Guardian Radio Today - June 8 2026

[00:00:00] Speaker A: This is Guardian Radio, your station for [00:00:04] Speaker B: up to the minute news and intelligent, [00:00:06] Speaker A: interactive and engaging conversations. 96.9 FM. The views and opinions of the hosts [00:00:15] Speaker B: and guests are their own and do [00:00:17] Speaker A: not necessarily reflect the views of the management of Guardian Radio. [00:00:30] Speaker C: Guardian Radio today is brought to you [00:00:33] Speaker B: by the Cleveland Clinic and Printmasters. [00:01:01] Speaker A: Father. Help your children and don't let them fall [00:01:14] Speaker B: by the side of the road. [00:01:27] Speaker A: To love one another that heaven might [00:01:32] Speaker C: find [00:01:35] Speaker A: a place in their heart. Jesus is love. He won't let you down. [00:01:54] Speaker B: Good afternoon, Good afternoon to one and all the Commodores. Lionel Richie. Lionel Richie Jesus love and today I felt within my spirit to spell some demons in our society that continue to hold us hostage to release us. Let us go to a place called love. I'm looking at an announcement here to join the Jenny Dean Caring and Sharing Cancer Support group for Hope Walk 2026 Saturday, June 13th at 6am at Goodman's Bay Park. The walk is in honor of survivors in memory of a loved one or simply to support those facing cancer today. They are inviting you to Register now at GC Cancer Support Group. That's gccancersupportgroup.com for those of you who do not have a pen or device to record such throw out the phone number and then I'll repeat that information once more before we go to a quick break to launch the show. The phone numbers today are as usual, 323-623-2325-431632-54259 anywhere from the family of islands within our archipelago 300-5720 or you can text in at 422-4796. Special shout out today to Gabriel McKenzie Eneas and her wonderful husband for their anniversary. They are celebrating and we need to continue to encourage young people and others alike to continue to stay committed, to work as a partner to create a team that betters the Bahamas. As we build one family at a time, Garth Milnard Roseborough says to you we build a stronger and better nation. I also want to give a shout out to my good friend Mr. Kevin facing a wonderful contractor here in our country and there are very few contractors that I can shout a job and he is a avid listener of Guardian Radio 96.9 FM. I want to give a shout out to him, my good brother in law Reginald Miller. I know he's also listening one of the great mechanics here in the country and all of you noted people who do wonderful work. I had a privilege this weekend, a surprise as it were. I sat with at Breakfast at the Garden of Eden out in Eastwood Estates. And I'm off to invited to sit there with my good cousin from Betsy Bay, Ephraim Jones. And while I speak about Betsy Bay Meguana, I do have to give a very, very, very, very special shout out today. A very special shout out to aunt Joanna Brown. She is 97 years old. I think she's the oldest in. We just lost uncle Arthur the other day right there around Sugar Kid Bow area and I think that's called Redland Acres. I just want to give a shout out to aunt Joanna. She's still surviving, still doing well and I'm happy, I'm happy to know that she is because it gives the rest of us hope that we have health in good stead for more years to come. So to the family of aunt Joanna Brown, my grand aunt, sister of my grandmother, mother hailing from Betsy Bay Meguana, they were all the siblings of Laban Brown, who would be the first male nurse here in the Bahamas who has passed on. And I give a shout out to the family, all those who are listening. Happy, happy, happy birthday aunt Joanna. I will do my endeavor best to pass by and to give my respects. We love you and you know what, you keep us all strong in mind. I appreciate you so much. That information again for those who plan on showing up on Saturday, June 13 at 6am Goodman's Bay park to support the cancer walk. The registration now [email protected] GC Cancerupport support group. As I was saying earlier, you know, I was there by this garden of Eden and I sat with the former senator Reuben Ramming and Pearly, your good friend Pearly, who comes on right after my show on Thursdays. And we had a great breakfast, you know, just brothers having a good breakfast. And then of course right after that I had another meeting. I can't mention the names of everyone who was there, but I had lunch and one person, well, two people actually stood out to me and I meet even later on. And that person would be pastor Nathan Rolle. He has a church right there on Claridge Road and Balfour Avenue. That's Pastor Nathan Roll, he was there. As well as Apostle Raymond Wells from Living Waters. My first time sitting with him and meeting him. And I must say that the environment, the ambiance, the spirit of God was there. And I so felt privileged to sit in audience with these men. And I'm just so thankful that we here in the Bahamas that we have men of such character. And I want to Continue to pray for these men, to encourage them as they continue to do the work of God, that we continue to bless and build this country. And that is why I opened up with the Commodore song that Jesus is Love. And I've been hearing much news of hatred and envy and jealousy and dissension and schisms and divisions and subtractions. And I say, my God, you got to take a Sabbath break from this man. You just can't keep doing this every day. To me. Someone mentioned to me today, I know she's listening, my good friend, the bank manager. She's also an avid listener of 96.9 FM. And she said, it's a sad day in the Bahamas. And I did not like that remark, because alone is enough of a privilege to give God thanks. And if you allow politics and outcomes of elections and those situations to determine your happiness, you got to find God who is love. Once you know who God is, it doesn't matter what men may do. It doesn't matter what demons may do. It doesn't matter how they will fail you, you know, the one who is able to keep you from falling. And God is love. And so I've always maintained that even if the PLP is in power, the FM is in power, whoever is in power, I always know that above all power, there is God, who is the greatest power of them all. I didn't come here to preach today. I just came to encourage you that if you're on your job and they're giving you a difficult time, you got to have a conversation with God. If you're having problems with a loved one who's just been deceased and you're trying to get them buried, and families fighting over land and fighting over possessions, you need to have a conversation with God. If you're having problems with your husband or your wife, you're having financial strains, you're having other situations. I just felt this morning, in my spirit, that, you know, you got to find God. When I was here last on Thursday, I mentioned to you some things in the Bible, like, for instance, when your wife was cheating, how you go to the church floor and you put it in the water, and if they drink it, and if they're cheating, the thigh would rot, the belly would rot, and they would. They would die. I told you that already. It's in the Bible. It's not voodoo or witchcraft. It's in the Bible. But if you're going through a difficult time in your marriage, I wish no man no harm. I just simply say to you, forgive them. Pray to God about them. And if you got to move on, just move on. Do not delay, do not, do not endure abuse. I heard Mr. Be yesterday on remark speaking about abuse in relationships. We find that some 14% of men are abused. Notably, we don't know how many more are abused because men tend to hide their problems. But there's women abuse, there's male abuse. We are in the Bahamas, in paradise. We need not endure these things. Find someone who you can find support with and move on. Your life does not have to be sad, you don't have to be angry or all you need to do is move on. You young people on the streets, stop arguing, stop fussing, stop liking man. Like they say, stop hanging out. You understand? Find something to do. Find a hobby, learn how to fish, learn. Then join a civic group. You know, give your time to volunteerism, to continue to mentor other men and other women to become citizens that can profit our nation. There's so much we can do. I didn't want to start the show like this, but my heart is heavy today because of the negativity in the environment. There's too many attacks going on. We're attacking each other for what we are promised. 3 score and 10 when we pass on all the things y', all people bickering about and fighting about who got this and who got that and who got favor and who don't have favor and what this one can get in terms of the crown. And man, to hell with that. You got to smile and give God thanks for being a Bahamian today. I just thought I would let you know to take a pause. Please take a Sabbath, stop looking over the fence and look at yourself and ask God, what is my purpose? Move forward and let's build the Bahamas together. Today I want to talk about health. I ran into my good cousin, Mr. Williams on Saturday, and Mr. Williams said to me, garth, I have a problem. And I wanted to bring it to your attention. I picked him up, just came from the market out in. Right out there, out west, Solomon's Fresh Market area. And he said, garth, I had a scare. I'm not calling his full name, but he said, I had a scare. I said, what's the scare? He said, my wife went for a checkup at a local doctor's clinic. And the doctor exclaimed that, you better get your wife to the hospital immediately. She is in trouble. Her heart is about to give out. He said he rushed his wife to a private hospital. Not calling the names. I don't get any trouble legally. They rushed his wife To a particular hospital. Now, this is what he said. This is not what I say. This is not what the Guardian 96.9 has to say. This is what he said to me. And I go ahead and I quote, he said just checking her in was $4,000 just to register. It may sound familiar to some of you. Please do not call the show to call the name of that hospital. I'm not interested in that today. I'm trying to share with you issues within our country that somehow, some way, we need to address these things. $4,000 to register your loved one who is in trouble. He then said that to get her from the first floor of registration to go to the third floor would cost $25,000. 4000 downstairs if you survive, if you're still breathing, you still got a chance. And when you get to the third floor, a little closer to heaven, a little closer to glory, you got to go ahead and pay 25,000. Almost sound like going back to church. The closer you get to glory is the more you need to pay. And the closer you get to hell is the more you need to pay. You always got to pay more for. For some reason in this life. 4000 on the first floor. On the third floor. He left there, he said, took his wife to Princess Margaret Hospital. I can call that hospital's name. It's public, to get treatment. He said he took his wife there in the waiting room and he waited. As he was waiting, there were people who were coming in after him and being served. Well, being my good cousin, as we all are, we get a little patient sometime. We're not perfect. He makes mention to them that, by God, you got to help my wife and wife in trouble. And he keeps on watching and observing as other people are being checked in. And he wondered, why the bee nest today? Because I got some beehives. I got to move today. He said that the people who were being served first were of Haitian nationality or Haitian descent. It was clearly seen to him. And he said his spirit became stirred, he became upset. And so he went to the triage and insisted that they take his wife. Now, because he's a Bahamian and he believes that it should be no discrimination when it comes to health care and service in this country. He said under the pressure, they took her immediately through the door, and he waited outside the door. But then he recognized that he was not getting a report as to her condition. And so he forcibly put himself past the security guard after they tried to restrain him to see what was going on with his wife and found her safe sitting beyond the door, still waiting while others were being served. Then he said to me that the nurse herself was of a foreign nationality and taking care of her own first. This is to me that this is happening in the Princess Margaret Hospital. That's what he said to me. Now, before we launch the show today, this is not a PLP FNM COI conversation. This is not. I'm going to say again because you know I'll cut you off. We got to get to the bottom of this. We got to go and dig deep. You know how I go. Don't make this political for me today because you're going to get me irritated. It's not a PLP F&M or COI problem. We're talking about the Ministry of Health. We're talking about public hospital authority. We're talking about getting service with the people of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The name of that institution. I want to talk about the name the Princess Margaret Hospital. What is it about the name and what about the present day service? How did we get here? We're going to take a quick break. Phone number 323-623-2325-431632-54259. Anywhere from the family of islands. 300-5720. You can text in at 422-4796. I see the phone lines are lit up. I know you have baggage from Chicago show. It was a great show that he just had great information. But I ain't taking on no baggage today. We focused today. So if your call has to do with anything else other than the Princess Margaret Hospital and healthcare in our country, I'm not interested in your call today. We staying focused today. I tired of you people complaining. Start being a people of solutions and not a people of problems. We'll be right back after this break. His love. 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I do believe she will be here on Wednesday to have a great conversation with you as she always does. Dr. Cleveland Enos III. Uncle Zara should be on tomorrow and we like to eat good $300 meals and travel some exotic places. Husband got us spoiled. But you know, she is growing, she is flying, she is learning, she is doing her thing and I continue to do my best to support as much as I could and allowing the next generation to move forward. I do also thank you all for accepting Mr. Beads yesterday for remark. Trying to slow down just a bit. Honestly a bit exhausted. I have some personal situations I am dealing with in terms of kidney health. And I'm also trying to purge my own kidneys. You know, you can't sparkly drink no Guinness and you can't be eating a whole lot of meat. You have to eat more healthy and beans and lentils and drink coconut water. As a matter of fact, I planted some coconut trees a few years ago and I got my first harvest. The boys through the hood, they were of course stealing the coconuts, you know, for their leisure. But I said, you know what? To hell with that. I pick in my coconuts before they get to it. And I went on the ladder and got me three coconuts and my God, thank you, Jesus. The water was good. And so for those people who believe in agriculture, believe in planting, believe in thinking and something man eat of it. You live longer, you live healthier, and you're a happier person. The lines are still lit up. And before I go to the lines, let me launch the show for you today. Thank you for tuning in. Let your family and friends know this is going to be a great, great conversation. I'm going to try to allow you to speak when I go to the phone lines, but for now, I just want to say this to you. The power of a name. When you name anything, you have to consider the spirit behind the name. There are not many people, if anybody, who names their child Delilah or names their child Jezebel or names Cain or names their child Esau. I've never met anyone by the name Herod. I just haven't. I've heard different names. I know there's such that when you look at the people of the same name, they have certain traits. And I give those traits to the idea of a spirit that's attached to the name. I'm not going to call your name today, but there's some people who I know that have a particular female name. And all the women who got that name, they're crazy. Crazy as a bat. There are some men who have a particular name. The boys. I'm stupid. They're just stupid. I don't know why you name your child, but when you name your child, you name your child after somebody that has the potential to be great and to be sensible. Sometimes we wonder why we got so much silly people in our country look at their first names and my God, genetically, some of you all can't get away your last names. You got a lot of crazy people in your family. That's just the way it is. I'm not apologizing for that because I know it to be. So I say all of this to say to you. Look at the name Princess Margaret Hospital. You tell me why we named the hospital Princess Margaret Hospital. Was Princess Margaret, who was the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth ii, daughter of Queen Elizabeth married to King George, this lady, Princess Margaret, Was she a doctor, was she a nurse, was she a Mother Teresa? Was she a caring person? Yet you named an entire institution after her. There was a previous name given to the same hospital, the General Hospital, but we changed it to Princess Margaret in honor of them visiting our shores, just for the sake of saying. And we rename this hospital in your honor. The name Princess Margaret should have been great for generations to come. But instead, what we look at today in 2026 is we look at a institution that seems and appears to be in dire let condition. You talk about mold infestation and broken down air conditioning and the morgue not working properly and a whole lot of negativity. So my question to you today is for those of you who have not yet called in. So I'm going to go to the lines right now. I want you to go and research for me and call me and tell me who was Princess Margaret? I want to know who she was. I want to know what her character was. And then you tell me why you think we should have associated our institution with her. And by the end of the show, I will give you a challenge today. Maybe, possibly if we're not satisfied as a result of this show, maybe we need to consider changing the name as we did with the Majesty's Prison right there in Fox Hill. Maybe you need to change that. Maybe we need to change some names, like how we change from Queen Elizabeth Ford center to Thomas Robinson Stadium. I don't know. You tell me. This is Guardian Radio Today 96.9 FM. I just figure there's a spirit associated with the name of Princess Margaret. And maybe if we change the name, we may have Jesus. He said, man, what must I do to be born again? Must I go back in my mother's womb and come back out? He said, no, man, you'll be born of the spirit. That spirit is what I'm talking about. For those of you who know who Jesus is or who knows who God is. I'm not speaking to the atheist, I'm not speaking to the Muslim. I'm not speaking to those who are Hindu. I'm not speaking to those who are Rastafarian. I'm not speaking to those who are of some different sect. I'm simply saying for those of you the Majority of who say you are a Christian nation. I'm speaking to you about this spirit that's associated with the name. And you recognize that for most part, when a man and a woman gets married, the woman changes her last name to accommodate the last name of the husband. Meaning to me that the woman is now preparing to accept the spirit associated with the last name of the husband. And no wonder why, when you. When you become married, if the husband name crazy, your children come up crazy too. That's just the way it is. Got to be careful who you attach yourself to. This is Garth Maynard Rosevarrow 9649 FM, Guardian Radio. Today you are live caller number one. What you got to say? [00:29:55] Speaker C: Call. [00:29:55] Speaker B: Are you there? Take the next call. Okolo your life. [00:30:01] Speaker C: Yes, good afternoon. [00:30:02] Speaker B: How you doing? [00:30:03] Speaker C: My friend Paula on your show. [00:30:04] Speaker B: Well, welcome, my dear. [00:30:06] Speaker C: You've hit the nail on the head about your topic today. [00:30:11] Speaker B: I appreciate that. [00:30:12] Speaker C: Is this guy I'm talking to? [00:30:13] Speaker B: This is Garth. [00:30:14] Speaker C: Oh, okay. Right. Currently, right now I have a relative. I'm not gonna call any. I have a relative in the hospital right now. Yes, it took the relative four days before they could have even gotten up on the ward to get a bed. Of course, a bed shortage. But I just want you to know that your relative who you're talking about, he did not speak a word of lie. I kid you not. The person that checked my relative in two minutes after that I went outside to do something. I came back inside. The person was talking in Creole and the person was a doctor and was talking to her own in Creole. So you are not lying and was telling the person how. What to do or what not, should not do. Whereas when I went there, because the relative was in pain and crying excruciating pain. That's the only reason the relative was able to get in as quickly and tried to get served. And even when they went in the back, there it was. There was a wait. But it's so many. I can't take half your show, but there's so many things going on. But I just want you to know that what a job has said is not incorrect. All right. But I wish we had another whole day for a topic so I can tell you a whole long story about it. But when you have your relative also in their care, you have to be humble because you can't be there with them. So you gotta just pray that God bring them out there alive. [00:31:28] Speaker B: I appreciate you so much, man. What a powerful call. [00:31:31] Speaker C: Yes, thank you. [00:31:31] Speaker B: I appreciate you so much. Thank you. First Time caller, and I hope she continues to call in. She sounds to be a sensible person. We need more sensible people making contributions. Folks, we tired of you people complain and try to find an issue with everything. My God. Go, go brush your teeth or go wash your underwear. Go do something different, man. Don't listen to the show no more. I'm tired of y'. [00:31:51] Speaker A: All. [00:31:51] Speaker B: But let me listen to another caller. Go ahead, call your life. Call you there. Okay, let me take another caller. Go ahead, next caller. Caller, you're there. You're listening to your radio. Turn it down for me, please. [00:32:08] Speaker A: Good afternoon, Garth. How you doing? [00:32:09] Speaker B: How you doing, my friend? [00:32:11] Speaker A: Redaman. Okay, let's be honest with this whole thing with Princess Margaret, Oskar. Right, Yeah. I mean, we can try be as radio appropriate as humanly possible. [00:32:21] Speaker B: Yes, right. Yes. [00:32:22] Speaker A: 1. I told you long ago they should have taken the name. I surprised the people in England and you remove the name longer. When since have you known Princess Margaret Hospital is the place that you ever wanted to go? Okay, not in, not in what, 40 years. I mean, sir, you're very. Remember, remember back in the day, right, when our parents used to carry us there, right? And we were kids, so we couldn't go to visit the individual in the room, so we said leave him in the waiting room. [00:32:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:52] Speaker A: What was the first thing your parents used to tell you? Now, baby, don't, don't, don't hold the door. You can't even hold the door for the hospital. You go in there, you hold your breath, you kick open the door or you use your elbow or something just to open the door. When you leave the hospital, right, you have to bathe in. So. But 12 times because you feel as though you can date or get something. But guess what, you won't believe it, right? The people to the hospital are actually great individuals who trying to do their best in the most horrible conditions ever. The reality of situation is rate. The situation is actually going to get worse. Went to hospital because of our eating habits and other chronic diseases and other things that happen. The whole system is overburdened. [00:33:37] Speaker B: Well, I appreciate your contribution, my friend, and you've not told any lies. And you know, we continue to hear horror stories about our public hospital. It is one of two institutions in our country that is known for assisting us with health and unfortunately the other one is extreme. But I want to get into this whole idea of maintaining our own hospital because there's a downside to it as well, that maybe the condition of the hospital is what it is based on our own contributions. But thank you for your call, my friend. I always appreciate listening to you. Let me take another call. A call. Are you live call? Are you there, caller? Are you there? Okay. For those people who are not able to get through, I know the phones have been giving issues nationwide, but you can feel free to give us a call. 323-623-2325-431632-54259. Anywhere from the family of Ireland. 300-5720, text in at 422-4796. Caller, you there? Go ahead. [00:34:42] Speaker A: Hello? How you doing? [00:34:42] Speaker B: God, I'm doing good, my friend. [00:34:44] Speaker A: This also was not just a hospital problem. I remember going to the clinic about seven, eight years ago, Flamingo Gardens Clinic, and I had to kick up a fuss. No, because I have no, let me stop saying I have no problem with no other person of any ethnicity of culture. But I believe in being fair. So if I am online on the line, I expect to be served. If I'm the 15 person there, I expect to be served. Fifteen, yes. Is that not correct? I don't expect people to come behind me, their names to individuals, and then I'm waiting there three hours, right? Didn't get served. Had to get served after 3 o'. Clock. I'm there on time, you know, for the morning clinic. But I got served after 3 o' clock because why people of other ethnicity. There are peoples or whatever, they got served ahead of me. And before I leave, right, I am calling one or two people and making call and the hammer come down, you know what I mean? Because I had some people in place, then they saw me, they understand me. And you don't want to pull people's card and you don't want to see him. But I had to do that. And that was the only reason that I got saw at 3 o', clock, waiting five hours to be seen. And I was on the line in time in the morning, from 8 o' clock that morning to register. I told them I come, I came to register. I told him I have to slip out, drop my wife, drop my daughter, but I'll be back. I said, where am I in line? They said, you fall in line at number 15. I said, I'll be right back. Go on. Because I know they take after they register you, the doctors have to come or whatever else. So it's about two hours. I came back within an hour and 15 minutes. So there's a systematic problem, a breakdown that has been going on for years, for years. [00:37:00] Speaker B: And we want to get to the bottom of that. [00:37:02] Speaker A: This has been happening for years. [00:37:04] Speaker B: I think. I think we can. [00:37:06] Speaker A: And so go ahead and so, you know, it has to be addressed. [00:37:10] Speaker B: Yes. [00:37:11] Speaker A: That's why you see a lot of. That's why a lot of people were grateful and thankful for the NHI program. [00:37:16] Speaker B: Yes. [00:37:16] Speaker A: And it's not me. [00:37:17] Speaker B: I am grateful as well. [00:37:18] Speaker A: Yes sir. So. Right. I just. I just will leave that with you. But. But it, but the breakdown has to be fixed. If you are a person, you're. You're not well. If you are placing yourself look at the issue the person has and not the person themselves. [00:37:37] Speaker B: Yes. [00:37:37] Speaker A: If the person is being checked by a nice. And they have a heart condition. They have an asthmatic condition. First priority. [00:37:46] Speaker B: Yes. [00:37:47] Speaker A: Verification. Jamaican, Filipino. If the person have a heart condition, have a first priority. You know, anyhow, while I live and listen to what you have to say. [00:37:57] Speaker B: I appreciate you so much, my friend. You know, we have a number of texts that are coming in. I did get one just now from the Garden of Eden. Says that hospital needs proper maintenance team. The hospital needs to tell staff and others to stop eating food and resting it all over the place. That must have been a horrific experience just to see that. We have another call on the line before I read the other text call. Are you live? [00:38:20] Speaker A: Hey, Khan. [00:38:21] Speaker B: Hey buddy. [00:38:22] Speaker A: Good afternoon. [00:38:23] Speaker B: Good afternoon. Happy Monday to you. [00:38:25] Speaker A: Touch the. The main. I would say, you know, somebody, they have to come now on the cutting edge. They can't go the same old system either. They have to have supervisor and some type of supervisor in the front to run the floor or card that when these people check in that somebody gets monitor and supervise. To the front. [00:38:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:53] Speaker A: See what's going on. Go in the back and. And stuff like that because it ain't getting no better. You can't have people who come and fight and then some come behind. They get to. And stuff like that. [00:39:08] Speaker B: That's correct. [00:39:09] Speaker A: To the, to the. [00:39:09] Speaker B: To the outlet. [00:39:10] Speaker A: Them. It's the same way I have. I have my family member go to the eye clinic and they have to go there from seven six, six to quarter seven in the morning. And they have to be outside there standing up. My God, standing up until the clinic open up 8 o'. [00:39:32] Speaker C: Clock. [00:39:33] Speaker A: They have to have a better soup, a better ways. And you get older out there, 80 and sandwiches and stuff like that. Standing up and tell them doors open. They should have let those people come in. But it seems like the more we hire these people with degrees and stuff like that, they are still not running the outlet. Damn Property how it's supposed to be. [00:39:57] Speaker B: I agree with you. I want to address that. Even after the news today, I want to address that because I do believe it's a human resources issue as well. Yeah, I appreciate your call, my friend. Always a great contribution. I have a text message here before I take the next call. Good day. We want PMH to work that way because we as a people, those successive governments have not poured into the institution, whether it by human resources or physical resources. Patients who come there expect it to be free. I love this text. Oh God, I love this text. Note. Well, nothing in this world, not even your salvation or even your happiness is free. My God caller. I mean text. I just. I have goosebumps when we as a people decide that we are going to work to build this country and stop flying colors other than black gold and aquamarine to live in the commonwealth of anything. Buck up goes that is just so powerful. They go on to say Princess Margaret was Elizabeth's little sister. She was the queen in waiting. She was an unhappy woman because she in the royal family scheme of things had no purpose other than to do what her daddy had to do with when her uncle abdicated the throne. I want you to ask the people who complain about the health care system in the country how much they pay into the system to ensure it works. Magnificent. Marvelous. Oh my gosh. I can't say enough about this text. I love you. Great text. I think I may want to read that again after the news. Calling you live. This is Guardian Radio today United States 49 FM. Go ahead. Hey man, how you doing? [00:41:59] Speaker A: Yeah, very interesting topic. I but two call it back. I like what that call out to say yes, but I will add to the situation. I had a good friend of mine who was hospitalized maybe a couple weeks. But the story is she was at night guys at where he is now. I said what what day was able to get served and was admitted to the ward. So I can tell you that that place is a dire strait. But with respect to your cousin, listen, I can tell you what my experience being overseas. It happens that I have good insurance. But when I went overseas I took ill and I went to the hospital and my notes was put to the bottom. I wasn't a priority. I'm not an American. [00:42:55] Speaker B: That is correct. [00:42:58] Speaker A: My notes was put to the exact bottom. God had it that Haman was happened to be a nurse. She saw me say what happened so I told her my situation. She went look for my file. She finded that the exact border. [00:43:13] Speaker B: That's correct. And then and to the bottom, for [00:43:17] Speaker A: more than one reason, you have adequate insurance. So that had to be verified for the Bahamas. To make sure you are correct. I. I was in fact carrying Atlantic Medical, which is very expensive. [00:43:27] Speaker B: You are correct. You are very correct. [00:43:29] Speaker A: To show you the how things is in the world priorities. And so I really feel for your country, man. I. I would have done the same thing you did. [00:43:39] Speaker B: I appreciate you. [00:43:41] Speaker A: And I come to the hospital, which I should get served as a Bayman and other nationals going in front of me. That was totally unacceptable, brother. [00:43:51] Speaker B: I appreciate you, man. This has been a wonderful call. Yeah, man. Got a number of texts here and calls coming in. By the way, let me read one more text. It says yes, the hospital that I spoke of said take the dust off the ground and put it in their drinking water. That's the question they're asking me. Suppose exterminator put down rat poison. Now you just something else. You have to take it there. Or you must be one of those people who know how to just construct these ideas that send people crazy. But I understand your position. I go into jail if that happens, right? But I don't know if the prophets took a break from speaking out against corruption unless they was running for their life from the corrupt. Yes. This hospital charges 4,000 just to register. That's not a secret. They want you to know that as a private institution, they have to ensure they get paid for their services. As for pmh, you would have to know what complaint each patient came in for. Everyone rightly believes they have an emergency. But in the hospital, some emergencies are more urgent than others. Another very intelligent texter. You know, we could get into some debates with you. You have a very, very imaginative. But I like it. Let's take another call. A call of your life. [00:45:13] Speaker A: Pleasant. Good evening, Guy. [00:45:15] Speaker B: Hey, my friend. How you doing, man? [00:45:16] Speaker A: Boy, let me tell you something. You remember one time ago, up behind the pmh, the building up there was pink. They call it the Pink porch. [00:45:25] Speaker B: No, you got to tell us a little bit about that quickly. [00:45:27] Speaker A: But you're always cutting me off when I tell you history. [00:45:30] Speaker B: I don't want to cut you off, Sparky, because what it is is that it's now 254. I got the phones lined up. So what I want you to do is you were the first caller for the show, but you disconnected. I want you to call me right after the news and I'm gonna entertain your call. I'm gonna let. [00:45:43] Speaker A: When I call back, I can't get in. [00:45:45] Speaker B: No, you call Back in. Chris is gonna take the call and let you come through. Cause I know you can't. [00:45:49] Speaker A: I'll. Producer, let Sparky call. [00:45:51] Speaker B: I will, I will. This is your second call. I'm gonna let him do that. Cause I know you got a lot to say. Thank you so much, Sparky, I'm not gonna cut you. I'm gonna let you call back. Let me take another call or call or go ahead live. I gotta let Spocky give y' all a break to call in. Go ahead, caller. Call you there. Call you there. I lost the caller. Okay, person here says, happy Monday. Bless up, Garth, and thank you, God. Someone's blessing me. That Jesus Is Love Song by Lionel Richie and the Commodores is always beautiful, a powerful song. Laugh out loud, Garth. Boy, you had me thinking for a minute I had the wrong radio station. So I felt like it was the other national station with Bill Bain, Ed Bethel, or some other Jesus in me. You know, I gotta let that out every now and then. But, you know, when my heart gets heavy for the Bahamian people, I just can't help but be a preacher. I may not be the best preacher. I may not be the most righteous preacher. But I'll tell you one thing. Everyone who knows me knows that I respect the Creator and I love people. I think I love people too much, even to my own detriment sometimes. And I'm learning how to hold back sometime. But I do appreciate that text, man. God bless you today and may you too continue to encourage others throughout this week. It's been a heavy load, but I know someone who can lighten that load for you. Those people who are suffering from. I think we had some violence in the nation this week. We're not a violent nation, but we do not understand the underlying situations with those murders. But I want to extend my condolences and sympathies out to the families that are affected and those people who are considering doing this type damage to our nation. I think you need to go and see someone like Simeon Hall. Go see Apostle Raymond Wells. Go see Mr. Kenny DeVoe. Find a pastor, find clergy, find Ryan Bethel. Find somebody in the inner city. Go to the big Church of God of Prophecy there on East Street. Talk to a pastor, Let them know that you're in over your head and you need to be released from that demon that. That won't let you sleep unless violence visits your door. We gotta get violence out of this nation. We have another texter here. Y' all said progress, so go to the grave with Brave now. See what you're doing is you're building up a. I didn't want to go here with you people, but I think just before the break, I might as well tell you straight up. You got five more years of progress. If you want to continue building up walls as to why you yourself cannot progress, you will be left behind when you study the story in the book of Exodus with the children of Israel. Those who could not keep up got left behind. You got to follow the rules. The rules are very simple. On the seventh day, everybody rested. Why? Because you got six days to walk in that desert. So everybody got to rest. If you didn't want to rest, man, they throw stone at you or they cast outside the camp. They got to get rid of you because you can keep everybody else back. You people remind me of those people who want to break the rules. You want to put extra manna in your tent. You want to put extra quail in your tent. Your tent stinking from rot. You don't want to rest on the seven days not understanding that the holiness and sanctity of the seven days, salvation meaning that when you got to Jericho on the seventh day, you got to walk around seven times. You couldn't walk around once, twice, three times, four times, five times, six times because the walls will not come down. When the seventh day came, it was full of energy. We got to walk around this wall seven times so the walls could come down. Some of y' all people will not allow us to reach seven. We got to get rid of your people, man. And people listen. People come to you. Get rid of them. Because if you don't get rid of them, you're going to end up in the Princess Margaret Hospital waiting for five, six, seven hours like the people just said, man. Let me take a quick break from you. People call out, let me take you quickly. Go ahead, call. You got two minutes. [00:49:40] Speaker A: Dad. Roseboro. [00:49:41] Speaker B: Hey, my friend. How you doing? [00:49:42] Speaker A: Everything good? [00:49:43] Speaker B: I would take a break from these people. I got to go there because the people sending me to Jesus. [00:49:48] Speaker A: Yeah, that's good. That's a good place to go. But listen to me. I think we, the Bahamian people, is our biggest problem with the person trying to tell you. [00:49:58] Speaker B: But I won't get to that after the news. Don't jump the gun. I love you, Julia, but don't jump. [00:50:03] Speaker A: After the news. [00:50:03] Speaker B: After the news, man. Listen here, folks. These people here, man, they keep on trying to be political while we are hurting. We're not looking for people to throw arrows and to shoot bullets. Right now, we look for people who got bandages, man. People could deal with the cancer in our society, who can deal with the kidney failures in our society, who can deal with the hypertension, who. Who can deal with the diabetes, who could deal with the broken marriages, who could deal with the children who are going astray. We need people who can build this country. Your negativity ain't helping nobody. It doesn't give us anything. It doesn't garner any hope for the nation, which is simply doing is you're casting this. You're bringing dissension and schism and to hell with you. We tidy, you stop in Jesus name, man. Remember, God is love. God is love. Your Christian nation. Let the world know the manner of our bearing. Guardian Radio 96.9 FM. This is Guardian Radio today. God is love. Not here to preach, not here to teach. I'm just simply here to encourage someone along the way to not give up. Stay tuned. We're going to deal with the issue of the Princess Margaret Hospital. When we return, we'll hear from Sparky, we'll hear from Julian, we'll hear from you. It's going to be a great day here at Guardian Radio 96.9 FM. When we return. Stay tuned. Be right back. 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And we're back here now discussing the good name, talking about the Princess Margaret Hospital. And for those of you who are just joining us, we know that Princess Margaret was the Countess of Snowdon. She was born in 1930 and she passed away in 2002 at the age of 71. She was the youngest sister and only sibling of Queen Elizabeth ii. And in her prominent much of her biography and just mentioned to you some of her interests and her legacy. She was a patron or president of over 80 charities. She was the patron or president of over 80 charities. I think that is commendable and we give much appreciation for the person she was in that regard, deeply passionate about ballet. That is also commendable. Frequently vacation on a private estate on the island of Mustique. Well, she's entitled to that. But here is where we begin to segue. She struggled with health issues from heavy smoking and drinking. This is the patron of your hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital, someone who had health issues from smoking and drinking. The spirit of Princess Margaret Hospital. If we look at that particular aspect of her life, not to cast it down in any which way, just simply to say there are some spirits that are attached to her name. Now, she had the struggle, I used the word struggle with heavy drinking and smoking. And in 2026, we struggling still, the whole nation struggling with Princess Margaret Hospital. So I just simply said maybe we need to change the name. No disrespect to her. Let's find something to name for her elsewhere other than the hospital because too much of us going in there and having too many complaints. That's all I saying. Now, I could be right, I could be wrong. It's your opinion. You have a right to conversate about it. 323-623-2325-431632-54259. Anywhere from the family of islands toll free 05720 or texting at 422-4796. I made mention of my good cousin who took his wife after the doctor said, Y' all better get her some help right away. 4,000 to register, 25,000 to go to the third floor. Ended up at PMH. Been waiting there all day, all night following day, watching foreigners be served before his wife insisting that she be served Only to find out that the nurse is also a foreigner from the island country to the south. And they looking out for their people, and they looking out for their friends. So I have to ask the question today. [00:56:58] Speaker A: Who. [00:56:58] Speaker B: Where is our people? Then? If those people. I'm not trying to bring any schism or separation today, but if those people are running the emergency room in the hospital, where is my people? Who went to the University of the Bahamas? Who went over to Northern Caribbean University? Who went to ue? Who went to school in the United States of America? Who went to school over in Canada? Who went to school over in Britain? Where are you people who have educated yourself in medicine in the emergency room. You can't just get into full control of that to take care of their friends. Because I remember when I was younger and you wanted to hook up, I got a call, my cousin Pamela Ferguson. Oh, my good cousin Pam. I go there, I ain't got to wait no more. And since she moved away to Vero Beach, I had to go find a nice of my own. That's why I got a noise in my house. Y' all playing? You think I can take a chance with my life? You better go find someone in your family to be a nurse or be a doctor. Because when you get down to the emergency room, you hear Jesus saying, hello, my friend. Hello. You're going home. And for many of you all, you hear the fire crackling. Clack, clack, clack, you're on your way to hell. A lot of y', all, you don't want to go there. You need some help. You need some mediation. You need Abraham's bosom. Someone could give you a little bit extra time so you can repent. Because you know. You know what? I'm gonna go down to hell. That's what I talk about today. Pmh, the spirit of the name Princess Margaret Hospital. This person here says in text, pmh is a hell hole. Went there on Friday night. Pass came out at 3am Sunday. Still not feeling well. How much people, you know, go into pmh? You're feeling horrible, and they still tell you, well, you got to go home. I had a friend, his last name is Fowler, grew up in church with him. They told me that he wasn't feeling totally well, and I think they sent him home. And that's where he cropped home. I had another cousin, used to live there in Golden Gates, not feeling attention to him. So he took it upon himself to leave the hospital and walk home to Golden Gates. As soon as he reached home, he. He passed on how many people you know go in there and don't never come out. I had a classmate of mine from the class of 86 in Augustine's college, he went in there, low blood pressure, never came out. And we continue to hear these stories, but we got to find out why. Why, why, why other people could go in there and come out with all the medication, all the prescription, healthier than when they first went in. And others of us got to go in there and we waste off for going in there. That don't make no sense to me. We got to find out why you saying you and blame the politician. The politician don't work in the hospital, man. They don't work there. We got administrators who work in there. We got doctors who work in there. We got nurses in there, we got line staff, we got janitors, we got all these people who work in there. But you know what? We don't care who work in there. Because why? We healthy today, but tomorrow when you get sick, God help you. Let me explain something to you. Let me go back to what I said earlier. $4,000 to register at the private place, right? 25,000 to go to the third floor. When you take 4,000 and 25,000, that's 29,000, that's almost 30 grand. Times that by 10 and you got a whole house. Inexpensive health care. Is y' all playing games with this thing, man? We got to fix this problem. Nothing is worse than when you're already broke and you're about to die. But if you get couple dollars, you can live. And when that happens to you, you don't care what type of car you drive. You don't care what type of clothes you wear. You don't care how you look when you go to church. You don't care if the front yard cut, if you got grass, if it got palm tree, if you got bougainville, you don't care. Nothing cares other than saving your life. And if you got to go to PMH because you're broke, we ain't sure why you're coming out. I ain't gonna lie. I, I just, I, I, I love my country, but I think we gotta fix this one. Call your life. Yeah, man, go ahead, man. This is your show. [01:01:18] Speaker A: No, God, don't try that. You know who show it is? [01:01:25] Speaker B: Go ahead, my friend. [01:01:27] Speaker A: You in the sock, right? [01:01:28] Speaker B: Yeah, man, As a talker, we full of crap. [01:01:33] Speaker A: Then they, then they send you off to school, college, right? [01:01:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:01:38] Speaker A: And you, you, did you go to seminary or you went to learn religion and Day, right? [01:01:43] Speaker B: I went. Yeah, I went to study engineering. But remember, teacher don't keep failing me. I keep praying. And when I pray, I heard. [01:01:49] Speaker A: You know, it's a priest, right? [01:01:51] Speaker B: No, I never been a priest. I like. I like woman. I can't do that. You see all these pretty damn women? [01:01:57] Speaker A: You crazy, you know, because they've come visit me. But anyway, leave that alone. Yes, sir, but they got. When you started off today, I was listening to you. [01:02:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:07] Speaker A: If your producer don't cut me, I [01:02:09] Speaker B: ain't cutting your man. Go ahead, man. [01:02:11] Speaker A: No, any eye. It's a producer. [01:02:12] Speaker B: No me, and I'm cool. I tell them don't cut you talk. [01:02:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:02:15] Speaker B: You got three minutes. [01:02:16] Speaker A: Tell me what you got when you started your talk. Yeah, but the Jesus thing and this and that and that. [01:02:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:23] Speaker A: And we go through that big election and we make all through this election all these years. [01:02:28] Speaker B: Yes. [01:02:30] Speaker A: Excuse me. Every five years, we say we have a Christian nation. [01:02:35] Speaker B: So we say. [01:02:37] Speaker A: We say he's Christian. [01:02:38] Speaker B: Yes. [01:02:39] Speaker A: Catholic, Baptist, this, that, the next. [01:02:42] Speaker B: Got 10 different name. Yeah. [01:02:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:02:44] Speaker A: They always dress up on these altars and all these garments and everything. [01:02:48] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:02:49] Speaker A: Looking like they going to heaven. [01:02:51] Speaker B: Yes, sir, the preacher. [01:02:52] Speaker A: And all they really want us is to bring that tides and that money in there. That's a business. [01:02:58] Speaker B: I ain't gonna cut you for that. [01:03:00] Speaker A: I know you say that. I know you ain't said you're scared. They tell you if you say that, you're blaspheming. [01:03:05] Speaker B: No, no, no, no. I didn't have. I didn't have a whole show on that. But ain't no one tell me I wrong yet. So I listening to you. [01:03:10] Speaker A: Yeah. I grew up between St Matthews and St Anson George's with my little Catholic kneeling on them all to sell. I was must be 20 years old. And I remember the saying in contra the Holy Bible by King James, when you was a child, you spoke as a child. And when you became a man, you put away all childish things. [01:03:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:33] Speaker A: So one damn Sunday morning after I've been out nightclubbing with the boys and. Young fella, the balloons and black the. I wake up that Sunday morning, my old man said, you ain't going to church. I say, no, I had enough. Get out of there. [01:03:51] Speaker B: You ain't safe. [01:03:53] Speaker A: No, no, not only that, but then he said, well, get out of my house. I say, remember, my mother died and left the house to me. [01:03:59] Speaker B: So you kick your daddy out. Kick your daddy out. [01:04:02] Speaker A: So you gotta get out. [01:04:04] Speaker B: You ain't saved. [01:04:04] Speaker A: I tell my mom, my Pa, we going on the front porch. And he came towards me. And you as a young man. [01:04:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:04:12] Speaker A: Oh, you ain't saying daddy on Madeira Street. I will arrest you on the sidewalk. You ain't safe and you will never be back here. He never said nothing to me no more. But what I'm saying is. Yeah, I can tell you this like that. And I want the Bahamian people to help. We just went through a big election. [01:04:30] Speaker B: Yes. [01:04:31] Speaker A: And we was always hoping that something was going to change. Yeah. Our PLB body. [01:04:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:04:38] Speaker A: Devastated the election. [01:04:39] Speaker B: People choice. [01:04:40] Speaker A: We thought the red and white was gonna make a move. Brave. And all these doggone placards. Brave was right there he was. He was 75 on. On Sunday 7th June. [01:04:55] Speaker B: Happy birthday to the Prime Minister. Yes. [01:04:57] Speaker A: Okay. But guess what happened on the 7th of June, 1996. [01:05:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:02] Speaker A: Was the same day my son was killed on Charity State. [01:05:06] Speaker B: God have mercy. [01:05:07] Speaker A: And guess who's the lawyer to defend the man who killed my son. Ah. Sparky Davis defended leon the pewds. Dr. Leonard. [01:05:19] Speaker B: But I can't. I can't do that one day now. Sparky calling too much names now. You got to be kind, like anonymous sometime. You know what I mean? I love you, but you know, you got to be anonymous on some things. The name calling thing. Come on, man, you can't do that. You didn't know that. Use my boy. But you know that. Let me take another caller. Call her. [01:05:34] Speaker A: Go ahead, [01:05:37] Speaker B: call her. You there? All right. I love the call back. Yeah. Y' all people, you just gotta know the rules of engagement, man. It's the same thing with the hospital. You got to know the rules of engagement. But you know, when you go to the Princess Margaret Hospital, there's staff that is there. And I think earlier text I made mentioned to me about super vision and I think that is where we're dropping the ball. It's a human resources issue and I take a closer look as to why we are dropping the ball in human resources. This text here says, good day. I am glad for your soberness today. You're your mommy's child and God knows you're inspiring many with your tender tone today. You have a humble spirit. Continue to preach a message of hope and truth with all love, praying for your success. Well, I appreciate that prayer. The other person here says, good afternoon, Mr. Garth. We complain about the delivery of care. What I will admit is terrible. However, a nurse can assess a patient and have them ready to be seen. But when a doctor that is paid far more to work eight hours Starts the day by saying, I will only see 20 people. What the nurse is supposed to do. I love this text. When you working the dressing room and you have to walk looking for supplies all over the hospital, what the nurse supposed to do? When there is no beds and you on a trolley for days, what is the nurse supposed to do? Finally, when all the Bahamian nurses are leaving, only leaving space for foreign labor, then the nurses are overworked, underpaid and they are tired being the bandage holding the institution up, what are we to do? Stop holding this hospital up? What will happen? I love this text because what they're speaking of is truth. Truth. Do you recognize that there are some very dedicated and committed nurses out there who continue to keep the institution up to the level that it is currently, even though we say we have complaints? There are those people who are right now sacrificing because they love the idea of healing, they love the island, the idea of caring. And they are committed to such. They are keeping many alive. So right now I want to stop a minute and salute those of you who are putting your lives on the line, giving your best in service. I want to say to you From Guardian Radio, 96.9 FM and myself, thank you. We really do appreciate you calling your life. [01:08:43] Speaker A: God, you called back. [01:08:44] Speaker B: Thank you. [01:08:45] Speaker A: Yeah, but listen to me. Firstly, Sparky, tag something in my head. The leader of a opposition party. Sparky. And, and. And. And the president of the United States. [01:09:00] Speaker B: Now watch yourself. [01:09:01] Speaker A: Anytime you could vote to cut them off because they get run out, they only could keep you your attention, but for five minutes, then they start talking all kinds of crazy things. But I want to comment back on the hospital. [01:09:14] Speaker B: Go ahead. [01:09:14] Speaker A: I used to be. Well, I'm a diabetic. I used to be a frequent visitor in the Princess Market Hospital. And those nurses, whether it be the Filipino nurses, I mean, I'm talking my experience. [01:09:28] Speaker B: Yes. [01:09:29] Speaker A: Let it be the Bahamian nurses. [01:09:31] Speaker B: Yes. [01:09:31] Speaker A: I was always treated good and with respect. I don't know because I used to talk a lot. They say, boy, you better deal with this fellow, right? Because he might go in there and talk and this thing. But I was always treated fairly in the hospital. But then a nurse goes to be a nurse. Do they inquire on the salary, what they have to do and everything before they pick up that profession? They know what they're up against when they get that I ain't getting no job. The voice thing, the man, I mean, two things. I was angled how much hours I work in and what my salary is. Then we can negotiate from there. I want to know what my hours is and what I'm getting paid. But another thing, too. I started off, the Bahamian people had a problem at the Princess Margaret hospital. You know, I've never been to the Princess Margaret hospital to register and then pay my $10. [01:10:30] Speaker B: Well, you see, I wanted to get to that on the last half hour show. [01:10:34] Speaker A: Right. $10 song small. [01:10:35] Speaker B: I got. [01:10:35] Speaker A: I'm glad you talking with hospital on the toilet paper. The hospital don't have no, no, no hand sanitizer. The hospital on no alcohol swap that same time by themselves. [01:10:47] Speaker B: I'm glad you brought us our attention. We're going to address it in the last half hour of the show because [01:10:51] Speaker A: he said, yeah, people, people. And then. And then they talking about the foreigners this, the foreigners that. They like talking about Asians, like. Like, we only have foreign. Asian. Yeah. We ain't got nobody else. Everybody out here, everybody's Asian. The more Asian, you know, everybody's. The people from the south. They're talking about the Jamaicans. They're talking about the Filipinos. They're talking about the Cubans with smothering Nassau Village. Now they're talking about the Dominican them who married the Bahamian woman to work on the boat and living with the Cuban woman who married the next bohemian June Samar. But they had the Cuban man and the Dominican man. The Cuban woman and Dominican man lived together in Nassau Village. [01:11:33] Speaker B: You. Don't be racist. [01:11:34] Speaker A: The people, they talking about that accommodation. Yeah, you know, but. But. But the hospital is our biggest problem in hospital, man. [01:11:41] Speaker B: Well, I appreciate. [01:11:42] Speaker A: You pay our $10 or $15 to register. That'll go a long way. [01:11:46] Speaker B: I appreciate that call, man. That is very powerful. That's Julian from Bamboo Town. And we're going to get to that conversation. Very, very important point. Let me take another call to call you live. [01:11:56] Speaker A: Yes. Good day, Mr. Rossborough. [01:11:59] Speaker B: How you doing, my friend? [01:12:00] Speaker A: Everything all right, man? Listen, I was disappointed that in Labor Day that, you know, everybody went, you know, two different ways, you know, because what was happening with the tuc, they was reacting that march from. From what the labor part of labor did, what he did, what he did 50 years ago, from the oath of labor and he marched to the set. Sudden recreation grind. [01:12:38] Speaker B: Yeah. There's much validity in what you're saying. I'm trying to stick with this idea of Princess Marwood Hospital today. I want to get. [01:12:43] Speaker A: Oh, I didn't. I didn't know what you was calling in. I just thought this was open. [01:12:47] Speaker B: No, no, I. I'VE never done an open show. I always try to keep in position to bring some type of knowledge or education to the people. But I, I do valid points. So maybe, probably this, possibly the source. I can probably entertain that conversation. I'll consider it. [01:13:02] Speaker A: But my son was to the hospital the other day and I was so surprised he was in and out there like in. You mightn't believe it probably 15 minutes. [01:13:13] Speaker B: What was his situation, if we may ask? [01:13:17] Speaker A: He had some type of infection in the throat. [01:13:21] Speaker B: Wow. [01:13:23] Speaker A: And you know, he's a child so he went to the pediatrician section and I mean they saw him, they run a little minor test, not no major test, you know. And man, we was out there in fifth. I couldn't believe it. [01:13:38] Speaker B: Praise be to God. [01:13:39] Speaker A: You know, the place looked way better than the other side was done under England. [01:13:44] Speaker B: Right. [01:13:45] Speaker A: And the place looks so bitter because I was so disgusted. [01:13:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:13:49] Speaker A: And he went, he was there probably about four months ago. [01:13:52] Speaker B: Yes. [01:13:53] Speaker A: And that place looks so horrible. [01:13:55] Speaker B: But I so happy to see that, [01:13:56] Speaker A: you know, some improvement will happen. [01:13:59] Speaker B: What a positive, positive contribution you just made. I do appreciate you so much. Thank you for that. Let me take another caller. Call of your life. [01:14:07] Speaker A: Yes, good day. [01:14:08] Speaker B: Hey, how you doing my friend? [01:14:11] Speaker A: You know to the guy who owned them bus, right, The PLP man, right. Letting them seeing people who gone for the paid off. He did hospitality people who got to ride his bus every day, you know. And you know people need a level wage, bro. [01:14:26] Speaker B: I don't know, I don't know what you think. You think I'd afford to pay the $10? I think people just refuse to pay thinking they're going to get away and [01:14:33] Speaker A: so maybe people need a livable wage, bro. Praise the. Can't afford food in the store. You can't afford for utility bills, can't afford to rent. [01:14:43] Speaker B: But you know something, you know, you know, you know I respect you a lot because you always call in. You know, I love you a lot because a brother. Let me say something to you as a landlord, as a person who's been exposed internationally. I look at our people, our people can afford exactly what they want. I wanted to almost swear to you on this mic, but our people are so disgusting. Meet some disgusting people. We just don't want pay for the things we need to pay for before we pay for rent. We got to go splurge. You ever saw a Bahamian go to Salinda pending airport when they reach there [01:15:19] Speaker A: proper English money like Deutsche only minority behemoth culture. [01:15:24] Speaker B: We crying but I don't Believe them. This country is so blessed. I honestly the good Lord, I sitting here to you today. I watch people, they don't smoke one split. They got to smoke five a day. They got to drink 20 beers. I mean, I just saying. I'm not saying everybody, but my God, we have countries that are doing so much worse than we are. And I think names just need to learn how to manage their money and manage their affairs. That's just me. But I'm not saying. [01:15:49] Speaker A: You're not. [01:15:49] Speaker B: You're wrong. Listen what I'm saying to you, I'm not saying so much more. Could do better if we just focus and make it happen. That's all I'm saying. [01:15:57] Speaker A: I mean, okay, you get a thing called slavery, right? Cattle slavery, right? [01:16:02] Speaker B: Okay. [01:16:02] Speaker A: Slavery. You know, you know what our government saying now today? They saying these people need to be trained up. These people need to get. Man, the slaves had skill, bro. Use a farm. You think a farm. You need a farm. You think a farm labor needs to have a livable rich. A farm labor. And every worker have skill, bro. Yeah, I can't do without the worker. Every worker, you can't do it out. I think it's training them up and giving them skill. All of them have. The guy who makes in the mortar. He's not. He's not in. Is not indispensable. So maid is not indispensable. [01:16:40] Speaker B: So let's just say you said that the living wage. Right. Is a difficult thing in this country. Right? Let's just say the cost of living is high. Would you agree with me today then that when you visit the emergency room of the Princess Margaret Hospital, that is extremely affordable? [01:16:58] Speaker A: Yeah, but you see. Yeah, affordable. The wait time. [01:17:03] Speaker B: Well, listen, that's what they say to you. So for $10 they can see you how much people you figure go in there and don't pay the $10 and still get. Still get service. I just saying. I just saying. See, I have a loved one in my house. Let me show you how this works. An early caller said. And no hang up because I like talking to you. The early caller said that when they went to the United States of America. And I hope the rest of this as what we go through when we go to Florida and other places as we did this, we went to Jackson and we went to Cleveland Clinic, I called the two hospitals and they paid big money there. Big money from my house. One time we spent two weeks a night, $14,000 cash straight out of the wallet. I could tell you these things for free, but because Of I just got to say it straight. Racism. The person in the hospital told my loved one that because they were number one from the Bahamas and number two because of their ethnicity, their name was put to the bottom. Already over $1 million spent in insurance monies in America and still you didn't get the help that you need. This is what Bahamians are going through right now. We can't go to PMH because you don't want to do no surgery there. You can't go to the private one because you can't afford it. Where you supposed to go? Where are you supposed to go? We in trouble. If you could afford insurance, you still can't afford the care because you're the wrong color or you're the wrong nationality. [01:18:36] Speaker A: Where to do you know, you know what the public servants doing now doing the government's doing for public servants now? [01:18:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:18:42] Speaker A: Giving them free dental care. [01:18:44] Speaker B: Isn't that amazing? [01:18:45] Speaker A: Giving them private insurance. [01:18:47] Speaker B: Isn't that amazing? [01:18:50] Speaker A: Right? [01:18:50] Speaker B: That's a step in the right direction. Yes. [01:18:52] Speaker A: But what about the private workers? You know what I mean? Workers in the private. [01:18:59] Speaker B: So, so, so like the earlier caller said, what is the contribution that we are prepared to make to the government to ensure that we get these services [01:19:08] Speaker A: if they raise thing as unionized private workers in the Bahamas? All the unions are public service unions. [01:19:15] Speaker B: Yes. And which contribution, what contribution are they making to ensure that we all get health care? That's what I'm asking you. Somebody got to pay. A Texan told me earlier. [01:19:24] Speaker A: Somebody got to pay me trying to get them to pay something now, but you understand me trying to get them to pay something. What about mandating that the private when [01:19:33] Speaker B: you mandate they can vote you, they won't vote you out because they say you're bringing too much burden on their pockets. That's how these people go, man. I love this caller. We got to talk more, man. You got to call me on the next show. We got to continue this conversation. [01:19:45] Speaker A: Time for see, time for us to do this work, bro. It's easy then. Yeah. Doing every five years, you know, our power in parliament, our power is. Is us in the same media, the voice of the people. [01:19:56] Speaker B: Well, I appreciate your voice here. 96.9 FM, man. Hey, you got to call me back, man. These ones lit up. But I do appreciate and love you, my brother. God bless you today. Let me take another call. [01:20:05] Speaker A: Always call your show whenever I have a chance. It's my second time calling, man. [01:20:08] Speaker B: I appreciate you so much. [01:20:10] Speaker A: You have some topics I hit the nail on the Hand. So let me start. Right. I have a question for you, but I also. All right, so if you go on the Ministry of Health website, right, you would see a slide, a slide of about five or six slides of the Minister of Health. Now it is. It is. It is my, My suggestion that the Ministry of Health website have a couple of things to keep. Well, to let the public know what the Ministry of Health is doing, what the minister is doing, but also the. At least list off the top. You don't scare nobody. Right there. But the reality is when you go to pmh, that's the only thing that you can talk about. That's why I appreciate the show. But the top five illnesses, Illnesses that plague this country. [01:20:55] Speaker B: Yes. [01:20:56] Speaker A: Heart disease. Heart disease, High blood pressure. Or you mentioned stroke. [01:21:02] Speaker B: Stroke, okay. [01:21:03] Speaker A: You got diabetes. [01:21:04] Speaker B: Yes. [01:21:05] Speaker A: You got obesity. [01:21:06] Speaker B: Yes. [01:21:07] Speaker A: And he had cancer. [01:21:08] Speaker B: Yes. [01:21:09] Speaker A: At what age do you think our children should be taught these things? Because I mean, these. It's a lifestyle. It takes a lot of years to. A lot of these things to brew and fester. [01:21:21] Speaker B: I would say constantly at level five, grade five. You bring in health science in grade five. That would give you the age of about what, nine, ten years of age. [01:21:35] Speaker A: Listen, I agree with you because I had this discussion before with someone and they said to me, no, you can't scare the children out about dead at that age. They supposed to be enjoying their life, going up there, running up and down. [01:21:44] Speaker B: They need to know the signs. [01:21:45] Speaker A: I'm doing that. These children need to be aware of these things. I'm not saying that the other subjects or any other teachings, not important. But the way that our hospital operates, it's very scary. And the average behemoth, I could tell you, General, you can't afford health insurance. That's what it is. Unless you in the private sector. And you wait for these big companies who have these board of directors, Sunshine Boys or the White Knights or this one or that one or that one or this one. Who got the money? Who can provide? Because I can tell you now, ain't nobody fighting for the hospitality. Wake up. Who got to wait 8 to 10 hours on their feet. They don't have private insurance. [01:22:22] Speaker B: That is correct. [01:22:23] Speaker A: They got to get. They got to depend on NHI and if you got a good family doctor. But the reality is we have to live better, make smarter choices. [01:22:31] Speaker B: Yes. [01:22:33] Speaker A: Choices are limited. [01:22:34] Speaker B: Yes. [01:22:35] Speaker A: And you have to really look at the price of eating clean, eating healthy. [01:22:39] Speaker B: Oh, man, you're talking good talk. You're talking good talk. [01:22:42] Speaker A: As much as we would like to fix Ourselves, anything can happen at any time. But PMH is in disarray and I think that all. And it's. Let me go back to the former pm. We had a doctor who was the prime minister this country and yes, he may have made some small strides, right. But I can tell you something, man, that we supposed to have a state of the art hospital for our people. And this says a lot about a government how you think about your people, man. The hospital is supposed to be clean, big operating people ain't supposed to be laying, I don't know, hallway. And it's just disgusting, man. But anyway, I'm happy that you spoke about it and I hope that some decisions can be made so this country can make a lateral move in the healthcare system. Thank you, madam. [01:23:29] Speaker B: You're welcome to come sit with me anytime in studio. Man, I love sensible, smart people. My God, thank you, Jesus. We got these people in our country who don't just get bent out of shape based on electoral results and other situations. You want build the country, you will make things better. My God, we could do this, man. Follow the example of great people, man. What a great call up. I appreciate you so much, Texas. I see you, but I got to take some of these calls. Next caller, you're live. [01:23:56] Speaker A: Yeah, good afternoon. God. [01:23:57] Speaker B: Hey, my brother. [01:23:59] Speaker A: Wonderful contribution with a young man. I always. [01:24:02] Speaker B: Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful indeed. [01:24:04] Speaker A: But you know, the thing is I miss, Ms. Malcolm and Dr. Archam because they talk here. And so one of the first things, one of the fundamental concepts of healthcare is prevention. [01:24:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:24:16] Speaker A: And so our lack of consciousness as humans in this human journey. Right. I could start off with a whole host of toxins, chemical ingredients and carcinogens that are in our foods and products that we use. Right? [01:24:29] Speaker B: Yes. [01:24:30] Speaker A: That we're not conscious about what I'm saying. In other words, we are all sitting ducks. And so you could be thinking you eating as healthy as you wanted. One, two. So we can impede this by washing fruits, et cetera, trying to eat as much local foods, etc. Etc. I don't need to get into all of the details, but as it relates to the healthcare armamentaria or equipment. Right. It's one of the reasons, it's one of the ways to also impede it. So the fact that we can have accessibility for affordable health care in affordability as it relates to MRI and other expensive scans, et cetera, et cetera, which in the hospitals to lessen some of them. And so if you have an effective mri, MRI system, doctors may disagree given the fact that AI can Feed into it and diagnose things much earlier than the human. So prevention is one of the things. And I want to answer your first question. You know, yes, they can afford $10. As a matter of fact, it should go up higher than that. [01:25:21] Speaker B: Yes. [01:25:22] Speaker A: Because it doesn't make sense that you're going to tell me as a human being, $10 don't pass your hand. And especially if it relates to healthcare. And, you know, I went to A and E a couple of weeks ago. The area is much improved and so the doctors are doing the best. So this is what I'm looking at. And I don't want to lambast them, you know, as a senior person, but for me, the government needs to be more serious with health care. And so they're putting tax or value on medicine and medical procedures as a service. So maybe some of that money can be used to better the hospital, etc. Etc. As it relates to medicine being available. You know, one of my children went to the clinic the other day. Some things were not available at all, like going to the private clinic, I mean, the pharmacist can get it, etc. Etc. I'm not looking for a handout, but I'm looking for things to pan out. And if you're not having real discussions in this human journey, like, you realize, you know, that toxicologists and the ruling class, they allow Food and Drug Administration, etc. They allow certain products to come into our country and they allow us to consume it on the guise that the level is not harmful to humans. That's total bs. I'm willing to challenge anybody on that. They just. This is status quo. This is status quo ideals in which the mass is suffering. Oh God, I could go to a whole host of products without toxins in them and affect people that they keep down. That's what their job is. [01:26:43] Speaker B: You know, one of these days, 52, we're gonna have to do a show just on things that we should stay away from is be eat. [01:26:49] Speaker A: But even, even with medicine, even with vitamins, etc. [01:26:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:26:53] Speaker A: Did you realize that more than 70% of them are just placebos and they're not effective and they, and they know this. So we're fighting a losing balance. So let's eat natural like you say. [01:27:01] Speaker B: Yes. [01:27:01] Speaker A: Try to get, you know, do the things that you do, you know, I [01:27:03] Speaker B: mean, God, I appreciate you, man. [01:27:05] Speaker A: Teach the young people. [01:27:06] Speaker B: Hey, man, respect always my friend. And I always appreciate hearing from you. I got some texts from you the other day and I wasn't able to read it because we ran out of time. But. And I do appreciate you this Tatsia says, yes, sir. Change the name from Princess Margaret Hospital to the New Providence Medical Center. I got another text, ask me why. Change the name. What is the name change going to do? I'm going to address that question in just a minute. Let me take another caller. Call you live. Callie there, we got the phone lines lit up. So call. You gotta answer. Are you there? Let me take another caller. Next caller on the line. Hey, man. Doing good, my friend. [01:27:47] Speaker A: Yeah, I did call earlier, right? But I'm a person. I don't believe in this, offering complaints or a statement without a solution. And so solution one, right? Why not open the clinic still to have a block? [01:28:01] Speaker B: Well, the thing about opening the clinical 12 o' clock is you're dealing with a human resources issue again. You got to look at payroll. [01:28:07] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay, so this, this is what I'm saying. So if you are having a problem at one facility, right, Facility Care, how's the people? There has been nurses that have exceeded maybe 30 or 40 a class every year. There will be maybe more. I can't speak to the numbers. Right. So if nurses say 30, 40 per year, right. Why not have them contractually obligated to work in Bahamas for three years? Right. After three years, then they are allowed to go where they. They want to go or however they do it. But you encourage them that, hey, you're being taught to be free. So if you are giving them a free education as nurses, right? And you are passing out 100 nurses and you say to them, hey, we as a government, we need you contractually to be your three to five years. When you pass them out, you now can open the clinics. Those clinics, when they're open and they have the equipment and they have a doctor or two doctors there, it will alleviate the stress on the Princess Margaret Hospital. All right, so watch this also. Also point B. One of the problems is not just a health problem. It's a national identity problem. Let me tell you why I say that. We, as Bahamians, we have become so grateful. We have become so inconsiderate. Yes, we are. [01:29:52] Speaker B: Amen. [01:29:53] Speaker A: As a people. Other nationalities see that? [01:29:57] Speaker B: Yes. [01:29:57] Speaker A: Other people see, boy, let me just. They don't know how good they have it. [01:30:02] Speaker B: My God. [01:30:02] Speaker A: And they don't appreciate what they have. But we can come here and we can show them that what they get how, God bless them. And they don't appreciate it. We can take advantage of it. [01:30:14] Speaker B: My God. [01:30:15] Speaker A: And so foreign people come here, take advantage of certain Things. Learn the system. Learn how to manipulate the system. Get their hands in in certain places, right? And now when these people are being taught and whatever else and they in place, we now crying. Case in point, when fish fry started only behaving on. Now fish fry might be 60, 70% foreign on. Same thing with, with stores. A lot of stores in the inner city are not owned by Bahamians. Okay? See, when you start to appreciate what you have and you ain't trying to move out east, out west or live away and you realize that boy would be health racial within the city. Out of the city. Okay? We are blessed. And don't be ungrateful. When you are ungrateful, you appreciate what you have. What, what is that? No problem in God, what God is doing. God give it to someone else. Yeah. [01:31:19] Speaker B: Take it away from you. Yes. [01:31:20] Speaker A: Okay, I go on, man. [01:31:21] Speaker B: Listen, man, that's been a powerful call. Listening. I posted scouting radio today 96.9 FM. We're chatting it up. The phone lines are still lit up. I got some text on the line. We got to take a quick commercial break. Break. Listen, man, this is what we do. I was trying to take Thursday off to get my boat ready to go fishing. My God, I can't go. I just can't go. I must have had to call Gabby or call Reuben or call Pearly somebody. But this conversation is so sweet. 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[01:34:15] Speaker B: Fresh news, smart talk all day. And we are back. Listen man, we are jamming here at Guardian Radio 96.9 FM. So happy to have you here here with us. And for those of you who want to market or advertise with the show, you know I'm here on Mondays and Thursdays. And if you want to move your inventory, you want to let the people know what's up, just go ahead and let them know. 302-2300. I'll be more than happy to do that for you. We got some text here. We got callers in the line, so let's look at one or two texts quickly. [01:34:57] Speaker A: God. [01:34:58] Speaker B: For the man who say we know the salary, he is talking fool. I was hired as a registered nurse in 1990. You think I expect to be paid the Same thing in 1990? In 1990, the hospital was in better condition, the public was less sick and grocery and light was less. So nurses do because we are nurses. Well, I think he was probably mentioning that for those who became nurses, that you may simply want to inquire about how much a nurse earns in the Bahamas before becoming a nurse. What I do understand to be complicated, however, is that as people are attending school, you're going to have those who are of Bahamian origin who will become certified and registered as nurses. And then there will be an invitation to join a health facility in the United States of America or in Canada. And they may consider being married. And so you get married and then the family decides we want to move out of the country. But those people will have some immigration challenges in order to leave the country. Then they would remain here. And this is possibly why we're going to have more people of foreign nature working in our health institutions as opposed to those of Bahamian origin. You would expect that the senior Bahamians would be those people who would be in administrative roles to ensure the smooth operation of our health system. But we find that many of them are actually won over by foreign countries to work there for much lucrative salaries, leaving a void here in leadership in our health system. And of course, you know what happens after that. Everything goes down to the pit. And so what this will now take is a concentrated effort, much encouragement from leaders in the country, from educators. We have scientific minds who would be interested in medicine to ingrate themselves into the system with a commitment within themselves to rebuild the system of the Bahamas. This is the only way it can be done. You know, in my house, we have a commitment to do nursing for so many years, eventually that may end. But the commitment is strong, but the reward is little. It takes sacrifice. But I just want to give a shout out to my house that I do appreciate. Even though first thing in the morning when she get up, she. You can't stop her from going to work. You just can't stop the woman from going to work. She got to be the way. She got to be the last one to leave the job. She ain't in charge, but she will be the last one to leave the job. Committed, committed. And then mad with me when she reached home and I reach home. Yeah, because I got to work, too. I got to go boo them bees. But listen, man, for those of you nurses once again who are committed, doctors who are committed, administrators who are committed, once again, I salute you. I want to thank you for the service rendered to the Bahamian people. Try to keep us alive, try to keep us healthy. And you people got to do your part. You got to eat right, you got to exercise, you got to do your part to stay home for a healthier, wealthier Bahamas. I have another text here. Good afternoon. If one does not educate themselves to earn a satisfactory salary, how can someone expect to get a comfortable salary if they are uneducated? Very, very, very powerful text call you live quickly. Go ahead, call her. [01:38:36] Speaker C: Mr. Newy, I have three things I want to point out to you and then I'll sit back and I listen. [01:38:40] Speaker B: Well, I am Mr. Newry. We went to the same high school. I'm Mr. Roseborough. [01:38:44] Speaker C: Sorry. [01:38:45] Speaker B: Yeah, Roseboro. Go ahead. [01:38:47] Speaker C: Let's go with. With the ambulance services. The cost of ambulance. Why we only have three working ambulance. [01:38:53] Speaker B: Only three. We have. [01:38:54] Speaker C: We only have three. But let's. Let's. Let's not win any here or there. Let's. Let's break this down. We have three words in ambulance. So when you call 91 1, how much you think the cost of an ambulance service is? Because it's not free. [01:39:07] Speaker B: They say it's what? 250. 200 somewhere around there. [01:39:09] Speaker C: Starting with 350. [01:39:10] Speaker B: 350 now. Okay. [01:39:12] Speaker C: And that's depending on what you have to get done. The basic BLS is 350. [01:39:17] Speaker B: When do you pay the 350 which is higher? When you pay 350. When do you pay the350? [01:39:21] Speaker C: Hold on, let me get there first. Because once that ambulance is tending to you and you reach there to the to the hospital, you don't have to be registered. So that $10 registration fee as your person. Because registration fee is only for them to log you in the system to say that you're there. [01:39:38] Speaker A: Mm. [01:39:39] Speaker C: So when the ambulance then bring you in and they go in the UK to register you, that's 350 plus your $10. [01:39:45] Speaker B: Okay. So that's three. [01:39:47] Speaker C: You have to get your service done to you. [01:39:49] Speaker B: Uh huh. [01:39:50] Speaker C: That's a different price. Because when you got to get a CT scan or MRI or something else and you have to start from 35050 and 450 and $500. [01:39:58] Speaker B: Yes. [01:39:58] Speaker C: And upper CT scans and MRI, that's a different price. [01:40:01] Speaker B: Okay. [01:40:02] Speaker C: So you have people who complain and who don't pay $10 to register. [01:40:07] Speaker B: So you know $1,000 yet like the other hospital who is $4,000 to just. [01:40:12] Speaker C: Exactly. If you complain about $10 for registration. [01:40:16] Speaker B: I love this. [01:40:16] Speaker C: You can call 911 every minute of the day for trivial things. Yeah, that's my one point. I will make out for you. [01:40:26] Speaker B: People call the ambulance from Adelaide for taxi so they can get uptown. [01:40:30] Speaker C: Let me get it up to you. I want you listen carefully. Go ahead and then you see how everything will add up. [01:40:36] Speaker B: Go ahead. [01:40:37] Speaker C: Secondly, we as Bahamians don't know how to deal with sickness. We get a little headache. You have some people for a headache, they knock their foot, they have a fever and they call in 911 for the ambulance to come get them. My Lord, so they don't exist to the hospital and pile up inside the hospital and then wonder why they can't get service. Because everybody run into the hospital. Trivial thing. Then we have those other Bahamians, them who have been having a headache all day, all night, wake up the next morning done drinking, going to hospitality and then we won't believe in the hospital when we reach. Then we crawl like chickens. [01:41:19] Speaker B: My God. [01:41:20] Speaker C: Who don't check their health, who will eat bad, who will party and club all weekend and then turn around because they now feeling bad, they will run to the hospital. So you have the ones who go there for every little thing. And then you go once you go there for the last minute thing and you wonder why we have a fluctuation that they don't realize. It's called accident and emergency. If it's not an accident or an emergency, what you go in there for? For a headache or you knock your toe. This is why we have government clinics that they don't utilize. They let the Haitians and other foreigners utilize the government clinics before they go to there. They rather go to the hospital. We also have nhi. How much Bahamians are registered for NHI where you can go to a private physician or you can go to your private doctor that's assigned to you or did you pick from that hospital? Because these are hard working nurses and hard working doctors and hard working EMTs. And at the end of the day they get all the noise in their head and complaints in their head and the bad service when they got a fluctuation of person stem who call in for trivial things or call for last minute and then they feel like your emergency is my emergency, your emergency isn't my emergency. Not because you knock your foot, your foot bleeding means you must call 911 wasting time that the time you take to be calling 911 to hold up an ambulance. They could have been dealing with other medical emergencies. Then you end up reaching to the hospital and then you sit down there for four hours and you will complain because you sit down there for four hours. You chose to do that because you could go right to your private doctor, go right to a clinic and get served instead of having a long amount of people left sitting down inside the hospital. [01:43:04] Speaker B: I so appreciate you man. I hope you continue to call the show. I got to give a show show just to you alone. I really appreciate your contribution. She has so much information to us. I possibly think that she wouldn't be able to give it to us from an authoritative standpoint because of the nature of her work. But I'm going to welcome her to call me back again on Thursday when I'm here from 2 to 4pm Our time is just about up. I got all these texts here. I have here ouchie, ouch, yikes. 4,000 garth just to check in and ouch. Another multi thousand just to go up on the floor. You see God, this is why I advise my family and loved ones to move to Canada or at least strategically have a few family members stationed in Canada. You see, in Canada a family member is working, contributing, paying taxes. You receive good free medical care. This is what me and the love beloved late Senator Rodney Munker used to fall out over when he first out route out Canada for allegedly stealing behemoths more than America. I told him understand Bahamians can and should go to America for better big money opportunities but go to Canada for better medical opportunities and conditions. About to say Pete this goth. Your example of foreign descendants of migrant descent looking out for their own people at PMH is and should be an eye opening example to Bahamians. Open your eyes Bahamians. Think Bahamians. You need to start looking out for your Bahamian brothers and sisters and sisters and cousins. Whatever. My God. Other fellow behemoths, look out for your fellow Bahamians at PMH and wherever else. Please behemoth you need to stop being so cruel, cold, mean and dismissive to your fellow Bahamians. Other person scars can you please read this text In 1990, the government closed the School of New Nursing without a real plan. For the past 25 years I've been recommending to the government that seeing nurses are not paid while training and healthcare farmers. The government through the Mortgage Corp can allow nurses in their final year to decide on a housing package at a reduced rate and bond them for the time of the mortgage. Trying to guess who as many as I could. I said the music is playing. Boy we're out of time. I I just got all these beautiful texts here. The phones are still all lit up. I'm Gosmer Rose Barrel. I will come back to you on Thursday 2 to 4pm for another interesting program. I think Naughty and MJ they are up next. Stay tuned. The Guardian Radio 96.9 FM. Great having you. Great conversation. Can't wait to see, see and hear from you again. God bless you and have a wonderful day.