To hell with a "Tax Hike" ----Close the bastards down----They are killing the poor people!

Tax them out of business PLEASE!!!!

Comrades! The fancy plane that PM Minnis, flew off to deliver the $60,000 hurricane relief cheque to the Dominican prime minister, seats 16 passengers and originally sold for $33 million and its current ownership is registered to Willis Lease Finance Corp.

He COULD have wired the donation! My bad. The banks in Dominica are not functional!

Comrade DDK, be assured that the Dominican's 'Pay For Instant Dominican Citizenship Program' has not missed a single deposit from finding its way into the Dominican government's bank account. In fact, the 'Pay For Instant Dominican Citizenship Program' was ramped up since the hurricane. You go figure how quickly they can still process new citizenship applications,hey? Wanna bet the Dominican PM and his cabinet colleagues, have not missed a single paycheque?

The cost to Charter that Plane is more than the Donation, go figure!

Simply unbelievable! Instead of pressing for the web shop legislation to be repealed in its entirety and then enforcing the complete shut down of all web shops, this yapping white-haired little poodle (D'Aguilar) simply told KP Turnquest that he should be imposing much more significant annual taxes and fees on the very impressive annual profits of the web shops. This is tantamount to saying that our government should be quite content to effectively participate as a significant profit-sharing partner in the corrupt money laundering and other racketeering activities of the numbers' bosses. Such an absurd stance by the Minnis-led FNM government only serves to anger regulators of the global financial system who cannot understand why our newly elected (and supposedly uncorrupt) government refuses to shut down the web shops and other related organizations owned and operated by the numbers' bosses that the developed countries regard as criminal enterprises. The IMF, FATF, OECD, etc. are all now telecasting loud warnings that our country will face increased "de-rerisking" by the highly regulated global financial community, and a possible cutting-off from the global financial system, if we do not shut down the money laundering and other illegal activities of the numbers' bosses. It seems abundantly clear now that Minnis and his cabinet ministers have allowed themselves to be "bought" by criminal thugs like Sebas Bastian! This would make our new government no different than the last one when it comes to corruption and who is really calling the shots in our country today. Has Minnis really allowed himself to become nothing but a puppet PM beholden to Sebas Bastian?!!

Well said! This IS outrageous!

Comrades! Minister Dionisio is forgetting that the majority referendum voters declared loudly
that to 'regularise' the numbers business would be to place too much concentration of money and political influencing power into the hands of a small group numbers men's.
This red thing of also ignoring the numbers sleeping dog is going come back and do to the Minnis administration, exactly what it did to the Christie administration. Your asses is FIRED!!

tax the earnings too, in the US the lottery winners pay the highest rate.

charge a stamp tax on the gambling houses and tax the earnings to the winners at 15%.

charge a fee to transfer money to someone elses, account, like ten dollars.

No tax. Close them down. Open a tightly controlled (if possible in this country) national lottery.

So is there also going to be an across the board increase in casino taxes as well. Surely what is good for the goose is good fore the gander. And a lot of the so called regulators are themselves gangsters who can bankrupt one country in favor of another.

We know who butters your bread and fully expect you to sing for your supper!

The FNM Cabinet has a delicate game to play ......... the Numbers Mafia bankrolled many of them in the recent election ........ Say it aint so

We have been waiting for them to say it ain't so.............. If it ain't so, why can they not say it? They have to know it will come out in the laundry!

Might I just add Health to #3?

I wonder how many who voted in the FNM would have voted for them if they knew the party had taken money from the numbers gangsters? That would surely be a great breach of trust.

Minnis himself would never have been elected had this been known. The majority of the good people of Killarney, in common with the vast majority of Bahamians, feel a deep sense of betrayal by Minnis. He had better soon address this most sensitive issue in a forthright way by doing the only right thing that can be done in the circumstances, i.e. repeal the web shop legislation in its entirety and shut down the web shops!

Well ....... those like DDK who have their (FNM) inside information to spill the beans

... and our "New" Ms. Bahamas is ... Ms. ISLAND LUCK!

Shut the number houses down, start a national lottery and watch " the eye popping profits" go to the treasury. Seems common sense aint so common.

Can you honestly run a national lottery after what corruption and tiefin was revealed about the former (PLP) government? Even hurricane relief money goes missing. YOU must be mad!

It figures that you would be worried about the government stealing money that you would prefer end up in the pockets of the numbers' bosses. Yes indeed, we certainly know who is buttering your bread!

Triple their taxes and close the web shops down. They are the bastard babies of illegitimate enterprises in the first place and re happy to squeeze the last cent out of the people. If there is to be anything at all - a lottery would be the best and sanest solution - as long as the money made does not go into the consolodated fund.