This where the cutbacks need to start. The senate is a pointless venture in any sense yet they having ceremonies to introduce new senators. They don't have no say stop wasting public money! 2500 could provide a scholarship to someone at COB instead a treating crooked politicians to drinks and food.

Oh sure the reds think taxpayers should foot an unnecessary $2,500 to throw a "senator's coming-out" party for they fellow red shirts Comrade Carl B. It ain't like his is a fresh political face needing an introduction to Bahamalander's. Hell he face has been plastered all over campaign posters which have landed in several Constituencies dumpsters all over we tiny Nassau Town. Who footed the coming out bill for Senator John B? Again the left broke by Hubert leadership of the red shirts is on the gimme, gimme me program.

The question is a question of equality. Why don't the PLP pay and yet the opposition has to? These are tactics of repressive governments everywhere -- making the opposition pay while the governing party gets a free ride.

introduce him?
to whom?
hasn't he been in politics for25 years?

Tickle me pink til I is roll over. Is is the same Minnis who constantly challenges PM Christie to me more prudently wise with taxpayers monies, yet rushes headfirst to demand that the peoples public treasury best hurries up and mail them their $2,500 check to cover the politically reincarnated senator Carl B's coming-out reception?

He did not say they should pay him back for anything ... as a matter of fact he say they will not pay it. His point has a basis in that if the government is seeking to become fiscally prudent, it has to be done across the board and not just of selective political issues.

I'm thinking PM Christie is thinking that if only Minnis didn't have to keep "reappointing" newly minted senators to keep on replacing the reds who got fed up and have resigned, there wouldn't be no need to keep on billing the taxpayers for reoccurring $2,500's 'coming-out' receptions for freshly appointed red senators, although I must insist on using "fresh," lightly when discussing the politics of one Comrade Carl B? But the good news is it might very well be the one thing that just might work to finally dampen Carl B's fantasy of ever getting reelected back to the peoples House of Assembly.

Tal, for heaven's sake, stay on topic. Minnis is rightly saying that if the opposition is to cut back then so should the government, starting with flying Freddie.

Give credit where it's due, she did not mention HAI once

Truth be told, the FNM with Minnis as its face is fast waning and will soon have no future in Bahamian politics. Many believe he has much too great a difficulty in restraining the traits of meaness and rage that he suffers from. Voters are not inclined to endear themselves to a known self-destructive ticking time bomb whose short fuse could go off at any moment with very unpredictable negative consequences for all those who happen to be around him when his wheels come off.