Ok, let's engage in a productive dialogue. What did Davis do in representing us on the global stage? Give speeches on climate change that he is doing nothing about at home?

Leadership is more than speeches. It is vision that inspires to action. It is hindsight, insight, and foresight. What inspirational vision has Davis given to inspire the Bahamian people that it is a NEW Day and there is something to greater to come?

Name the first church that would do it.

This sparks of ignorance, as even churches need money to do ministry.

Can you believe this garbage? The Queen wants to throw a party and the broke Bahamas has to pay for it?

I thought slavery was ended but it is still alive and well. The colonial powers stills control us.

And does Watson think the public is stupid? They don't have the cost information ready and he could not get it? Who plans a trip and does not put the costs together for the trip?

How fast the NEW Day ended! (Expected, since a Day after all is only 24 hours)

You are correct. Typical distraction.

All it is is another brain dead political with no ideas trying to stir up a base with allegations and innuendos. If something was illegal and against the laws, send it to the courts. But not they just fo to the House and make allegations and give no vision for where the country should go.

It is much ado about nothing.

Real leaders have vision and plans and show where they are going. Davis clearly is showing he is going nowhere and has no vision or plan for this country.

This is pure intimidation plan and simple. Fred Mitchell should arrested by the police for seeking to incite violence.

A man just wrote a song about Christie and got arrested. Mitchell calling out people to come bark at a sitting Parliamentarian, whether you like him or not, it plainly wrong. But that is what happens when you have gutter politicians in positions of authority.

No NGO operated free of charge. And any person who thinks that needs to go and do research on the NGO world. Davis either is sprouting his ignorance or is intentionally trying to create mischief. Then again, it could be both.

But for a man who is a lawyer and surely was engaged in setting up NGOs, he knows better.

Exactly.

They are stuck in outdated thinking. The model of operation has changed globally, but they do not want to change.

I don't think Proguing is bragging about the brain drain. I think, and rightly so, he is pointing out that the brain dead and outdated thinking as espoused by Hanna-Martin and many others like her, is what is creating the brain drain in our country.

> During her contribution to the
> mid-year budget debate in the House of
> Assembly, Mrs Hanna Martin said: “I
> wish only to say that the University
> of The Bahamas in the selection of a
> president under the charter enjoys
> autonomy. That’s the charter and the
> University of the Bahamas Act. That is
> not a decision that is delegated to
> anyone and so I also note that the
> board has been very occupied with
> making decisions to cause for the
> university to attain accreditation and
> to become a stabilised academic force
> in the life of our country.
>
> “It is also important to note that
> the search for the president was
> completed before we came into office.
> I must make it clear that it is the
> policy of The Bahamas government that
> Bahamians be empowered…and while we
> must accept the decision of the board
> of trustees, we are confident but we
> also urge and expect that in short
> order a Bahamian will hold that
> prestigious post. I hope I made myself
> clear.”

Ever read two contradictory statements in a speech?

On one hand, she is distancing the government from the decision and saying the board is autonomous (which we know is really not so), and on the other hand saying a Bahamaian will be in the position shortly. Well if the board autonomous, how can she know who will be in the position next?

It is contradictory statements like these that journalists need to put a mic in front of these no vision parliamentarians and challenge them on.