The great tourism idea is wifi? Lol. Lol. Lol. We have tons of things to do to improve out tourism product and the genius plan is charging for wifi downtown. Lol. Is this guy serious? We have derelict buildings stretching for about a mile. We have stray dogs, homeless people, roads with potholes, traffic lights that don't work, historical sites in disrepair, basically zero true Bahamian stores and the grand idea is wifi? And this ladies and gentlemen is your tourism minister. Lol. Time for all of us with the resources to move to another country.

As was commented above, wifi won't make someone come off a ship. If tounare charging for wifi are you telling Starbucks, etc they can not provide free wifi? So, you have wifi coverage from Arawak Cay to the Paradise Island Bridge? Cool! Does a smart city have about a half mile.or so stretch of derelict buildings, stray dogs and homeless drug addicts?

On the security side, do the geniuses here have the capability of properly securing the connections?

Ummm...he didn't know this was an issue while he was PM aye? A state of the art hospital. Yes Sir, coming right up! We'll use the imaginary money given to us by the leprechauns to pay for it.

Why are we spending money we don't have on campaigns to spin a positive image? The best idea is to spend that money on addressing crime. Is he serious? He's playing numbers and doing PR. Cut the nonsense and fix the underlying problem. As some folks commented yesterday, you want to make the tourists feel safe while they are here and do our best to ensure that but what about the people that live here. Shouldn't the taxpaying citizens be entitled 5o a safe country?

It galls me that the gross incompetent politicians spend so much time spewing statements that have zero benefit for the country. We have a crime issue. We have put of control government spending. We have a civil service that needs to be cut in half. Put in place a crime plan that actually shows you know what you are doing. Put in place austerity measures. Run the country instead of pretending to do so.

Today, we say print this there instead of here. Tomorrow it's you can only go here and not there. The day after, it's agree with me or there will be consequences. Dictatorships don't always begin with the iron fists. Idi Amin looked like a man of the people at the beginning.

Ok. Lol. Why does a leader of a country make a request to the media and tell them that they must think of their country before putting stories about crime on the front page. Seems a lot stronger than a request. You do realize birdie that anywhere on this planet, in a supposedly democratic country, that doesn't look good, right?

If he makes a request to shutdown the streets, what do you think happens? Last I checked his requests, given his position isn't a request. Maybe a head of state isn't a head of state. Censorship by any other name is still censorship. Let's assume that first world.nations know how to gather Intel. If they do, I'm going to guess they are not looking for the print media to deliver the paper then only look at the front page. Just as this sounds nonsensical, it's just why the reason for his "request" is absurd.

Why are asking what rock the PM is under? His under a rock called "bliss". Lol. He must have been having a really bad day yesterday. That was a very dangerous statement he made from a democratic standpoint. I think he forgot that giving the impression that you are prepared to suppress the media may translate more negatively than the crime wave. It suggests the growing buds of a totalitarian regime.

It's good to see that we are embarking on such a program. A lot of lives can be saved here. The biggest challenge is getting it set up the right way and ensuring that the facilities are up to standards. He mentioned a new hospital to be setup. Sounds good. PMH would be a terrible option right now for that. The place don't look sanitary enough for cuts and bruises, so imagine something like this.

I think this is a positive step forward. They just need to make sure they get it right from the start.

Lol. It rough here. There are some elements in John's comments that are true. Imprisoning someone for small.amounts of marijuana doesn't serve any benefit to.the state. It only creates a scenario for that individual to slip further and further. You take potentially a good person and you transform them into someone hardened and angry and you take away employment and movement which creates the recipe for a serious criminal.

Lol. Can you imagine someone reading this and thinking that guy is talking censorship of.the press. That's going to cause more of a stir than the crime issue. Now tourist start to think this is a failed state.