Because many of them DON’T do the right thing with our tax dollars!! Such as spending 20 million dollars on a Carnival Festival!

The purpose of VAT is to reduce our national debt!! That why the government introduced it!!! Because we owe owe owe!!! Either we reduce our debt or the IMF and other international lenders were about to devalue our dollar which equates to economic suicide! Furthermore, how do you know that the government has collected 900 million dollars on VAT??? Can you validate or prove that? Is it in writing? Is that an official amount? Has that been officially reported by a credible news outlet? Where did you get this number from? Show me some proof please. We Bahamians are notorious for talking unsubstantiated rubbish!

Guys...... do you realize that it costs approximately 400 to 600 million dollars to build a hospital??? And that does not include the millions of dollars it would cost to staff the facility. Furthermore, the Bahamas is a small country with only four-hundred thousand people, many of whom are unemployed with no national or federal healthcare program in place to pay their hospital visits. So where will the government get the funds from to build a brand new hospital and cover operational costs??? Y’all need to be more practical in your thinking and stop blurting out every piece of nonsense that comes to mind. Smt.

@JokeyJack, you are indeed Jokey fa true! The government is not responsible for your inability to feed yourself. However, they are indeed responsible for erecting and renovating facilities that are crucial to the healthcare delivery system. Do you realize that for almost a decade the Rand Memorial hospital didn’t even have a crash cart??? Which means anyone suffering cardiac arrest or heart failure would probably die due to the lack of emergency medicine! This was unconscionable and inept and the government knew that it was their responsibility to fix it! Feeding you and other Bahamians is not their problem! It’s yours! By the sweat of YOUR brow YOU shall eat bread! Not the government. Bahamians need to understand that many of them are in the position that they are now in due to the poor choices they have made in their lives. You’re not a baby! So get off the government’s tit! If you are hungry, go and farm your own food and stop begging the government! 20 million dollars on renovating a hospital is money well spent!

The only people that can help Haiti is Haiti itself. Perhaps they should go back under the French. Just saying.

We have the FNM to thank for that.

Should’t you be in Sandilands? I apologize for all the bad things I’ve said about you. I didn’t realize that you were a psych patient.

Agreed.

You just couldn’t resist it could you? Like a predictable moth to a flame I knew it wasn’t long before you would attempt to implicate the authorities for these killings. Every time criminals reap what they sow it’s somehow the Police’s fault, huh? Not the parents of these filthy rats or the rats themselves, but the police, huh? Just do us a favor and confine your stupidity to the ghetto where you’re from, or shut your ignorant mouth please.

Thats because the tribune has come to realize what we all know John.... that you are a pointless fool.