The first way the government can bring down the prices is eliminate VAT.

That will never happen because Davis and his 'wife', not to mention Fweddy Boy Mitchell, love lavishly partying with a huge entourage of their friends in far flung places like Dubai. And all at the taxyers' great expense!

I know it never will.

Just saying that if these political misfits really want change they need to start where change happens and stop spewing hot air

Davis blowing plenty hot air here.

Our corrupt and most cruel politicians of both the PLP and FNM persuasion have always taxed to the max the very things most of us cannot do without in our lives, and food is right up there at the top of the list of the most heavily taxed items. They have done so to get the tax revenues they need to pay for and continue growing the grossly over-bloated and unproductive civil workforce they have created.

Without a shadow of doubt our elected officials are the most cruel people in our country today. No matter what, they will continue taxing food to the max so that they can continue handing out government jobs, government promotions, government benefits, government allowances, etc. to their perceived supporters, many of whom will soon find that they too can no longer afford meats, vegetables and fruits.

With the stroke of a pen the Davis and Cooper led PLP administration could significantly drive down the cost of food simply by lowering the more than 35 cents in taxes that government effectively takes on each and every dollar we spend on food today. But you can be rest assured this will never happen no matter what cruel Davis may promise.

The could do a similar thing with fuel costs.

But won't hold my breathe for that.

You will intervene? What, increase Real Property Tàx?

And national insurance contribution rates to boot! Mark my word.

lol we owe too much to go vat less. Its sad though only persons to have a pocket increase is the politicians. We get smaller as they get fatter.

The really sad part is that they will all up and leave to the US the minute that they finish running this country into the ground. The Bahamian public will have to live with the consequences of their stupid decisions while they get off scot-free living the high life abroad.

The Bahamas is never going to able to produce enough food to feed itself, there is simply not enough arable land to do so. On top of that, the soil quality is not the best, which means expensive fertilizers will need to be bought in order to have high yields. Farming is not a profitable business, even in areas like the Great Plains, which puts into question whether growing anything of value here is even economically feasible (its probably not). Farming is also extremely labour intensive; where is the cheap labour willing to work 12 hour days going to come from? I think we all know the answer to that, and it is a big reason why Abaco is a foreign colony today.

LastManStanding you made an argument that there isn't enough arable land to farm which is a lie because if you take Nassau out of equation the other major family islands like Abaco, Andros, Eleuthera, Exuma,Long Island & Cat Island has more than enough land to sustain large scale farming and another argument you mentioned was the issue with labor and the long hours it takes to farm but in case you didn't know there is farming machinery now that replaced manual labor decades ago in terms of growing crops and raising farm animals on a large scale.

Emilio26,

Please let me know what crops you are going to grow in the marshes of Andros, I will wait on your answer. Also, I do not think you understand that we are a country of well over 400k (probably even 450k) people. Do you have any idea of how much food is required to feed that amount of people? I thought so. Also, you would know the history of citrus farming on Abaco (and how it caused the deluge of Haitian invaders there today) if you had done your homework before posting. You also have no idea how much farming machinery costs, and where Bahamian farmers would find money to purchase or maintain it. Judging by your comment on manual labour, you have never been on a farm in your life. Get some real world experience before making asinine assumptions.

LastManStanding well we're a country that likes to impress the white tourist and foreign investors that come here to get a piece of the pie so why can't our farmers form business partnerships with some of these foreign investors that way they can have access to funding so that way they can acquire the tools and machinery they need to able to farm.

ZZZZZzzzzzz.......

Money, money, money, money, money.

In the 80's Jamaica banned most food imports forcing themselves to produce more food. Today Jamaica is exporting food. Around the same time, the Dominican Republic set plans in place to encourage and integrate local production of anything into the tourism industry. Today The Dominican Republic is the #1 destination in the region.

What were successive Bahamian governments doing while our competitors prepared for challenging times? Obviously, they learned nothing from the Jamaican and Dominican Republic!

I have 0% FAITH the PLP and FNM are remotely capable of changing their modus operandi after 50 years of absolute asinine political stupidity that lead our country and people from the most envious position in the region to the crime-ridden, high unemployment position we now find ourselves.

The single most important and painful lesson we've learned since the late 1960s is that lawyers, doctors and accountants are the last people on the planet who should ever be allowed to govern a small nation like ours. Very few of them have an ounce of common sense let alone business sense.

So they going to open up Hatchet Bay?
When you import all.your food from a foreign country these things happen