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

Touché

Mrs. Clarice Sands-Granger was a great Bahamian, a member of a conscientious family, who mentored many people lucky enough to have come within her sphere. Her influence encompassed healthcare, religion, music, girl guides and civil society. May her example continue to inspire present and future Bahamians and residents of these islands.

Sadly, you speak Xenophobia.

Immigration, legal nor illegal, are not the source of our problems.

We need to come together as a people and formulate strategies that address diversification of our economy, inclusiveness in high standard education, sensible constitutional reform, including citizenship and immigration. We need to build a Bahamas that our young people will be proud of and want to live in. In short, plans to move our country “forward (upward, onward together “).

Good points! Although the loss of many “public sector jobs”, especially if transferred to Bahamian owned private sector jobs and the elimination of government subsidies are worthwhile goals.

Allowing the cruise ship to enter Bahamian waters and offering aid posses no health risk to residents in the Bahamas. On the contrary this humanitarian act is what being Bahamian is all about...those of us who grew up here should well understand this truly Bahamian trait.

Testing and knowledge of positive cases and overall numbers is good information and allows our authorities’ actions to be guided by scientific evidence. As another commentator stated regarding our lack of definitive information about untested air arrival visitors who are already amongst us, at least with these known cases we can adjust our behavior accordingly...let’s be sensible and strategic And empathetic.

Two very good and timely topics. And great points made that I can easily support.

“Insurance companies almost always win”...something my grandfather said to me many moons ago. We do need economically healthy third party insurance companies whose business model sits on firm ethical foundations. However businesses rarely do this without strong incorruptible government oversight. We would benefit from educational training of our population concerning the value, best practices and pitfalls in the insurance market, much like insurance professionals provide to their friends, family and best customers...

As for graveyards, Bahamians will eventually have to give up their fascination with “burials” and embrace more environmentally friendly options in the future. We are running out of valuable high ground on this island, as storm hit residents of Grand Bahama and Abaco can attest.

I am dismayed that we have continued to house these unclaimed victim corpses in a refrigerated truck or that we will proceed to “bury” them, given the fact that the island of Abaco is relatively flat, saturated with porous limestone caves, including natural fresh water cisterns. We seemed to have also ignored the fact that this requires suitable high ground, thus taking over land that could be used to build houses for Abaco’s relatively low-income, but hardworking community.

If, as this letter of protest suggests, there is now political patronage added to this tragedy, then we are truly lost as a society. If this Bahamian funeral services group has received NGO funding that will avoid further government expense it is worth exploring. Government should ensure that the most environmentally sensible solution be determined, taking into consideration culturally sensitive norms. If we have a repeat of the previous government’s hurricane-clean up fiasco then our integrity and trustworthiness are indeed GONE, like our landmass, by the same greed, selfishness and incompetence that got us Climate Change and storms like Dorian...Have we learned nothing?

‘Wo’-(to)-‘men’ who interject themselves into the lives of women and discuss ‘expertly’ situations and experiences they will never have.

Bahamian religious organizations have avoided this issue for good reason and we’ve benefited from the fact that abortion is not a hot-button-issue here as it is in our neighboring country to the northwest. However since we are subject to the same level of hypocrisy I am hopeful we continue to be compassionate and understanding of young women making very personal decisions and keep our emotions under wraps🤞🏽

I’ve spoken with many people, including medical professionals, who think the best course of action is to take samples for DNA and other forensic identification, then cremate these remains in a dignified way. That way these unfortunate victims can be potentially identified in the future, we can stop using valuable electricity for an unknown duration and we can avoid contamination of Abaco’s groundwater (or use of value high-ground) for burial... let common sense prevail and political unity reign during one of the greatest challenges of this young nation.