No need to name shame, Banker. Your comments are usually quite cogent, cabined and mature. No need to deviate from - your usual - high standards.

Dear Mr. Dorsett, for someone who is supposed to be a sports reporter, your article is - in a word - sloppy. Your editor, too, deserves much condemnation for this amateur article.

For instance, young Bastian is quoted as swimming the "50 free" and the "100 breast" and the "200 breast". By any chance could you please advise if we are speaking about "yards" or "meters"? Was it the 100 meter breast? You should know how important the distance is, no - particularly when quoting swimming times? 20.02 in the 50 m free makes Bastian a legitimate medal hopeful. Are we talking about long-course or short course racing? These are important and elementary notes that a "reporter" should include when producing a so-called article.

Perhaps some background info on Bastian. Where did he go to school in The Bahamas? (This could have been a one-line parenthetical).

Maybe a quick quote from young Bastian on how he feels about the accomplishment?

Lazy, sloppy, worthless journalism.

Respectfully, bcitizen, no, the government would not save more money. And no, the economy would not be better off (notice, I said the economy, not strictly the government budget - which, actually I am not convinced would be better off either). And no, the country would not be better off.
What you are proposing is political rhetoric and not at all based in economic - I repeat, economic - fact.

Moncur, based on your usually level-headed, intelligent comments, surely you are not so obtuse to see that - at the moment - if it were not for the civil service spending money, that this country would be even far worse now than it is. You have to keep the civil service employed at the moment. Once things return to our new normal, then we can go back and "right-size" the service.

I guess you have not been paying attention. But the point is not about "essential service" anymore. The numbers men proved, in accordance with the PM's address/emergency orders, that they can offer curbside service, so they should be allowed to open. This is very simple. They should be open.

Hubris at its finest. I assure you, Ms. Wallace, few, if any, want to see you in politics. You have nothing to offer the country that we havent seen 1,000 times before.

Doesnt matter, moncour, Wayne will win this case easily. Easy money for him.

So, you want to spend MORE money - to big fat cat millionare lawyers - in order to not pay working class Bahamians LESS money. Wow.

Fair enough. Thank you for the very mature rejoinder. Appreciate it!

I will be succinct: "no".