...er...they were forced with limited income to buy the cheaper foods in the grocery store which is not too healthy but affordable.

Extremely extremely horrible, victim stabbed to death in car accident.

Way past time these murderers doing these senseless murders no regard for viscious actions having weapons to kill, needs the nation to consider the law of the death penalty.

These viscious murderous killing of anyone in the public be it children, school girl, others getting murdered needs established Law of Death Penalty for culprits. The Police gun shot listening machine is to catch your killer AFTER you get shot dead, Police cars come AFTER one gets murdered. Time to have the Death Penalty for public to know there is at least some law to protect you, or give murderer fear of their action.... beforehand and put fear into these culprits.

Nation must have something, some bit of confort to protect public getting killed and in seems continuous going on of senseless murders.

You work and you get paid. This ongoing blatent wrong needs to stop being used on these females. The Commonwealth of the Bahamas as like many other Govts of other countries have the ability to have money to pay debts. The Govts have usual means to face costs of obtaining funds and the means of creating means to repay, generally like selling assets like Batelco to pay down debt, taxes be it dose of VAT and second dose, Corporate tax, income tax, selling run down govt buildings, tbills etcetc. and to also have funds by eliminating wastages. Govt is not devoid of having funds to pay bills it is responsible for and somehow headscratching considering free enterprise market forces Clico and a bank with private shareholders

In the Medical area and recent years these Nurses must have been aware of obvious authorities have wasted tens of millions of dollars like the buying seems half a mountain in Palmetto to built a Clinic some $27 million dollars? and wind up with no Clinic and grading down the mountain, then the recent Clinic invested for Clinic in Cat Island $6.6 million dollars but clinic was not suitable and not built, then there is the $18 million dollars for PMH Computer system that was high problems, then there was the exhorbitant housing of persons in hospital beds instead of having them relocated, etcetcetc. The Nurses worked and must be paid and interest and cost added to amounts money outstanding to them and officials held responsible working people and not paying them. (This type of not paying workers does not seem to happen in the male dominated construction business.)

...above last para. The usage of the Indemnity Insurance used for purchase of houses commonly used for Mortgages.

"...spend no more than 45 percent of their monthly income on repaying loan interest and principal"

These bankers continue to use this archaic 45% ratio which was in existance from over 30 years ago from the previous century. The critical importance is to check that despite paying the loan payment for tbe figure to enrich the bank....the emphasis must be on the remaining 55 % percent fot the borrower and family to survive. These bankers fail to look out for the well being and success of these borrowings ...and not realize that the costs of the 55% percent budget itemms, cost of uti,ities, cost of groceries have far risen in prices for the borrower over the past 30 years this ratio favouring the bank with 45% and the remaining 55% percent not favouring the borrower, especially incomes are not in many cases rising in line with cost of living.

The 45%percent ratio is also mathematically incorrect when it deals with borrowers whose income is very high. High income borrowers after paying the loan can have thousands of dollars in their 55% percent to pau utilities, bills, groceries family expenses. High income earners can go beyond the 45% ratio.

Another factor the 45% percent is generally linked to an indemnity insurance which allows the bank to extend loan amounts to up tp 95% percent financing purchase price or Appraised value. This continued use needs to be carefully considered in light of fierce more often hurricames which can devastate entire islands and economy. The use of the Indemnits imsurance has conditions pertaining to economic conditions, etc some 30 years ago.

The headline on "Mandatory" insurance and your dead right comment on "forced property insurance" raises questions on those in the country who are unaware of the dire economic situation, of existing thousands of homeowners can't pay BPL ele tricity bill and have power cut off, over hu dred thousand on food assistance seems all the way to September and future, thousands unemployed, thousands of homes needing repairs many roofs shingles way beyond life span, many in uninsurable state, etc.

"...about 60 percent of buildings destroyed by Hurricane Dorian in The Bahamas was not insured at all or were not adequately insured."

The massive destruction shown in the pictures,photographts in media appears to be that of the timbered structures of the illegally built Shantytowns in Marsh Harbour area. These usually wooden structures built without proper Building Permits and Occupancy Certificates seems unlikely to be ever approved for insurance coverage.

It appears that as result of number of conditions that Shantytowns will continue to exist and built and has existed for decades.

Last line should be..."...and collaspe and hopefully not injure anyone."

This burnt out structure needs to be immediately attended to for the safety of all.

"But the government has failed to pay the promised COVID-19 stipend and overtime owed to nurses who have worked up to 16 hours per day during the height of the COvid-19 Pandemic last year."

"In December, after being promised payment over several months Nurse Williams issued an ultimatum giving it to the end of that month to release that payment."

No employer, person(s), entitities should encourage, induce, promise legally biding workers to pay the employees for work and THEN refusing to pay. Mr. Pinder the Govt Labour Bourd expert should know better, but then again the Nurses would have to join the line Courts awarded people money owed to them by Govts. for years and years....and the senior people causing this seems fraud on workers don't go to jail.

The burnt out building should immediately fully demolished and be brought to the ground. The building after the intense heat and water soaked and having support timbers, roof destroyed inside, roof etc would have structure enormously weakened. Given the building is on Bay Street the constant heavy traffic lorries, jitneys, main traffic route would vibrate the weakened structure and collaspe and not injure anyone.