Very good point. Other glaring inequalities exist by law but elected male dominated legislators just seem to talk about it to raise voters concerns, make promises for votes and after elected just dont do it postpone it and opportune time again repeat cycle for votes again.

Kudos to Mr. Bastian on catchin all the small fries at the bottom, but what about all the big culprits in done known by public in big govt entities...????

Good points. Many of these killers little education, no jobs except those who actually are known as 'hitmen' paid for killings, usually from ghetto dismal poverty, single parent homes with numbers of chillrens, fatherless role models, etcetc.

Politicians are aware of these areas and are reluctant to have means they have to enforce the law amend Court to have final say etc even already having Commission for mercy after or evrn have Referendum on Death Penslty once and final. Obvious as the public fully knows that these areas have the broadest range of improvements to politically manipulate desperate, dire, swing dem false promises plenty free tee shirts, macaroni an cheese music rallys areas in order to get essential 5 or so Constituency Seats

Biggest contraction is not the "Bank Contraction Threatens 'Way oOf life' For Bahamas"

biggest contraction is da biggest contraction of the opposition Party and short of 4 seats failure to vote then out.
Entire failure bigger than the Banks contraction is having ineffective ContractionOpposition Party. Biggest failure is the continuous seesawing back and forth each having thenselves woefully voted out and continued rot festering. No Opposition Party for the people having instead evolved back and forth erry 5 years into Syndicates, benefit only for themselves micromanaging, coercing, manipulating, for political showboating, all aspects for political party benefit. Mr. Cooper should know his Party bin around in Parliament Chamber watching the Bank demise for decades.

Union President Water an Sewage "threatened a total shutdown" Why make the population suffer..???? ....when there are legal channels to deal with the matter.

Here go again...old people, old, infirm, lil chillrens, handicapped, tourists, foreign Embassies, da conch vendors, threatened to suffer, cant berl some sara see...

Time to fire them union. No union in critical utilities areas should be repeatedly doing this to the nation...!!!!! Fire them...population is fed up when the Govt allows these union to take out their grievances on nation instead of dealing with the govt..!!!!!! Fire the unions..!!!!!...old people, hospital, tourists people aint do dem no harm in first place..!!!!

Buildings are facing the wrong way. Indeed.

Govt ought to know that people dont want to get off the ships to buy extreme overpriced trinklets. Noone wants to get off to hear non Bahamian language. If ship passengers wants to "visit" downtown Nassau all they want to go to the internet in ship sipping pina coladas on board the ship.
Govt done knows that there are few sightseeing products and whole litany of issues why ship passengers refuse to walk the few hundred steps off the ships to be shopping in one of the most expensive seems sixth most expensive country in the world.

Thr issue here is not the Govt looking facing north from Rawson Square at buildings for century plus being wrong way round, issue here is govt dem facing the wrong direction and needs to improve the entire products to get tourists off the ships..!!!!!!

Nassau Harbour is one of the top five Cruise Ships Harbours perhaps even the second.Lots of Cruise Ships coming and going through our waters.

Just looking at all of these Cruise Ships and 3-4-5 thousamds on board each ship doing their dailies using 5 gallons each and the Minister wid experience cannot be raising questions all this years on where these highly competative businesses ships likely dumps waste.
Way past time that the Govt and Cruise Ships find some suitable island and create Waste Treatment Plants. The continued duck and seek and catch me if you can process is unproductive.
Creating Waste Treatment Plant creates jobs, keeps Bahamian waters clean, monitors ships volumes created and treated etcetc Cruise Ships wins, Bahamas wins, Tourism wins, Ocean wins.

Govt has been in bed with Hutchinson and GBPA. First the govt has been beholden to hoter owners for ages losing money on the Hotel to keep it open a
nd last beholden to them for giving govt loans to take the Hotel off their hands. Sweeteners to Hutchinson was the Govt paying their Stamp Duty portion and paying off the legal closing entitlements staff benefits etc. From time began there was some 5% of Port Authority shares going to Govt or some individual which really never was tracked down.

Common sense should prevail that after Hutchinson, a highly technical engineering operating business that they are not going further than what they facilitated with Airport then the govt needs to analyze their findings. Erryone done know that in hurricane the Airport gets flooded. Airport is next to shoreline low gradiemt and in bay like area where waters are forced onto bridge, Queens Cove an Airpprt.

The public done know that a new airport better situated for the survival, growth, job creations, new businesses of the island is in dire need.

IN extreme troubled times begs whether loan arrears declined by customers ie mortgage customer husband, wife children and other fsmily living in house carrying biggest VATburdens, increased BEC charge etc..??? Or did the Banks publishing booklets, or pages of Repossessed homes SOLD these homes and reduced loan arrears...On Consumer loans did Banks repossess vehicles and sold them..closing loans?

@SP On the third or fourth Party, there are the 2 female party heads, one leading the DNA and other the Constitution Party with Ali McIntosh. Another already formed party is a Kingdom Party. It is likely the existing party Christian Party will do a return and there will be other formations to emerge to protect shared interests.