Your last sentence is so true......@John is but one shining example of what you say our country is full of. LOL

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Gowon Bowe is no fool and he certainly is no pseudo-intellect lacking in common sense like Simon Wilson. LOL

Let's just count ourselves fortunate that Fwreddy Boy Mitchell is a well known and well documented laughing stock within the diplomatic community, especially among senior U.S. diplomats. Like the Red China embassy officials stationed in The Bahamas, U.S. diplomats are always laughing at Fwreddy Boy behind his back, and rightfully so.

Trust me, unlike the voters in the Fox Hill constituency, in diplomatic circles they all know him to be nothing but a certifiable loony nut who is both despicable and spiteful. And most who come to know him, very quickly find out for themselves that he actually thinks of himself as God's gift to mankind. LOL

@pileit may well know the "call sign" (registration number) for this crashed aircraft which would give one access to a lot of publicly available info if the plane is indeed FAA registered. Also there's nothing misleading in @pileit's comments. I suspect though that your info about American pilots being more crash prone than Bahamian pilots is misleading for a number of very good reasons.

Michael Maura has plenty of reason to smile these days. He was and remains the key bagman for highly unusual transactions between enterprises controlled by certain Turkish principals behind the Global Ports Holding Group and certain Bahamas government officials.

The transactions were in fact so unusual that accountants kpmg llp and lawyers Baker & McKenzie LLP had great difficulty in signing-off on the fiscal year 2021 audited consolidated financial statements of Global Ports Holding PLC, a UK public company, notwithstanding the making of various most awkward and revealing related party transaction disclosures.

The UK firms of KPMG and Baker & McKenzie eventually found the 'right' Bahamian law firm to obtain the 'right' kind of legal opinion needed on the probity and propriety of the highly unusual transactions within the context of their legality and acceptability under Bahamian law.

Apparently a highly regarded Bahamian QC burst out in loud laughter when he read a copy of the Bahamian law firm's legal opinion and was told about certain provisions of the Port Operating License Agreement ('POLA') as well as the nature of certain multi-million dollar transactions involving Turquoise Advisory Limited, a company controlled by Michael Maura. There are also various unusual peculiarities behind the YES Foundation's 2% ownership of Nassau Cruise Port.

All of this is no doubt well beyond Neil Hartnell's investigative skills as the business editor of The Tribune. LOL

> Mr Mitchell said Prime Minister Philip Davis "wants to make the point to the Americans directly that you must have a summit of all countries of the hemisphere and not some countries of the hemisphere.”

**Translation:** *Loyal senior Chinese Communist Party agents in The Bahamas, namely Mitchell and Davis, decide to really stick it to the American people for not respecting the rights of authoritarian regimes and the ruthless dictators who run them.*

I voted last September for one of the independent candidates who ran in my constituency. And he would have been 100 times better than the lame-brained and corrupt PLP thug who is now my constituency's MP.

The very cruel Davis at the urging of squirming LaRoda wants hard working honest Bahamians to flush more of their increasingly scarce money down the National Insurance Fund toilet bowel when he knows full well that NIB is nothing but a corruptly run and most wastefully managed Ponzi scheme which will never be able to make good on its obligations to those employers and employees who have paid many thousands of dollars into it over many years.

Both cruel Davis and squirming LaRoda need to be told in no uncertain terms by employers and employees alike that enough is enough. If they sincerely want to try improve the financial condition of the National Insurance Fund, then let them first demonstrate that on a good faith basis by slashing the over-bloated and very costly headcount of NIB by at least 50%. NIB's annual administration costs are more than three times what they should be compared to national social insurance schemes in many other countries.

It's generally known that our National Insurance Fund has been run into the ground and bankrupted for all intents and purposes by decades of bad and fraudulent investments made at the behest of the corrupt ruling political elite. And now these same corrupt people have the temerity and naked gall to call on poor struggling employers and employees to put even more of their hard earned money into a scheme destined not to be able to make good on its obligations when all is said and done. Talk about Davis being cruel to the n'th degree!

Is the Pinecrest area where Snake's latest housing development will sit still underwater? LOL