A $million? This means that even ‘small businesses’ will be crushed🤦🏽‍♂️

At this stage in Bahamaland inflation even residential property construction could easily exceed a million dollars, so a commercial project at this level implies that government doesn’t want Bahamian businesses to succeed.

Yes this NHI scheme will need ongoing funding through a specific taxation scheme. The government is aggressively pursuing infrastructure development and passing legislation to ingrain health insurance as an additional benefit without simultaneously addressing its funding. This is fiscally dangerous and foolhardy. Surely they can ‘walk & chew gum’ at the same time?But of course this requires political suicide, if done alone! That is why many of us, in increasing number, are imploring government and parliamentarians to get together in a bipartisan way to push these necessary policies through.

NHI will be very expensive and once implemented will be impossible to withdraw, see the British healthcare system and the knots it has created within their politics. We need to come together through our leaders, involving all the stakeholders in the public and private sectors to come up with the most cost effective and sustainable system that can adapt to future challenges. No point doing this alone. Recently the Opposition supported some of the government’s objectives in this fight to improve access to this very expensive and resource limited system. Bipartisanship is necessary and so is expertise.

Unfortunate, yes. However the Court of Appeals did the correct thing in this instance as not even an oral decision was made. And as they implied in their opinion, this inefficiency should cease.

Let’s get it right! Government now has a challenge to do just that, while hopefully fixing all the other things that result in delayed justice in this country.

If we’re serious about electoral integrity and transparency it would be good to have candidates fill out and submit their declaration forms…

The answer to more activity on Bay is not more “hotels”, as the three entities on Bay can attest with their very seasonal occupancy. The answer may very well be in a win-win scenario: multifamily housing in multi-use buildings. Condo units on the upper floors with commercial entities on the lower ones. Some of these could be “hotel/ Air B&B” type entities. However young Bahamians, whom we should be enthusiastically welcoming, need residences to purchase and reside. They themselves may realise investment opportunities from such projects…just saying other out-of-the-box thinking may be required here, rather than the same old foreign investors (who get more favourable breaks): Bahamians only get ‘jobs’playbook 🫨🤨

Thank you SEA❣️

What a colossal waste of public funds! The present PMH Critical Care Block was opened about a decade ago and proves how governments, our Bahamian government is poor at maintenance of its infrastructure. Partly because of the way our government allocates its annual budget and the lack of ‘political gain’ resulting from maintaining existing vs building new entities.

Successive government administrations need to plan for Bahamian investments over the decades, not over one election cycle. It would mean in our political system having a bipartisan approach to governance. In this instance the decision was made some time ago to redevelop the existing compound where PMH sits. I’m told that this was a decision based on extensive research and assessment, with the ‘experts’ making an evidence based evaluation about funding, Human Resources as well as equipment and infrastructure needs. The present president of the MAB has indicated the paucity of local expertise in all the existing public healthcare professionals, physicians, nurses as well as other highly specialised healthcare providers. Dividing them amongst two separate facilities is not wise based on these realities.

Creating a new expensive structure will benefit the political party (who opens the facility) and the sycophants who suck on the tit of government (political parties)…the question for the Bahamian public (and an investigative press) should be: “who benefits “?

Not sure it should e a “non-Bahamian entity”, however I totally agree about the opening up of that industry. This ‘monopoly’ should not continue indefinitely…

As appalling as the lack of emergency care as described in this case is, and needs to be addressed, so is the lack of preventative measures to reduce the likelihood of these types of accidents. If this is a beach area frequented by beachgoers for swimming and snorkelling then boaters shouldn’t be allowed near the area, especially if they are boating fast enough to cause injuries. Additionally, thought should be given to a roped-off area where swimmers can safely be cordoned off from boaters.

This stuff is not ‘rocket science’. How many times do we have to have injuries on our waters before we become stricter in our regulations and enforcement efforts? Incidents like these put a stain on the entire Bahamian experiment.

Yes; this seems to be the case.🤦🏽‍♂️

The innocent suffering from guilty pleasures of the rich🤨

They need to fix this because this is a new10% tax, combined with existing tariffs that Bahamians will endure because very little enters the Bahamas except through the currently dysfunctional system of our much larger neighbour.