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watcher says...

**the two Sports Max channels are being removed.**

Well, I guess I may be in the minority, but these two channels are the only ones that show test match cricket and Europa /Champions League football - the decision to 'cut the cable' gets easier with every Cable Bahamas announcement!

watcher says...

Can someone please let us know what documents / ID will be needed when a person goes for their vaccine? We all know the Government's love of endless red tape needed to get anything done, so please broadcast this information - drivers licence, passport, NI card, permanent residence, house deeds, bank statements, utility bills, birth certificate, marriage certificate, credit card, one-hour photo, police record.....that should just about cover it?

On Over-65s invited to take COVID vaccine

Posted 19 March 2021, 9:57 a.m. Suggest removal

watcher says...

Quote 'People who commit suicide are not weak, Commissioner Rolle, they are in need of help. And by your words, you make it clear that they will not find it from you.'

Well said. How the commissioner can be so totally out of touch with this awful subject, only goes to show that he has no empathy for the public he is sworn to protect.

watcher says...

A 16 percent overall drop in crime, and a minimum 33 percent (9pm to 5am) time we were under curfew. Yeah, right, it's all down to the police.

watcher says...

I would not say that the various vaccines coming to market are rushed and untested. Unlike other vaccines, the research into which would have been, for the most part, privately funded solely by the pharmaceutical companies, in this instance the full weight of global government subsidies has been used.

Also, many scientists will have been drafted into covid research who might otherwise have used their time and expertise on other medicines. And let us not forget additional funding has been made available from concerned citizens such as, for example, Dolly Parton's incredible donation of one million dollars. If a vaccine were not made available for another two years then I suspect that there would cries of 'why is it taking so long'?

We now accept that, for example, children's innoculations and adult flu jabs 'work', but there would have been a time when these were first rolled out. Let us accept, until firm evidence is provided to the contrary, that any covid vaccine will have been properly tested. To say otherwise would seem to suggest that the scientists have somehow deliberately set out to use their research to harm us; which any right-minded person should know is preposterous.

On EDITORIAL: A long road back from the brink

Posted 4 December 2020, 5:04 a.m. Suggest removal

watcher says...

Good news. Just make sure that an adequate drainage infrastructure is incorporated

watcher says...

Could you at least tell us how much the liquidators have 'earned' in the 23 years of this debacle? Messrs. Winder and Gardner seem to have been gainfully employed for nearly a quarter century without giving the bank's creditors much of a return.

On $16.5m recovery boost for Gulf Union creditors

Posted 20 November 2020, 12:44 a.m. Suggest removal

watcher says...

Reminds me of the ex-pat banker who, some years ago, was executed after making political enemies. We are still a wild west two-bit town when it boils down to it.

On Ex-landfill manager 'won't be driven out'

Posted 15 November 2020, 10:27 p.m. Suggest removal

watcher says...

I was reading about the UK's new tiered restrictions. One interesting bit was that Liverpool, a densely populated city, and one of the hardest hit covid hotspots, has an infection rate of 642.3 cases per 100,000 population. By comparison, we have approximately 1,250 cases per 100,000 population. If we were in the UK, I think they would build a wall around us until we all kill each other off. Surely it's time to bring in some international experts - either that or as ohdrap4 says, look out for more lockdowns.

watcher says...

@ B / S - But you're not offering any possible solution to the crisis as far as I.can tell. If the 'poor' should not be locked away, it appears that you would rather they be allowed free to roam the island at will? By your logic, we would all (yourself included) then end up either poor or dead.