This is refreshing, to see government ministers not pretending to have all the answers. We had more than enough waffling and obscurification with the last administration.

What sacrifices exactly is the doctor referencing that these employees have spent years making? Is it the sacrifice of getting up in the morning to go to work and get paid for it? All these businesses have, or should have, paid 5.5% of every employers wage every month every year to nib so that nib would have funds to pay the employees pension, sickness, and unemployment benefits. The employees themselves have paid a further 3.3% of their wage to nib tax. Successive administrations have squandered this money; and that is the true face of heartlessness in this situation. A cheap political shot which will probably come back to haunt them during their next round of electoral fundraising. They not getting nothing from me this time around.

And Once again the Bahamas Police force appears in a questionable appearance of impropriety.

It is a ridiculous waste of our tax dollars having these embassies in cities of foreign countries. they achieve practically nothing of any use. Close it down as soon as possible and then have a shared ambassador and embassy with all other Caribbean countries. And before some pedant gets outraged; I do realise that our country is situated in the Arawak Sea or Lucayan Sea or whatever the government decided to rename our bit of the Atlantic.

SiP. Good luck with your farm. In countries where farming is viable those farms are passed down for generations of the same family. Now lets see, how many large scale family farms that are viable in the Bahamas have been passed down through multiple generations of the same family? That is the correct answer; absolutely none at all. I wonder why? And if you think that solar provides free or cheap electricity to run an RO system to produce cheap fresh water then I can only wish the best of luck with your farm because you are definitely gonna need it.

this minister can say as many reassuring things as he likes but the simple facts are this country has almost 400.000 people living within its borders. It is simply impossible to grow enough food to feed this number of people given the cost of electricity and the annual rainfall without doubling or tripling the cost of our food. We cannot compete in any way with the cost of production generated by US farms of tens of thousands of acres.

It was a good ride while it lasted but the country has now run out of fiscal rope. After 47 years of the government borrowing millions of dollars every year and then also using nib to purchase its own debt, time is now up and the day of reckoning is upon us, financial reckoning that is. Everything has now changed and our lives will never be as they once were. The fiscal hurricane is bearing down as a category 5 and we have no time left to build or install even one shutter.

What a silly bunch of comments from unemployed people who have most probably attempted little during their lives and achieved even less. The envy is apparent.

hey Mussatakesic; not me, what ever money I earned it was earned the hard way through small business ownership employing people. You only ever had a gubmint job, eh?

The PLP are a party that has always relied on borrowing money to pay the salaries and unfunded pensions of the many thousands upon thousands of state employed workers. This is mostly why the country is almost eight billion dollars in debt today and teeters on the edge of a financial precipice. A silly set of ideas from this politician who I sincerely hope never gains a position of power.