@ Moncurcool.You do not know what you are talking about.Taxes are levied by the parliament in their annual budget. The problem we have in this country ia both a low level of tax compliance and the tax system is regressive, The politicians which you and most Bahamians should have change this system years ago, They were advised by the IMF, There are also in this backward country quite a number of monopolies and oligo[polies. This backward country does not want to modernize, You are one of the typical idiots in the Hubert Minnis faction of the FNM.

@Sheeprunner.The perfect example of that is the island of Barbados. Barbados is smaller in area than long Island. Barbadians pay income tax, a higher rate of VAT, property tax , custom duties, garbage collection fees and other charges, Yet their cost of living is way lower than the Bahamas. A relative who visited Barbados several times said that to me.

Junkanoo has become big business. The average Bahamian does not understand that. The middle class Bahamian who have gone aboard, studied and retuned home to live and work should know that. It is simply being poorly managed by the JNCP on New Providence.

I blame Phillip Davis for this fiasco. THis happens when you rush to sign agreements without getting good technical advise. The PLP and the FNM are the same .The FNM under Hubert Minnis had to grovel and go back to Tyler Technologies when they cancel their agreement also.

@ This is Ours, This is not the first time there was a shooting in a store.Two brothers were shot in a barber shop a few years ago on Pyfrom Road. One died in the store and the next one died in the hospital. Also a next young man was shot and killed in a barber shop Blue Hill Road south,

Political theater. Both parties play the same game while in opposition, The current speaker like the previous speaker under the Minnis administration is unsuited for the job. That is the problem we have here in the Bahamas under this bastardized version of the Westminster system.

There is a rapid social disintegration ongoing in the Bahamas. It has been happening since the mid seventies. The seeds were planted during the drug trade of the seventies. Since there are few sociologists here in the Bahamas, it has not been studied.

The political,economic and religious elites here have little or no ideas how to reverse this trend. The country is in need of a reset, a social , political and economic reset. Certain things, Bahamians underexposed to the real world has started to happen here. Organized crime, migration of the best and brightest out of the country and growing levels of apathy and alienation. Also an increasing level of economic inequality.These things are happening in other other caribbean countries for some time. Bahamians use to laugh at those countries. Those things are happening here now in the Bahamas. The chickens have come home to roost.

There needs to be a commission of inquiry. There have been rumours and allegations for years about corruption in government agencies. Bahamians have short memories and is play stupid, There is little or no investigative journalism in this country.

@hj,Sandals closure has nothing to do with those gentleman. Sandals is going to reopen as Beaches in Exuma. That was always the plan for the old Emerald Nay Resort when they purchase it.

By the way,Sandals also has a tax dispute with the government of Antigua. Gaston Browne, Antigua's prime minister said that publicly. They owe several million dollars in taxes. The Antiguan government is trying to collect that, They are not like Bahamians down there.

@Exposed 2cu. You are a conspiracy theorist. A whack job. What you allege was done by the Obama administration is untrue The ATF in their report traced the majority of firearms smuggled to the the Bahamas came from the US.