The Tribune

Editor, The Tribune.

Our Prime Minister has been lauded, both at home and abroad, for his outspokenness on small island states and the need for reparations from the Industrialised countries of the World.

I think that we would all love to know, however, exactly what we are going to do with such reparations, should any be disbursed to us. I certainly have never heard, nor seen, any defensive plan to mitigate tidal surge in hurricanes, nor even higher sea levels at any time. Do we have a plan? Or would any money received simply be paid into the Consolidated Fund, along with our Taxes and Vat and secret fines levied for spilling oil in our oceans and bays? If we don’t have any mitigation plans, as I suspect that we don’t, how in the world do we think that any State is going to be able to assess our needs and dish out money to help us achieve them. Or maybe we think that people will just give us money to shut us up.

And then out of the other side of our mouth we are making plans to “sell” our Carbon Credits to polluting countries so that they can continue polluting and endangering our very existence as a people.

Hopefully when we hear the King’s speech on the 4th October there will be some mention made of how we are going to tackle both of these related issues.

MONKEEDOO

Nassau,

October 1, 2023.