And which PLP sycophants and police department gang leaders will be appointed to this ‘Cannabis Authority’?
Now this here is the way Bahamian politicians “take back the streets” -in trade!

Mr Mitchell is as ever offering hogwash and arrogance instead of good governance!

As the Minister of Foreign Affairs he’s disrespected his office again, and the good people of the Bahamas again in order to curry continued favour with our supreme debtors CCA.
Perhaps it’s his flair for the dramatic causing him to act in his remit for foreign affairs in the most literal terms, ie. sordid and morally distasteful…

I agree with those calling on him to cease his embarrassing and scurrilous accusations as he is making a fool of himself and serves to highlight his party’s fraudulent behaviour with the Judge pointing the finger squarely at Sir Beltron & his son Leslie as the conduit to curry favour and gain access to the Christie gov’t.

As for Mitchell claiming no evidence, how ridiculous and what fools he must believe we are!
The Manhattan Supreme Court Justice ruled on a $Billion+ finding without evidence?
Justices don’t bandy about lightly in writing findings that include words like “this absolute sham and complete shakedown”

One can be sure the Ministry of FA performs these services with the same diligence Justice gives to complaints from prisoners locked up here in Fox Hill, hence the allegations!

What troubles me here is the fact that the poor boy’s aggrieved Father had to seek out the investigating officer-is there no duty of care that the police extend in such circumstances?
And two months - at least for any information?
How long for the disposition? Is this per usual in the case of a vehicular death?
Or just reflective of what anyone in the Bahamas can expect given who was driving the car? As in we’re sorry but don’t expect a result Bub.

Is this his Benevolent Weatherman outfit??
Are the winds to be high enough to sweep away large squat objects?
And where are folks going to shelter in say…Abaco??
In the wobbly structure with the collapsed roof?
Lord help us!

Your link is for visitors to the UK
There really is no comparison given these new regs as those visiting the Bahamas as a tourist usually want to stay here in the winter and shoulder months, ie. 4-6 mos.

A US B2visa ie. tourist visa is $185, lasts 10 years and allows for a stay up to 180 days (6 months)
As well this can be accomplished online w/an appt’t in any city with a US Embassy/Consulate.

Your opinion would have some worth if you weren’t speaking from both sides of your mouth, ie. that we’re “undervaluing the price people are willing to pay to have paradise” and “measly fees of $50” then launching into “we should not be arrogant”. Perhaps you’d like to read your first statement again?

Rick Gardner of CST (above named) tallies the fees for landing in the newly created private Bimini airport, and paying for services not yet available at $700 for a light aircraft w/4 passengers.
That doesn’t include fuel and parking fees now pegged at $900/month.
How does this add to the success of this $80M project??

https://www.caribbeanskytours.com/membe…

Compare this to T&C, where landing fees for the same craft are…$10.
Departure at $29/person.
Parking…$5/day
Development fes…$20
I might have left one out but one gets the picture?

And the last one is an even better selling point..
Crime rate here 64.8
T&C..48.6

I agree, but who’s going to throw over the dominoes table?

This is an incredible but sadly hardly a surprising story.
BPL has had in hand the needed permission from DEPP to continue their remediation for a year now, and they claim to have ‘a plan’, so why haven’t they shared this plan with the property owner if this is what he requires for access and clean up?
Why hasn’t the great Bahamas environmental protection Dept done it’s job “to protect Bahamians”?
Why would it take a ministry department that hadn’t as yet acted for Bahamians a year and a half just to approve and forward BPL’s remediation plan if indeed it was miraculously created and submitted a week after they got the cease and desist order in February 2022??

Ms Rolle BPL’s attorney noted they’d installed monitoring wells for assessing groundwater contamination, however she also claimed locals have been scooping up the diesel flowing freely into the site since at least the winter of 2022.
Which begs the question where has this professed concern for preventing “Androsians from being exposed to cancer causing chemicals”? Why haven’t BPL at least placed signs warning folks of the health and environmental hazards? They don’t need to access the site for that.

Mr Butler and his engineer submitted a report on the ongoing spillage that BPL and DEPP have known of since January 2022, already aware that the flow of diesel is so extensive and the fumes so pervasively toxic that nearing the site makes one ‘nauseous’.
So their “monitoring wells” have been redundant from the day they were placed in 2022, no?

However the overwhelming concern given this corruption of governance?
Why is the oil still flowing? Why didn’t BPL fix the problem in 2022?
And why the heck hasn’t DEPP forced them to remedy these health concerns (which all are now professing) on Day One when they first entered the contaminated site?

Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t DEPP created against the backdrop of the oil industry interest in drilling to belay all concerned about an oil spill fouling beaches and waters?
That DEPP could and would use all the powers bestowed to act instantly to sweep in and protect this country from such a catastrophe?

Well now we know, but what are we going to do?

Of course not!
Then again given the dismal reputation of this country's corrupt institutions no warning was likely needed!
And the RBPF and the gov't's talk of the Met and/or Scotland Yard whatever "assisting" them in inquiries over their own corruption?
I'm surprised they weren't publicly reprimanded for spreading such nonsense.
What reputable law enforcement agency from any country would work under the aegis of these crooks? Or have their name sullied on any investigative report that's sure to be a public embarrassment?