@ Moncurcool. He is actually more competent with the acting financial secretary Johnson. Way more competent according to an american investment banker.

These decisions are not made being made by him. These policy decisions are made by Phillip Davis and Michael Halkitis. Halkitis is the real minister of finance.The PLP government is being pressured by both the IMF and the Bahamas international creditors. They have to find about two billion dollars to either pay or refinance the county's debt next year. I do not believe they will pul it off. Both Hubert Minnis and Kwasi Thompson are well aware of that.

Some Bahamians do not realize the important roles mailboats play in this country. The Bahamas ia an archipelago of islands.They carry freight and persons to various islands.

I salute this gentleman and others for the service they provide to Bahamians and foreigners.He clearly understands that this country can not be developed without intra island shipping.

Islands like Exuma needs real local government. They would be empowered to deal with some of these issues. Fred Mitchell in his budget contribution basically was speaking about local government..

Both the PLP and FNM oppose real local government.They feel it would reduce their power. The elites who rule the Bahamas experience it when they travel,study live and work aboard.Yet they oppose it's implementation in this county. Strange.

The Bahamas is not an attractive country to return to after you finish your tertiary education in the U.S. Those words were spoken by a bahamian at meeting at St.Thomas University in South Florida. Those words were spoken to Perry Christie, Fred Mitchell and other PLPs.

I know of many situations where persons chose not to return to the Bahamas or want to leave the Bahamas. I know of an american lady with two master degrees. She married a Bahamian and moved to the Bahamas with him. She was never able to work in the Bahamas. She fell into a deep state of depression. A next person told me this a few years ago, both of her sons are living and working aboard. Her younger son went off to university in Canada and has never return to the Bahamas. Education is seen as a vehicle for migration from the Bahamas.Those are the paraphrased words of a University of the Bahamas official.

The Bahamas is both a paradise and plantation at the same time for different persons. Many educated, younger person do not want to live here.Even the children of the elite are choosing to live aboard in first world countries.

Bahamians are not immature and honest enough to discuss their history. A lot of young bahamians do not know who Carlos Ledher Rivas is.

That company was started with a grant from The Ministry Of Youth and Culture self-starter program. That was during the time of the late Charles Maynard was the minister. Somebody told me that a prominent white bahamian family was behind this company.

The next major public-private partnership (PPP) should be Potter's Cay Dock. Potter's Cay is
where the mail boats dock. It is desperately needs to be cleaned,modenize and improved
There are also fruit,fish and vegetable vendors there. There are also restaurants there. Mike Maura hinted about that in interviews with Candia Dames of the Guardian newspaper.

Bahamians by in large who live on New Providence have no idea what a modern functioning city is. Nassau is not it.They experience and see it when they go aboard to the United States, Canada and Europe

I must admit their messaging could be better.They have to improve on their communications.and public relations. Good communications has never be a strong suit of any government since independence.Especially with public policy decisions.

What Gowon Bowe say is true. Discussions on tax reform should have been done over twenty years ago.Hubert Ingraham to his credit saw it and attempted to make changes. He had intended to implemented the vat if the FNM was re-elected in 2012. The international community will start to pressure this country to change it's tax system.

Michael Pintard is not a native Grand Bahamian. He move to Grand Bahama to live and work.His mother is from Cat Island and his father came from Ragged island.