**.................................................. "WTF Is REALLY Happening ...............................................**

Are we going to waste this money and muck up Junkanoo Carnival or what?

Unfinished idea, big promises, man- I am so disappointed - who gets the money? the revellers don't care, we pay for all of the governments expenses and mistakes. Why can't Christie come clean - overpaying certain persons when there are clear losses under their command does not bolster up a lingering leading into failing economic truth. Hold back, don't waste and be proud of your decision to be careful and wise.

*“I feel I change my mind all the time. And I sort of feel that's your responsibility as a person, as a human being – to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.”
― Malcolm Gladwell*

Great author but our politicians are doing this at another level because they continually act against the people's wishes.

Like SP said WTF is really happening?

I swear........ this plp government is nothing short of a bunch of bungling, baboons.
And the Bahamian public are their porch-monkey offspring.

The Bahamas is in a severe crisis for the ages. Yet, the Bahamian people is more concerned about dancing in the streets??? I guess the only thing you can really do for a monkey is throw him a banana.

BOYCOTT CARNIVAL!!!!!!!!!!! .................... HAVE A REFERENDUM ON CHRISTIE!!!!!!!!!

This was the best decision they could have made in this comedy of errors. They should have made it on the first day. Now it just looks like craziness. These people have lost their minds. They're clearly panicking.

I hope the FNM has prepared their 100 day strategy for their new administration. No going in and showboating, things are in bad shape. Get ready to work.

Agreed ............ a lot of pork-cutting has to take place ...... Don't make any excuses for the PLP Budget ......... create a stop-gap 6 month Budget and begin anew with a Calendar Year Budget 2018 ........ this budget cycle makes NO sense when compared to the annual filings of most accounting schedules in our country .......... GO BACK TO A JANUARY-DECEMBER BUDGET

This is what they call the Perry shuffle guys!

In all fairness..... It's to late to cancel carnival. Too many people here and abroad have made plans. It's not fair for them to pay for Mr Christie's lack of vision. It should not have been planned for this year, knowing our budget and being an election year. Tide has turned on the PLP and they are in panic mode. How things look now, it's possible the FNM could easily win by a major land slide.

Quite right!

This a PLP ploy to look sensible but back down at the slughtest opportunity.

Possibility, but the absolute nuclear fallout from playing like they would cancel, just to get a pat on the back for cancelling and then get another for restoring the date would be hard to justify and the height of ***dumbnity and assinineness***.

But you could be right.

What they just put the country through will put them down in history as the number one most bumbling government ever. Donald Trump's will be second.

I wish I could make Carnival. I have to finish the school year. I'll be there this summer. Hopefully to see some friends from years past. I would like to come back to stay, but I have to work. I may move to Fla. so it's easier to come visit.

This is just like the Romans having the gladiator spectacles in the Roman Coliseum to keep the inhabitants distracted while they mismanaged and stole from the treasury to enrich themselves.

Y'all go to Carnival and don't you worry your lil heads about joblessness and such. Live it up. Have fun. You only live once, so celebrate!

I thought you were going to say like the Romans telling the guards to save the Christians... 15 minutes after they ordered the lions loose

Second paragraph said "International backlash". That's as far as I got reading and went straight to the comments. I'm still friggin' laughing! I don't know what the bigger joke is... our "carnival" or our government.

What's truly sickening about all of this is that honest hardworking Bahamian taxpayers will once again be saddled with at least $12 million of their tax dollars subsidizing a big street party for known local thugs like Sebas Bastian; a ridiculous street party that handsomely rewards mainly foreign entertainers and foreign bands from other countries in our region of the world.

Comrades! Calls to take the politics out Kanaval - is easier said than feasible. While Bahamalanders want to believe in Junkanoo and open to give Kanaval a chance, but not as some Trinidadian event - even there the bold-faced politics have turned-off many.
Comrades, there must be a new direction to take a U-Turn - away from political interference's in everything under the sun - we Bahamaland?

What month is it? April? BJN said "elections will be in early May but he's not sure of the date". Seriously? I can't believe these people plan elections for the week after carnival. If you didn't know before you know now, they taking all of you for fools and they don't care nothing about the good of the country

The election will be on May 9th or 10th ............ right after the Carnival binge and right before Mothers' Day ................ And roses are red ............. FNM!!!!!!!!

Elections will be 8th May

@Cobalt..are you calling all Bahamians porch 🐒 monkeys or only the black ones?

These people in government our managing our country, and they can't even manage themselves. This has got to be a bad dream...

If your going to waste the tax payers money on a party, although we have far more pressing needs, at least don't mess ppl around on the dates. Ya'll need to think before you make public statements, afterall you are the government...

I already see their argument for why they spent 20 million instead of 5, "it was what the people wanted, we cancelled grand Bahama and the people asked for it". They've even promised to up the marketing. This is really scary. It's clear they were out of money, If it weren't so messy I'd believe they planned it all just to spend the money they wanted. They never changed the ads, that was weird.

Anyway I suggest to Dr Minnis that he look closer at what privatization really means before he so casually agrees to it. This event is expensive and no private enterprise will/can run it without a government subsidy. When they run into trouble they will run to government. Then there's the decency factor, once privatized that is out the door. I suggest you keep oversight over this festival if it continues and establish decency rules as a prerequisite, roll this genie back. I'd also negotiate Bahamianization if ONE government dollar is spent on it.