Smart move by Atlantis…many companies may adopt the Delta Airlines approach:unvaccinated staff pay for tests and also incur an additional medical insurance co$t, which I’m sure the insurance companies, using their actuarial skills, have already calculated into their ‘risk’ assessment. It maybe the most reasonable and fairest way to distribute cost to their employees.

It is potentially malpractice when healthcare workers are NOT vaccinated if they pass on infection to others. They can expose their patients, colleagues, friends & family to infection, illness and death. If a patient becomes infected in such a facility they can bring legal action against that facility and the worker exposing them. It would be interesting to see how our courts would view a harm that results from willfully ignoring a scientifically available prevention?

With newer and newer more contagious and virulent variant viruses not getting vaccinated is insane and selfish.

They should be given a simple choice: get vaccinated or have daily rapid Covid testing at the door of the healthcare facility. If that is unacceptable they can find employment somewhere else.

This is a very very important subject that the learned attorney has decided to address that affects every Bahamian and business in this country. We are subject to a much more stringent bureaucracy under the guise of “Know Your Customer” than the citizens or investors in the very countries that have imposed this asinine colonial-like policy!

If boggles the mind that an existing customer has to re-submit all their financial information to a financial institution with each account?! Is this banking inefficiency or KYC Road Blocks?Several years ago Sixty-Minutes broadcasted an exposé on law firms involvement in money laundering and found that more than 90% of the NYC lawyers contacted were willing to facilitate these illegal activities. The suggestion from that story and the ‘dirty little secret’ amongst financial regulators is that many within the top 20 jurisdictions affiliated with money Laundering are located in the United States of America (NY, Delaware etc), the United Kingdom (London) and much of Europe (both East & West).

Why are we so vigorously scrutinizing Bahamians when the real ‘launderers’ are getting away with murder?

What’s wrong with being an atheist?🤔

“Preach” Mr. Johnson.

I agree with your sentiments. However I detest the term “Third World”...time to completely ditch it from common usage.

Most scientists and epidemiologists postulate that ‘Heard Immunity’ does not happen until roughly 75% of a population is ‘immunized’, and that would only be for a particular infectious agent, not the ‘variants’. As such there is no quick fix or straightforward answer to how a population will be affected or respond to a particular strategy. Vaccinations save lives. It is one of the three major successes of the twentieth century that allowed for a near doubling of life expectancies in human populations. The Seychelles’ vaccination efforts although laudable have not yet achieved that majic number nor have they eliminated the possibility of variants so what is happening there now as they “open up” is not unexpected from a scientific point of view. No need to panic, just keep pressing on. As for the effectiveness of the vaccines they are using it’s better than the alternative (no vaccine) and better than most vaccines given annually for ‘the flu’. Many small nations, including our own are unlikely to get the mRNA vaccines until late 2022 or early 2023, so we have to use those available to us NOW.

Thanks to you & your team’s efforts Dr. Dahl-Regis.

Stay strong with your EvidenceBased methods, not emotionally charged statements

I too subscribe to the philosophy that one’s primary dwelling should incur ’no’ or minimal taxation. There have been many instances where municipalities around the world have had to redress unfairness in residential taxation (aka Real Property Tax) because it unfairly taxes folks who can ill afford it: think of the elderly retired home owner whose home is their greatest asset now being forced to pay high rate taxation on a fixed income.
The co$t of taxation on one’s primary residence should be nominal and include predominantly the cost to the government of record keeping. Documentation of Real Property is important to prevent fraud and theft of property in an effort to discourage fraudsters from stealing the poor and vulnerable’s most precious and valuable commodity, their home and property.
Taxation on second (and third) homes can be at a reasonable rate, although these are likely to be income generating properties subject to VAT or business taxes.

Disappointing, but understand your reasons for dropping an unaffordable medical insurance.

Here’s hoping you use that enthusiasm to “protest” for a bipartisan national health insurance that is comprehensive and affordable to most with guaranteed government subsidies to those truly ‘in need’🤞🏽 Everyone deserves affordable modern healthcare.

To: The Graduate

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