Interesting observation.

Maybe there should be an investigation about this project. Who benefits? etc etc.

As for other hospital projects by our government none more problematic than the delays encountered by the present A&E redevelopment at our PMH. Excuses abound! However it is a great example why Bahamians should have No faith in this $300M project even if we ignore all the great points mentioned in this article and by previous folks, including the very doctors and nurses who will run the facilities…

Thanks Mr. Cenci, we really appreciate both your advice and your action.

Thanks doctors for this! It is good when medical leaders in our nation speak out to provide calm and assertive advice.

I heard on comment describing an epidemiological expert described the difference between “association” vs “causation” using a similar example to ‘violence rates are “associated” with increased purchasing of ice cream. Both increase during summer months, not because eating ice cream increases violence, but that both factors increase during warmer seasons’!

Let the scientist do the science 🤦🏽‍♂️

Let them keep their “locks”! Everyone’s entitled to their “beliefs”, as long as they don’t interfere with others who ‘believe’ something different or flys in the face of science.

Allowing exemptions of commonly issued immunisations for potentially life saving public health diseases is another matter. Unimmunized folks, especially children reap the benefit of ‘Herd Immunity’ when the overwhelming majority are immunized. It is not only unfair to the public, but since the benefit is lost when the immune population is reduced (in the case of measles that’s less than 95% of the population being immunized!), it is dangerous to us all.

Unfortunately it does operate like a “private club and inner circle”, go check the selections for various government and quasi government boards and other institutions 🙄

Breaking that cycle of these entitled folks should be a priority of both major political parties, but especially that of our present governing one.

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 🫨🤨