Good sensible advice my astute brother, but, as we know common sense among our people, sadly, isn’t common.

What will be on da gubmint menu? Vell nah lemuh tink bout dat, corn beef or steam sautchiss and grits or maybe some tuna or sardine and some sugary drinks or sodas. eggs, toast, fruit, oatmeal and milk I doubt it……

"we don't need anything from them" that has to be one of the stupidest statements ever. We going to start importing our fuel from Venezuela and our groceries and clothing from South America and Asia now are we?
Just let them close their preclearance services to Bahamians travelling to the US and see how Bahamians adjust to that, talk about putting a crimp in your vacation travels and shopping sprees.
You don't bite the hand that feeds you stupid!

Except that when Pops & Sands were running things, we had neither serious crime nor debt to speak about, those things are the fundamental changes that the new and current oligarchy brought upon us.

How you could forget da man gat a Diploma Masters Degree in Shingles, he know erryting there is to know 'bout Shingles and den some...................

Out of the mouths of babes, suckling’s and Birdies, we have obviously learned nothing from our misadventures of the last fifty years.
Aside from the first Pindling & Ingraham terms in government, the rest have been a total cluster f..k!

The plague of social and moral decay and crime that has long defined Nassau has inexorably made its way into our other islands, Bahamians lost their moral compass and social consciousness a couple of decades ago so why is it that some people are only now realizing how far in the toilet we’ve gone?

Mr McKenzie needs to crawl back into his little crab hole and do some more research.
Yes, at one time much of Bay Street was owned by the white oligarchy but over the last five decades much of that ownership has been transferred to the hands of the black oligarchy, the Greek Bahamian families and the Chinese.
The governments of the last fifty years have placed onerous restrictions and property taxes on many of these properties, some even being designated as historical, preventing the owners, black and white, from developing those properties in a meaningful way.
Why would anyone in their right mind “invest” in a property that they cannot realistically get a reasonable return on their investment?
As for Wendy’s being denied access to upscale Paradise Island, well, I suppose Mr McKenzie doesn’t have a problem with a fast food restaurant or numbers house next door to him, perhaps he does.
What a shallow piece of “journalism”, if this is the best the Tribune can offer the mighty have truly fallen.

No one has mentioned it, but, aside from the BMW I wonder where the Ledher donated emerald necklace that was intended for the wife of a very senior politician actually ended up?

Can see this precipitating a run on private funds, especially pension funds, invested with these companies as who wants 50% of their portfolio comprised of worthless government paper.