That's exactly my point!! The whole reason that VAT is needed and now being implemented is because of the mismanagement and misappropriation of funds by both governments!!
VAT will not have the desired affective of lowering our national debt nor decreasing our financial deficit simply because their is no accountability, transparency, honesty, competency, prudency, nor management skills within our government!! Especially when it comes to money!!! Simply put..... the government is just "shaking down" Bahamian citizens the same way they've "shook down" foreign investors, and the same way they are "shaking down" numbers bosses!! They steal, waste money, and mismanaged funds!! Then when they realize that there's no money left..... their only solution is to attempt to squeeze more money out of their citizens!! Decade after decade, they produce no solutions on how to spur the economy!!! Their only resolve is to increase taxes on already struggling Bahamians!!!
You really think that these bunch of bungling, lying, stealing, idiots within the PLP are capable of establishing the desired financial affects of VAT and circulating it back into the economy??? Please!! Give me a break!!
All there are doing is creating another piggy-bank to rob!! Just like they did the treasury!!
If I didn't have my morals in tact, I would have been a politician!! Simply because Bahamian people are the easiest set of people to rob!! Y'all is some fools!!!

ps.... Not you ThisisOurs

This is just a sign of things to come!!
In the wake of VAT, business owners have now been given an excuse to price-gouge Bahamian consumers! As a result, Bahamians are about to witness price hikes that will far exceed the 7.5 tax increase!!
The Bahamian people voted in the PLP government hoping that they would alleviate the economic burden placed on their backs. Instead.... the PLP imposed another unprecedented tax that will be certain to break the backs of everyday Bahamian consumers!

All yinna stupid Bahamians who was paradin up an down Nassau in yinna gold an blue shirt; nah ya gettin just what ya deserve!! Yinna let Perry dem rile ya up wit all kinna loud music, lies, an false promise!! Nah he put new tax on y'all!! Das good fa y'all!!! Yinna Bahamians too damn stupid!!!

That's true.
The problem is, and has always been the first lap. Many of the junkanoo groups never get their groups fully organized until the 2nd and 3rd lap.
I say, leave Junkanoo the way it is. So what if it's long. It was actually fun to see the parade go on for fifteen plus hours. I was able to watch the first lap... go home and get some sleep.... then come back and watch the third lap.

Dr. Hubert Minnis!!! If I remember correctly..... crime was high under the FNM government's watch aswell!! And just like the PLP... your FNM party seemed impotent and powerless to do anything to quell the problem!!
Stop using the issue of crime as a platform for political grandstanding!!! Every Bahamian knows that you posess no credible solution to our country's crime problem!!! So please just sit down and keep quiet, or make room for another party or leader who is serious about taking physical action in addressing our nation's most plaguing problems.

I swear.......... nothing works properly in this country.
The Bahamas really is full of shit. We can't seem to get anything right.

If you want to know where to spend your next vacation and security is a major concern for you, then all you have to do is log on to the US Department of Justice and Homeland Security Travel Alert System. There is sufficient and organized information available there to satisfy your quarries no matter what part of the world you are considering.
The constant plastering of gun violence and murder by the media only amplifies and glorifies criminal activity.
The truth is.... Bahamians have become so negative minded that we now crave bad news. I'm guessing that this is why the tribune continues to sell these types of stories. Supply and demand. Negative news for a negative people. Smh.

I really wish the Tribune would stop posting these constant crime reports. Aren't there any positive stories to report regarding our young people??? Aren't some of our youth engaged in acts that are uplifting to our community???
We have alot of young men and women doing great things in our country! Lets focus on them! Not crime ridden stories.

Lol!!!

Merry Christmas to you and yours!

Hubert Ingraham abdicated his MP status in Abaco! Embarrassed the FNM party by leaving them in the lurch! Refused to give the Bahamian people a plosable, dignified explanation for his departure! Failed to acknowledge that his actions were consistent with that of a spoiled, immature, petulant child throwing a temper tantrum! And now all of sudden he crawls out of his hovel of shame and wants to hurl acussations at Perry Christie??? Please!!! Don't get me started on this blasted website!!!!