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.

Jet ski operators have had this problem for quite some time (decades). Clearly efforts to clean it up have not been successful or have lapsed(?).

In any event it begs for further and ongoing scrutiny if they are going to be allowed continued operation.

Congratulations Dr. Minnis. As a member of the opposition you are courageously doing your job! Keep is going until the sun shines on this and other activities of our government.

Hint, the LNG contract also smells a bit ‘fishy’ since few benefit while many more could have. We have now come to accept that the political connected primarily benefit from these investments (aka the Port Deal), however under that FMN administration, at least ‘the people’ were offered shares and the government got a significant share…the PLP administrations seem to do this a bit differently…please stop stealing from us🥴

No disrespect to Mr. Pindling or any future Bahamian hero, however we don’t need another holiday in this country 🤦🏽‍♂️

Pileit, you are so right! The level of legal double-speak in this ruling is so confusing that it reeks of corporate privilege…The final ruling (and payout) of the “Privy Council” will determine their legitimacy. That fact that this lady’s property was damaged and devalued is unquestioned. An unfavourable ruling will do damage to us all🤨