LoL......more airlift! They can't even get the current baggage carousel system to operate efficiently at LPIA along with the ability to properly inform arriving passengers where to go for their luggage!!

Now their talking about adding another 100,000 seats within the next 3-4 months....talk about "the mother of all clusterf**ks".

Don't really understand the Tribune's policy here. I thought "comments were disabled" for all on-going criminal matters that were before the courts.

I certainly believe hanging is a deterrent in the Bahamas. I know a person who was in Fox Hill when they hung two fellas on the same day back in the 90's (I believe) and by the way he describes it, it had a profound effect on everyone up there - the prison guards, those in general population and those on death row. It scared a lot of those guys s**tless! There was a deathly silence throughout the entire prison for about 2 or 3 days.

That said, I still believe the overriding problem is the terrible conviction rate for murders/homicides in this country. When you're only convicting about 1 in 10 people for murder, the vast majority of murders go unpunished and if these guys perpetrating the crime know that they have a 9 out of 10 chance of walking, then why not do it. With these poor numbers, I'm sure there's probably a fair amount of "street vigilantism" going on as well, but until the government/judiciary sort out their piss-poor record, this will just get worse and worse.

There is no rule of law.......totally agree.

At the same time, for purely political purposes, it behooves neither party to get to the bottom of this! For the PLP, it is far better to tar the entire FNM organization with the innuendo of corruption, "....look, it ain't jus' us who is tief!" rather than going after a single individual(s) who the FNM will then disavow. And the FNM, if and when they next come to power, will sweep it under the carpet like all politicians do, because it's one of "dey bruddhas" and anyway, "das ol' news"!!

Pathetic....but typical.

Like her grand-father, Sir Milo Butler!

Regardless of political persuasion, some of the most revered political states-persons over the last 50 years have been female: Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher and currently one of the most powerful people on earth, Angela Merkel. There's also the possibility that the next President of the U.S. will be female!

It's really sad - reality or not - that in the 21st Century, some of us Bahamians still debate the qualities of a political leader based on sexual organs....particularly considering the fact that most households are headed by females!! Makes not one iota of sense........

I would assume because we live in a hurricane zone! I believe (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that you find most wind/water turbines in northern or southern parts of the world and not in areas where you can get hurricanes.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science…

Our business is right off East Street and the current was off from early Tuesday morning (around 8:45am) until late that afternoon, coming back on just after 4pm!!! No work could be done for the day as computers, telephones, etc were down because of the blackout. The staff sat around "twiddling their thumbs" until around lunchtime and then we finally sent them home. LOL, maybe I can send my labour costs and other expenses for that day to BEC to be compensated for all the losses incurred to the business........yeah right!! Since then (and even before), at least once or twice a day the lights are going out, enough times now that we're going to have to invest in a generator or we might just end up going out of business. This year, BEC has been brutal.........and don't even get me started on BTC and the world's worst and absolute crappiest cell phone system!!

Why do we put up with this boloney.......???

Let's sign an agreement with Florida Power and Light for (let's say) ten - twenty years and run a series of cables from the US mainland into the islands (as we do with telephone).
The cost of electricity to the Florida residential consumer is just under $0.12c per kilowatt hour compared to about $0.43c for the Bahamian consumer. Let FPL sell to BEC (or some other privately owned entity) and even with a surcharge, our energy supplier could turn around and sell to the local consumer for possibly just under $0.20c per kwhr. This would immediately cut our energy costs in half and at the same time, we can introduce prepaid electricity meters (using a smart card) so that the ridiculous accounts receivable numbers that BEC constantly deals with would also disappear.
Finally, in that 10 year period, let's encourage local entities (along with foreign partners if need be) to explore cost effective and efficient ways to produce sufficient energy - solar, wind, wave, etc - on a mass market scale, taking into account that we are in a hurricane zone.

I would agree with you 99% of the time, particularly re: corruption and inefficiency. However, when I have to experience the absolutely p**s poor service offered by our (recently privatized) telecommunications provider everyday...........!!

Actually, it makes no sense! One of the biggest fallacies is the notion that people go from smoking weed to doing harder drugs like cocaine or the like. Growing up in the '80's (in my early twenties), during perhaps the worst drug epidemic this country has experienced to date, I found that 99.9% of the people who indulged in the recreational use of cocaine (freebasing/crack or inhaling it), did so after consuming alcohol. People would go out at night, get "lit up" from drinking and then go in search of the "not-so-elusive" rock or powder! Rarely, if ever, would you have someone smoke a joint and then want to hit a rock or do a line of cocaine. I'm not for one second claiming that people who do "harder" drugs like cocaine, heroin or crystal meth have never smoked marijuana, but I found that by far the biggest conduit to cocaine was the abuse of alcohol. If we as a community can have such a lax attitude towards the consumption of alcohol (hell, if I'm not mistaken, it's one of the only places on planet Earth where you can still drink and drive....so long as it's in a paper bag or "sanitary" cup - LOL) then I think that we need to come up with a more common-sense attitude towards marijuana. In my opinion, given the financial restraints that we as a country find ourselves in today, we should be exploring the educational tools on explaining to our younger population why the use/abuse of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana are not good and, at the same time, strengthening and beefing up the legal penalties on the importation/possession of drugs like cocaine. Five years for a couple of "keys" of coke in magistrates court is a complete and utter joke! This is a drug that can cause widespread destruction in our community.