I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said, apart from where our politicians are patriots. Some may be, but the majority, and especially the leadership, are far from it. They are interested in lining their own pockets and taking whatever they can. Their interest in the Bahamas and the people go as far as what can be swindled from them.

Well then we need to be improving our regulations and accountability. It's not ok to simply say this is the way it is, we have to be saying this is the way it needs to be. We can change for the better, we just need to push our leaders to do so.

You are certainly very good at using the internet, considering your age of over 300 all while living pre-industrial age island.

I would have hoped all that internet research would have made you more informed about how the world actually works.

What a waste of time and money. We're opening up competition to the telecommunications market in the Bahamas, we should have been selling off the rest of BTC, not getting more.

The governments, time and again, have proven they have no idea how to actually run a corporation.

You are entirely right, there is absolutely no reason to join the WTO unless we are exports as much as we are importing and that is not something that will ever happen here in the Bahamas.

We should be pulling out of joining the WTO immediately. We're going to be handicapped for no reason.

People should no be afraid of their government, the government should be afraid of the people!

It is so sad to see the negative and pessimistic comments on this article. We are overrun with corrupt and inept political leaders who we do not condemn or hold accountable, but yet here we are dragging a man through the mud who we have not even had the chance to get to know, or who has done anything other than say he would like a chance to make a difference. Perhaps he is just in it for himself, but we haven't even given him the chance to prove us wrong.

So you automatically assume that he is corrupt before he even starts? You know none of the answers to your questions yet you condemn him as if you do. We need new people to step forward in this country, so please let them have the chance to do so before you push them back in line.

Then we need to demand more of our politicians. Our decision to drill for oil should not have to be handcuffed by the ineptitude and corruption of our current governments.

You are right, we do need a Environmental Protection Act, and we need our Freedom of Information act to work, but most of all we need our citizens to demand it from our government. They work for us, and both they and we, seem to have forgotten that.

If our argument against exploiting our oil resources is that our leadership cannot be trusted, then we need to change our leadership.