Who was the minister who was reported on the front page of the local media as saying that he did not like statistics? Hopefully I will remember soon......sigh.

A senior policy advisor to Mr. Christie appears to be heavily compromised by these court recordings. The Christie government then had the British monarch award him a Knighthood. It is surely not outside the bounds of probability to assume that there is a direct connection between these two. The knighthood should be rescinded, the "sir" stripped from his name. This has brought great shame on our country such has not been seen since days of the Pindling administration.

Alcohol? Alcohol? Why you treat me so bad? Or maybe not, those 4 wheel ATV are are tricky, on a 2 wheeled motorcycle you have to lean into the turn but with 4 wheels you have to lean out, while holding on, of course. Insurance and consequent operator education is the answer to prevent further unnecessary tourist incidents....IMO.

No seat belts? No roofs, seat belts would make no difference.

TslRushell, you have misunderstood the meaning of Crown Land. The English monarch owns no land in this independent country. Unlike the English people who are all Subjects, in this country we are all citizens. Times have changed.

Onely; Yes I am asserting that a that a system the British Empire created has nothing to do with the management of its empire . The system was developed between the battle of Lewis in the 14 century, if memory serves, and King Charles getting executed in 1665. The British empire came much much later. Also democracy should and must evolve, that is usually to the benefit of the citizens. I would like to see multiple voting systems. Every one gets a vote; college degree graduates get an extra one tenth of a vote, married people with two or less children get an extra one tenth vote, people creating employment of more than five people get an extra one tenth of a vote. Members of the B.C.C. get absolutely no extra votes. etc., etc., etc..

Someone writes; "The governing system we operate under depended on and was designed to manage slaves and an empire of conquered/colonized lands ." Well, no, it was not. The British system of Parliamentary Democracy with a constitutional monarch is a system of government that evolved over hundreds of years and included devastating civil wars and several people's rebellions. The result wrested absolute power from a single hereditary monarch to a group of elected parliamentarians who controlled taxes and law making. Although deeply flawed it is a better system of government than most. We are fortunate not to live in North Korea, the PRC, or Russia.

I believe Gambier was the other settlement.

What hugely complex subject in a country like The Bahamas where thousands of the citizens are descended from enslaved people being transported to South or North America but whose ship was intercepted by the British Royal Navy and the slaves freed and put ashore on New Providence; Adelade and t least one other settlement were founded for this resettlement. Then we have so many Bahamians of mixed races, slave and non slave, including at least one former prime minister. And lastly we have the Bahamian families descended from slave owners. Who will get the money. because ultimately it is all about the money?

Every single Prime Minister of this country has declined to accept an award from the Bahamas National Heroes committee. This says everything that you need to know about this particular exercise. No politico or politico's spouse would ever consider giving up their British Honour for one of these.