This greedy man is worried about the money already in the unlikely event his party gets back in power, although I must say, Minnis those seem to think they (FNM) will survive. Perhaps they do intend to reduce the VAT increase after their "three-year" plan has had its desired effect - just in time for The People who manage to survive to forgive them for the pain.

Where is da authenticity when it looks likes things gone completely out whack Imperial Red Shirts group 35.... and here comes Comrade "Brave," who was in da number 2 leader position to long have surrendered authority over Numbers Man's. {Why make up such political leadership hypocrisy }. You can see why it may take quiet spring real peoples It's the Peoples time revolution to begin hard/smart work required brungs real change ways we elect we governing man's and woman's. But less than 4 years start to get organized tell both colours t-shirts to F--- Off,

Flowers is all over the place saying he put the PLP out of office.

What's the alternative in four years time?---We either put the FNM back in or we try the PLP again---Things will not change in this millennium!

The Gaming won't go underground. These guys are finally legit and are on everyone's radar. They will police the industry themselves to make sure no one else gets in the game illegally.

The regulated gaming industry won't go underground but Brave unfortunately does have a point. If the tax is too high then it spawn a lucrative unregulated industry.

The barriers to entry to the numbers business is low. A cloud server running the numbers coupled will a Cell Phone App is all that's needed for an entrepreneurial young person to get started. Without the taxes and regulations their payouts will be higher.

Also, with regulated banks closing down branches everyday Gaming patrons will soon move to electronic wallets once they see how easy it is to set up without the need of a bank account or exchange control approval or standing in any line anywhere in the Bahamas waiting for the government, the banks or the webshops to piss you off.

I think patrons will hate having to give the government 5% of their wager and then another 5% of the spinning winnings.

Also with 50% taxes the payouts are gonna get pretty lousy even for the most addicted gamblers.

Once the numbers business goes global and in the cloud then the patron will be free of the government's heavy taxes, reglations, the inability to transfer your winnings, the bahamas and listening to the webshop owners crying all day every day and they will be able to play numbers in peace with great returns.

Webshops are like a hydra, the more you try to control and regulate it in a corrupt society the more tenticals it grows. The peoples voice through the referendum should have been heeded in the first place.

............ and what happens when these electronic gamblers' credit cards dry up?

Aught to be driven back underground from whence they came.
Strip 'em of assets first. Put it to the national debt.
12% VAT is a joke to what these parasites suck out of poor Bahamians pockets and the economy.

Naive ma comrades thinks spawn that lucrative unregulated numbers industry does not already operate raking in millions wagers dollars? There are a total of seven master numbers licensed issued with two being defunct.

DPM Peter Turnquest just stated that the Numbers Cartel earn on average $30-40 million in profits per year ........ $30million x 8 houses???? ....... $240million X 25% tax = $60million on the low end ......... That is TWICE the tax that the gaming industry presently pays.

Why do plp leaders mislead so easily? There is a huge difference between a grubby piece of paper with some random numbers written on it carried in the pocket of a nondescript citizen and a database on a webshop compute which has recorded every detail of every transaction and every id of every customer. Easy to build a case that will hold up in court. Does everyone remember chief of police Elliston greenslade announcing publicly that he would close the illegal numbers houses within two weeks? I guess he got too busy preparing to be the Bahamas's ambassador to the court of St James in the UK. What hope does a country have when the chief of police lies so publicly and is the honoured with a high post?

Simple, Mudda, simple! Unless, of course, it requires too much brain drain for our esteemed leaders!

There is no place in Nassau which can be said to be underground....everyplace is know by many.....every general and dere MP ...done knows where every voter is....and what who does what..who is working and how many voters in yor house...where every business is...every shantytown....outside toilet....

Davis knows what the play is because he and his corrupt PLP party allowed themselves to be bought by Nygard and the Numbers Boys. Small wonder their short stint in power was marred by corruption. It started prior to election. The only thing they didnt count on was that the Bahamian people would see past the bull and vote them out and the Numbers Boys didnt count on their purchased Government losing power and being replaced by one not swayed by their long dollars.

I'm willing to ‘bet’ that if they back thr PLP again, that the PLP never sees the light of another term in office.