Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Conjecture with many words again and no tangible solution. All we do here is talk, talk, talk about Singapore this and Singapore that. Has anyone ever tried following the Singapore model here?

The real bottom line is, the Bahamas can never clean up corruption as long as the PLP and or FNM are in governance. **full stop!**

We need a third party with no PLP and FNM affiliations to tackle corruption from the top down in both parties. Otherwise, nothing can possibly happen.

The Bahamas is 29th least corrupt country on earth. This is EVEN AFTER the most corrupt government we have ever had has been carrying on 2 solid years of antics. It is the least corrupt caribbean country after Barbados and well ahead of many developed countries.

What this moron is taking away from this report bears zero resemblance to reality.

what this clown and others like him need to explain is why they are not paying their fair share of our tax burden through a tax on personal and corporate income, like almost every other country on the planet. And NO, the VAT was not introduced and increased to 12 percent because of corruption (in the 29th least corrupt country out of 180), but because our government listens to clowns like this and continues to exempt the wealthy from income taxes and instead shift the burden for running our country (with a paltry 17% of GDP in taxes) onto the poor and middle class.

Your moniker fits you. My favourite Lewis Carroll character. It would be nice if you waded into the calm waters of reality every now and again, though. It would be nice if you could address matters like statistics intelligently rather than running on with nonsense. As for this hero of yours, he just needs to stop evading taxes and spare us his utterly ignorant forays into matters beyond his understanding.

Dream on. Unchecked Haitian invasion alone will see to it that our country continues its downward spiral. And the blame for that must rightfully be shouldered by Dimwitted Minnis and our all too wealthy and most incompetent Minister of Immigration, Brent Symonette. LMAO

The parite want to tell ya how to avoid shipping by air because how much it costs. Oh yea. . .when we opt to ship by sea. . .because of the projected costs. . .the booty comes home to papa!! The business community. . .especially the white community are the causes of high cost of living in this nation. . .them "tariff gougers" . . . place their profits approximately 75% increase above government "poking out we eye" tariff. . .by the time them finish "joking we up"". . .an economy car for $10, 000 right across the border is going for $50, 000 here!! By the time you pay government they share. . .that car cost about $15, 000

I wonder, Mr. Myers, can you please name a country with a higher level of foreign direct investment per capita than the Bahamas?............I am waiting. Dummy

Hey, Soloyama, to answer your question; Bermuda, Turks & Caicos, St. Lucia, St. Maarten, Cayman Islands, Lichtenstein, Antigua, shall I go on?

Luxembourg has the greatest amount of FDI based on GDP. The Bahamas is 155 out of 181 countries.

Yes, or no ma comrade Robert, the starting point is for the speedy investigation arrest, trial - all upon conviction attract a minimum sentence of 10 years imprisonment. Yes, no - appeal it and you wait out your appeal period from inside prison cell behind walls Her Majesty's Fox Hill's Slop Bucket Motel. Yes, no - charged 'current' government officials jailed and remain jail immediately upon/following arrest.

That ship has sailed ............ Pindling made sure of that after 1973 ......... Nation For Sale

CORRUPTION...CORRUPTION..........obstable...to going forward.....an repeated...talk ...talk....talk.....talk...slick..slick....slunk....slunk...yadda....yadda...talk...all jus....NO EFFORTS.... doing is ....bacteria encouraging...increasing corruption cause there is NO EFFORTS.... to stop corruption....no results....plenty talk an no action encouraging corruption....won rotten apples in da barrel....

Here's the really big picture most of you have great difficulty seeing:

300,000 Bahamians living in a country that year after year sells or gives away Crown Land and other government owned landholdings to the select lucky few, whether they be Bahamians or foreigners who are somehow connected to our corrupt senior government officials. If even a relatively small portion of the prime acreage of The Bahamas that has so far been sold or given away to the lucky few had been divvied up amongst all Bahamians, we would all be multi-millionaires today. LMAO

Singapore has had a one party system for many decades. So when they formed a national plan there was no review and stop with different political parties taking the helm. Also Singapore is high on the list of human rights abuses and the government controls the media. We only witnessing the outward success . Penalties are harsh for corruption. Singaporeans are not less corrupt they have been indoctrinated and fear death and lashes.
Are we willing to give up our democracy for financial success? So before you go touting all the benefits of being like Singapore please state all the facts.

But the Bahamian people want harsh penalties for corruption....this is why they elected Dimwitted Minnis! LMAO

We all want the priveleges of living in a so called free society but not bear the burdens of responsibility.

If we were to be like Singapore more than half of these "expatriate experts" with their questionable practices would have have been flogged and exited out of this country. Be careful what you wish for.

Different races ......... different cultures ............. different mindsets

Why can't we be the best little black archipelagic nation??????

I agree

Don't they cane you in Singapore for littering?
Just saying

Yes or no - there is unified shill comradery amongst Colony of Out Islands Imperial Red Comrade PM and his bending over obedient curry favour crown members and House MP's carrying each others growing thicker by day buckets of dirty waters. Yes, no they holds red hatred members Queen's official opposition, PeoplePublic's criticisms, reporters questions, being called out to answer to so many lies and bad decisions.

Your are completely right, Mr. Myers, but this Government, for the most part, like its recent predecessors, has neither the ability nor the will to set the Country straight.

I agree but we as citizens cannot absolve ourselves of the problem of corruption only resting the blame on the "government" after all in this democracy it is a government of the people. The citizens need to have the will also. At present we all lack the will.

We all are part of the problem of corruption.

Ma comrades, despite governing officials and workers making it tempting for PeoplePublic not want to slip a $20 here and there, don't make mistake of labeling majority as being part of the corruption when the vast most go abouts their daily personal and business tasks, never contributing towards the corrupting Colony of Out Islands, yes no?

The numerous problems in the Bahamas are unfixable. The country has had zero investment in its people. Education is sub-standard. Poverty is rife. Corruption is at every step of life in the Bahamas (you can pay for anything from a vehicle licence to going to the top of the line at the passport office). The middle class was never really a middle class because they were all unionised service industry jobs with the exception of a small number of financial services jobs. Our economy is like a brick -- tourism with an old product. With old products, you have to spend more and more to get a smaller amount of returns.
What Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore did, was to force the multinationals to participate, reside and re-invest in the local economy. Most of the business profits in the Bahamas get repatriated elsewhere.
The answers are simple. The implementation is hard. Not a single leader since independence believes enough in every Bahamian to invest in them and their future. I can relate to what Dr. David Allen says about kids growing up in the Bahamas. They know that they are getting a sh*tty education. They know that there are no real good jobs out there unless they leave to get educated. They know that they are children of a lesser God. They are the raw material of a future prosperous Bahamas and they are not being prepared for the task.
There is no hope unless we get a benevolent dictator who will do something for the country instead of appeasing the unenlightened status quo masses or lining the pockets of the political elite. The biggest rectum orifices in the Bahamas are those who still support the PLP who have let Bahamians down miserably and are the root cause of our current problems.