" shooting out from the blocks like a rocket', and winning a gold medal! Congratulations!

Keep up the good work Team Bahamas on the world stage. Makes us proud to see our fellow Bahamians on the world stage.

The Ministry have the 100% power to stop any accidents between the vehicle travelling on the road at any speed to FIRST teach the students how to walk on the roads.

It does not matter how many road signs and road devices are planted on the roads unless the students have the ability to use common sense instead of using their boongie bumper against the vehicle metal bumper which always win.

I believe it was 8 injured persons sent to the hospital including children and in the photo is a propane gas truck and demolished debris from the explosion.

Tribune article. 30 Dec.2024. 3 months ago Baillou Rd south 9 people injured LPG blast taken to hospital and house damaged.

www.tribune242.com › news › 2024Gas explosion injures nine | The Tribune

Looking forward at the handling and use of the Liquid Propane, there must be essential safety measures like highly trained and qualified personnel to be handling this extremely explosive LPG gas.

Currently the LPG container trucks on Nassau streets seem to have no training or certification in driving these Propane Gas trucks and some seem to have only the experience of driving the Jitney buses and racing on the streets to sell and refill propane tanks in the quickest time to the most customers for the most sales.

Oftentimes one can see the greed for a few dollars to refill can see the lack of commonsense by parking the truck at intersections and dangerous spots placing entire neighbourhoods in danger and accidents happening in fractions of seconds at the flash point for explosion.

Some of these Propane Truck employees young and old seem not to be fully trained and educated in the handling of the propane and the equipment in dispensing the propane product.

Dealing with the handling with LPG needs to have fully certified employees and the danger of propane explosions can be dangerous not only to the employee but to entire neighbourhoods.

Its all about the profits.

These decisions in allocation of money to accomplish goals over other areas are ultimately by the headoffices in other countries and in conjunction with levels of generating profits by other countries the bank operates in the Caribbean. Seems always to get the most from the weakest voices.

Its all abouts Profits. The banks inability to meets the targets of profits in certain expected departments will simply first cut staff in other departments. If you cannot make the profits you cut the expenses in areas.

Banks profits from the Bahamas goes from leaps and bounds from year to year and are in hundreds of millions of Us dollars. Cannot say the same for other Caribbean countries the banks operate in. Simply if they make the profits then why is there no pronounced outbursts by the regulatory Bahamian offices to have made better ways for the Bahamas second largest sector to not thrive successfully by having these banks employ more staffing to expedite this long ongoing process? Why?

Going back 20 years or more the Bahamas had imposed onerous amounts of paperwork for customers to open the accounts and meet tough regulations. In 2018, after ton of papers to open bank accounts, it was extremely shocking that some 42,425 bank account owners could not have been found, and bearing in mind that the Bahamas population is actually squished on a 80 sq mile island and most reside in the more densely eastern half.

Bearing in mind that these opening conditions were in coordination with the government Bahamian regulators in compliance of the money laws, and Bahamian should know that the Police can locate anyone within hours, courts can locate anyone in short time, political generals can locate any voter in any constituency and even tell you how many voters are in the house (joke).but true. Who cannot find any of 42,452 adult people on this island or in the Bahamas and declare then not to exist and accoounts declared DOrmant? over years many financial institutions or insurance companies seem to place list of names of people to contact them.

The banks declaring 42,452 accounts dormant could have been reduced by having more staaff employed to find these customers with over 100 million in these accounts as a part of their business instead of passing it off to the very same regulators as they are dealing with in the current situation.

Investigations need to be done as to why these very negatives occurances keep going on to the hardships in the finance sector and having the bad occurances is like dentistry pulling teeth but instead it is actually reality of pulling food out of Bahamian peoples mout.!!!

Heads must roll.

'.....he questioned why there is no database that links the likes of driver’s licences, passports and NIB numbers so that banks can conduct confidential KYC searches to verify a new client’s identity without compromising confidentiality of their data."

Has he been drinking? Bahamians with their strict confidential business of their financial banking accounts has always been alarmed be these banks being headquartered in foreign contries and placed in unfair disadvantages competition with other countries. I believe the Bahamian banks produce the most profits for these banks and give back to Bahamians little in return and Bahamian profits contributions go towards employment of the citizens of other countries at expense of Bahamians first.

Already, people are pissed off when a foreigner barely speaking english and do not know that the Freeport branch is on another island but already knows all my bank business ------ and now these foreign workers as part of Bahamian banking would now know about Bahamian passport and NIB info .

Very good points.

What is critically needed is the schooling of Bahamians, is that the rights and freedoms which was struggled for by their parents and grandparents for which Bahamians enjoy, These freedoms and rights which Bahamians are taken for granted should be reinforced in selecting books like George Orwell's Animal Farm in schooling Bahamian students.

Thank you Uncle Sam for rescuing 166 people in Bahamian waters and more than 2,400 migrants who have illegally entered our sovereign Bahamaland borders in unseaworthy vessels..

Shouldn't you by now after all these years of where the VAT gone?......isn't it quite obvious a government agency is involved. lol