Businessmen have one loyalty, to their pockets and they will do or say or support anyone for their personal objectives. That's just how it is!

True ............. Just look at US politics. The rich set up and bring down Presidents.

> Symonette said: "“We have a saying, the worst day of the FNM will be a thousand times better than the best day of the PLP."

But that saying was before the Bahamian people were abruptly awakened to the following facts after May 2017:

1) That they would be taxed to death by Minnis while the corrupt numbers bosses get huge tax breaks;

2) That it would be the foreign investors' time and not the Bahamian people's time;

3) That they and their businesses would experience lengthy power outages every day during the sweltering heat of summer;

4) That the web shop legislation would not be repealed so that we could get the global financial regulators off of our backs and start re-building what's left of our once thriving and envied banking industry;

5) That BoB would continue to be propped by huge injections of the taxpayers' dollars so that Minnis and his cronies could take their turn borrowering from that bountiful corrupt trough at the taxpayers'expense;

6) That instead of governing from day one, the Minnis-led FNM government would allow itself to be severely distracted by very costly investigations of the previous government that has yet to result in a single conviction of anyone of any significance in that government;

7) That has given its blessing to development projects by cruise ship companies along with extremely generous concessions even though they are well known to contribute little to our economy in relation to the environmental risks they pose from dumping on us (and in our waters) their shiit, contaminants and other waste products;

8) That customs duty would be significantly reduced or altogether done away with on washing machines for one cabinet minister with a laundromat business, and on aeroplanes, plane engines and other plane parts for another cabinet member with an ownership interest in a local airline company;

9) That government contract after government contract would be granted for the benefit of the political elite, FNM party financial backers, their cronies, their family members and their friends, (many of whom are totally incompetent and/or highly paid unnecessary intermediaries;

10) That more unnecessary civil servant hirings would occur throughout our already grossly over bloated and unaffordable government plus a dizzying array of costly giveaway programs in a failed effort to compensate for poorly thoughtout and failed social and economic programs...nothing but the taxing of Peter to give to Paul because of local private sector businesses closing their doors in droves and exacerbating an already very gloomy and strained unemployment situation;

11) And so on and so on.....the level of corruption is only escalating with each and every passing day. Soon we will be a country without potable water!

Many of us will soon be longing for anarchy over this grossly incompetent FNM government led by the dimwitted Minnis who will never know whether he's headed east or west.

What a blithering joke!

.....Excellent, you is on a roll. On the above point 5 Tribine Tuesday, July2, 2019 article inner page 4 "BOB: $80min deposits lost if it collasped" by Neil Hartnell
Article quote "The fund added: 'A second transfer of $176m in gross book value of problem assets (purchasing distressed assets of gross book value is not in line with good international practicewas initiated in August 2017, similar in terms to (the first time).'"

NOONE... absolutely noone...should be dipping into the COOKIE JAR to take taxpayers public money to prop up private shareholders of this bank and shareholders list examined if shareholders politicians MP's also stitting in Parliament propping up their shares.

BAHAMAS used to be a top sovereign nation as an INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTRE with legislated recognized ACCOUNTANTS who should have raised questions over thE goings on of BOB. Operators and contrallers of BISX should be asking questions, Central Bank as national BANK REGULATOR should be investigations but who seems to inform individual bank customers they do not represent individual customers who are wronged... AND THERE ARE NO FINANCIAL OMBUDSMAN .

BOB IS A LISTED BANK ON THE BISX among many othersOTHER BANKS COMPETING AGAINST OTHERS INCL BOB...OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS WHOSE OWNERS ARE OVERSEAS SHAREHOLDERS IN PARENT COMPANIES... representing hundreds of millions of PENSIONS FUNDS, investors who buy an sell shares operating EXPECTED in FREE ENTERPRISE...LAISSEZ FAIRE...FREE MARKET...and yet the persons responsible for propping up were not called out and inquiry started.
If an International Agency and world connections can recognize issues and recent well agitated legally blessed customer can win $6m lawsuit then a full COMMISSION INQUIRY INTO BOB be started.

11/11. Every one on point!

you mean that nothing would change because there's no real substantial difference in ideology or principles between the PLP and FNM??

As far as the historical cycles of government go to change back into a democracy anarchy is part of the process but that's a few steps away and you know how so tings dus roll around here......

You came with the receipts. There are some sad truths that you have listed here.

Add to this list: 12. Running on a platform of anti corruption legislation and not passing a single piece of said legislation: No Freedom of Information Act, no Campaign Finance Reform Act...

Kicking rocks. . . . .zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! Mudder-take-sick gone yet?

There's one thing I will never grow tired of....and that's kicking the wutless butts of the likes of you lick2. ROWL

Kicking rocks .......kicking rocks right out of the Bahamas is another thing... for INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL AGENCY....CONNECTED TO ERRY 189 COUNTRIES...FINANCIAL AGENCIES...everyone knows......BAHAMAS DOES NOT OPERATE IN A VACUUM.....

MR Symonette "We have a saying the worst day of the FNM will be a thousand times better the best day of the PLP"

No doubt he is thinking his property and the post office added to that all the contracts
He can safely say he has become richer under the FNM so it is all good for him.

He and his Family have all done well under the FNM Government. while the poor people suffer. "its the peoples time". good for them all.

He came for his things and doc gave him all he wanted.

Believe me now strong suspicions a second coup eject comrade Minnis from PMO, didn't exactly end with Brent's resignation, yes, no.........

Brent and his family does even better under the PLP. Ask perry and brave. No conflicts of interest when the PLP is government for brent and crew.

So Brent Symonette’s election and appointment to cabinet was nothing more than a smash and grab. He used his money to smash his way in to government, grabbed what he wanted and running away. Laughing at the Bahamian people’s dem. SJust like the John Bull robbery. SMASH-GRAB-RUM no RUN AWAY!