"...it must be appreciated that a member of Parliament is paid less in one year than any of the two top executives of BPL make in one month,” Mr Bannister said yesterday.

So... if MPs get paid less than $34 a year, how come so many of them is end up being millionaires?!? BOL!!

The name is "Golden Chess" but the logo is a "Golden Chest".
https://www.facebook.com/Golden-Chess-E…
You should know something fishy when they can't even get the name right!

So the ban on importing older cars, which in theory would help the Bahamian auto repair industry, has instead HURT the auto repair industry, as consumers are purchasing cheaper Japanese cars and repairing them is more expensive?

Sometimes it is better the devil you know than the devil you don't. Be careful what you wish for...

$4.2 billion x 7.5% = $315 million.(lost VAT revenue). That don't include any future lost VAT revenue between now and end of 2019.

$315 million - $101.5 million payment to Bahamian creditors = $214 million

Yeah, I would give away $100 million dollars too if it meant I saved over $200 million on the back end!!

Once again, we as a country are "penny wise, pound foolish".

Are our police officers being paid *with interest* for the moneys held back since 2013? Waiting four years to simply pay them what they are owed and no additional compensation for the financial disadvantage they have endured over the last four years.

Such a shame this couldn't have happened in November or December of last year - you know, right before Christmas shopping time and all!!!

The timing of it all is... peculiar.

Tal, you raise a good point. His Golden Gates constituents did not care about his controversies in 2007! Will 2017 be any different?

The purchase orders should have read "Favours RCVD"!!

They did...
http://www.tribune242.com/news/2017/apr…

Parliament was dissolved a week ago. So, how has government decided to implement these new fees and rates?

Either the now-dissolved government decided this a few weeks ago (and kept it hush-hush until now for maximum effect) or the Ministry of Transport and Aviation is making last-minute changes on its own.

If it is the latter, I am glad to see that the Ministry can exert its muscle and implement change. Remind me again, what is the Ministry doing about the air traffic controllers "sick out" last week?

**The PLP also pledges it will create policies ensuring that 75 to 80 per cent of revenue generated from the tourism industry remains in the Bahamas rather repatriated outside... only about 20 per cent of profits from foreign direct investments in the Bahamas trickles down throughout the society.**

We struggling to get new hotels opened and old hotels reopened. And you gonna tell the foreign investors they now gonna lose 75% of their revenue?? (Going from 80% of the money leaving the country down to 20% leaving the country). He must have lost his mind...