@IslandWarrior.Sad .Very troubling. That project has been proposed from the nineties, I believe.

That is how things are done in this country. This ignorant, self-righteous country.. Things like this have gone on in this country from the nineteen fifties. This is also one of the factors that is driving the brain drain from this country,

@ Frustrated businessman. The so call spy bill would have to be passed by whatever party is in power. That bill is merely the repeal and modernization of the Listening Devices Act of 1972. The Maycock extradition case that went before the privy council caused that. The senior command of the police force which Dr.Minnis hand selected knew that. The AG'S office also knew that.

This FNM government is doing the same as the previous PLP government. Funneling contracts, business opportunities and jobs to their supporters. The only difference is that the media editorially supports this FNM government.

There has been an intermittent gang war on going on the island of New Providence for two decades now. Quite a number of murders on this island are the result of gang feuds.

Senior politicians of both major political parties are aware of this. There is a lot of complex socio-economic problems on this island. These problems will require both consistent and well -thought out solutions.

There needs to be a public education campaign with the introduction of the credit bureau. Many persons here, have issues with managing credit and their financial affairs.

The Bahamas is slowly entering the twentieth century. i have relatives who dealt with credit bureaus from the nineties in the U.S.

Bahamians simply don't understand their system of governance. They are not taught much about it in their school system. Instead they are feed a steady diet of political propaganda and revisionist history.

You have people taking parts of the presidential system of government and merging it with the parliamentary model. Canada and Japan ,highly developed countries don't have fixed election dates for national elections. Yet they are highly democratic. Canada also has provincial and a very strong system of local government.

Great Exuma island is both beautiful and very expensive I learned that when I went on a short vacation there. Wages in this country have not kept pace with both housing prices and rental prices.

A lot of persons are being priced out of the rental and housing market.. There is a huge unmet need for affordable rental units and housing in the Bahamas. An american businessman of all people ,told me that.

The Vat was to be implemented at a rate of 15 % if the Ingraham administration was re-elected in 2012. Zhivago Laing minister of state for Finance in that government said that publicly. That was part of the fiscal consolidation program

Only Dr. Minnis knows the date when the election will occur. He has that right under the Westminister system of governance. He still has nine months or less in his mandate.

Tax amnesties have been done before by both PLP and FNM governments for outstanding real property tax. According to the government records, there is over six hundred million dollars uncollected in real property tax. So twenty -seven million dollars is less than five percent of the amount outstanding. Mr. Hartnell did not even bother to ask Mr. Johnson ,what was the amount that was written off and forgiven including the surcharges.

As for the Tyler Technologies project ,Mr. Johnson has nothing to do with that. That project was started under financial secretary Wilson. All the projects that were stopped by the incoming Minnis administration in the Ministry of Finance, had to be restarted Somebody with an advanced degree in economics said those projects made sense and are needed.