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..

In cases such as this you are just wasting your time reporting it to the police. They are not either motivated to or willing to investigate what they consider to be a petty crime. They are busy with the serious crimes like selling coconuts or not wearing a mask outside your house.

Bahmasair is a complete waste of taxpayer money. it would be less expensive to pay each and every Bahamasair employee a salary of $95,000 per year and have them stay home. We would save millions each year....

A " a Board of Inquiry to assess the circumstances" is a toothless waste of time as it will have no power to effect change or punish incompetence. There should be a court-martial and the offenders, when found guilty, should be stripped of their rank and pensions.

While agreeing with the main points expressed by this letter writer, his use of this sentence is puzzling; "explore the criminalisation of our young (more often black) men .". No part of this letter explores criminisation (did he just make up this word?), and since almost nine out of ten Bahamians are black then it would be very strange if the most of the people brought before the court were not.

The country is fortunate to have mrs. Kim Aranha and others like her. Many citizens and every administration we have had have had little or no demonstrated humanity. It took decades to just get shade for the poor overworked Surrey horses. An animal rights law to protect animals from abuse is decades overdue. The royal Bahamas puppy killing force should be ashamed of its actions.

These "National Honors" are mostly just a waste of time which is why the previous two prime-ministers could not be bothered with them. Save the country some money and retire all the committee members.

until the PLP got into power the country had a murder rate close to zero. Over the past half century or so since then the murder rate has increased every year. We now have one of the highest per capita murder rates of any country in the world. What was the pre-PLP government governments doing right that stopped murders from happening? Was it the entitlement mentality that caused the change to murderous, that was sold to the voters, you will no longer have to work once you vote for me? Or was that the country cut most ties with the UK, a country long known for politeness and civilized behavior? Perhaps the change is simply due to the modern junk food diet that most people now eat, junk in; junk out.

What a storm in a teacup. The courts cannot be held in any lower esteem than most people who have had the misfortune to have to visit them already hold them. A little qwerking would actually have brightened up the procedures last time I had to appear in the Traffic Court.