Hi TribuneAnon; you are not OK with decriminalization of marijuana because of what you claim to be a list of unsubstantiated and nebulous negative side effects.. Why not mention the very obvious and deadly effects of obesity in our country? Diabetes and Hypertension anyone? Should we not immediately make sugar, meat, and junk food illegal? Let's start putting people in jail for being obese; after all obese people are well known to be less productive and take more days off sick than no-obese people?

It isreported that in the US 40,000 have died since January 2020 from opiate overdoses. During this same time frame the number of people who died in the US from mariuana overdose has been exactly none. Consider that for a moment. Let it sink in and then wonder why this whole discussion has even been necessary.

The Minister has carried out his duties with transparency and to good effect during a very challenging time. Probably the best Minister of Education since Wallace Whitfield. He is Prime Minister Material if the present incumbant should leave that post.

Imagine being asked to actually pay some money towards your medical insurance? What next, will ZNS state employed workers be expected to contribute towards their pension? Or perhaps even work the same number of hours per week as everyone else who works in the private sector? How ridiculously entitled these state employed workers must be. It is past time to close down ZNS, it performs no necessary function and costs millions of dollars that could better spent paying useful workers such as nurses or teachers.

Every year since the first majority rule government got into power the Bahamas government has borrowed money to subsidize it's budget deficit. The government has for half a century spent more than it has earned. Stafford Sands was a brilliant minister of finance; every minister of finance since him has only driven the country deeper into debt. Hon. A. D. Hanna did not seem to have personally enriched himself for which he should be remembered with some credit even if his policy of borrowing as much as possible was disastrous, as was his Bahamianization program which gutted the ministry of Education of the excellent expatriate teaching staff the country had enjoyed so many of until that time.

This country did well economically until the UBP gave Bahamian women the right to vote. Since shortly after that time we have deficit budgets every single year with an ever growing and unsustainable national,debt. Minister Lloyd is considering going back to single gender schools. Perhaps the country needs to go back to; one man, one vote system that was so successful. The Bahamian women have already voted in a referendum that they think that they are subservient to me so this is the next logical step.

My wife and I have 4 grown children who have 7 college degrees between them, including a PhD in chemistry. None of our children were ever spanked, smacked, or physically punished. You do not need corporal punishment to successfully raise a child. Corporal punishment is inflicted by bullying parents who are ignorant of other more effective ways of disciplining their offspring.It should be made illegal in this country like it is in many civilized countries, including most recently; Scotland. And the Scots have a reputation for being among the toughest people in the world.

If this video is true then It is just so sad that monsters like these have such absolute power over the most vulnerable children in our country. I know exactly how I would like to see these staff members punished for their egregious action, I will not share the details of how, but it would be a very public event.

I think that this comment by the Commissioner and his subsequent blaming of a journalist for causing him to make it perfectly illustrates the level and quality that can be expected from the State's Security Forces.

This columnist has just got so ridiculous. How can any reasonably informed person still believe the lies of America's Far Right that the election was rigged to steal the Presidency from Donald? Has he been watching Foxed Views again?