Like Trump said "lock them up"

The corrupt web shop bosses got a $25 million tax break from Minnis, Turnquest and D'Aguilar, yet they refuse to pay their remaining taxes owed. These racketeering thugs prefer spitting in the eye of government rather than paying their taxes. And government nevertheless continues to treat the numbers bosses with kid gloves because of the extent to which these thugs have bought and continue to buy the political influence they now wield over the Bahamian people. If you or I didn't pay our taxes, we would be subject to all kinds of sanctions and penalties of one or another, eventually leading to criminal prosecution. And you or I are without the means to take government to court if we don't like paying increased VAT or any other taxes and fees levied against us.

These criminal numbers bosses are showing all of us Bahamians who is really running our country today, and its certainly not the officials voters elected back in May 2017.
Our useless attorney-general, Carl Bethel, is infested with so many fleas that he finds he must go with cup in hand to the numbers bosses to beg them to pay the taxes they owe, and this is after the Minnis-led FNM government has already given them a huge $25 million tax break.

Meanwhile, we have our public healthcare system and our public education system severely starved of funds they so desperately need. Something is horribly wrong here and Minnis knows it, but he is either unwilling or unable to do a thing about it. More and more it seems we have a powerless PM because he and his party have so comprised themselves by accepting the lion's share of their campaign financing and 'other contributions' from the super wealthy few in our society, including those linked to known criminal elements like the racketeering numbers bosses. Our democracy is consistently sold to the very wealthy few in the run up to each general election, and therefore our vote is now truly worthless. It's now the super wealthy few who govern us and not our elected officials. It no longer matters which political party holds the majority of seats in parliament.

YES, Mudda!

Why pay if there is no penalty for not paying? Its not like their licenses are going to be revoked until taxes are paid.

@sickened AGREED! Not sure why KP Turnquest is still talking. Stop talking and act. Collect the delinquent funds already!

You cannot have your cake and eat it too. They are building the case for the national lottery.

Where is the legislation Minnis promised for serious election campaign finance reform? It's desperately needed!

we need a National lottery. The webshop owner who paid his taxes gets to have the franchise to sell the tickets. Bring in foreigners to run it though.

Makes no sense, none at all that Comrade AG Carl Wilshire, be's so openly accommodating the Numbers Houses operators act mischiefs of faction business community, who otherwise would never likewise be allowed publicly humiliate Colony of Out Islands AG and Finance Minister, yes, no...... all the whilst millions and millions dollars go unpaid by mischiefs of faction - whilst Imperial red shirts cabinet -so boldly threatens withhold bodies from all whose families who will become too financially strapped pay new $700 fee required obtain release loved-ones body from PMH morgue, yes, true?

DA........ GUBBERMINT.......FULLY...KNOWS.....DA TRAJECTORY.........LEGALLY DA WEB SHOPS ....CAN DANCE....WID DA GUBBERMINT...ALL DA WAY TO DA PRIVY.....AN BACK.....AN AGAIN....AN AGAIN....mind you dese politicians and majority of the nation did vote against the legalizing of the Web shops.......an now to the detriment of da people......same politicians now in power likes dancing.....tra..lala...la...la...la deres a brown girl in da ring..,

National Lottery ! I will vote yes! I voted no for " Numbers".

CLOSE THEM ALL DOWN. IMPLEMENT NATIONAL LOTTERY. DON'T BE SO LAZY! The economy will improve and a bite will be taken out of crime.

SOMEWHERE EARLIER.....THE GUBBERMINT ...RECOGNISES....THE SIGNIFICANT EYE POPPING.....CASH....PASSING THROUGH THE GAMBLING OPERATIONS.......ANOYHER RECOGNITION OF THE MONOPOLISTIC PPWERS....TO ENGAGE IN SECTORS OF DA ECONOMY.........dis operations net result extracts....huge cash profits...ploughed back into other businesses.....expotential growth....NETRESULT.....businesses can dominate....JUST A SHORT TIME AWAY.....its simply BUSINESS.....DEY HAV TO GROW.....even dey cannot stop slow dere growth......dey is only a amount of owning yachts....planes...mansions..cars....destroying national free market demand supply thousands businesses...competition....dey are all alpha business people and next generation....they will all be in business for PROFITS...natural...from the UNDEMOCRATIC ..CITIZENS VOTING NO TO IT..INCL THEN OPPOSITION AN NOW PRESENT GOVT....LARGEST AMOUNT OF SEATS...MAJORITY....AN KNOWS WHAT IS HAPPENING......!!!!!!!!!...Either for all close them down...OR beg them....or urge them..to... PLEASE TO PAY THEIR TAXES....OR....Gave them SENATE SEAT.s..to imput their indisputable influences an monopolistic control businesses......