The Development bank, the Bank of the Bahamas and the Bahamas Mortgage Corp.share similar functions, are wholly owned by the public, all located on the Island of New Providence (BoB has additional outlets on Cat island, Bimini, GB, etc) all are struggling.

Remarkedly and bizzarely no politician or no Director of any of their politically appointed Boards or no senior Manager all appointed by the govt has seem fit to amalgamate or merge three into one which will be best.

One rent bill, one lighg bill, one computer dept, one Human Resource office, one Board of Firectors, loan dept, one Collections Dept, etcetcetc. Savings will br enormous to free up time and money.

Other synergies can be had if Mortgage customers with equity and good business plan want to get small business loans, savings customers can be encouraged to get homes, by amalgamating customers in Andros, Cat Island and Bimini can also enjoy wider service to get loans for govt low cost houses etc, loan to farm, tourism craft and souvenir products, losns for lodges, ecotours, businessetc, loans to develop those family islands and possily expand into other islands too. Islands will be repopulated, opportunities created.

Pity what seems to be a simplier project to develop and create development for additional revenue than the implementation of taxing implementing VAT etc has not been tried over the decades and pouring hundreds of millions iwith public money into Bank of the Bahamas and Development Bank and Mortgage Corp and no investigations or noone jailed for wrongdoing.

Why the hell is this Minister K P Turnquest, the deputy prime minister sucha CRY BABY omg Man if you can't handle the Portfolio of Minister of Finance give up the office and go back to doing whatever the hell you did before! THE MAN IS A BIG CRY BABY WITH NO IDEAS!

Think it's an excellent idea. All these entities that borrowed from BDB and are not paying their loans back need to start paying of their loans. Just like the education loans, some benefitted and now that others want to borrow, can't because the authority is broke. I say start freezing assets from these borrowers and allow others to benefit from the same loan benefits that the delinquent borrowers were able to. Too much slackness in these departments. Those who really need the help really can't get it because of those who can afford to establish businesses on their own borrowed and refused to pay.

How can we write off 166 MILLION DOLLARS and then pledge ANOTHER NINE MILLION, or is it TWELVE MILLION, to this BOB albatross? Is this at all sane? Where is the list of debtors?

Shut the thing down.

The people DO NOT get to select PM and Cabinet ...... We elect MPs who represent parties ..... But once the oligarchy is elected, the citizens are powerless ...........we sometimes end up with a benevolent Kleptocracy like the former Perry government ................... that is Bahamian-style Democracy since 1967........... Let us pray that Minnis will not be of the same product.

Bearing in mind that the DPM sat across the parliamentry table and no less as an accountant representing thr Bahamians from a economically devestated island who should have been the most qualified person to be making the most with the fewest dollars.

And bizzarely after all the sitting in parliament is to join the team and be asking where the VAT money gone?
Equally puzzling is after all the talk of this is the peoples time one would expect other persons to be charged particularly in the Bank of the Bahamas continuing fiasco and I repeat after sitting at the same parliament table is to just pour the same peoples momey of the same people who you are shouting its the peoles time into the BOB is weird.

Amputate the diseaeed limb before it off before it poisons everything.

Seems to be suffering from the disease when persons sre kidnapped they turn out sympathising with their captors.

Would like to think about Minister D Aguilar as Finance Minister. He has been been amputating to salvage business.

"ensure the BDB "does not become a burden on the public purse", what? BDB has been nothing except a burden since it was conceived under the corrupt swindling administration to provide some high paying jobs to plp party supporters lending money the government had borrowed on the international market to other party supporters at an interest rate that was lower than the rate at which it was borrowed if defaults were factored in. Like many things that our state elected officials do, it was and will continue to be a recipe for fiscal stupidity.