Myer’s fatalism coupled with FNM/Turnquest balance the budget and tax the ppl at any cost voodoo economics only exasperates the impact of this tragedy.

Any economist with any sense will tell you that insurance receipts, the $100 emergency loan, massive amount of US dollars coming back into Abaco (from Bahamians and foreigners) for the rebuild and donations will offset tourism inputs.

Stop underestimating the resiliency of the Bahamian spirit. We will rebuild despite crippling Government taxes, incompetence and market stifling beauracy. GDP will recover.

Thanks Zakary. My only regret is that I did not sell my home in Nassau and just leave. Sitting here I feel like a sitting duck for the next "super hurricane" to hit Nassau in the next 20 years.

We all know it will happen. But all we can say is that thank God it did not hit Nassau. Well at somepoint Nassau's luck will run out. Its just a matter of time.

Hi Bloggers

I noticed that ppl are not blogging as much as they were a couple of years ago. Years ago idiotic comments from politicians such as those above would have been severely criticized by at least a dozen comments. Now only 3?

I suspect everyone is disillusioned and feels that their comments are falling on deaf ears. Or maybe ppl just don't have any electricity or internet.

My 2 cents:

1. No planes are flying in or out of Nassau Airport. Check out flightaware.com and punch in NAS.

2. Yes, Mr. D'Agular, the world believes the Bahamas is devastated and they are not coming to Nassau either (at the moment). But did you ever consider that BPL is destroying our tourist product? Did you ever consider that ppl will not come to Nassau due to online comments about the electricity?

3. Mr. D'Agular is anyone taking a step back and questioning the viability of the Grand Lucayan Hotel due to the increasing impact of climate change on Grand Bahama? Scientist have stated that the warming oceans will create even greater "super hurricanes" with speeds of 200 mph and flooding approaching 50 feet.

https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/…

4. Minnis, why rebuild Freeport or Grand Bahama when in another 20 years we will experience flooding and winds of biblical proportions? Why are we not relocating communities to higher ground or other islands rather than rebuilding in low lying areas...again and again?

"Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few." Ecclesiastes 5:2.

Turnquest booast and brags about all he has accomplished with the deficit. After punishing the ppl with 12% VAT and no light. God is upset.

VAT needs to be raised to 25% in order that government take their fancy overseas trips, ride around in their government cars and everyone gets a salary raise this year.

I wonder if the doctors gone back to work ?

Well put Well_mudda, watch for the BEC Special Purpose Vehicle getting ready to raise $650 in US$ on Wall St. to hide all the BEC incompetence, pension liabilities, fraud and skimming.

The funds will be easily raised because no matter how much you tax Bahamians they pay their taxes.

"If we don't have the basic infrastructure in place, how can we talk about productivity?" Peter Turnquest.

This is the most sensible thing i have heard from this government of dummies.

They have finally that the country is dysfunctional and lacks reliable infrastructure including electrical power security, education, hurricane preparedness, medical care, proper governance, the ability to week out corruption etc. ect.

We need to increase VAT from 12% to 15%.

The extra money will help the government to pay for all the foreign trips the gussie mae cabinet has been taking around the world with their entire families and government employees.

Don't forget all those red plate cars you see driving all weekend to the food store and in church and at every funeral. Free gas at the government gas depo.

if they had invested hundreds of millions in diesel generators the lights would not be going off now.

they have wasted hundreds of millions on pensions, purchasing of diesel via straw men, maintaining generators from the 1960s, paying BEC overtime so a linesman can make over $100,000 a year and lots of fraud, slow moving meters, un authorized connections and evaporating power due to a aged and poorly constructed grid.

Simple. You build solar fields like our next door neighbor Florida Power and Light that have 18 fields, generating 1,200 megawatts of energy with 5 million solar panels.

https://www.fpl.com/energy-my-way/solar…

Ohh nooo! Its to simple to go next door...can't get greased with them. Lets go to a corrupt fossil fuel European giant whose global warming technology is from the last century.

BPL solar strategy. Solarize Ragged Island where no one lives and allow Bahamians to forget about solar once they are able to stop the power cuts. The problem is that the electrical plant and grid are at the point of collapse.

Please pray with me that Dorian don't come this way. Its lights off for our 100 year old electrical grid.