The Bahamian authorities never seem to take human smuggling seriously.

We rarely if ever arrest and charge the ‘boat captain’ even when vessels are caught on the high seas, which may lead to further investigations of the whole enterprise.

As this editorial suggests, this is a multinational problem that requires cooperation at that level, however that does not absolve our National Security enterprise from investigating and prosecuting these bandits…shame on us!

“Marijuana”, when are we going to have the change in legislation that decriminalizes this drug and takes it out of the hands of criminals (or folks who we turn into criminals)?! I’m sure we have some potential and budding entrepreneurs who can be the next “Numbers tycoons”…

I am at a lost as to how the RBDF or our Immigration authorities can ever get a handle on people smugglers if said smugglers are alarmist never identified or prosecuted?!

The fact that we can tell who these folks are when drug smuggling is involved speaks volumes about our officials concern about ‘human life’; which appears to mean nothing if it involves our brothers & sisters from the historical and literal cousin island of Aiyti.

Medical schools are not “investment opportunities”!

The Bahamas should avoid the battle within American medical education that rages between ‘off shore’ versus US based and accredited medical institutions; this is an American issue that needs to be solved by American political and education policy makers. We should not be participants in the traumatic experiences of these young (and not so young) peoples’ lives for what amounts to profits from the operators of these ‘schools’. Don’t be fooled by the vailed enticement of “educational opportunities for Bahamians”, who still must seek authorization and licensure from Bahamian medical statutory bodies to ensure they meet existing standards and a guarded and reluctant US medical system wary of admittance for further training. Nor should you accept the premise that medical trainees are a benefit to the healthcare of Grand Bahamians; there are even now few educational positions available to Bahamian junior doctors who have already qualified…overall a bad idea.

Interesting; now if we can upgrade our educational system to be good or great to truly give our young women & men opportunities then we’ll be ‘sayin sum ting’.

Reading many of the comments here in one of the country’s leading news organizations is quite distressing. What more can these young well trained and respected health professionals say and be taken seriously as purveyors of ‘truth’?! Observing that they are the same ‘names’ that usually write denials makes me hopeful that they represent a diminishing minority of both Covid Deniers and anti-Vaxers? Let’s ‘pray’ that it is so.

For everyone else please listen to these professionals, inform yourself from other reputable sources and weigh the ‘risks’, because the newer and more deadlier variants have definitely changed the equation. Additionally one has to consider the state of the country’s healthcare facilities (both public and private) as well as the ability of the healthcare professionals to look after YOU given the strain this pandemic has added to their workload and their physical and mental well-being.

Knowledge is power; use it wisely.

I’m no lawyer, but I am a Bahamian with no where else to decamp to when our economy tanks.

We’re already on an advisory list warning our visitors about Covid (and crime). So when we continue to show significant Covid cases & deaths and our life blood (tourism) is ruined by Bahamians, including “line staff”, passing Covid to our guests…we will all suffer the consequences…

We all need to be a bit more selfless and weigh risks vs benefit for everything we do, not just Covid/vaccines and money.

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?