Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The best thing about a democracy is being able to change those in power every five years. The problem is that no right minded voter could vote for the plp given their recent history. The DNA was a little ahead of it's time as well as choosing some really low quality candidates but if they manage to re-vamp and cut free the obviously stupid candidates then they would probably get my vote if they promised to repeal the evil Spy bill.

How can you tell when a Bahamian cabinet minister is lying? Watch his or her lips, are they moving?

It is a shame that the government will miss this opportunity to empower the individual citizens. Instead of allowing each and every person to grow marijuana for his or her own use, grown to a quality desired by that individual, perhaps organically grown, pesticide free, herbicide free, instead the government will give contracts to select individuals who will monetarise the process for maximum profit and allow the government to regulate, control, and tax the process. So sad that this opportunity to empower the people will be missed due to government greed for taxes and need to control.

I don't often find myself supporting pastors but Pastor Tray, I concur completely.

Once again this country is haunted by the stupid and self-serving decisions of past elected state officials. What was the first corruption scandal under the crooked pindling government? Yep, the pvc pipes scandal involving a sitting plp cabinet minister and the lousily done construction of the first plp infrastructure project, building the General Post Office. The Post Office Department was almost wholly staffed with plp party supporters. A recipe for the current disaster we call a postal service. As you sow, so shall you reap. KJV.

A part of being a modern medical doctor is to match the symptoms of the patient with the drug that the pharmaceutical companies have designed to treat that set of symptoms. For each drug prescription that they write the get a kick-back from the company through the drug store. This is how doctors get to be so rich in private practice. Tens of thousands of patients die every year from overprescribed totally legal drugs. No one has ever died from smoking weed. Now you understand why most doctors do not want it de-criminalized? It would cut into their lucrative drug trade masquerading as a medical practice.

Jonh, uou display an arrogant ignorance of boats. Bilge pumps have a separate float valve switch. Any set of wires to the bilge pump or the switch can chafe and spark if not properly insulated and wrapped with anti-chaffing. Many boats are built with a double hull, fuel leaking into the double hull would not necessarily be smelt on deck. I have been on a boat that caught fire from shorted electrical wires and it happens very fast with no warning, this boat that I was on was diesel powered and we put the fire out quickly with the fire extinguishers mounted in the right places. Sabotage is a laughable idea or so I hope. What sick mind would think it was a good idea to burn a boat load of tourists to death. I know that some Bahamians seem to hate people of other races but this would surely be a step too far?

A part of the problem is that our laws side heavily with the tenant. If you rent to a tenant who is trashing your rental unit and not paying rent you will have to jump through legal loops for months to get them out. I could invest in buying rental property tomorrow, there are some attractive deals on the real estate market right now, but I will not for this reason. I am not alone in my thinking like this and consequently there is not enough inventory and competition amongst landlords and this results in high rents and scarce properties available.
To a lessor extent the labour laws protecting employees are too onerous to the employer who will only take someone the payroll if absolutely necessary. One business I know of had recently to pay $22,000.oo to terminated employee who had walked off the job and had arrived to work on time about ten times only over ten years employment. Will any other employer take on this person whilst knowing the history, I certainly would not.

True this, agree will Bahalamala. The letter writer sounds like a nasty person.

Hey, Akbar, are you a Muslim? Just asking cos of the name.