Start with the Minister of Education, two years past retirement. Then all ex BUT Presidents rehired as consultants, unqualified ex stewardess hired as head of National Insurance office in a family island. Just think you have already saved $3,275,000 on that old geriatric fool Baltron Bethel and that excludes his perks. Now repeat this time and time again and look how much money you will save in 5 years

The practice of Government acting as an employment agency, as pointed out by Rick Lowe of the Bahamas Think Tank several days ago, has been going on for decades and must cease. Government employment and pensions for votes is ruining the economy of this country, along with subsequent governments treating the PUBLIC Treasury as their personal chequing account with the unrestricted abandon of shopaholics.

It is absurd for Brensil Rolle to suggest that

> "the new administration will take a
> more rigorous approach to hiring
> people and that some who were hired
> under questionable circumstances under
> the former administration could be
> terminated."

Surely he meant to say:

> "The new administration will
> immediately adopt a freeze on hiring
> and then proceed to take a much
> rigorous approach to reducing the
> number of costly non-productive people currently employed by
> the public sector."

Comrades! The People's Public Treasury are still depositing former BTC employees pension payments into their bank accounts every month - thanks to the "3rd" Red Shirts Regime's sell-off of BTC. Same bullshi#, right?
Now, there's a real juicy selling-off BTC story to be told, if the Tribune is seriously interested in a good story reporting opportunity?

Wow. That was fast. FNM already seems like a tired anti-change, status quo, borrowing addicted dinosaur. I can already see this is going to be a very long and dissapointinting five years. All words, no action. And most importantly ZERO BALLS!!!!

If a proper and honest human resource audit is done of the Public Service, it will probably be discovered that at least 20% of those on the payroll are either not needed or not qualified (has no job description) to work for the government ................ Another 10% can be retired due to age or past 40 years of service ........ Once this "fat" is cut from the public service, a major reassignment (based on need/skills) must take place within these Ministries .............This what I want to hear from Brensil Rolle (not verbal diarrhea) ........... smdh

Case in point ......... many urban schools, clinics, police stations, govt. departments etc. are overstaffed while those on the islands are understaffed .......... Why should this exist, when the government can re-assign/transfer employees???????? ............. Either be re-assigned or resign from your post.

IF YOU GET PAID A SALARY BY THE GOVERNMENT YOU ARE EITHER A FISCAL PARASITE OR IN A SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP. WE NEED TO KEEP MOST ALL OF THE LATTER AND GET RID OF MOST ALL OF THE FORMER. 15 TO 20 THOUSAND TOTALLY UNSKILLED UNMOTIVATED EX CIVIK SERVANTS OUT ON THE STREET LOOKING FOR WORK. ONE OF THEM CAN COME DO MY YARD ONCE A WEEK. THE REST BETTER HAVE SAVED SOME OF THEIR EARNINGS AND NOT GIVEN IT TO THE WEBSHOP BOYS OR THE GOD -BOTHERERS.

FNM new slogan, "The People's Slime!" NO FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT. BORROWING 700 BILLION. BAMSI STILL FUNDED. ZERO DETAILS ON PERSONS RECEIVING CORRUPT CONTRACTS. LIGHT ON SPECIFIC DETAILS OR NAMES. NO PLAN TO FIX THE BAHAMAS ECONOMY OR CRIME FROM DAY ONE!!!!

This must be birdie or Bran. . .you think this is a dictator state aye? Stop being so dumb. . .

I would add: continuing the fraudulent NHI slush money gravey train moving.

back in the day, ingraham disallowed douple dipping and cause retiress to return one income where they were receiving two.

they need to reactivate that, and prevent the govt from engaging people over 70.

True ........ That would save at least another $100 million for the Treasury ....... It should be that every civil servant be retired at either 30 years of service or 60 years of age ...... Which ever one comes first ..... Too much deadweight in the government Ministries ......... Plus, create a mandatory 5% contributory pension for all civil servants who are under 20 years of service...... Cut the fat

At some point very soon these fellows will have to stop pointing fingers at the former Government
And they will have to produce, The empty talking will be over and the people who voted
for them for what ever reason will expect action. What will they do then. ?

The Bahamas own Donald Trump has promised to pop necks I suppose he and super man
Dames will be carrying that out very soon. They have no vision. the FNM party has never had
any visionary idea for the Bahamas or its people. They can always say what is wrong.

I THINK OPENING UP THE AIRWAVES FOR PRIVATE RADIO STATIONS WAS VISIONARY BACK THEN .SWINDLING AND HIS CREW OF PIRATES WOULD NEVER HAVE DONE IT. PLP 2.0 VISION WAS TO HIRE THOUSANDS OF FISCAL PARASITES INTO THE CIVIL SERVICE THAT THE COUNTRY CAN NOT AFFORD TO PAY FOR. YOU, BIRDIE HAVE NEVER WORKED A REAL JOB IN YOUR LIFE SO YOU HAVE A VERY LIMITED VIEW OF ECONOMICS. DISABILITY PAYMENTS FROM NAT INS. IS LIKE FREE MONEY TO YOU, YOU DO NOT THINK OF THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY WORK AND MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS SO YOU CAN COLLECT YOUR CHECK EACH MONTH.

Birdie is Big Bad Brad ............ Have you not figured that out yet??????

YOU SURE, SR12? I ASK COS ROBERTS DID ONCE HAVE A SORT OF REAL JOB AT BURNS HOUSE IN THE 80'S WHILE BIRDBRAIN REALLY COMES OVER AS SOMEONE WITH ZERO REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE EXCEPT PLAYING GOLF.

CORRECTION BETHEL-ROBERTSON

No lie?

The Bahamas is at war with debt. That is our enemy. Any government that borrows 700 million from day one isn't a serious soldier and cannot be trusted with defeating the enemy of debt. Borrowing is not a weapon; it is a weakness.

Well ............ HOW will you solve the present deficit and national debt crisis???? ............. Speak up, don't complain like many others

There have been many voices who've advocated that the government should have passed an interim short term budget while it got a handle on our situation. Im concerned that KP and the planners didn't have this as a strategy BEFORE coming into power seeing how close election was to June. The absence of any kind of well thought out strategy is really really worrying me. I don't think KP is up to this post. My first suggestion to reducing the deficit? Remove KP as finance minister . let him function as Dr Minnis' Deputy "Overseer". Get someone with the knowledge and intellect of a "Gowon Bowe" in that post. And do it quickly, we have six months at most.

They were certainly aware of the option to pass an interim budget. The option was not taken, I suppose because they figured it would be easy enough to simply blame the former government for every decision they are to make.

Where in our law is there provision for an interim budget? Talking without knowledge is a serious thing. . .that budget was ready even before they got elected. . .now if you want it to be different in the future. . .change the law. . .but stop talking foolishness without the benefit of knowledge!

And what about Bran losing two election. . ."no-seater". . .yet he remains as leader of the DNA. . .and why are you not re-building the DNA party? We can see that you are "naturally oppose" to anything done by this government. . .DNA, LBT, OR SOME OTHER "SOURPUSS" WHO EEN GOT WHAT THEY WANTED FROM THE RED PARTY. Ya een PLP cos all they doing now is pleading for the exposure to stop. . .

Good point. Put a financial genius in that role. Enough with playing games and being nice.

The FNM wasted a good opportunity to revert to a calendar year Budget format that is more in keeping with our traditional audit cycle ................. And they would have had a respite to audit the public finances using the AudGen Office ............ But they passed on it to continue the blame game

runner don't get caught up in that pig pie trend. . .our budget process in governed by law. . .public servants put it together. . .June it is in the HOA. . .our budgetary law gives no room for interim budgeting!