what a lot of negative comments, I wonder why? The Bahamas has has a systemic fiscal problem. The country cannot make enough money to pay for the tens of thousands of state employed workers and the unfunded pension costs of tens of thousands more.The plp hired tens of thousands into the civil service and SOE's to garner votes and stay in power. Each year the government has had to borrow more and more money to pay these salaries. It is unsustainable but whichever administration cuts the number of government employees will probably lose the next election, so no one will do it. There is no solution.

I believe Mr. Pinder's longest work experience was being a union executive of the state employed workers. This experience is so far away from the realities involved in running a business in the private sector that it is practically worthless in trying to predict whether or not businesses will lay off employees. Remember that no one has ever been terminated from a government job in 50 years or more. Still Mr. Pinder does sound more sensible now than when he was postulating that we could all get rich selling sand like he did several years ago.

Despite many pleas over the years no government have bothered to enact the legislation badly needed to regulate and protect animals in this country. Just another failing of our elected officials.

What a great way to stop any businesses that need expatriate workers from opening. Absolute genius way to prevent the Bahamian economy from recovering. Why not close down all the foreign owned hotels as well?

What the graduate gm has failed to take into account is the cost of inter island shipping between the islands of the Caribbean. in the case of the Bahamas almost everything must be trans shipped through Miami; Most everything is produced less expensively in Florida, power costing 8c per Kw versus our 48c. Caribbeab products are simply more expensive

So if am understanding this report correctly the RBDF intercepted this boat carrying undocumented migrants only because the US Coastguard did the work of finding them. When a senior officer says in an interview that navigation is not an exact science then you really have cause to wonder at the competence of this state security organisation. Navigation is of course an exact science unless it is carried out by a DBDF navigation officer.

I for one do not support the police. I think the standard of policing in the country is abysmal, that so many are issued firearms is just scary. Do you remember that drunken one in Abaco waving his gun around in public? Do you know what punishment he got? Exactly; you now understand my point.

How refreshing to hear some truths about this State Owned Enterprise. Government interference by elected officials has ensured that this entity has cost we, the Bahamian tax payers, millions of dollars. The people who benefited were perhaps those famous friends, cronies, and relatives.

Hey, JoeBlown, How come you know s the world?o much more 3 months ago than most anyone else the world? You an expert obviously. but the lockdowns are not designed to be cure and no one has ever said they were. The lock downs are to slow the spread of the virus to manageable levels so that our health care systems are not over whelmed.

Hi Fourfever Dreamer, thanks for the correction. I was only picking figures out a hat to make a point. So pay these 600 state employed $25,000 per year. to stay home and do nothing.. That should match the subvention and will save millions on the unfunded pensions, vehicle maintenance, insurance, nib contributions, airport landing fees, aviation costs, etc., etc., etc..