There was an effort several years ago to not only do technical inspections, but also environmental inspections (clean air or pollution testing). That initiative died when the FNM lost the election to the PLP.

Vox nihili.

Eliminate the webshops, and institute a national lottery and you will go a long way to avoid de-risking.

>Few countries in the world have an election process more perfect than ours.

What about PLP's Valentine Grimes being caught with a suitcase full of ballots? What about Obie buying votes in Grand Bahama? This is the Loftus Roker that criminally destroyed our education system and was part of one of the most corrupt drug-running governments in the Western Hemisphere?

Once we get our feet under us for true democracy and enlightenment, history will treat you and your fellow bottom feeders as crooks, Mr. Roker. Your legacy is assured, but not the way that you see it.

What good is a database of crap jobs or no jobs. A database will not solve unemployment.

Hi, Dr. Mike. Kudos and courage to you in your circumstances. I do not believe in karma, or auras or spirits or any of those things. However, having said that, I feel the bad moon that has risen over the Bahamas. Just recently, I have an opportunity to make a prolonged and perhaps a final eventual exit from my homeland. I was filled with trepidation and anxiety. However once I boarded the plane and was airborne, I felt like a weight had lifted from me. I glanced out the windows, and saw the beautiful Berry Islands from the air, and it was a bit wistful, but I could not believe the sense of liberation that engulfed me as I went to prepare for the next steps in my life.

Perhaps, if I may be as bold to suggest, you need to get off the island for a vacation to regain your perspective. The sense of being in the light when off the island continued with me on my journey of discovery. And when I opened these online pages and saw the news and commentators, immediately a sense of darkness re-came over me. I felt like a needed a shower. These pages, like this country, can be like an addictive drug, but they really do not do a body good. Enlightenment and truth and totally gone from the Bahamas, except for small pockets that are hemmed in by dystopian darkness of our country.

In the Bahamas, we do not have a free society. We do not have a healthy society for either body or soul. We do not have a beautiful environment. Instead we have potholes, half-working stuff, a dysfunctional commercial and public sector milieu where we need to transact our daily lives and it adds stress. We do not have it easy. We overpay for substandard groceries and goods. We live in an ocean of mediocrity.

All of this becomes totally apparent when one physically transposes oneself to a healthier, happier environment.

I realise that the Bahamas is your home, but if you would consider advice from a know-it-all plebe, you really need to finish your grief and heal your soul in a more calm and restful place and find the samadhi and healing that simply cannot be found in this dark place. Peace.

Ha ... I have pictures of the police guarding the money when Obie was buying votes on Grand Bahama in 2002. There were long lines and people with voter cards, coming out with cash.

It brings up an interesting question. The monies never comes into the country. They advertise in their home town papers, take payment in their hometown. The rental people arrive, and the Bahamian maid is there to give them a key. At the end of the stay, they leave the key for the maid. She cleans up, and gets it ready for the next "guests". That sort of commerce is not taxable since no money ever comes into the country. For all anyone knows, they have friends staying at their vacation home.

Or perhaps counselled by an ad hoc group of highly educated Bahamians who represent a meritocracy and technocracy spectrum, with expertise in such things as education, broadcasting, banking, investments, economics, technology and transportation. You would be amazed at the mastermind group -- all Bahamians, all consulted, all listened to, and a policy brainstorming force to turn the ship of state around.

He een a creative, but he is an administrator and a marshaller of ideas and people, and it gladdens my heart and gives me hope. Now if he only gets elected. It may not be too late.

According to protocol, it is a form of address. It is not the name of his chambers. Chambers is just a noun in this case here that identifies his law office. There are other very high end investment businesses in the same humble, nondescript building. And speaking of forms of address, did you see that donkey Godfrey Eneas calling himself, "His Excellency" because he is the Ambassador to some farmers group.