Sad, again and again. Consequences of educated alternating govts of the people putting all the eggs (foreign imported) into one basket. Failure of diversification. Sad when to go into the Grocery store and spending money to buy food products coming from other countries.

...E. and just as sad is the leading to the lack of knowledge is the ...thou shall not steal....and the ...thou shall not kill...leading to the costs $100,000 armoured police cars service, two police in cars salary $18,000 each per year, $$$ in Courts, $in jail staff, $$$ for society in razor wires, burgular bars crime etc. Seems eack crime tieffing, murder etc just costs way way more than getting into areas finding solutions to this cycle.

Usually many use the 4 weeks to a month but the year has 52 weeks and 150 x 52 = 7,800 ÷ 150 = 650. Easily overlooked seems you too got steamed up, catching hell and the people paying us $210.wanting us to call it good times.

@Bahamianson. The stop having 5 children, or 6 or more are extremely distressing situations to the mother, children, family and society. In many cases is the failures of victim parents, dysfunctional family, lack of good broughtupsy, school drop outs, church role christian education instead of getting the almighty dollar from people, delinquent gang influences, preying by wutless older nasty serial sweethearting men failure of society to catch and castrate, the female is not the only one an there must be the father or usually other fathers etcetc The tragic circumstances everyone inevitably is affected.

@SP. The Bahamas not only 6th most expensive country in the world to live in but a few years ago in this part of the region the Bahamasas having the greatest widening income gap between the rich and poor. For many years the revealing and adverse data by govt and Opposition seems mutually remained silent mutually beneficial obviously, and the more per capita income was celebrated as success misleading as how good tings are, even as the lines for food before Covid were long in the streets.

This data were known for years by bankers and should have been advised by the govt top financial advisor the Central Bank. Recently, the govt found it necessary to create a number of hugely discounted land in subdivisions and duty free discounts for persons/professionals to be able to afford lower amount of loans to afford homes.

Mr. Goudie of the local businesses Chamber of Commerce be further alarmed as consumers by pass local merchandise shops and make purchases on internet to Amazon and other stores in the world.

For ages Bishop have put himself in finding hot meals on Wulff Rd. to feed anyone. God bless and wish you well Bishop.

Extremely distressing story with all the shortages of nurses.

Dis shortages seems to have gone on over years ago and with former senior govt official Dr. Duane Sands revealing of these nurses shortages years ago, brought over from previous govt.

The solution as in commonsense business is to start firing the administrative and responsible salaried govt jobs not done for proper staffing, for the nation most important hospital.... in their year after year after year after year after year.....shortage of nurses in the Hospital.......YA can't expect any difference results time after if ya using the same ingredients......getting the same results of shortages....and somehow expecting different result year after year...AND well mudda tek sic now nurses leaving in groups....!!!!!!!

Something has obviously gone wrong. What next but horrors in peoples mind gon happen when they really have to go to the nation's primary Hospital..???? What a most diabotical situation when in the hugely mismanaged govt staffing and salary renumerations ...is that the critical necessary govt Department of the Nurses have been leaving for years, and droves now leaving. And versus the other govt Departments and Agencies keeps getting decades now being bloated. What shambles, upsidedown, what horror.

@tribanon. The public service shop got this way with the political parties from their political election campaigns with political candidates in seems talks with their supporters to be rewarded with govt employment by the winning political party in govt.

No one as a workrr or political campaigner should be employed for govt vacancies based of greater political affiliations than ability to fill genuine authentic govt dept vacancies, based on qualifications and abilities to best fill the job.

Campaigners with inducements, encouragements or rewards of govt salaried jobs during or related to elections campaigning for votes, should NOT be rewarded with these seems govt artifical jobs by sacrifices/expenses of citizens by govt, then govt thereafter not having enough hospital beds, employment of seems continuous shortages of nurses etcetc, or, of growing of the private sector.

..."childed Bahamian governments for not looking beyond politics...they should look at long term planning..." 25 years ???

Well, dat's a big ting when there have not been able to have govts in more than 5 year political party plan for power 5 term alternating . And when previously failed one takes office dey hav to untangle traps, white elephants, an unfeasible hospitals on top of hill to first grade down hill, bogging them down...Contracts rentals wid no exit to cancel unless exhorbitant money costs,, ...they wastefully close, sidetrack, and/or discontinue excellent programs wid impetus from previous govt,..... try to restart programs now run down an dormant previously when in power.... continued new mismanagement imputting their own political appointed layer of cronies in senior decision making an so ridiculus dat one set of cronies even know the previous set of cronies like two sides of same coin, ...limited lack of investigations buying mansions leaving dem to rot at expense to refurbish, ....forceful money injections into govt agencies without accountability and noone guilty,... and hot air blown when in Opposition side etcetc. and expectant Opposition salvitating dribbling and expecting another govt term.

Good views Mr. Bowe on your long term national plan and keep on wid more views.

...er,....did all govt personnel and families , friends etc., responsible for decision making past, present or future ...have to disclose that dere cooks, maids, gardeners, handyman and childrens an relivates, other persons corrently or have known to reside in these illegal poor human living conditions shantytowns ???....