In addition to corrupt elected officials, we are having to contend with decades of corrupt senior civil servants all the way up to permanent secretaries in some instances.

The unreliability of our postal service system and whether she had to pay a fee to have online access to her bank account are certainly other factors, among many others, that were worthy of consideration in this matter.

I'm surprised Hartnell has been unable to verify the name of the Bahamas-based financial and corporate services provider involved and publish it. The rumoured name is no doubt being circulated within the offshore financial community and should easily be verifiable by a business news editor with good sources within our local financial community.

once again:

we need to get all of these w.h.o. and p.a.h.o. foreign talking heads out of our country and tell them in no uncertain terms to stop meddling in our internal affairs.

we have listened to these bureaucratic imbeciles for far too long and look where that has gotten our public health system. these w.h.o. and p.a.h.o. bozos rule the uwi med school which is why so many of our uwi trained medical 'doctors' and 'nurses' are so deferential and subservient to them.

they think they are running our country and really need to be told by our elected officials to "butt out!"

we need to get all of these w.h.o. and p.a.h.o. foreign talking heads out of our country and tell them in no uncertain terms to stop meddling in our internal affairs.

we have listened to these bureaucratic imbeciles for far too long and look where that has gotten our public health system. these w.h.o. and p.a.h.o. bozos rule the uwi med school which is why so many of our uwi trained medical 'doctors' and 'nurses' are so deferential and subservient to them.

they think they are running our country and really need to be told by our elected officials to "butt out!"

This ruling of Pompous Barnett is so egregiously wrong on so many fronts that I do not know where to begin. For decades Barnett worked at Graham Thompson & Co which is the law firm that serves as Scotiabank's primary legal counsel in The Bahamas. Graham Thompson & Co. also does a lot of legal work for each of the major commercial banks operating in The Bahamas. Barnett's daughter, also a lawyer, may still be working at that same law firm.

Barnett has conveniently chosen to ignore the fact that Scotiabank, like the other commercial banks, have forced their customers to have debit/ATM cards out of a desire to drive profits by cutting their operating costs. But in doing so they have failed to put in place many of the costly security measures necessary to protect their customers from many of the fraudulent shemes that make use of such cards.

Questions that immediately come to mind: Did Sotiabank ensure she received a card with a built-in security chip? Were transactions with the card subject to and secured by a two-factor verification procedure? Did she have online access to her bank account? Was she allowed and required to re-set the card's initial PIN number at the time it was issued or did Scotiabank send her a 'fixed' PIN number in the mail? Was she able to get online alerts sent to her mobile phone of transactions posted to her account? Was there a scintilla of proof that Ms. Pinder was somehow involved in or responsible for the removal of the funds from her account?

This ruling by Pompous Barnett sends a loud message to all banks that they need not be concerned with introducing and maintaining costlier security systems to protect the accounts of their customers. It is a stunningly niaive and terrible ruling from a public policy perspective. And to think Barnett had the temerity and chutzpa to conduct a public attack on a retired Supreme Court Justice for what could well have been a more just ruling in this matter. Talk about being classless!

On a final note, Pompous Barnett's waffling on about justice delayed being justice denied is really quite laughable given what we all know about our dysfunctional court system and the role that lawyers like Barnett have played in bringing it to the lowly point where it stands today.

Pintard needs to stop listening to Ingraham and belly-aching that the FNM party is not 100% behind him as the party's new leader. There are better ways of taking control of the FNM party away from Minnis and Culmer's clan of idiots. He needs to get the traditional big financial backers of the FNM party behind him and let the FNM party be starved of cash inflows for a while.

And if he can't figure out how to purge the Minninite minions from the party's executive tribunal and council who are not supporting him as the new leader of the FNM, then Pintard simply isn't leadership material.

You obviously haven't attended any NFL football games recently. Sports stadiums throughout the US are packed to capacity. The US is no longer worried about COVID, even in the so called "low vaccinated red states."

There is little left for corrupt politicians and their corrupt billionaire friends in the big pharma and bio-tech industries to milk from all of the scaremongering associated with the never ending scariants.

Meanwhile the very evil and sinister Xi Jinping led CCP has his military regime working overtime to develop COVID-666 which will be bio-engineered to be mRNA vaccine proof and rid the world of all but the Chinese race. Coming to a cinema near you soon. LOL

It seems the PLP party should not have insisted on getting a much bigger piece of the pie from the Carnival's owners and organizers. And without its cut of the Carnival take, the PLP party will likely have to get a loan from Bank of The Bahamas to pay its more pressing unsettled election campaign bills.

Poor Fweddy Boy must be in an apoplectic tizzy over the fact that the Carnival owners and organisers are standing their ground and refusing to give into the PLP party's extortionist tactics. My oh my, say it aint so. LOL

At the last moment the owners and organisers of the Carnival were told in no uncertain terms that the PLP party needs a much bigger cut of the Carnival action to pay its election bills. All of this friction came about because the owners and organisers said "No", enough is enough. The PLP party then immediately went into a retaliatory extortionist role. Freddy Boy's finger prints are all over this 'business' fallout. LOL