The gambling operation because it answers to zero regulation is a national criminal enterprise that profits only the Golden few. Regulation or a gambling council that would advocate adequate warnings for the warning signs of addiction with destruction of personal finances, family, society and community was placed on the sewer. Government made 2.5 million in gaming taxes then spent 19 million on feeding the afflicted poor. Should the greedy gambling boys get their hands on business operation using the gaming framework free for a few while all others suffer weed stores will be near schools, churches in dense neighborhoods and with no warnings. Just pay out the law makers and expect anything.

With marijuana/cannabis regulation murderous gangs will loose their sole billion dollar funding. The drug war has succeeded in getting a small few rich, hundreds murdered and left thousands of persons under 21 years of age exposed to harm because Marijuana is a part of our environment. The contradictions of Marijuana decriminalization, legalization and taxation is not real but excludes support of Pasters who also refuse to learn how to address all current addictions of gambling/cocaine or the social factors of alcohol/Marijuana use. Marijuana will only become a moral issue if endorsed by the state even though at present 100% of our population is exposed unregulated and the USA War On Drugs has failed and destroyed millions lives through criminalizationthen then incarceration of use with small possessions. On this point the Church says families should be saved and spared as a murder live should be saved and forgiven. Then they also agree that violent gangs alone should spread terror because gangs alone should be lest to make billions from local use. But if government through regularization will stop the murders conflicts arise. The first benefit of Marijuana/cannabis State Regularization would be a welcoming 60% lives saved and more energy for the Police to address other issues, and work less at murder investigations. Government needs all on board as State Regulation will o pen up avenues to address issues at the clinics for pregnant mothers who smoke, those under 21 years of age, matured persons and those for health benefits. We need all on board as prohibition has failed across the USA and the America's. God is the answer for all forms of addictions especially sweets and sugars that maim and destroy so many lives. If you don't smoke don't start but persons must understand the cons or they might just try it in the wrong form or percentage of THC. Canada offers Cannabis Certification through CAMH for Primary Care, Social, Education and Health Workers. The course covers from prenatal to palliative care and is a must for The National Interest. cannabahamas@gmail.com. Something has to work.

Government just do not want input from local persons who know where the strengths and weaknesses are regarding the medical, relgious science, business, legal and recreational regulation of cannabis which is used by some 20% of the population and within reach of 109% of the population anyway. That the pastors must learn aspects of all addictions is the problem along with the political filters that determines who ruse, stays stagnant or walks. The National Interest never takes president by itself but must be filtered or rejected and there is no space for neutral truth.

Police data 8n the Bahamas have zero information on femicide or females being singled out for being female, hated and assaulted. Males and females get raped by sexual predators and mushrooms more of a shame for males to admit to male on male sexual assault. Domestic violence has not been solved by any nation on God's earth and seems we expect the miracle here. If we looked ar the failures encountered by other nations maybe we could avoid stumbling into an arranged money eater. The major burden was housing that the government must provide then to find out the abuser has moved in. The data on the causes of domestic violence in non existent, so just who will be targeted after the fact, when the conditions are not known. Financial and material threats to comforting and expected way of life is a good starter. Most couples may be found to suffer from gambling addiction as across the world it is a major factor creating toxicity to domestic harmony. The first question asked should be of financial nature either too much getting spent somewhere else or too much coming home from somewhere else. People just don't beat people and we must find the aggravating factors not deal with the result.

Brave got bad advice on the Egypt COP25 trip as no decision made at the climate forum of money promises was legally binding. Just hot air promises bag of air. Free money just don't come out of the industrialized nations as proven by the OECD trying to deprive poorer nations of a single penny.

Modern women call achievements that mock the power of men the crown and glory. Some men are now more passionate and nurturing than females who call call being married or tending to children, sick parents and grands a setback in life. Role call for mothers whose sons, now husbands cannot accept no then goes into a tantrum as if still a child. Then the wives, - ring on the finger, handcuffs on the house papers the rich husband's bank account, dreams of a freelance showoff single life, - yes the cat has been used as a trap and then the cage closes. It's a WOW! to use The Holy Bible only once in their lives and are far from being a church going religious of God in full humility.

A part of the G7 gender equality well funded narrative is for trans persons to be protected as resexed male to female. They want equal rights as women, but some bosses prefer them because they don't call in sick every month nor take maternity leave. A very efficient way to run a business is to cancel real women. Not to mention mood swings. But give me the real deal any day.

In Bahamian Poetry, which was rejected by Ministry of Education in the mid nineties "Without A Daddy" addressed the issues of multiple fathered homes. The mom' favorite child was a dealer and murderer but put his mom in a house. He died after a robbery and Police shootout. Because someone died the poem was rejected as too violent. Also "The Rope" as a young killer is counting his steps blind folded to Fox Hill gallows. Nine steps to the gallows gave him time to think.

Mothers grow boys up spoilt not knowing that no means no. Any female looking in the mirror knows that mothers don't mind you punish daughters but don't touch the sons. When mammy never was tough enough to father handle a son then the jail and police will, rich or poor. Mothers made sons bad.

Her history of Columbus is wrong except for where it is narrow. The 1492 worldview, of which The Bahamas is an important epic in time, in the broader view world trade went on across the Mediterranean Sea where white women were sold to blacks during female slave trade. The rulers and rich merchants would pay any price for a safe land route from Asia to Europe with gems from historical crossroad of India. Columbus' historical local revisionism blames him for African slavery to the world. The Portuguese in 1526 began the world's first African slave crossing to Brazil. But the Portuguese always knew of The Bahama Islands as a place of shallow waters that wreaked ships as they traded with natives from Brazil long before Columbus. African slavery to Haiti for its sugar cane began years after Columbus death. Some political figure just wants to steal his pedestal just wait and see.