The explanations given by yourself and Mr Sands for ‘walkaways’ do not reflect the reality of the building industry in the Bahamas.
1) “30-40% of smart contractors are walking away” from contracts w/inadequate funding,
Tell us how any “smart contractor” contracts a job without a schedule of payments?
Without providing upfront to homeowners (or potential owners) the full costs involved so they can get a mortgage/loan?

2) Tell us where these foolish bankers do business, ie. give $$ away w/o mandated due diligence?

3) If the BCA is so concerned with the plight of homeowners left high and dry by contractors why don’t they police themselves instead of blaming the gov’t (again)?
Why do they accept such fraudulent persons as members?

4) As Sands indicates, construction contractors are business persons.
So how can any businesses even so called “smart” ones survive if they fail to bid based on the costs in 2024?

5) There were never any “old rules” to rely upon in foregoing common sense and basic accounting practices, ie. “crunch numbers”. and in the Bahamas of all places??
Even Pharaoh’s contractor knew how to keep his head upon his neck!

The problem has always been a local industry that’s known for it’s sharp practices and shoddy workmanship. How else do we end up with entire subdivisions of shoddy homes, and infrastructure that floods? Free and/or subsidized gov’t homes, ministry buildings so moldy they’re unfit for habitation?

Why do international contracted projects bear the expense of fees, salaries and expenses to bring in workers? Enough with the excuses!

There is no justice in the Bahamas, most especially for women.
This is basic information attained before anyone is seated for a jury.
What a clown show.

So the obvious question to put to the Minister is…if as he stated that he is aware of the problem, that it’s been an issue since Covid why then hasn’t his ministry and this government acted pro-actively?

That is order new ER vehicles knowing that the ones in service aren’t lasting as long?
And at the same time keeping up with repairs so Bahamian citizens can rely on ER services? And why not order firetrucks for citizens in the family islands?
Or does this gov’t want tourists and second home owners to know if you have a heart attack you might not make it to hospital in time?
Or we cannot guarantee that fire truck is available to put out your house fire?

And why is the Bahamas gov’t always waiting for some bank loan?
Where are the monies taken in by Davis&Co, is all being pocketed?
Remember when VAT was introduced? All the ‘extra’ $$ that would produce??

This, bringing men to accountability is the hardest thing a woman can do.
Doubt, shame, and fear of so many things, will I be believed, will society, our friends, (his family who know him best) shun me?
How can I get on, move on? Will my four boys stand by me?
When I finally called the police on my husband, he ended up making a deal with them and at court the officer said the charges should be dropped.
The Justice must have known of some fix because he refused to dismiss it.
Eventually my husband just fled the country.
Do not think this is an easy road taken.

If Mr Mitchell wants to know ‘what’s going on in the place’ why doesn’t he grab one of those Bahamasair flights??
Former PM Minnis is absolutely right!
It is ludicrous to have people believe Bahamian troops have anything to offer police officers in Haiti who have been fighting siege warfare with the most murderous gangs in the world. Their police stations have been put to the torch, the ministry buildings as well.

And who in their right mind believes the Bahamas got their diplomats out of harm’s way merely to assuage our sensibilities?
Every other country has gotten out of dodge, the American non essentials got out last month under cover of darkness right behind the German ambassador & other EU diplomats.

So to answer the Minister’s question of who in their ‘wildest imagination’ would believe…?
From this government? From this particular man??
Our wildest imaginations do not have that far to leap!

That’s not true.
A child born to a US Mother abroad wed or not, before 2017 is eligible for citizenship at birth if that Mother spent at least a year in the US or it’s territories before the birth.
If a child is born after 2017, the rule is she must have lived in the US for 5 years with 2 of those years after she turned 14.

And the process of acquiring citizenship thru birth to a US parent will always be easier than for that for immigrants who didn’t acquire it at birth, ie. born in the US.
The means of attainment in the Bahamas like most everything else like justice an/or human rights is and always has been misogynistic.
Success now lies with one’s political connections not one’s civil rights.
That should be an anathema, not the rule.

Wrong again John!
Please reference the correct info here.
Unlike the Bahamas’ antiquated and misogynistic laws, women of other countries including America may pass on their citizenship rights to their children.
https://nl.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-se…

So this incompetent entity that cannot govern it’s bureaucracy will be fixed by creating more?
In a country governed not by what’s best for Bahamians, but rather ‘where’s my cut’?

It’s hard to believe that the Bahamas will ever recover from six years of this unfettered corruption.

So how much was actually realized from these court cases, ie. as in judgements that were satisfied not ordered?
And how many deadbeat companies are still in arrears, leaving their employees in the lurch?

So women rule you say?
And yet the statistics of rape, sexual, domestic abuse and murder of women and children prove this is a lie.
We’ve heard such foolishness forever, words are cheap in the Bahamas.

Show us the law that protects the rights of women and more importantly, the means by which this law will be enforced by both the judicial system and law enforcement officers.