Turnquest has done what the new car dealers wanted him to do, But the surprise for
both of them is we will not be buying any new cars.

Well, what you mean is 'ordinary Bahamians will not be buying new cars'. The banks will not qualify them and those who do qualify do not want the hassle of loan payments when they can purchase a Japanese vehicle in fairly good condition 'for cash', and can get good and reliable use out of it for a few years until they can afford to purchase another one. But there are some who can afford to buy new vehicles for cash.

one news paper reads the duty on small stoves and refigerators will be reduced. the other reads there
will be no duty which is TRUE. being as Turnquest LIES so much, I suppose neither
is TRUE.

This budget does have a little heart in it and some conscience with relief for Bahamians. let's see if they put the furniture stores and car dealers through the same rigmarole that they put the clothing and shoe stores through, where they must be tax compliant, including taxes for every property they own and that they must apply for the tax exemption every time goods are imported into the Bahamas. Or will they remove the duties from these goods carte blanche? And speaking of car dealers they most have found very special favour with the Minnis government as this is the second consecutive budget that they are seeing custom duty reductions on vehicles.

I thought they said the reduction in duty on vehicles were to encourage people to buy fuel efficient vehicles - and cutting down on the affordable Japanese cars that do give you good use until they breakdown and are left on the side of the roads, when people discover the car may be cheaper but the parts to maintain them might not be so.

it is great that duty is removed from some items, however, the consumer will never see the savings. Case in point, the government dropped duty on hand towels last year or the year before , and Super Value has gone crazy with the price of hand towels. Before the duty was dropped on hand towels, the special was one for 99 cents. After duty was dropped, the special is one for $ 1.39 ...... unbelievable! Super Value charges more for hand towels now than before the duty was dropped!

yep, a few months ago. they used to sell 2 5 pound bags of parboiled rice for 4.99 , plus vat at 7.5 %, so 5.38.

Now that it is vat free, this week solomons sells two bags for 5.50.

Same difference.

Cheapskate Turnquest says "do more with less" ....... so how do you do that when what was given before is not enough?????? ......... How can you cut the Dept of Education budget by $20 million and do more???????? ........ Are there that many hologram workers on the payroll???

Turnquest's head should be put on the chopping block if he did indeed cut $20 million from public education.

You would have to be certifiably foolish to buy a costly new vehicle to put on the kind of roads we have on New Providence Island - over crowded and full of holes, depressions, etc. - with the type of ADD crazy drivers everywhere - running red lights (those that are still working) while talking away on cell phones, fender benders all over the place, dings and dents from adjacent vehicles wherever you park, not to mention outrageous maintenance & service costs, skyhigh financing costs, and exorbitant insurance premiums. As the saying goes, a fool and their money are easily parted. LMAO

Really, how did comrade KP managed pull off stoods up on floor House say with straight face that anything done over past 750 days under governing Imperialists red shirts - could ever have been seen by 91,409 voting in 35 Imperialists red shirts as their House MP representative..... as a “break" from the (PLP's) past........................maybe so, maybe not.................

TAX FREE ...FOR BUYING AIPPLANES AND HELICOPTERS PREVIOUS BUDGET.......yep yep yep....Can see majority people pore buying airplanes an helicopter....even changing parts SERVICING...maintaining repairs to we air planes an helicopters..... .......NOW BENEFITING ....ALL WE PORE PEOPLE IN LESS TAXES FOR NEW CARS.....as we need to change cars going long distances to da airport hanger........NOW AS WE PORE PEOPLE .....go home we can certainly appreciate new less expemsive tax purchasing furniture decor....muddoes dred dont rich people know that pore people will try feed children before buying furnitures ....an cant use electric stove...fridge electricity off.........Records recent past some we pore people like 4,000 MORTGAGE CUSTOMERS HOUSES REPOSSESSED....definitely tax reduced a plus......MIND YOU.....reduced no tax on less $300 bec bill ANOTHER PLUS TO WE PORE PEOPLE HOMES 5,400 HOMES HAV ELECTRICITY CUT OFF.....an all rest pore people jam us like sardines an family hardly using electricity.?????.....WE DA PORE PEOPLES ...MAJORITY OF POPULATION OF DA NATION..........CERTAINLY BENEFITS TO MAJORITY PORE PEOPLE .... FRO DUTY FREE AIRPLANES AN HELICOPTER AN PARTS REPAIRS......NOW ADDED TO REDUCED TAXES BRAND NEW CARS......AN RRDUCE TAX OF FURNITURES FOR WE PORE PEOPLE SOME 4,000 HOMES REPOSSESSED....MANSIONS....NOT TO FORGET 5,400 PEOPLE HOMEs WIDDOUT ELECTRICITY.....we pore using outside yard wood stove an $2.00 can airsol can butane gas on one burner stove cooking cheapest fat foods..in done already pots an pans done work fine......why do rich peoples hav to be putting together Budget having no clue what is pore people going through....mindya da one about pore people making microbreweries but problen is we drinking da production to calm da nerves.........listenin to dem making it easier FOR INCREASING PORE PEOPLES...MORE PORE FAMILIES...MORE PORE PEOPLE....to afford new car....new furnitures....new stove....new pots an new pans....goin along wid new jet...new helicopter....new boat trailer.....

Are you, by any chance, Tal Russel's son?

YOE ARE ONE OF THE FEW WHO WOULD WANT TO RICICULE.....BELITTLE... ...SPIT IN WE FACES....DA...PORE....WRETCHED...TIRED....HANDICAPPED.........DENY US RIGHTS.......WANT TO DENY RIGHTS OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH...........WE AINT ALL BEAUTIFUL WELL DRESS...FANCIED UP TO GO TO BE YA BEAUTIFUL CLIQUE OF NARROW MINDED DESPISING WE.....INELEGANT....BUT RICICULE AS YA MIGHT SPIT IN WE FACES.....BUT AS YA TRY....WE WID YA SPIT IN WE FACES STILL HAVE RIGHTS......... DA BUT WE FORGIVE YA.....

So how comes KP Turnquest and H A Minnis did not give Marvin Dames and Anthony Ferguson more money to kill more Bahamians and wreck more cars..