"Under our proposed plan, a 'sugary drinks tax' structure will be developed for sugary drinks and potentially other unhealthy products. The funding generated by this tax will be earmarked and flow directly into health education and outreach programmes." don't believe that for a bahama minute!
Perhaps the threat of such a sugary drinks tax might be an incentive for the sugary drinks manufacturers to switch to production of healthy drinks. The costs may be initially staggering to switch over to a different form of production, but if ridiculously high taxes are the only alternative........... This Government is out to tax all animate and inanimate objects in its line of vision.
Whatever nonsense is projected about crime "trending" down is lunacy.
"Mr Dames said: “Day time armed robberies is nothing new, armed robberies are crimes of opportunity. Whenever someone can see an opportunity, they’ll take advantage of it.
“I don’t have the stats before me, but you’ve heard the commissioner (say) that serious crimes are down, at some point he’ll have an opportunity to share that with you."
Pure and utter poppycock on the part of the so-called Minister of National Security.
"Last week, Commissioner Ferguson said that crime is trending downwards." These guys live in la-la land!
Thing is Hatter, time, money and ability are needed to organize such things. I also feel people have become exceedingly disheartened as their protests fall on deaf ears, unless the protesters are affluential. I often ask what We March Bahamas and its leader was actually all about!
"The Grand Lucayan's post-Matthew closure has resulted in much of the property being shuttered for 21 months, causing the loss of over 1,000 jobs and 59 per cent of Grand Bahama's hotel room inventory - effectively taking the island off the stopover tourism map." This from 31st July, 2018 Tribune report.
We never seem to get a full report so details are often murky and confusing, which is as the government likes it. The onus falls on the publication to glean as many facts as it possibly can!
Buncha crooks and idiots, all of them. Can someone please tell me what these 150 staff were doing at this hotel that was so severely hurricane damaged. Was the hotel partially opened? The whole affair is a disgrace, from the Hong Kong owners, to whichever government allowed them to take big insurance money without affecting repairs, to this government actually purchasing the white elephant with such a lousy deal for The People whose time it certainly is not.
Buncha jerks! If these greedy, inefficient idiots had listened to the outcry against VAT in the first place, and to the draconian VAT increase in the second, folks would be much more amenable to a Bahamian citizen health care tax.
DDK says...
"Under our proposed plan, a 'sugary drinks tax' structure will be developed for sugary drinks and potentially other unhealthy products. The funding generated by this tax will be earmarked and flow directly into health education and outreach programmes." don't believe that for a bahama minute!
On Manufacturers blast NHI's $10m 'sugary drinks tax' proposal
Posted 24 October 2018, 4:21 p.m. Suggest removal
DDK says...
Perhaps the threat of such a sugary drinks tax might be an incentive for the sugary drinks manufacturers to switch to production of healthy drinks. The costs may be initially staggering to switch over to a different form of production, but if ridiculously high taxes are the only alternative........... This Government is out to tax all animate and inanimate objects in its line of vision.
On Manufacturers blast NHI's $10m 'sugary drinks tax' proposal
Posted 24 October 2018, 4:17 p.m. Suggest removal
DDK says...
Whatever nonsense is projected about crime "trending" down is lunacy.
"Mr Dames said: “Day time armed robberies is nothing new, armed robberies are crimes of opportunity. Whenever someone can see an opportunity, they’ll take advantage of it.
“I don’t have the stats before me, but you’ve heard the commissioner (say) that serious crimes are down, at some point he’ll have an opportunity to share that with you."
Pure and utter poppycock on the part of the so-called Minister of National Security.
"Last week, Commissioner Ferguson said that crime is trending downwards." These guys live in la-la land!
On Another fatal shooting but crime figures down
Posted 24 October 2018, 3:52 p.m. Suggest removal
DDK says...
natario McKENZIE, please advise who or what is CLICO (Bahamas). Thank you.
On DPM confirms $10m payout over CLICO
Posted 24 October 2018, 3:18 p.m. Suggest removal
DDK says...
Thing is Hatter, time, money and ability are needed to organize such things. I also feel people have become exceedingly disheartened as their protests fall on deaf ears, unless the protesters are affluential. I often ask what We March Bahamas and its leader was actually all about!
On Health service funding crisis ends in landmark plan - 2% levy on wages to pay $100m costs
Posted 24 October 2018, 3:10 p.m. Suggest removal
DDK says...
"The Grand Lucayan's post-Matthew closure has resulted in much of the property being shuttered for 21 months, causing the loss of over 1,000 jobs and 59 per cent of Grand Bahama's hotel room inventory - effectively taking the island off the stopover tourism map."
This from 31st July, 2018 Tribune report.
We never seem to get a full report so details are often murky and confusing, which is as the government likes it. The onus falls on the publication to glean as many facts as it possibly can!
On ‘Why should we pick up Lucayan severance bill?‘
Posted 24 October 2018, 2:59 p.m. Suggest removal
DDK says...
Buncha crooks and idiots, all of them. Can someone please tell me what these 150 staff were doing at this hotel that was so severely hurricane damaged. Was the hotel partially opened? The whole affair is a disgrace, from the Hong Kong owners, to whichever government allowed them to take big insurance money without affecting repairs, to this government actually purchasing the white elephant with such a lousy deal for The People whose time it certainly is not.
On ‘Why should we pick up Lucayan severance bill?‘
Posted 24 October 2018, 2:34 p.m. Suggest removal
DDK says...
Buncha crooks!
On Health service funding crisis ends in landmark plan - 2% levy on wages to pay $100m costs
Posted 24 October 2018, 1:39 p.m. Suggest removal
DDK says...
LOL Oh Mad One!
On Health service funding crisis ends in landmark plan - 2% levy on wages to pay $100m costs
Posted 24 October 2018, 1:33 p.m. Suggest removal
DDK says...
Buncha jerks! If these greedy, inefficient idiots had listened to the outcry against VAT in the first place, and to the draconian VAT increase in the second, folks would be much more amenable to a Bahamian citizen health care tax.
On Health service funding crisis ends in landmark plan - 2% levy on wages to pay $100m costs
Posted 24 October 2018, 1:31 p.m. Suggest removal