The financial backers behind the Arawak Cay port and the cruise port will make a tender to manage Potter's Cay. It is an eyesore right across the water from Paradise Island. It is the main port for the domestic shipping, the mail boats, Properly managed, Potter's Cay could make a lot of money. Mike Maura, CEO of the cruise port basically said that in an interview with the Nassau Guardian a few years ago.

The Bahamas is a dumbed down country from the top to the bottom. Persons are given opportunities here for a variety of reasons besides merits.Political patronage, skin colour,family connections, lodge membership and church membership are some of these reasons.

Even in the realm of politics here, you see it. A senior PLP cabinet minister made a comment about his government's budget. He did not understand it. In the United Kingdom, he would be laughed at and and probably had to resign. You have cabinet ministers here in this country who could not be elected a member of Toronto' s city council.

This state of affairs is driving the migration and brain drain from the Bahamas. Increasing amount of ambitious bahamians do not see a future here. A cousin told me what her son said to her. He saw no future for him in the Bahamas. He now lives and work in the United States, paying income tax.

Those vehicles accumulated over the years.There is a lack of enforcement of environmental and zoning laws in many parts of New Providence.Also laws concerning animal welfare are not enforced consistently.There is sense of a free for all on this island. In a sensible, progressive country,these functions are done at the local level by the elected local government.

This corporate income is the minimum 15% global corporate tax that was proposed by the Biden administration.This was championed by Biden's treasury secretary Janet Yellen. This was his attempt to stop the circumvention of US tax laws by american corporations.The OECD jumped on board with idea from the get go.

The Minnis administration signed on to it at a conference before they left office.The Nassau Guardian pointed that out in an editorial last year.Bahamians were unaware of that, That is how this country operates.Politicians go aboard and sign all kind of agreements,They commit this country to do all manner of things. Then they return home and do not inform the Bahamian people.

In terms of tax systems and tax administration,the Bahamas is way behind. A white bahamian who now lives aboard in Canada said this.The main aspect of the current Bahamian tax system is from the nineteen century.

Dr.Sands is not a credible person to speak on this matter. He only spoke pointedly on the appointment of Mr.Greenslade and he has kept mum on other appointments/ He has blood on his hands from his action as Minister of Health.This PLP like the Hubert Minnis's FNM is the flip side of the same varnished coin. People in the know spoke about the many dubious appointments in the civil service under the Minnis adminisrtation.

You need a massive education campaign in this country. That idea was suggested by the Tribune columnist who writes under the pen name Simon. bahamians have to be taught how not to litter and clean up after themselves. Something they should have been taught in their homes.

Oh the irony. This is the same person who had no problem erecting billboards broadcasting the high levels of murder under the FNM. The shoe is now on the other foot,

It is getting worse on the island of New Providence which most Bahamians call Nassau.By extension, it getting worse in the rest of the Bahamas.Seventy four percent of the population lies bundled up on an eighty mile island.An island that has for the most part not been properly planned.

Whole settlements have withered away and died in the family islands. I saw that when I visited a family island , a few years ago. The settlement, my great grandmother came from ,died off. The Bahamian people through their political ,religious and civic leaders have no real vision to develop this country. An englishman who is married to a Bahamian lady scoff and laugh at how this country has developed.He said to the class,my relative was in,the Bahamas reminds him of a heavily centralized communist country. All decisions are made in Nassau for the entire country.That is why there is no real interest to decentralize the structure of this country.

The seeds of the violent crime problem and traffic congestion were planted in the seventies. These situations have gotten progressively worse over the years.The transhipment of illegal drugs through the Bahamas is a major contributor to the current state of affairs.The traffickers also had their arsenal of weapons to protect their cargoes.

As for representative democracy,the Bahamas is way less democratic than the United States. Canada,the UK and most of western Europe. All of those countries have layers of highly effective state and local governments. Bahamians only vote based on hate and emotions.They have no real understanding of how governments should work.The average Bahamian has no say how this country is governed after they vote.Both major political parties,The PLP and FNM oppose a real system of local government.They fear that it's introduction will reduce their power.

The Bahamas has a lot of very hard working Haitian migrants, Quite a number of situations have brought that to my attention.Without their labour, certain segments of the Bahamian economy would collapse.Congratulations and best of luck to the young gentleman.