In a multi billion dollar investment and by Izmirlian investor or any other involving Bahamian portion of lands, concessions etc and making significant impact on its failure on economy....and there is no investigation by Govt..!!!!!! No politicians should by playing with the peoples birth right with investors and foreign govts and NO investigaations into the multi billion hotel project leading to its failure.!!!!

Whether the solutions are not simple or difficult, the coming Hurricane season starts in a couple of months and the lives of the inhabitants of shantytowns are in a more dangerous situation in the shantytowns. Simple or hard solutions for the inhabitants in known shantytowns must have forward action to ensure the safety of peoples lives in the coming Hurricane season.

Some dozen Caribbean countries have gone down the path and scrapped airlines like BWIA, Air Jamaica, Guyana Airways, LIAT etc. Continued propping up BahamasAirr is bizarre by such a well educated Businessman who came into politics should know better.

Continued massively hugely throwing millions of precious taxpayers tax dollars into BahamasAir....kknowingly stifles and kills the other Bahamian Air Transportation businesses and smothers any likelihood of survival.......... Bizarre keeping one Bahamas Air going until killing off dozens and dozens of BAhamians in the free market aircraft transportation industry with debts, loans, employees, plans for expansions, other routes. Govt should get the hell out of these businesses...unfairly competiting with its own entrepreneurs and now at this critical point...very intentionally doing actions ....eliminating them. Competition laws are needed.... !!!!!

Is seeking an Independent Police Complaints Authority is a very valid request..?

Seeking an Independent Police Complaints Authority for a Police Force whose duties are to maintain Law and Order among other duties for the nation is a strong request leading to questions of competance to deal within itself. To allegedly fail to administer to public what they cannot do to those within organiztion..... and.... request for Independent Police Complaints Authority....er,... should raise question on why do they exist in doing primary mandate of police work in the first place...????

Way past time for the Govt to go after the some 29% in Bahamas trade in fraudulent invoices and fraud of that sort that Financial Secretary Marlon Johnson had raised abbout a year ago and he somehow became silent on that.

Everyone have known for years and years of persons ducking or commiting fraud to avoid paying Customs duties or rightful taxes from persons with invoices at airport to trailers.

Then after holes in this evolved, is the Vat to augment revenue, then the next Vat to augment the previous Vat which was to augment collevtion of porous Customs duties holes.

simple solution instead of pussyfooting, beating around the bushes, is for a govt, is to start jailing those caught at the beginning at the porus tax collection and those merchants ridiculously inflated gouging priced items.

While the Davis ppermutations and combinations of any savings proposes likely to be spent wasted acquiring other part of hill if not already in Palmetto for Hospital and knocking down the hill just to leave a hole.

"A risk-management specialist"......"warned the Bahamas will soon have to "face the music' and implement...."

Weeeeell monkey oncle, this coming from the former Central Bank employee and later senior former Bank of the Bahamas Executive from all those years of service.....300M to some 500M millions of taxpayers dollars somehow gotten into the bank by politicians despite thousands of Private shareholders to prop up this bank. Frankly if the taxpayers had invested these hundreds of millions of dollars into any other areas, taxpayers would not be as broke ass now and nobody held responsible risk approvals for all those politians loans gone bad. (300M taxpayers money invested into Amazon Shares would have been nice.)And noone responsible for front pages expose by former Central Bank Governor James Smith who exposed money paid for collateral worth a lot less.

The Bahamas would not be in this downward spiral if the curruption of past and present regressive taxation had more accountabilities and persons held responsible for wastages etc, and punishing curruption. Taxpayers are tired, tired, tired and vexed at new systems being imposes to correct shortcomings of past tax systems.

@Tell_it_like_it_is. There are likely to be countless other reasons of just beating persons just for "fun". And @SP. The systemic system has been to wait a few weeks JUST before Political Elections called for the governing party to then have the widespread Police Promotions done. Indeed. Time for the system of Police Force Promotions to be chànged not to coincide closely before Elections but closely done according to Merits of the Officer and requirements of the Department(s) to be à more effective and continuous fluid efficient force. Putting masses of promotions At one time tended to be bizarre when the results have more top indian chiefs and few indians. Lol.

@Tribanon. You have it correct on the Minister of Education on "the audacity and termenity to blame these struggling parents for his very own failings.'
We all should know that he refuses to point his fingers at his fellow Ministers failings to eliminate gangs influencing school children, failings of the Defence Force in stopping influx of undocumented migrants children into schools, children in abject grinding poverty living in illegal shantytowns, immigration dept having parents deported and not accounting for children, Immigration dept having children in schools graduating before age 18 and without papers, and the list of shortcomings of othetr govt dept which negatively impact the lives of getting education. The Minister ought to know better than to solely blame the parents.

'"The home must do its part. Parents must do their part. There is no other way."

Therein lies the problem, that the Minister fails to understand that most of these homes are not from the textbook he is using. Homes are not the ideal textbook of one married couple, a father and a mother with 2 children. Homes do not have the father present, and many even have the grandmother trying to raising the children. The reality picture is different from the Minister's picture.

Here we go again!!!! "If it wins the next general election"

The Opposition members are paid monthly salaries to put up the fierce sensible critical needed arguments to represent the people. If their arguments are well and valid for all to see as Opposition, then they would be more favoured opportunity to win the electorate and become the next government. Having to inform the electorate to wait for their greater scheme food for survival all these coming monnths or year to vote them in, is not a good plan. People need to eat today. Whose brillance is to have electorate, or, 'hungry Bahamian families' be needing food all these coming months and then able to vote for them????