Gotta love that cookie jar...outrageous!!

"Government borrowing for the upcoming fiscal year will shrink to $343m compared to the $465m that was borrowed in the 2013/2014 fiscal year."

Sorry but $343m ain't no shrinking! That's another $343m that needs to be paid back. And yet, 30 ministries/departments receive INCREASED budgets!!!!

What percentage of this budget per department is WASTEFUL spending?????????? 20% Much of what the government spends money on can be PRIVATIZED. This is what the government MUST begin to do if we are ever going to BALANCE our budget. $343MILLION in deficit spending is not PRUDENT fiscal management ............ HALKITIS ???!!!!!!!

I wish they wouldn't print these articles an say so...what was the 2912/2013 budget figure by how much did it increase before it's now been decreased maybe it's back to a normal level, maybe the extra 100 was used to pay off everybody. Exactly how was the budget money spent? Ask some questions, offer some critique, stop taking dictation.

@honestman - you can't add or count ? The 343M doesn't include the $200M that they just borrowed nor does any where do they account for the 454M BEC owes to Frankie WIlson nor o they include the money that they propose to borrow for BEC. These contingent liabilities are being hidden from the people and if properly accounted for the debt to gdp is somewhere around 70% instead of 60%.

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True ..... our voodoo government accounting system hides a lot of liabilities.............. just think of the $1 billion government pension payout scheme that is not accounted for ........... Come on Simon Wilson!!!!!!!!

As my late wise 'ole grand pappy used to say: "IT'S COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT THE PEOPLE OF ANY COUNTRY RUN BY _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ALWAYS END UP LIVING IN COMPLETE AND ABJECT POVERTY."

My late equally wise 'ole grandmother would quickly chime in that: "THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ONE SUCCESSFUL _ _ _ _ _ _ NATION IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND AND THERE NEVER WILL BE ONE!"

What are you getting at???????????? What goes in those blanks?????

Perhaps the word black? Ya done gone so far, ya might as well fill in the blanks

I cannot accept that Mudda_Sic ................ FYI if you check around the world, white, Latino, and Asian countries have all gone belly-up in the past ........... many "black" led countries are heavily exploited by white insiders and outsiders .............. like us.

Investing in Ministry of Grand Bahama is only worse than investing in "BAMSI".......... they are all blackholes for PLP graft and kickbacks ............... SMH

This is a tragedy. How the hell you can go from 300,000 to 7 million for rent and utilities in one year. dr darville them straight. a real black hole.

The Constitution says that we can have no less than NINE Cabinet posts......... Pindling started off with TEN in 1967 ............... now we are up to TWENTY-ONE ............. The Commission says we should limit it to FIFTEEN........................ When you look at some of these so-called Ministries ................... absolute waste of money, resources and duplication of roles. If a Ministry cannot have a budget of at least TWENTY MILLION dollars .......... scrap it and reorganize the Departments............... STOP THE GRAVY TRAIN MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our Judiciary is broken.................... plain and simple............... Our Executive is inept .......... and our Legislature .................... is greedy and complicit ................. now describe our citizenry .................. opportunistic????????????, blind????????? ignorant??????? lazy???????? or plainly lovers of the status quo???????????????

Soooooo know one thought to construct buildings on crown land.... Why is the government paying rent? And why does the ministry of national security need an increase when the government just took out a loan to purchase eleven ship vessels?

To line their pockets along with their cronies. It is blatant stealing and unfortunately the average Bahamian could care less as long as they can afford to buy dey lil numbers.

It is mind-boggling that the Ministry for Grand Bahama rent, communications and utilities.
budget went from $335,882 last year to $7,146,682 this year and nobody is saying anything about this blatant abuse of public funds. How is ths possible to increase by this massive amount? Something smells fishy here. I am still trying to wrap my mind around this. This is unbelievable.

I am sure you will hear about this when the debate starts this week........LOL

Basically what they are doing is including the MP's salary upgrades in their budgets.