This most cruel and heartless Davis led PLP administration would rather have thousands of poor and suffering Bahamians go without food to eat than do away with all taxes on food and gasoline for at least the next 12 months.

And we never hear the very insensitive and privileged political ruling class seriously talk about 'belt-tightening' measures aimed at reducing the many many millions of dollars of unnecessary and most wasteful government expenditures. They could and should at least start with the outrageous travel costs being incurred by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to accommodate Fwreddy Boy Mitchell's many unnecessary jaunts abroad with his usual entourage of many useless bureaucrats in tow.

Yes indeed, cruel Davis would rather have thousands and thousands of Bahamians, who are now literally impoverished and destitute, go without food to eat so that his government can continue to enjoy windfall tax revenues from exorbitant food and gasoline prices. Truly sad.

Sad, but bills gotta pay. VAT should only be taken off of condoms.

And beer

This is the right move! The Financial experts at the MOF have had this on the table for a while. The people do not know the full facts of this VAT matter.

Are you talking about the same "financial experts" at the MOF who have our country mired in unsustainable national debt and many of us over-burdened with all sorts of taxes and fees we can no longer afford to pay because of soaring food and gasoline prices?

And who are you to condescendingly say the people don't know the facts? Unlike the "financial experts" at the MOF, most people know full well what they can and cannot afford, and right now too many of us are struggling to pay for both food and gasoline.

Of course the real issue here is those people who sneak into our country and work under the table dont want to give ANY of their money to our Treasury. Those speaking against VAT on breadbasket items are their apoligists and the ones who profit from their "cheap" labour. Of course their labour aint really cheap because Bahamians have to pay for free clinics and schools for their half dozen children per mammie.
Now flour and turkey-fly gone up. That's good.

Halkitis is not telling the ppl that they are wasting the VAT money.

The politicians are just squandering the VAT money and looking for more.

The ppl are just paying VAT for nothing

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And If you then click on BVI Governor Rankins' report published yesterday, you can almost substitute Bahamas for BVI throughout the report when reading it.

Yes, you are correct. But of course UK won't suspend our "Constitution" (Independence Order of their Parliament) and take us over because they don't care about us.
Bahamians will still be dancing on July 10th. Bahamians dont care about Bahamians either.
Don't Stop the Carnival.

Mr: Halkitis is very high on any intellectual scale.. If the FNM Government cared about poor
people they would not have increased VAT by 60%.

Rich people and businesses buy breadbasket items. never mind the FNM and their followers.
with their noise about the poor and breadbasket items. it is just political fluff

@birdiestrachan...what does "supposedly" being high on any intellectual scale, have to do with common sense and tangible reality. The cost of food is extraordinarily arduous...plain and simple (that fact is not political); however, your deflective diatribe is.

The "rich people" and "businesses" are able to purchase breadbasket items, without being concerned about where additional funds for other bills will be found.

You, a PLP propagandist calling out a FNM propagandist, is the proverbial "pot calling the kettle black". All of you are insensitive to the plight of the destitute in this country...as you are afforded appointments and other financial opportunities on the backs of the hardworking taxpaying Bahamians not in the political-clique.

@birdie, you claiming Halkitis "is very high on any intellectual scale" wins you the "Joke of the Month Award". You either don't know Halkitis very well, or your bar for being an intellect is set at a very low level.

The U.K. Government is about to suspend the constitution of the British Virgin Islands for at least two years in order to protect the residents of that U.K. Territory from rampant corruption at all levels of its government that simply cannot be fixed by its own democratic voting apparatus.

It's a crying shame The Bahamas has no similar protecting 'big brother' to swoop in and do likewise for the Bahamian people. Like the BVI, we are in desperate need of a complete cleaning of our political house that has for decades now been commandeered by a corrupt and elitist political ruling class. This corrupt ruling class, whether they be of the PLP or FNM persuasion, really could not care less about the vast majority of the Bahamian people as is evidenced by the current dismal state of country's affairs and the continuing very serious decline in just about every aspect of the Bahamian way of life.

Corruption has been rampant throughout our country's system of governance for many decades, especially at the higher political levels, with no solution available to Bahamian voters at the polls given our current seriously flawed two-party system. And sadly our successive Governor-Generals have all been nothing but useless figure-heads of state ever since July 10, 1973.