be good if we had law on the books that make such statements subject to prosecution.
What are the chances that Sp is plop voter, never studied in a different country and probably thinks the government is doing a stellar job as we progress to junkbond status and a failed state.

The first NHS was introduced in Britain after the 2nd world war.
It is now failing with cost overruns in the billions.
For the most part clients of the system do not have access to the latest pharmaceuticals as they are more expensive.
Britain now has the worst cancer survival rates in Europe.
If you need to be on blood thinners, then warfarin is proscribed, doctors in the US have moved on from this treatment years ago.
The problem, as with most state run enterprises is too many beaurocrats in relation to the doctors who actually do the work.
Most, and I mean most, Bahamians are lazy and greedy so we have one of the highest ratios of overweight and obesity in the world. This makes for a very sick population getting sicker every year. Many of our leaders in the churches and in politics are obese and will get sick much sooner than if they ate a more moderate diet. Even our PM is clinically obese. Sick people like this do not make leaders as their judgement is impaired.
Why we tax tobacco and not sugar is a major question that no one has asked.
Do any of our political leaders send their children to state run schools? How many will send them send them to state run medical facilities? (Papa the exception).
The other problem with a bus system is that modern medicine can keep most patients alive for years and years if someone can afford to pay for it.
There will be hard decisions to make as to who lives and for how long.
I understand that parents of disabled children worry greatly about who will
Care for their offspring after their death. This might be coming in to play in this situation.

Lovely

In real life birdiestrachan people are born with a wide range of abilities.
Some are born to be an Einstein and some are born with sociopathic pathologies and I know which of these I give more credence too.
I suspect you have not been a visitor to FHP or sandilands recently if ever at all.
Political operatives such as yourself have a very narrow viewpoint.
Sad really as it is a waste of your talent for misdirection.

The courage, commitment, & tenacity of ReEarth is to be congratulated by all who hold justice and fairness above petty party affiliation.
Likewise for Fred Smith.
I suspect that the constituents who voted in V. Afr and the PM have less than the national D minus education level and thus have got the representation that they deserve.
We all suffer from the result of there ignorance.
I assume that the Tribune either knows or can find out quite easily the identity of birdiestrachan. The integrity of the publishers will prevent this becoming common knowledge but it is good know that someone will know. I very much doubt that the identity is PGC but this contributor is almost certainly a plp supporter who is contracted to act and will benefit for his work supporting the state's agenda.
It reminds me of the now deceased banker who spent the year before the last election trashing the policies of the fnm on the airwaves. His reward for this work was to be made chairman of BOB so he wouldn't have to pay back his loan. Or the rather dreadful talk show host on ZNS who earned her position in the same way.
These subtle manoeuvres are probably beyond pgc's ability but well within the ability of the last surviving ubp General still active in the political arena.
I will also commit myself to attending the beach party for environmental justice if it can be organized.

i have been in management of small/med size businesses for 30+ years in Nassau.
Every election cycle has brought additonal regulation, employee protection, and state taxation making it harder to open and profitably run small businesses.
The underlying problem is that we have too high a ratio of state employed workers to private enterprise workers. if you work for the state you do not create wealth for the country but in fact suck money out of the system. Obviously we need some state workers, firemen, police, etc. but these workers while valued are still economic parasites living on the wealth created by the private sector.
Our country has only survived economically by borrowing huge some of money from however would lend it to us, the writing on the wall is that source of deficit financing is coming to an end, see puerto rico and greece.
Until we have a government brave enough to deal with our bloated civil service the country will continue to sink.
a case in point of the mentality of out civil servants, last year a state employed zns manager proudly put out a press release that they had hired a talk show host by poaching him with the lure of more money from a private radio station. In the private sector this talk show host would have been an asset to the bahamian economy, as a state employee he is a liability. Of course at the govenment run zns radio station he will not have to work on the days that parliament if broadcasting and will have many more days off than in the private sector. Multiply this example by the tens of thousands of state employeed, figure in the (ignored so far) pension obligation and we have an unsustainable situation.
i hear more and more talk of exit from the bahamas stategies amongst by contempories.
We are marching on bahamaland but i dont like where we seem to marching to.