I have asked this comment to be removed myself. It is too far overboard - even for me. I've thought about it all day - and it is simply improper since it refers to specific individuals and not society as a whole. These are individual persons whose families are grieving their loss, and I apologize.

Hopefully the owners will win the suit. The Marriott has done a great injustice to Abaco, half-way setting up shop here - and then claiming they can't be successful. If they had hired qualified Bahamians instead of boat people, things would have been better for them.

Man !!!! And I did done by my ticket to Miami. Mudda sik.

Probably some Christian group who are offended by the portraits of God's own creatures on Page 3.

WHY do Haitians who run out of fuel or for other reasons "wind up" in the Exuma cays or other southern Bahama islands get free transport to our capitol city?

We need a processing station in one of our southernmost islands (like on a cay off Ragged Island or something) - where these people are held, processed, and returned without setting foot in Nassau.

It is simply stupid to AID in the bringing of illegals to our capitol.

The should also be HELD at the processing station until their relatives back in Haiti wire a $25 processing fee to our Treasury. That's a lot of money in Haiti. It won't help us much, but it may act as a deterrent. We need a place that can hold 5000 persons and keep them in the most basic of conditions while they wait.

Doesn't anybody realize that we are at WAR with Haiti? They have massed an invasion force which is invading and destroying us - while we sit around like idiots.

These "young men" shooting are simply the babies now grown up - whose mothers were forced to have them due to the limitations put on them by the church.

In the end, the abortions were simply performed late-term with the use of bullets - by gang-on-gang crime. A more violent and cruel outcome.

Mr. MIller should now say, he agrees the Unions deserve "all they can get" and declare that from now on union members of BEC (not those who are not members - if any) will be paid 10 (TEN) times their normal wage while on sick leave and also be allowed to collect NIB benefits.

If you can double-dip - then why not ten-fold? He should push this forward and keep pushing until he is fired. At least the issue will remain in the press a while longer.

It is illegal to protest in the Bahamas. You must obtain permission from the Police first.

Well, you see, Captain McNeil can get away with such statements because he knows there will be no consequences.

There is no such thing as THE Downtown Merchants - because, I assure you, they are not a group - they will not band together to accomplish anything.

If they were, then they would come together and (without prior announcement to others) simply not show up to work next week Monday - and when questioned say they had a flat tire and their spare was also flat. However, they cannot say for certain that it was because of the lack of a vehicle that they did not come to work. When pressed, just say they decided not to come to work - but yes, it is true they had a flat tire - but again, that is not really the reason.

This will of course cost them money - and also they have no guarantee (each one of them) that if they don't come to unlock their store that the one next door will also not come - but instead choose to "rake in" the gains lost by his neighbor. So as a group they will simply all lose.

Captain McNeil can light his tug on fire whenever it gets repaired - nobody really cares.

So this half-billion dollars that "is owed" - NONE of that was owed while the FNM was in power? What did the FNM do to try and collect any of it Dr. Minnis ???????????????

Suddenly you are concerned about account receivable?

If you guys tried to collect it you would be in the same boat the PM is now with the BEC Union, the civil service would rebel saying "you expect us to collect taxes owed the government? Das we job? You crazy, eh? Get out of our face before we call one strike!"