Honestly Mrs Strachan, how could they have gotten a business license to operate **there**???? Something would have to be wrong with the approval process.

you people forgot who is in power?the plp,wait on some kind of action don't hold your breath.

it's stuff like this that can make even Papa's Junior Minister Bran look good. OK Minister Hope, after all of the 5 minutes it would have taken you to have placed your Sea Breeze caller on hold, while you called the Business Licensing department to confirm, if the "shack and drums" had a legit license, you could have given a sensible answer to the concerned Sea Breeze you had placed on hold. What are you going to do, call-in that new intelligence division to drive out Sea Breeze and then write up a report , wait for for maybe forwarding on to your office, sometime in only God himself knows when?

Well said, Tal. This bureaucrat clearly was upset that somebody was expecting her to stop shopping for cosmetics online long enough to actually do her job. Imagine the nerve!

In the Bahamas, the bureaucratic phrase "We're looking into it" translates roughly to, "Call us back in two years, by which time we will have lost your paperwork. Meantime, go pound sand."

This might shock many of my Comrades but get Minister Freddy on the phone (not difficult at all) and despite as much he is accused of globe trotting the man does understand that sometime that person on end of the phone really do need help and can' do it on their own. Freddy doesn't give you stall tactics. He reminds me lots of Milo B. Butler. Sr. Guess what, he's that way the PM, both them former law partners.

And when they move this illegal booth (c'mon, who actually believes they have a business permit?) will that mean they will sue the government for 3 million dollars like that clown at Potter's Cay some months back?

Oh, but then we have to wait for possibily years while the ever-efficient PLP wheelgrinders look into the facts of the matter...

What about "Zoning"?! This is a residential area (Thisisours makes this point). Too often the "authorities" tolerate 'business squatters" putting up structures on public land and opening up shops.....most of these folks don't apply for business licenses, the whole process is a joke! Even if the property belongs to the business owner, we need to enforce (and in many cases establish) proper zoning. Many of the homes in this location are in the $300- $600K range, civil authorities need to protect these folks investments.

Don't look for logic when It comes to dealing with any issues in the Bahamas.

Look at how things "evolve" when one completely ignores the law.
Web Shops, Chicken shacks, Fish fry, Zoning laws, Private property,
Good grief can we get nothing right?

This happens often thoughout New Providence. It usually begins with a trailer-type, temporary set-up. After it catches on, the structure is made more permanent with lumber and voila....legitimate business booming.

No need to pursue the matter any further. The appropriate authorities are "looking into it". They "promised" so you know they serious.

While I frown on vigilante justice, it looks like to only type you can get in this town. You call the police, they don't show, you wrtie to your MP, she looks into it ... what will anybody do if you burn the piece of s#!t to the ground.

As you can see I am very sick and tired of law abiding citizens getting shafted.

Nothing a little fire can't cure.