Right. And that’s working real good huh?

“The experts say…”, there are no “experts” quoted in this piece as this statement is attributed to those who wrote this piece to protect themselves.

And why are you subjecting us to your deranged conversations with others? Isn’t it enough reading your own posts?

It is the job of our elected members & government to account with diligence to the people of The Bahamas as to their governance of the economy, national security & society.

So when monies in any government fund are removed without merit, without regards to the laws governing said fund, AND then show up as vouchers worth millions distributed & signed by PLP candidates just before an election, then yea, this deserves a bru-haha!

There is nothing to suggest that Mr Fitzgerald did anything wrong…”?!
Nothing except the timing of these withdrawals of $238M and $1.5M just prior to the May election.

The fact that these vouchers were distributed by PLP candidates in the waning days of what was predicted to be a blow to their majority.

The fact that monies were coming into and out of this fund without any of the legally obligated oversight is highly suggestive of its true purpose, a party slush fund.

Another feel good, looks good in church law.
Will this be yet another ballyhooed effort with no force of will? No fruition?
A grand commission of oversight that never meets, is never enforced?

And don’t tell us all about this hiring of social workers, etc., for we have the same laws, the same officials and officers that pretend to guard and enforce the rights of our children.
Yet the cases of parental laxity fill our media: neglect, malnutrition, abuse, incest and pedophilia, government “care homes” are filled to over capacity.

If we lack the will and the means to prosecute the parents, grandparents, and relatives of the children they refuse to acknowledge let alone support, how can we hope to do the same for our vulnerable elderly?

The next time one reads the columns-long lists of relatives in the obits of the dearly departed ask yourself why is it that when a child is in danger of harm and/or abandonment the list of the ‘dear ones’ is nonexistent?

We need to enforce the rights of our most vulnerable children by disenfranchising the ties of those who abandoned them, thus allowing adoption by responsible parents.
Force them to pay for their care, their needs?
Hopefully this might allow space to house the elderly also so abandoned because that’s the other gaping hole in this bill, forcing folks who would refuse a child to care for their aged.

What’s going on here?
Animal Control euthanized the dog immediately after the attack last Wednesday, but a week later the criminally reprehensible owner is still running around at large??

Perhaps it shouldn’t be astonishing for the local OIC of GB Animal Control to report they normally receive 3-4 calls per day reporting dog attacks given the attitudes we’ve witnessed from so many owners.

Some have excused bad behaviour citing that what folks normally see as pets are considered ‘nothing but livestock’ a commodity by some, however most of the successful farmers, owners of breeding stock, and kennels ensure the health and control of said ‘livestock’.

When I was a child our Malinois was a fierce guard dog and my best friend, neither characteristic must be exclusive. There are no bad dogs only bad owners.

How could the Minister of Education declare he knows nothing of this issue, one that obviously gravely impacts the quality of teaching in his own schools?
Is it a studious ignorance?
Goodness knows that’s been his pattern in every portfolio he’s been assigned..

Shouldn’t he be able to ascertain the undue burden this would have on every teacher?
Every student, whatever language they speak?

The Bahamas supposedly runs a “Public School” system, their mission to provide an equal opportunity for every child here. So it follows that if a child cannot speak english then this must afforded to her/him.

So it’s taken them 3 years to attain 30% of this project’s completion?
That puts substantial likely…by 2033 right?!

About the same time you posted this ‘atta boy’ for Bahamian rescue efforts the Lamar family announced they’d recovered one deceased family member’s body.
A few hours later they announced the recovery of all their dead relatives, pulling their bodies from the sea themselves.

Yes there were localized storms at Bahamas Air Traffic lost contact with the plane just after 11AM but these storms didn’t last all day.
Moreover videos show the family setting out to search from the Bahamas in calm conditions Monday evening.

So the questions are: why did the Bahamas wait 3 hours after the plane had presumably went down to call the US Coast Guard?
Why did the rbdf & rbpd which have far larger ships to ride out “deteriorating conditions” than these family members used not continue (or start?) searching?
How were they able to make this recovery in the same area supposedly being searched by Bahamas authorities?

And lastly what does it say about the dedication to their mission, and ability of Bahamas official government rescue ops to carry out that mission?
That the same day that their Father’s, their Grandfather’s plane disappeared they launched their own rescue mission?
What propelled them to set out themselves, appeal directly to boaters, pilots & fishermen (presumably in the absence of any from Bahamian authorities) and hire private rescue ops to assist in their recovery of their family members?

Makes one shiver to think of any reliance we might need…

What else is new….