If we had Freedom of Information together with Open and Transparent bidding for Government contracts there would be a lot less corruption.

The Bahamas would be much better off as well.

This man lends new meaning to the term disgrace to the human race!

He will also tell us that he slaps women around because others do it and its just human nature.

Well, I will give Leslie this – he always tells it like it really is:
*“You have to do what you have to do to retain those people’s confidence and retain their allegiance to you to make you win again - (there is) nothing wrong with it. It’s not fair but in the world in which we live it’s the norm and it’s going to continue. It will never ever stop and that is just the way it is.”*

Every time this fool opens his mouth he confirms the fact that he lacks both intelligence and integrity!

Spot on ! They are putrid garbage!

Well said. Thank you for speaking truth on behalf of the beautiful Bahamian people.

Leslie has a point ............. the USA has been manipulating places in the Caribbean and Latin America ever since the Monroe Doctrine was espoused ........ just look at their involvement with Spanish Cuba, and Puerto Rico, Haiti and Panama and their capitalists who have plundered our small territories from Freeport land to Trinidad oil ...... American big business has paved the way for much corruption in the Caribbean ........ and then there were the American drug cartels and gambling Mafias connection to South America ....... but the US operates on a split-personality policy .... do as I say and not as I do

Yeah the US taught them but the plp perfected the art.

Check transparency.com ............ USA ranks #16 and no Caribbean country is in the top 50 ........... but we are all independent now .... no excuses

sheeprunner12 - Yeah ok... The USA is the most corrupt country in the world, Save The Bays is really a plot to destabilize the government, the Dump Fire protesters are just a bunch of white foreigners with no work permits, etc, etc. Typical PLP shoot the messenger nonsense. Distraction and deflection – anything to duck the truth. The only relevant question here is whether this or not our government is corrupt, and according to Leslie Miller (who should know) it most certainly is. End of story, case closed.

sheeprunner12 - that is because most of the countries in the top 50 have FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACTS, so there is at least some way to approach an accurate reading of corruption over time. Here, we can hide everything and unless there is a whistleblower (hardly ever happens because those in the know are usually also implicated) the truth never comes out. In May 2012, we all know that the art of wrapping up $200 in a party t-shirt reached near perfection, yet the OAS observers said the election was clean. Without transparency, those rankings are meaningless.

Mr. Miller fails to note that from time to time the US actually sends corrupt politicians to prison. When did that ever happen here? If Mr. Miller were American, he would have gone to jail long ago.

The old 'lack of accountability' rearing its head again, has noone in a publicly appointed position got the moral fortitude to simply be accountable? Always someone else's fault, blah, blah, whine, whine.

If you can't recognize the problem you can't fix it! Is it any wonder we are regressing as a nation?

Grow a pair, you self professed wife beater!

But they do have proof. Don't forget they've been tapping our phones!

I know for sure that Leslie Miller better be careful landing on Uncle Sam soil in the near future

Landing?? His US visa probably already cancelled. He will be lucky to get past LPIA.

I have never done business in the Bahamas without paying a "commission".

Who gave government contracts to themselves. Does anybody know? If it is corrupt now it was corrupt then. But, the PEOPLE, who are incorruptible must put a stop to the practise.

Did Leslie Miller just tell me that he's taking my hard earned VAT money to pay someone to vote for him? And there's nothing wrong with that?

The fact of the matter is that the P Hell P think they are the supreme being, answers to NO ONE and DO as they please. If you are not park of their "click" you mean jack s@#t to them.

This Leslie Miller is a disrespectful disgrace to our country. He is an example of why our country is in the mess that it is. If he were a man of integrity and honour he would never be saying what was printed in this newspaper. It is downright disgusting and sad. What a sorrowful group of scoundrels this current government is.

Its not our problem that the U.S. has a corruption problem. However it is not the U.S. problem that The Bahamas as a corruption problem.

**...................... Leslie Miller may have allowed himself to be used in a setup .....................**

Everyone agrees without question that corruption at the highest levels is the #1 problem plaguing our country and main reason for economic regression in Bahamas.

The US making broad unsubstantiated incriminating statements doesn't pass the smell test!

With shocking frequency numerous world leaders have recently been caught up and exposed in corruption scandals. Having decades of accumulated mountains of evidence of corruption in Bahamas, coupled with recent banks and Panama Papers exposure of collaborating political corruption, it wouldn't surprise me if the US has finally set in motion a clear path to get rid of massively corrupt regime on their doorstep.

Leslie Miller might have well been better off keeping his mouth shut as Hubert Ingraham did when Moody's and the IMF exposed him of being the worst leader in the Hemisphere just months prior to the 2012 election.

The PLP are certainly in no position to debate corruption with the US, as it is an argument they simply cannot win, which can only lead to seriously destabilizing the government prior to 2017 elections.

Regardless of US reasoning, the timing of this accusation suggest there is much more than meets the eye.

One must also be cognizant that the PLP has made enemies of several very well connected multibillionaires which not only cannot possibly work in their favor, but who will solicit powerful US lobbyist and stop at nothing to even the score *just because they can!*

Leslie Miller has set the perfect stage for the US to elaborate, and totally obliterate the PLP government with damming evidence of corruption.

***Brilliant!***

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And this man Leslie Miller was the front man who received (with the help of Paul McWeeney and Perry Christie) mega millions of unsecured overdraft advances from Bank of The Bahamas (BoB) for the benefit of himself and other PLP big wigs, leaving it for Bahamian taxpayers and National Insurance fund contributors to bear the losses incurred by BoB as a result of Miller's failure and inability to repay the amounts he borrowed. Then, to add insult to injury, Perry Christie keeps Miller on the public payroll at public corporations at an exorbitant salary so he can throw an occasional bone to BoB that doesn't even dent the millions of dollars of interest accrued and accruing on his unpaid borrowings. Yes, to the likes of Christie, Miller and others like them, all is fair in politics, even the royal financial screwing they give the Bahamian people!

The Bahamas is current ranked 24 on the corruption list, which is determined be how corrupt a country's public sector is precieved to be. The lower the score the less corrupt the country is. The US has a rating of 16, and Dennmak, Finland and Sweden holds the top spots as being least corrupt with scores of 1,2 and 3 respectively. Somalia and North Korea has the worst of scores of 167 followed closely by Afghanistan (166). Barbados is the only Caribbean country on the list with a lower score than the Bahamas with a score of 17. Jamaica is pegged at 69, Trinidad at 72, Cuba at 56 and Haiti's level of corruption is rated at 158, yes 158. Other notables are China at 83, Mexico at 95 and Brazil at 76. It may be noted that until recently as 2014, Brazil was said to have the Third most successful and largest economy next only to the US and Canada. The country is now bankrupt due to bribery and corruption. The historic lowest score ever for the Bahamas was 21 (during the Ingraham administration) and it's highest corruption score is 24 which is also its current rating, under the Christie government

Boy!!! ............ if we are #24, then I don't want to imagine what goes on in those blow #24 ............ but our problem is that we do not have the proper laws in place to be able to expose corruption (that is worst than those who have the laws and actually indict persons) ....... we cannot even bring them in!!!!!!!

It's time this ASS shut his STUPID mouth.