It was also your duty to RESIGN after you LIED to parliament about the Oban deal...you disingenuous, duplicitous hypocrite!!!!

It was also your duty to fire the speaker....
It was also your duty to meet with farmers rather than run away
It was also your duty to resign after the Oban scandal
So we already know that you regard as your duty is selective so nig please

Minnis, is it now also your duty to harass them?
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Case in point...
http://www.tribune242.com/news/2018/jun…

Even though that is the Westminster procedure, doesn't it sound hypocritical to say democracy should always be in the forefront? because the one of the most important part of democracy is to vote on an issue and if you are going to be penalize for it then it is not democratic. You might as well be communist and force to vote for Putin or suffer being poison or something. What is the difference?

You asking Minnis this question? He can't tell you. Doesn't even understand how little sense he is making.

What an incredibly dense and arrogant oaf we have as PM.

If Albert Einstein were alive today he would surely say that only two things are infinite: the universe and Hubert Minnis's stupidity.

Minnis must truly believe that, in politics, stupidity and dumbness are not a handicap.

Ma Comrades, what we have is a prime minister who is not as sticky adhering Westminster when he didn't do his duty to the House of Assembly to talk all he knew at the time about OBAN, and the "fake signature",...... It's a matter he could've, should've and can still be held in contempt for..... And, the Imperials PM and KP, still ain't telling Grand Bahamalanders - all the it was a sham from day one that the two should've had smarts enough notice all signs of it being from day one that is soon will be forced into revealing about OBAN.... Maybe even still being kept locked away away from their own red shirts cabinet colleagues. Ma Comrades, this Imperial governing leadership is goin' fall... just not sure if it be sooner than quicker?

Both Minnis and Carl Bethel alike are being most untruthful in their self-serving interpretation of the rules under the Westminster parliamentary system of government. They wrongfully would have us believe the system does not allow for the exercise of discretion; hence we now hear, against the backdrop of the loud public backlash, their back-peddling lip-service talk about being open to reconciliation. Truth be told, Minnis's insatiable desire for the powers of a dictatorship blinded his ability to exercise sound discretion and common sense in the interest of the constituents represented by the four MPs he has (and no doubt will continue to) severely victimize.

It is your duty to respect the wishes of the Bahamian people who did not want a VAT increase! Remember you were elected to SERVE them, not your personal agenda!

The problem is you were fraudulent from the beginning and used the phrase, "It's The People's Time." In truth, you are an old school majority rule politician that believes the people are your servants. You were a wolf in sheep's clothing. You swung us to get our vote. That is at the core of this matter: you lied about who you are. We voted for change from the majority rule "one man band" crew! We voted for consultation and transparency! You have lost our trust and will never get it back.

Roc on Doc, focus on the vision.The vision is never clear to anyone other than the visionary. These people are just 'gonna' have to cry and complain for the next 4 years!

I detect a note of cynicism in your post above which means you are likely either a foreigner or one of the few lucky Bahamians who has managed to migrate most their personal wealth to another country.

Any Bahamian who has not already "migrated his personal wealth to another country" is a dam fool!!

More taxes heaped on the backs of Bahamians whilst the National Debt skyrockets. And yet nothing is being done in the country. Everything is still falling apart. What and who is really behind all these tax increases and increasing debt? Is the tax money secretly leaving the country? And are the Web Shop boys being used as scapegoats? Do they really want to drain every single dollar out of The Bahamas and make it another Barbados or Brazil or Venezuela or even Germany? The way things appear seems like there are going to be more tax increases and budget deficits in the near future. Seems like the more they claim to be fixing the financial crisis, the worse it gets. Who wants control of every single dollar passing through this country ? Who is the puppet master?

As you well know, the money laundering and other illegal activities of the web shop bosses you work for are 50% of our country's problem, while the remaining 50% of our problems are due to corrupt and/or incompetent politicians.

Sounds like your math is just about spot on!

What a bunch of predictable light weights. . . not one "pinch" of sense between them all. . .NO WONDER WE HAVE A RETARDED PM WHO . . .if the people here are any example of what is in the public. . .he is still top of the heap!! But get me right. . .he is lil "slow" on his feet. . .but he is a lion in how he manage business. Hell. . .we had three "sharp" PMs. . .look where it got us!!

Says you. I say selective righteousness! Don't know what kind of sensometer you have........

Any governing party when trying to implement the budget not only should look at the numbers for the GDP but also the numbers for the GDH....gross domestic happiness.
Somewhere in the next years given results projections, variables there should be ...relief to enable any governing party to continue their reign....

Party discipline and Democracy are not only two different things, but they are also quite conflicting.

If Minnis truly supports the idea of democracy than he would have had to go against tradition and allow dissention in the vote. While it's true that with enough dissention / votes against the budget brings confidence in government into question; it is at that point that members voting in representation of their constituents that brings democracy to action and to life.

To try and prevent this via party discipline is the equivalent of denying democracy its voice.

The only question to ponder, if one is a believer in democracy, is the question of how well the members understand the will of their constituents, and if they vote accordingly.

The collapse of a governing party, due to the members votes in accordance with their "constituents will", and resulting the "loss of confidence", is perhaps the best case scenario in a democracy. If nothing else it brings about change , when it is needed most.

I challenge Dr Minnis to explain and prove me wrong. Trust me, he can't, and he doesn't have the fortitude to face a real challenge.

I am willing to bet that the Government's projected VAT revenue is overstated. Take the top local restaurants for example. How much turnover are they going to lose as potential customers contemplate whether to have a home cooked meal and a bottle of wine with friends as opposed to $50 plus 15% plus 12% for a main course? This type of decision making will be widespread across many non-essential business sectors. The move to 12 % was too much at once.

Good grief. Can someone from the UK House of Parliament tell Minnis that he's making a mockery out of a system? It doesn't make any sense to fire others for having a difference in opinion.

Someone yet again, bricks democracy.

Yes but did Christie have the balls to fire anyone---Fitzgerald for starters.?

Minnis trying to imitate Trump and be an International jackass. At least Tryis able to rebound each time so far. The difference is Trump inherited a very strong and rebounding economy from Barak Obama. So Trump could afford to play like he head jam. I still have hopes for Minnis else I have to go Loretta Butler slap me for being hoodwinked and bamboozled.

The four "Independent Thought" comrade red shirt MP's - done making Minnis, KP and Carl Wilshire - 65.3% crack..... Brent been pretty quiet.

The Bahamian Government cannot continue to cherry-pick aspects of the Westminster system that suits this despotic Executive system that we have ...... thanks to Pindling in 1973.

It is so bastardized that the Queen would not recognize this as anything resembling governance in Britain ........... I suppose this is what "potcake" constitutional democracy looks like.

Ma Comrade sheep12, heads up. Just this morning i was on phone with my intelligence sources other side pond - strangely they asked if I could secure picture Sheeprunner12... so, if you hears knock at front door and you asks - who's there and get.....Bond, James Bond on Her Majesty's Service... live up your blogging Handle -grab ya bananas and run to hide in closet... no time leave note ya girlfriend, or if so inclined - boyfriend.

Tal ........ I just love your sense of humour!!!!!

Our State salute should read ........... RuleMrPM ........Rule!!!!!!!!!

We have in effect accepted a system of limited and autocratic democracy under the disguise that these "party candidates" truly represent the citizens ........ when in effect they must show obeisance to the Almighty PM and the Queen.

Comrade, do you know that dramatic is one three kinds irony - and it occurred when the then bible quoting PLP MP Renward- the signatory $600 million Letter Of Intent - rose up on floor House of Assembly (HOA) to challenge the same PM who had appointed him Parliamentary Secretary - to oppose PLP's Referendum Bill while quoting biblical scriptures....... Now, the same Renward - is the red shirts in charge disciplining red HOA MP's to toe the red party's colonial line. ( I couldn't make this up - that is except if Renward had ordered HOA Sargent-at-arms to arrest the four red MP's }.