Did I miss something? Isn't the US in a recession and having a huge unemployment problem? Also, why would someone pay two, three or four times.what they pay at home to go to a location where you're not guaranteed to have power during your years stay? If this was such a great idea that is an extension of something we have already, why wasn't it done before?

What is the projected income from this idea? Saying let's say a person spends $30k and we get 1,000 people then we have $30 million is nonsense. It's like saying if I have a cat and a spider, I have a new creature a cat-spider. I expect the Financial Secretary to give facts and figures, not fairytale numbers. Is he serious? This is a disgrace. Can someone with any understanding of numbers show that this was actually properly thought out and that some research was done.

I know the national average is a "D" but we shouldn't publish evidence of it.

This current situation is a complex one. The government is trying to balance the medical vs. the economic picture. A lot countries are struggling with this. We can't afford a total destruction of the economy. But, at the same time a continual rise in the infection rate will not help us economically either. The biggest issue in this pandemic besides Covid-19 itself is non-compliance. If people complied we could take the risk. But, people don't come. Them those same people complain about the situation. The government is forced to take a decision based on the actions of the idiots in the country. Bad individual decisions led to the spike. The government in it's reopening for travel added to it. If we open now the numbers will climb because some people don't listen. Sick people can't work. Businesses with sick staff have to close because other staff may have been infected. So let's say you shutdown for two weeks. Someone else gets sick, you restart that 2 week business shutdown. If the countries numbers keep increasing we get musical chairs with business shutting down for a couple of weeks because someone is infected. I don't think this works economically either. Seems worse than simply shutting down, addressing the issue and opening when we're better.

I would like the country to get back to normal soon, but unfortunately a bunch of idiots are going to plan a party and share the Covid-19 love which leads to us battling a lockdown.

An entertaining and informative piece. Let's hope.Mr
LOI isn't running the ship. I don't know the man but is he the most senior guy in the line up left? For God's don't ket it be Mr. D'Aguilar. That CNN interview wasn't a good reflection. I still can't believe he told the CNN reporter that prior to the July 1st opening we had test kits to test every visitor to the Bahamas. If I understood correct from the MOH, we only had a few thousand to cover the population. Maybe someone was flying in with a few million we didn't know about.

So, in short you think he is lying. A pickup could be valid but done in this manner suggests the business is completely open. Like I said in a prior post, a simple "Closed" sign and a locked door fixes this story. The people don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out he's lying.

This appears to be a lie to say the least. If you have a business that is catering to people in custody, they can prepare the meals and deliver them or like another person posted, an officer or officers could go there to collect. This appears to be a clear violation that the Commissioner wants to spin as an approved business providing a needed service. Also, to further evidence it's more than likely a lie, why would members of the public be allowed in to patronized? Wouldn't the sign on the door say, "Closed" and the establishment be locked and only thr police who will pick up know that they are open for their pickup and the business will only let them in. This is very basic. If the Commissioner believes wants to continue with this story, then he should step down because either he is dishonest or incompetent.

The challenge here is the same as in other countries, people don't listen. This is a virus that we can control. The entire country suffers for the actions of a few idiots. Can we implement flogging as a deterrent for non-compliant behavior?

When the item says 99 cents as the suggested retail price and Super Value charges $4.00 or more, this needs to be addressed. Not sure why he needed to comment on the elderly shopping. What we need from Mr. Robert's is fair pricing and fruits that are not rotten or close to rotten. During this pandemic, Super Value being the good corporate citizens that they are took the liberty to increase their prices on certain items. Mr. Robert's should assist the elderly and others in our community by not further driving them into potential starvation. You may not get Covid-19, but starvation can be deadly as well.

Does anyone know if Price Control still exist or are they like the other government agency, somewhere collecting a paycheck but not doing the work.

O...k. $1,500.00 for a death threat and $700.00 for selling coconut water during a lockdown because you need to buy groceries. Seems fair, right?

Politics! Politics! A lot of countries are losing right now to Covid-19. I would agree the PM made some mistakes here. I'm not sure if Mr. Davis was in the role of PM we would be seeing anything different.
Mr. David should explain to the people what new ideas he has to diversify our economic. The PM and Mr. Davis lack both vision and the management skills to effectively run our country. Would we all agree the last great idea in this country was "Independence"? Interestingly enough even that idea is an issue as it appears to be contradictory to the fact that we are dependent.
Can someone, anyone with a vision please step forth and run this little country. We have 40+ representatives and not one solid idea among them. It would be good if our leaders took a queue from their global counterparts. Resign when you've become a problem for the nation.
The PLP and FNM have brought us not but "mismanagement and grief" (borrowing a phrase from a well known poem).

Ummm... question, will we have power throughout the summer? And why did they cut power off a few days after the storm.

It seems that the more we (the people) spend, the less we receive. We need transparency on what is going on ar BPL. I don't understand how we have a management company but we receive the same terrible result as before or even worse.