pay our debt with all the extra VAT money and stop spending and hiring. Oh, economize and send as few people as possible away to represent us on the international stage.

"Religious Organisations" are some of the wealthiest businesses in this country. Why would you give them a break on property tax?

As for food, they will make up the difference in VAT. But if the merchant does not markup the vat, it is more comfortable for the consumer.

Will make no difference for products already duty free.

Will be great for chicken and eggs.

But I will not rush to buy sausage and alaska crab.

Family Island Development Fund sounds like a great plan ....... Will love to see it come to fruition

Another slush fund

This will be like the hotel corporation , another way to divert money to your friends and cronies without it going directly to the treasury where the opposition can see it through the public accounts .

Premiership Philip ‘Brave’ Davis in delivery the 2022/23 Budget Communication in the House of Assembly on Wednesday, better hope he can steer The Colony in a direction away from **Russia's Putin *threatening blow up the entire planet earth... and if Putin alters course - there's China has backup plan to use *hard kill’ weapon to* blow Elon Musk's satellites clear the hell out of orbit ... and if both leaders *fail at their (stated objectives) a global shortage of what it takes stock Grocerman's Rupert Roberts 13 chain grocery store shelves is goin' get us for damn sure...Comrades, either way, we's in for prolonged Fuc*in'.. ― Yes?

So Rodney Moncur is claiming the purported contract given to him by Wayne Munroe and, by extension Phillip Davis is not a contract but a bogus and sham document. Further that the government does not intend to supply or support Moncur in his role as a Violence Interruptor.’ And further that a 19 y/o young man whom Moncur was attempting to shield from the violence and murder that has plagued the streets of New Providence, was gunned down and assassinated. If this is so and if this is the mentality and mindset and mentality of the persons in charge of this country and the person in charge of the safety and security of the people of The Bahamad, those who live here and those who visit, then the budget presented is also a sham and a glum-flam and also an attempt to bamboozle and hoodwink the people of The Bahamad. Even lass than a dangling carrot to very empty stomachs.

“ The government is investing in the construction of a new prison complex, using a Public Private Partnership vehicle.”
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. So will The Bahamas Department if Corrections become a ‘for profit’ operation, where private individuals will be operating the prison in hopes of making profit of the incarcerations? This scheme was started in the US in 1985. Not only did the US see its prison population explode to what is now the largest in the world, but also it’s number of prisons increase as persons attempting to cash in on the ‘for profit’ prison scheme hopped on the band wagon.
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.’Twenty states with private prison contracts incarcerate more than 500 people in for-profit prisons. Texas, the first state to adopt private prisons in 1985, incarcerated the largest number of people under state jurisdiction, ‘

This was much more than just an exploitation of the Criminal Justice System as judges, too became a part of the plan. Not only were more persons convicted of crimes receiving jail time, but the lengths of these sentences also increased. And , of course, most of the persons sent to jail were Black, despite Blacks being a minority population in the US.

And as the prison population started to wean and decline in the 2,000’s a number of private prisons found themselves without inmates and had to shut down. Had Hillary Clinton won the election prior to the last one, she had planned to facilitate private prisons by rounding up young, Black men in cities like Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago and committing them to prison on some ‘threat to society’ crap. Hillary had referred to these young men as ‘predators’ and ‘super predators’ and ‘damaged goods’. ‘’Goods damaged beyond repair.’ Is this what Brave Davis intends to do with the young men of this country? Lock as many of them as posed awa? And persons are wondering why a new prison took precedent over a new hospital.

Further DEPRESSION of the US ‘for profit’ PRISON SYSTEM: Some 76,000 prisoners in the US are currently eligible for parole and even if half of them gets released, along with the regular release of convicts who have completed their sentences, the US will see one of its lowest prison populations in recent times. In addition, if the US Federal MARIJUANA bill is passed into LAW, that will result to additional thousands of prisoners being released from prison and having their records expunged. Others will be eligible for early release as their sentences are reduced under the new law that will make small amounts of marijuana legal. This will also result in less persons going to jail as more than FIFTY PERCENT of persons going to jail in the US are on drug or drug related charges. It is expected that when the marijuana laws are changed in this country, that will also result in a reduced of the prison population as well as less persons being sent to jail.