Unfortunately the government consistently tends to overcomplicate these things and so forces the business, yacht-owner or homeowner to jump through far too many hoops in relation to whatever benefit they might receive.

Birdie…government added 10% vat to medications at the beginning of the year. Gvernment wants its cake and eat it too.

Start Cove is 100% spot on!
In total, statistics from the Florida-based International Shark Attack File show that only about 32 shark attacks have been reported in the Bahamas since 1749, the highest number in the region.

Not to mention sharks keep the ocean healthy.

In total, statistics from the Florida-based International Shark Attack File show that only about 32 shark attacks have been reported in the Bahamas since 1749, the highest number in the region.

Lot of misinformation in these comments. We’ve had 2 fatal shark attacks in 3 years, both in the same general area….Green Cay/ Rose Island. Yet zero shark attack fatalities in the area where the highest number of human-shark encounters takes place…South-West New Providence. There are hundreds of people, scuba divers,snorkellers and swimmers in the water interacting with 20,30,40 sharks at a time, twice a day, every day, 365 days a year. And that has been going on for over 30 years. During the 1990s and early 2000s, when there were 3 scuba companies operating out of Coral Harbour and South Ocean there were, on average, between 1,000 and 2,000 divers and snorkellers in the water swimming and diving with sharks during feedings every month. No fatalities or even major injuries. So if the problem were really the sharks then there would have been hundreds if not thousands of bites and numerous deaths out there between 1990 and now. No, the problem is not sharks or the number of them…its the uncontrolled and unregulated fish-cleaning,chumming and unregulated wildlife feeding combined with untrained boat crews and far too many people in the water. It’s a cowboy free-for-all in that area.

All good if they are actually easy and user-friendly for people to access and use. And if they can keep them up and actually working…unlike the last 2 iterations of the Real Property Tax portals.

So this is tragic and condolences to the family. However I have to wonder, although the article says he “was an experienced diver” that does not mean he had any actual training in diving with compressed air, the dive tables or the signs of compression sickness. Secondly, can 16 year olds even get a license that allows them to dive and hunt using a compressor? I know that when we first got the Hyperbaric recompression chamber in Lyford Cay that 99% of the cases of “bends” that were sent to it were “ experienced commercial “ divers who had almost no training about dive tables. Apparently it is not functional now.

So this is tragic and condolences to the family. However I have to wonder, although the article says he “was an experienced diver” that does not mean he had any actual training in diving with compressed air, the dive tables or the signs of compression sickness. Secondly, can 16 year olds even get a license that allows them to dive and hunt using a compressor? I know that when we first got the compressor in Lyford Cay that 99% of the cases of “bends” were “ experienced commercial “ divers who had almost no training about dive tables.

Apparently both the Lyford Cay and Freeport chambers are not working.