His physician's training and mindset would enable him to, as you say sublimate his ego - no place for it in the OR - and detach from an issue, step back, see the big picture, and make carefully considered decisions,

Things are looking up. Many on this side of the drink watched this election with baited breath as well.

Gone like the morning mist.

Who among us isn't? The commenters tell it straight.

The Tyranny of Low Expectations, they call it over here; 'progressively' lowered until it reaches the level of the outhouse basement.

Keep lowering citizen expectancies, and they'll be grateful to get thru the day with a scrap of green bread, without getting arrested.

Gorman Bannister? THE Gorman Bannister, the sole Bahamian who sought and was granted asylum in the US, to get away from Lehder's druggie goons?

THE Gorman Bannister who testified, thirty years ago, before the US Congress on drug smuggling in the Bahamas?

Thanks!

Pretty much the same at most ports of entry, the islands. Declare to customs officials, any and all firearms and ammunition aboard ship, and keep them aboard, and you've no worries.

Even in Cuba, same. Declare what ya got to the authorities, keep them aboard ship, you're OK.

The Caymans, a little different, you declare arms and ammo and customs take them into custody for the duration of your stay, and return them when you depart.

So was this a case of ignorance of the law? Something else? Time will tell, won't it?

Always does, doesn't it?

Ahhh, way back, the good ol' days!

The Bay Street Boys. Mary Carter Paints. Howard Hughes holed-up on 'Hog Island'.

Forward Scatter lurking in the background behind Sullivan House on Rock Point, in the scenes from Thunderball.

The hush-hush military receiving station out by Sandilands 'Mental Hospital', its companion transmitter site on Lake Killarney. The massive arrow-shaped non-planar log periodic antenna dominating the eastern sky as the towering Collins 237-A vertical transmitting antenna loomed large over the Fire Trail Road and Windsor Field.

Strange numbers broadcasts in the night; charlie six november speaking via radio with ship captains of all nations; intrigues abundant, never a dull moment indeed!

What fun!

Papa Doc was famous for broadcasting live, executions of those who dared disagree with him. School children would be granted leave in order to witness the festivities.

Might we soon see men clad in tropical print shirts, pork pie hats, and dark glasses prowling the Bahamas, looking for 'enemies of the state', as did Papa Doc's infamous 'Ton Ton Macoutes', aka 'bogeymen'?

"Childhood death is our form of family planning."
- Francois X. 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, M.D.
quoted in Medical Economics Magazine,
autumn 1969 issue

The chicoms know exactly what they are doing. Thank you, sir, for illustrating this with great clarity.

Surely, just a theory; mere speculation for purposes of demonstration.

As well, sounds like an excellent chicom business model.