Agreed. Some comments here are really inappropriate. It's not about politics, it's about the well being of another human being. <br/>
How have we become so desensitized in respecting human life?

Be careful not to take the Lord's name in vain, everyone.
I think everyone should stick to politics.<br/>
I do wish him well as I would any of my fellow man who falls ill and has a family who loves them and is praying for them.

I agree that the contract price tag seems quite high. Isn't that the yearly salary of the president of the United States?
However, even though I don't know the fella personally, I think the vicious attacks on this blog are a bit much. I am of the christian faith, so I don't believe in certain lifestyles but this name calling here is just a bit childish.

...on the edge of my seat, waiting for the "details" of this one... 7 Billion National Debt (ouch!)
Cause Turnquest provided no details so far on how the government will avoid digging a bigger hole financially. I'm tired of hearing about the old government's debt. You're in power, what are you going to do now?

Certainly the Deputy PM is disappointing. No real plans to address national debt. Now the other shoe has fallen. Scary times indeed... it seems there's a great deficit in the ability to anticipate the aggregate grave financial issues we will face shortly if we don't turn this situation around. wake up Bahamas.

Turnquest please stop the cryptic talk. On the point of *transparency* tell us exactly how you plan to *avoid* drawing from the full budgeted 722M. Otherwise these stories are just a waste of ink and a ploy to stay relevant in the headlines. If you don't actually have a realistic plan, this is just devastatingly scary and disappointing. (Over the coming weeks, the PROOF will be in the pudding!)

Country broke + Exorbitant borrowing = Better Country Reputation?? <br/> Just bad math anyway you look at it. (*No wander we have a 'D' National Average.*)

I find this a bit hilarious. I'm really not impressed with D’Aguilar so far. One minute he says that Baha Mar's occupancy was too low because they opened too early. The next minute he says he doesn't want them to have a "cannibalistic" monopoly.
Well, I say competition is good. Case in point: I have never seen BTC offer so many specials before Aliv's opening. If the other resorts are quality resorts, like the other reader said, they have nothing to fear. I guarantee that the resorts that will remain competitive are those that train their staff to offer quality service and accept nothing but the best in professionalism and service. (It seems people just want the money to fall into their laps - work for it, work hard for it.)

Over 700 million is insanely high. Is there no way around this? It's really sad that we are in this state right now. The government needs to be carefully cautious to prevent things from getting even worse in the near future.

Make sense. If the new government has spoken about the corruption of the old administration so much, why would the first thing you do is honor possibly corrupt invoices without properly vetting them first. Who would just pay out $400M without greater scrutiny. Come on Dr. Minnis, let's be wise.