Maybe, just maybe you should reconsider the requirements - 5 day retesting is an inconvenience! Particularly after paying $225 in FL for 48 hour turn around time for results for a PCR test in USA in order to get the $25 health travel visa (reportedly up to 72 hours to obtain in USA) and land in Bahamas within 5 days from test day... hmm no wonder fewer visitors. Is there a suitable saliva test - YES or NO? What is so special about the 5 days versus 7 or 10 as is the case elsewhere? Why do some need tests to leave Nassau and some don't? Why is rapid antigen ($17) Ok to enter a hotel and not Ok to get a travel Visa at least domestically?
Come on government - PLEASE adapt & improve or this ship will sink!
Privatize that wasteful money pit of an airline urgently - doesn’t anyone in government own a calculator? 19 million per year over 20 years -> 380million plus interest in losses and for what exactly - a country’s ego and independence?- come on!!
Anyone else remember the Pindling days? Sure as sh&t didn’t speak your mind publicly if it opposed him. Do we really want that crap again? How difficult is it to take away emergency powers and still protect Bahamians from covid which has a mortality rate around that of the flu ?.... what, is the government we currently have employed too lazy to meet more frequently if needed and come to a consensus on the next moves for this mess. If the other MPs aren’t doing anything I trust we aren’t paying them more than 25% of their salary (seriously!) during this BS game the competent authority is playing while his freedoms of course are completely in tact. Come on!!?!
The FnM MPs musseee can’t be bothered to show up to discuss anything - too afraid or stupid to see and acknowledge the precedent being set. Are y’all hoping for full on civil unrest or something?
Please MPs, AG, Governor please !!! get this power drunk PM in check- are there any honest men in parliament?
We the Bahamian people hereby challenge the honourable PM to relinquish his emergency powers voluntarily no later than December 31st 2020 and prove that it truly is Better in the Bahamas!
With all due respect - Government of Bahamas please stop your crap! Let people live their lives and give back their freedoms. We need to be able to travel inter island relatively easily (its more for the test than the ticket plus the damn quarantine), we need to be able to stay out past f’ing curfew to see family, friends, to shop, to LIVE. Children are being negatively affected in a huge way. Enough is enough - stand up and think. Protect the elderly or have them under curfew if you dare! Stand guard at the f’ing beach’s if you have to but otherwise STOP trying to be royalty and behave like representatives working for the Bahamian people not parenting them.
As far as we the public are aware there is no true accountability in law for our elected officials. The wealthy few pull the strings - kick backs are probably rampant and no politicians spend time locked up because the laws either aren’t there, aren’t enforced, or there are loop holes. Are there any campaign finance laws, anyone keeping track of politicians wealth building while in power, what about their foreign accounts and assets, what about the MP’s doing their jobs on the same side of the aisle or have they given up having their own opinions heard and acted upon. Do they get a Christmas bonus for keeping quiet? Also not one public renewable energy plant on New Providence yet and we are supporting fossil fuel exploration in 2020- not very forward thinking . “When I analyze the stench..” (Bob).
Please- just flattening the curve until when- when you have an island of upper class and severely impoverished due to economic lockdowns- the curve will play out and the end result may be close to the same...
Very Sad and stupid- why close the beaches - resentment for this government must be at an all time high! But of course like every prior Bahamas Government they don’t give a crap what the population thinks or wants. The population is looked upon as children or patients I appears...!
open the country completely and promise in writing not to close it in any way again! sweden - a country which never restricted anything, is doing better than the rest of the world with this!
professionalbahamian says...
Maybe, just maybe you should reconsider the requirements - 5 day retesting is an inconvenience! Particularly after paying $225 in FL for 48 hour turn around time for results for a PCR test in USA in order to get the $25 health travel visa (reportedly up to 72 hours to obtain in USA) and land in Bahamas within 5 days from test day... hmm no wonder fewer visitors. Is there a suitable saliva test - YES or NO? What is so special about the 5 days versus 7 or 10 as is the case elsewhere? Why do some need tests to leave Nassau and some don't? Why is rapid antigen ($17) Ok to enter a hotel and not Ok to get a travel Visa at least domestically?
Come on government - PLEASE adapt & improve or this ship will sink!
On WHY AREN’T THEY TESTING PEOPLE? Questions raised over why large numbers are not taking Day Five test
Posted 12 January 2021, 10:59 a.m. Suggest removal
professionalbahamian says...
Privatize that wasteful money pit of an airline urgently - doesn’t anyone in government own a calculator? 19 million per year over 20 years -> 380million plus interest in losses and for what exactly - a country’s ego and independence?- come on!!
On Bahamasair 'exhausts' $19m annual subsidy
Posted 8 December 2020, 3:32 p.m. Suggest removal
professionalbahamian says...
Prima Minister should definitely stay the course as PM just not as King!
On PM announces Desmond Bannister as new Deputy Prime Minister, relaxation of measures for Christmas season
Posted 6 December 2020, 11:01 p.m. Suggest removal
professionalbahamian says...
Anyone else remember the Pindling days? Sure as sh&t didn’t speak your mind publicly if it opposed him. Do we really want that crap again? How difficult is it to take away emergency powers and still protect Bahamians from covid which has a mortality rate around that of the flu ?.... what, is the government we currently have employed too lazy to meet more frequently if needed and come to a consensus on the next moves for this mess.
If the other MPs aren’t doing anything I trust we aren’t paying them more than 25% of their salary (seriously!) during this BS game the competent authority is playing while his freedoms of course are completely in tact. Come on!!?!
The FnM MPs musseee can’t be bothered to show up to discuss anything - too afraid or stupid to see and acknowledge the precedent being set. Are y’all hoping for full on civil unrest or something?
Please MPs, AG, Governor please !!! get this power drunk PM in check- are there any honest men in parliament?
We the Bahamian people hereby challenge the honourable PM to relinquish his emergency powers voluntarily no later than December 31st 2020 and prove that it truly is Better in the Bahamas!
On PM announces Desmond Bannister as new Deputy Prime Minister, relaxation of measures for Christmas season
Posted 6 December 2020, 9:05 p.m. Suggest removal
professionalbahamian says...
With all due respect - Government of Bahamas please stop your crap! Let people live their lives and give back their freedoms.
We need to be able to travel inter island relatively easily (its more for the test than the ticket plus the damn quarantine), we need to be able to stay out past f’ing curfew to see family, friends, to shop, to LIVE. Children are being negatively affected in a huge way.
Enough is enough - stand up and think.
Protect the elderly or have them under curfew if you dare! Stand guard at the f’ing beach’s if you have to but otherwise STOP trying to be royalty and behave like representatives working for the Bahamian people not parenting them.
On ‘We’re flattening the curve’
Posted 28 November 2020, 8:55 p.m. Suggest removal
professionalbahamian says...
As far as we the public are aware there is no true accountability in law for our elected officials.
The wealthy few pull the strings - kick backs are probably rampant and no politicians spend time locked up because the laws either aren’t there, aren’t enforced, or there are loop holes. Are there any campaign finance laws, anyone keeping track of politicians wealth building while in power, what about their foreign accounts and assets, what about the MP’s doing their jobs on the same side of the aisle or have they given up having their own opinions heard and acted upon. Do they get a Christmas bonus for keeping quiet? Also not one public renewable energy plant on New Providence yet and we are supporting fossil fuel exploration in 2020- not very forward thinking . “When I analyze the stench..” (Bob).
On Oil drilling concerns
Posted 27 November 2020, 7:54 a.m. Suggest removal
professionalbahamian says...
Idiots. No evidence or science this approach will do anything but make travellers go elsewhere and will just confuse the issue.
Protect the elderly and vulnerable with underlying conditions and let the rest of the country get on with their normal lives!
On Deportation threat over filing report
Posted 20 November 2020, 7:15 a.m. Suggest removal
professionalbahamian says...
Hmmmm
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defe…
On PM intends to extend state of emergency till December 28th
Posted 19 November 2020, 8:16 p.m. Suggest removal
professionalbahamian says...
Please- just flattening the curve until when- when you have an island of upper class and severely impoverished due to economic lockdowns- the curve will play out and the end result may be close to the same...
https://newsroom.uvahealth.com/2020/07/…
On Weekend lockdowns for New Providence and Abaco
Posted 7 October 2020, 1:33 p.m. Suggest removal
professionalbahamian says...
Very Sad and stupid- why close the beaches - resentment for this government must be at an all time high! But of course like every prior Bahamas Government they don’t give a crap what the population thinks or wants. The population is looked upon as children or patients I appears...!
open the country completely and promise in writing not to close it in any way again! sweden - a country which never restricted anything, is doing better than the rest of the world with this!
On Weekend lockdowns for New Providence and Abaco
Posted 7 October 2020, 12:21 p.m. Suggest removal