Headline is wrong. The debt added from 2012-17 is the $7,000 per person (they used 350,000 people which is a bit low). Based on that 350,000 the amount per person is $21,428 each on the total debt of $7.5 billion

If doofus Minnis actually said what's attributed to his mouth in this article, then he's an outright liar. Our national debt inclusive of all government guaranteed borrowing and unfunded pension and other entitlements is now well north of $10 billion dollars ($10,000,000,000). Our actual population of Bahamian citizens is about 380,000. This means our true national debt per capita (i.e. per each and every breathing Bahamian) is at the very least $26,316. But if you look at the true national debt per each and every working Bahamian, the actual debt per worker is now more than $80,000. A worker is defined as any Bahamian with a national insurance number who is gainfully employed for at least 30 hours a week. Workers who do not have a national insurance number are likely sending a good chunk of their annual earnings to family members living in another country like Haiti or Jamaica. And such expatriated earnings will never be available to pay down our true national debt.

Yes my friends, those are the cold facts and harsh reality. Doofus Minnis has never been comfortably able to master numbers of any kind, as we have seen over and over again in budget debates on the floor of the HOA, and also in his handling generally of our country's finances with his equally incompetent sidekick, Turnquest. Simply put, the dimwitted Minnis has absolutely no clue what he's talking about. He's been known to say that too many zeros in a number make him dizzy. And this from a man who readily admits he's never sure whether he's headed east or west! LMAO

Just another sack of bull!

Minnis is actually worse than Christie ever was with his waffling on about one untruth after another. Minnis long ago realized he could never deliver on his campaign promise to be the most transparent PM ever because any light shined on himself and what he has done or is doing typically reveals just how much of a buffoon he truly is.

As long as you were sticking with facts you were doing just fine. . .until you re-define how national debts are calculated. . .or double defined workers. . . this shows me that there is a working brain in that head of yoon. . .you are just bent of puffing out nonsense! Here you are accusing Turnquest and doc of not having a clue when you yourself writing all kind of donkey do. . .true doc may be a doofus when it comes to defusing these numbers. . .but Turnquest. . .one of the top accountants in this nation. . .supported by many Bahamian accountants. . .in finance and the central bank?? You are really bordering on stupidity. . .minnis don't crunch those numbers. . .you are saying that there are no competent technocrats in public services who understand numbers and how they work in the real world. . .BUT YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON IN THIS COUNTRY WHO DOES!!

A bunch of rabid baboons and monkeys running the country as usual. SAD!

... but why is the national debt still standing at $7.5 billion?? The real questions are:

1) how much VAT has been collected?
2) how much has been applied to that debt?
3)) what happened to VAT collected funds that were not applied to the debt?
4) what recourse do the Bahamian have when a government collects a tax for a specific
purpose but uses it for another?

REVOLUTION!

True national debt is $10+ billion, not $7.5 billion.

Comrade St, Joseph, father to Jesus has be experience stomach cramps when even the UBP's Sir Stafford and "Pop" Symonette, never traveled Colony of Out Islands on PeoplesPublicPurse's dime to act like the bill collector for foreign bankers to confide in financially VAT strapped Out Islanders - how much each them does owes the foreigners.
Yes no - you just can't make this up... likes just cost plane alone it tooks fly the PM to Out islanders with bad news has add to their done $7,000 debt load?

$80,000 not $7,000. But what can we expect from a paid FNM troll. LMAO

Dependents take from the State ......... prisoners, disabled, unemployed, unemployable, school children, non-schoolers, and illegal immigrants etc. .......... so that is at least 150,000 who cannot work and contribute to the GNP ........ $7.5 billion divided by 200,000 workers =$38,000 debt per productive Bahamian worker ............ Far from Minnis voodoo economics

Comrade Long Islander Sheepherder, where in PMO's Erica's prepared text to this hereto Tribune pages, does it say anything about "facts teller's" landing to hold Town Hall meetings over the weekend in Eleuthera and several parts of Andros Out Islands, yes, no - remember the source to whom the words be attributed to?

Take out the unemployed, the illegal aliens (who send most of their annual income to their family in Haiti or Jamaica), the young, the elderly, the disabled, etc. and you're lucky if our true work force totally $125,000, inclusive of expats on work permits.

s/b : "....... lucky if our true work force totals 125,000....."

So you cannot get a loan from the bank based on your credit worthiness, but government goes and borrows $25,000 in your name.

$80,000 not $25,000. LMAO

Sooooooo, what's in the Disney's Eleuthera Lighthouse Point cruise port Heads of Agreement?????? ........... Where can we get a copy????????

doc can not help himself he lies for and about everything. if his mouth is open
he is telling LIES. It is my hope that the people to whom he was speaking know
better.

In the mean time the former Our Lucaya Hotel. Now doc and Turnquest hotel
continue to crumble . would doc be so kind as to tell the Bahamian people
is that picture he took in a suite in their hotel . is it the sweetheart suite
or not?

LMAO at some of these Ignoramus comments, I can tell some of you don't understand Government accounting

Forget the smoke and mirrors government accounting.....it's the basic maths and economics that count.

No. . .it is jack azzness. . .ignorant loud mouths. I am dumbfounded. . .most of these loud mouthed people around here seem lost as goose. . .no wonder our politicians can do so much nonsense to us and we follow them like dumb sheep!! We is a buncha dumb sheep. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!

and that includes yourself, doc and Turnquest. lost in a wilderness of confusion

Tempted, but not just yet. LMAO

....FORTUITOUSLY....FORTUITOUSLY....FORTUITOUSLY......,!!!!....Yes dis irrefutable...known...errybody who yinna trutru Bahamian.....KNOWS DA PORE MAJORITY.....BAHAMIAN.....LIVES IN HOUSE in ghetto... WID.....HALF A DOZEN BAHAMIANS...usual.....one teenage big up..an due...pa gat sugga....one gats fits..in ...baby colic... HOUSE.........NOW SADDLED TO TOTE...MOST TAXES IN PORE HOUSES.....AN RICH..ELITES...ECHELONS...COHORTS....BIRDS OF FEATHER....STICKING TAXES....TO we ple ty...population...MAJORITY PORE PEOPLE........TIME FOR RICH PAYING INCOME TAXES....CORPORATE TAXES.....GOING TO JAIL FOR WHITE COLLAR CRIME..an pore aint satisfy fer tee shirts an VAT free corn beef...lies during election..macaroni 'n cheeze...chicken wing...or music concert...

I don't owe nobody a damn ting. Make the crooked politicians who borrow for their own financial gain be the ones to pay it back. Don't talk fool bout I must pay back your loan. Pay ya own bills. #gimmiedolla

Politicians pay back???? .......... and they retire (or are voted out) and collect full salary pensions & perks from the Treasury for life ....... and their wife and children??????

....dont dep POLITICIANS.....GETS AN ...OFFICIAL .FUNREAL......Police Band...cut off Bay St.....marching up Bay St.....NATIONAL FLAGS....flying at half staff.....students entire schools informed of this official funreal......CELEBRATING....former lost elections.....MP.s..even.poor performance......even though the public by majority voting public refuse once...twice..??... to vote them back to represent the nation......

Hubert Minnis does these "town hall meetings" for cheap political brownie points ....... He is in and out within an hour ....... talks down to the people from a prepared script ........ takes NO questions from the audience ....... grins and walks off to have lunch with his entourage ....... and continues on to the next stop ......... This is not Trump in America ........ Bahamians will soon see through this gimmick ........... He will soon turn up to empty "halls".