@This is Ours. These are not Wilson's tax policies. These are the tax policies of PM Davis and the PLP cabinet. He is merely executing them as a civil servant along with the Ministry of Finance team. Adjustments to some of these taxes will be made at the mid - year budget review.

Both of the two major political parties are trying to do the same thing. That is reduce the deficit and do Fiscal consolidation. They differ on the method. Kwasi THompson ,minister of state for Finance explained what is happening if this deficit is not dealt with.Both governments are well aware of the debt that is coming due in 2025.

The economic system under which the Bahamas operates has been becoming under competitive pressure.This system was not created by the PLP. This economic method was created in the 1950 by Sir Stafford Sands.Before him ,it was Sir Harold Christie.
This economy is having all things of problems with globalization. OECD has declared war on the Bahamas's financial services. Constant threats of black lists and sanctions on the industry. Also other caribbean countries have increasingly turned to tourism for their jobs and foreign exchange earnings.

The Bahamas as a country is way behind in innovation in some sectors compared to other caribbean countries. Renewable energy.agri-industries, light -manufacturing and some cultural productions. A well-known person said ,when living in Barbados, they were ahead of the Bahamas in those areas.

The Bahamas as a country has too many monopolies and vested interests. They stifle innovation and block competition.

This project was going to approve by which ever party is in power. Whether it was the PLP or FNM. Most bahamians are blissfully unaware of certain aspects of the tourism industry.

Dionsio D'Aguilar said this when he was tourism minister. The big jump in tourism arrivals to the Bahamas since 1990 was through cruise arrivals. More visitors come to the Bahamas on cruise ships than by air. The cruise lines going forward will increasing exert their influence in this economy.

This is rape.This adult male should be on remand at BDOC.

This is not a real country like people always say. This man should already been arrested. The child should been allowed to have a abortion by physician.These ministers and MPs have no idea of what they are doing. The things they fumble around and brag about doing, is done for years in the real world by local government officials.

A nice and fitting gesture to this gentleman. It is good that he will be remembered for his contribution to that island's development in this way.

Whenever Bahamians leave this country and go next door to Florida, they see all sorts of named buildings. Local government is a big part of governance in the real world.The reason it's development here is stifled because it will take away the power and control of politicians. It would force them to do something they don't want to do and are unable to do. That is to become real legislators

This is an attempt by the former DPM Bannister to defend his legacy. It was prompted by the interview given by Debbie Deal in a previous Tribune edition.She plainly spoke about the problems with the Wartsila generator installations.Those problems are going to cost the Bahamian people. It is the same mess and foolishness done by the PLP. I am so disappointed in Desmond Bannister. I always will lead to believe that one of the best ministers in that cabinet.

Congratulations.Proud of you. A descendant of the settlements of Browns and True Blue, Crooked Island.

This botched installation of these Wartsila generators are a going to cost the Bahamian people.Same sh*t, different day.

The Bahamian educational system has had problems for decades. Relatives of mine who retired could recite the litany of problems,they experience forty years ago.

There are a lot of poorly socialized people in this country. They lack emotional intelligence and parental skills. So many children are acting out what they see in their environment or are basically left to fend for themselves.

A high ranking Anglican priest and a white intellectual basically said the same thing. Sociology is not studied in the Bahamas like in other caribbean countries. These social issues have been with us for years.

There needs to be a proper organized public transportation system on the island of New Providence, There is no reason to get around on this small island you need to drive or own a car. A foreigner who visit this island was amazed at the traffic on this island.The city he lived in, in Europe was larger than New Providence and had almost three times the population of the Bahamas.Yet that city had a proper functioning public transportation system long before the Bahamas came an independent country.

@ This is Ours. The Director of Works should be a qualified engineer. He should be able to speak at press conferences about the technical aspects of things in the Ministry of Works. He/She gets a free pass from you yet the FS is under a constant scrutiny from you. A bahamian engineer living aboard from this. New Providence is an engineering disaster with a lot of bad engineering work.

Algernon Cargill said this to a relative and his classmates who he lectured. Barbados is ahead of the Bahamas in some aspects of their development. A next relative of mine said this to me. The cost of living in Barbados was lower than the Bahamas yet they were way down there in the southern Caribbean. He said he experience that when he visited that island. He could not understand that.