@ Emoiricist. Fritzgerald Hinds ,a minister in the PNM government in Trinidad and Tobago has locks. Alando Terrolonge and Damian Crawford, politicians in Jamaica sport the dreadlocks hair-style. The Bahamas is way behind socially than other countries in the English speaking Caribbean. This despite being so call wealthier than them.

This is simply a way to funnel or privatize some of the central government's revenue collection. What is needed is improve internal controls, computerization and effective prosecution of wrong-doers. The media simply transcribes what is said. They don't question anything. They won't dare ask who are the owners and who will be the ultimate beneficiaries of these decisions.

Cooper is not a PLP or FNM philosophically. He approached and had discussions with Dr.
Minnis first. After that went nowhere, he approach the PLP. He did the same thing as Peter Turnquest.

Juan McCartney on his talk show has done some discussions and analysis on this budget. There are quite a number of things that don't add up. The vat tax credit for the employment scheme really is not going to generate increase employment. Zhivago Laing, the former minister of state for finance said the revenue projection figures are ' overly optimistic.' The thing is few in the media here question anything. They merely transcribe what is said or what they are told.

An engineer told me that to alleviate the flooding in Pinewood Gardens requires pumps and pumping station. The water would have be pumped into the South Beach canal..

He told me the initial cost of that project would be over 12 million dollars. Bear in mind this conversation was in 2013 or 2014. That was before the vat tax was implemented. This cost and recommendation came from both American and Bahamian engineers.

@ Bogart. Why do you think Tyler Technologies were contracted for? They were not hired to twiddle their thumbs. They were engaged in updating the Real Property department. Their contract was terminated by the Minnis government. The Minnis government had to re-engage them at a higher price when they realized how important what were doing.

What you have no clue what you are talking about .Tax reform has been on governments agenda since the Ingraham's administration in the nineties.

That money was a loan from the IDB. That loan was secured in 1994 by the first Ingraham administration. That was used in the pilot project for bus unification on route 17, I believe in 2019.

This country is so backwards in so many ways. Bermuda which is 22 miles has a unified public transport system.

The collection of derelict vehicles should not be the duty of a MP. All vehicles sold in the Bahamas should have an environmental levy tax charged on them. That should pay for their disposal.

The reason for the importation of so many vehicles on this small is the lack of a reliable, safe public transportation system. There is a tremendous public policy failures in this country. The rabid supporters of both the PLP and the FNM don't understand that.

There were no stray dogs roaming the streets in the US city, my sister lives in. That was one of the first things I noticed when I first went there. I am so use to seeing dogs roaming the streets in some parts of New Providence.

She explain to me there was a very effective animal control unit in that city and suburbs. She also told me the various f penalties and fines for allowing your animals to stray. She said that is big no- no there.

The Bahamas is decades behind that city, county and state in animal welfare. Bahamians need to travel and be expose to how far behind this country is in various things.

@ Tal. You know exactly how things go in this country. Mr. Johnson is the son of a late PLP/FNM politician. People in the know here ,know the circumstances of his departure from his last place of employment in the Bahamas.

Dr.Minnis does this all the time.He makes grand pronouncements and policy decisions to the media .This is done without his clear cut understanding of the policy decisions and consulting his colleagues. He is simply horrible as prime minister. He is giving Mr. Christie a run for his money.