Someone should have examined the costs involved in hiring some 38 Cuban nurses and some 18 Ghana nurses from way across the ocean for basic expenses like Bahamas rental accomodations security and rent upfront, cost incurred in groceries supplies incurred monthly, light bills monthly , water bills, laundries usually supply of daily new cleaned clothes, transportation, phones , airline travel to and from Cuba, etcetc and hole of other expenses which seems a lot more money costy involved ----- than to hire existing Bahamian medical personnel already incurring those expenses and done owning their own homes and not paying ren t!!! ......AND to still want to pay from those in the qualified Bahamian pool of qualified Bahamian retireed ----- lower pay than the Cubans overall costs and expenses ???? Something don't seems right..

Always the most hurtful thing is to see fully trained and highly qualified Bahamian nurses and staff with all the experience and qualifications retired and not being re employed by the authorities.

Retired medical staff live on this same island, have homes to live in, close to the clinics or hospitals. Yes out of a pool of some 100 retired personnel some are ready and all could be verified to go right back to work. If retired policemen can be re employed so can these retired medical personnel.

Given the shortages of staff in certain professions in this case, medical trained personnel, there must be first. Bahamians first with the skills before going overseas and over the ocean to hire foreign replacements.

Coming up shortly is the remembrance day of the horrible Cuban govt and their jet Mig fighter planes murdering 4 Bahamians employed sailers defenceless in the water after first trying to murder the entire Bahamian s sailors on the Bahamian patrol Flamingo boat flying a Bahamian flag. Not only murdering Bahamians the Cuban planes then flew over terrorising the Bahamian citizens on Ragged Island. Thanks to Uncle Sam for later coming to our assistance.

Another incident which must not be forgotten is the Cuban government utter evil Communists beliefs having a stockpile of nuclear missiles and bombs without and regard for the existence of our beloved Bahamaland and knowing that and conflict with these nuclear bombs would vaporize the existence of our Bahamaland.

Very good plans Dr. Darville.

Why not pay some attention to the PMH fixable issues like creating more parking space at the very back by the Collins house PMH Disabilities area where all that bushes growing so that medical staff and PMH visitors can have parking? Why can the continuous leaking roof be fixed on the second floor area?

Why the Collins house and some 6 acres and exits on Collins Ave and Shirley st which was purchased by the PLP govt. way back in the 1970's to have PMH expanded into and use the structures for Hostel or medical staff who have shifts ending at 11 pm go all the was home sleeepy, bathe sleep wake up, get ready, eat get into car and have to return at 8am next day.
Easy to have small fee paid accomodations created on Collins site and also used to house family island close family with patient stay at reasonable fee on PMH Collins House refurbished site to access medical facilities. Also in any situations needing area for housing one should have use of a hostel and even hospice housing for patient and family to be nearby.

Public Medical care should not be only for the financially Family Islanders wealthy to bring their patient to PMH and stay at a hotel.

The Collins House museum use should have been at the unused old Citi Market straight past Govt. House over the hill with lots of parking and restructured with proper Bahamian architecture.

The smoldering cloud would consist of particles combination by heat at various temperatures to combine with plastics from the car wires, seats, inner roof and door coverings, dashboards, batteries plastic, acids, benzene, industrial wastes which could be any chemicals, car oils wastes, car parts made of various materials and the list of horrible unwanted materials in the big bubble, bubble toil and trouble mixture taken to air.

Quite possible that the mixtures would drop off all over the island and some in various forms and be present in the air for some time according to air currents etc. and on winds on roofs, cars, door handles, clothes on the clothes line etc. be again blown off days later. Some time later the horrible mixtures and chemical combinations with long chemical names would be frightening and concern to water table where lots of backyard wells exist. The authorities should by now dealing with this disaster. Are they?

@sheeprunner. Most of the schools which should not have opened should have its shortcomings remedied and/or closed when it fails its students continuously. Good teachings creates good citizens and building our beloved Bahamaland.

The issue of schools and performances and failures is a whole new story which has been going on for years and which your excellent insight needs to be assessed on schools performances. There should be a report card on all these schools and why those who fail and to continuously exist.

All schools have number of students with empty tummies and no child from any school should go hungry.

Many Bahamians with the family culture and dynamics of ma, pa and grammy and good neighbours who would lend a few cups of robin hood, grits, or borrow some mathama or items, ensured that children had at least some breakfast of fire engine or stick to ya ribs porridge, and went to school with a slam bam and some change which usually get used returning home for some sausage with hot sauce or ice cup and there was always lots of fruits from any yard which people would often wait to give it away to schoolchildren. Many fruit trees existed before people started to chap them down because of the other owners started to own the fruit. With all the fruit trees no child could go hungry in the recent past.

Kudos to any efforts to improve on the education of those who have grades which need improving.

On the free food program to govt school students education system, should also be extended to those in the private school system whose parents taxes are also paid to the authorities to facilitate the program.

Parent(s) with children in the private school system also struggle to feed their children while their taxes goes towards massive increasing amounts in the govt. school system.

Where are the immediate Emergency Warnings and controls for the surrounding areas and island after looking at the known extremely toxic clouds of smoke?

At least keep indoors warnings, back to the mandated Covid mask controls. Available help for asthma and persons with breathing challenges.

After students leaving distant shores and homes to have contracts depending on to further their education and financial funds for shelter and the having the funds to provide food and necessities to be encountering financial delay is inhuman treatment to these students and peoples children.

To have this done to students, other peoples children intending to better their beloved Bahamaland is horrible.

The hidden forces for actions and inactions should be traced and those responsible for doing this to other peoples children and fellow Bahamians must be punished.

The continuous back and forth of the persistence of the back yard garages should first be studied.

These garages seem to exist in the densely populated areas with the car owners with the limited incomes. The garages seem to function as a dependable untold social glue keeping the peace to dense population and these businesses have the skills of negotiating the price to be charged, the frequencies of the payments and various prices of the replacement parts from the scrap metal recycling dealers. Many customers may grumble but are happy to at least have a vital car moving to make life easier. These garages in many ways are closely intertwined in the lives of the communities for ages.

Yes it would appear obvious these backyard garages without paperwork, office spaces and may have numbers of young workers learning the car repair trade instead of time spent on bad activities. The scope of these backyard garages extend beyond the sites of what one sees and the dynamics of keeping the communities at more peaceful levels should be examined.

On the matter of the unsightly appearances it would seem to have govt experts assist them with controls than to uproot these garages which would seem for ages to be a good social glue for the communities for many.

The Bishop ought to know you can operate an office out of a computer for zoom and cell phone.