This country is a sorry joke. Government keeps introducing these draconian rules and regulations requiring businesses to supply them with every piece of information except the time that they go to the bathroom. Wh or what is their angle with this latest bunch of foolishness? Not advance notification, want the information by 15th February and just letting people know of this newest obligation 8 days before the deadline. Wish someone would come down on all the lawbreakers in this country the same way they keep piling filing and licensing obligations on businesses. Road traffic laws say one should still be able to see inside a vehicle that has tints. Tell that to Cabinet ministers cars, judiciary cars,
police vehicles and other vehicles whose tints are so dark one cannot see anything inside the vehicle? How do those vehicles get inspected when they are so opaque? Is there a fine for failing to stop at a red light? Too many vehicles continue through a solid red light at most intersections these days that one tales their life in their hands driving on our roads. Who maintains the street lights? So many of them are out that it is common for vehicles to be driving with their bright lights on at night blinding people travelling in the opposite direction. Traffic laws say that a motorcycle is a vehicle, so on a two-lane road these people are supposed to ride behind the vehicles in front of them but in this country, they create their own lane of traffic down the centre of the road beeping their horn to let others know they are overtaking. No one stops them, no one fines them and worse still, some of them ride with no helmet as required by law, prance on one wheel whenever they have a piece of open road in front of them, not sure if the rider is licensed, or if the vehicle is licensed, inspected or insured. Tons of vehicles riding around with no licence plates. Not sure what law the Controller of Road Traffuc is operating under but there is nothing in Bahamian law that exempts Cabinet Ministers, judges or police vehicles from the tinting law and nothing permitting the Controller to allow vehicles to be on the road with no licence plates. If they are involved in a traffic accident and don't stop, is the Controller going to pat to repair my car or for my injuries or loss of life? We had a referendum and voted against licensing web shops. Now those guys are into building ownership, rental properties, hotel, office and high end development while making money hand over fist. No auctioning of licenses, no public procurement of licenses, just gave the licenses to those who were breaking the law, making everything fine and dandy. Meanwhile, we still need money for national sports teams to train, to travel and to participate. No money for Family Island sports. No money for culture, the arts, antiquities. No forethought put into giving out these licenses. Now every Joe and his brother is an ambassador, major demo on some public board or entity. Enough is enough.

If the government hadn't been so stupid about the lottery, think of what we could be doing getting kids involved in gymnastics, other less mainstream sports, arts, culture and other activities using lottery money? An opportunity missed

Wrong sir/madam. It was Perry Christie/PLP 4 and FNM 35. Minnis had little to do with the result and if the electorate had paid heed to Loretta Butler Turner and others, in hindsight people already had a forecast of what the FNM under Minnis would be. Remember that in 2012, the FNM didn't have much choice on who would be its leader after Hubert Ingraham resigned following his election defeat. Minnis with his money seemed like a viable option but failed miserably when he had the opportunity. He did nothing to merit a second chance. Better to ride or die with Pintard than revert to Minnis.

It's all about cheapness. Using computers, artificial intelligence and now cheap labour in Jamaica, all these Canadian banks are cutting back on their expenses to increase their revenue. Why have call centres in each Caribbean country when you can put the call centre for all Caribbean countries in Jamaica for cheap? I feel sorry for Ms Mortimer with all her union members in 1 bank. Bank employees are being very short sighted and will go the way of older persons in the hotel industry. If you get to still be in a hotel or bank after age 55 you have accomplished something, especially if you don't have a master's degrees or some other specialty qualifications. As usual, no one looking out for the Bahamian.

Unfortunately for her, she is apparentky banned from competing for 4 years effective from 14 February 2022. This is what can happen following an appeal of an anti-doping rule violation, the penalty can go all the way up to the 4 year maximum. You see this happen sometimes in the Bahamas Court of Appeal where convicted criminals appeal their sentence and the appeal court decides to impose a harsher sentence than the trial judge. Under Swiss law, she can appeal the CAS decision to the Swiss courts but if she did she is unlikely to get any reduction there. This is the catch when you compete at the highest levels in sports. The WADA Code, the World Aquatics rules and even the Bahamas law impose these types of penalties on all manner of athletes now. The rules/law make the athlete responsible for what he or she invests. It would appear that the Tribunal at first instance might have been satisfied that she unknowingly and unwittingly committed an ADRV and gave her a 2 year suspension but the likelihood is that the CAS tribunal was not so forgiving and presumably felt that it was ingested intentionally or carelessly thus the reason for the 4 year suspension. She apparently has already served 2 of the 4 years, the question is where will she be in 2026 at age 28 with another 2 years to go to the next Olympics?

Or maybe that is just how he feels. These guys operate on expediency and if it was expedient to have someone or other for a business partner, that was the and this is now. His so-called partner can't do anything for him today and in all likelihood is a lame duck candidate for leader who had his chance and blew it big time. No, there is a definite "time for a change" and now, more than ever, this is not the time to turn back. The FNM might have won the last election with a different leader but would not and could not win with the one that it had who wants a second go-round of the sweetness that he had. He should be thankful that he had the opportunity to be leader and PM and know that it is time to remain on the sidelines for someone else. The people weren't on his run in 2012 and will not be on his run in 2024 or 2026.

The scenario at the dock regarding taxis was and still is a fiasco. The complaint about Road Traffic inspectors is rubbish. Either they and the police are doing nothing to supervise and direct the taxis at the dock area and around by Scotiabank or they are looking the other way for whatever reason. The taxis clog up the roadways along Woodes Rogers wharf and the roadway by Rawson Square east of the bank. They don't care about other road users and just on a hustle to get whatever money they can out of cruise ship passengers with their assorted "tours". Other countries have a designated parking area for taxis and tour buses that are some distance from the actual port area. The taxi drivers have ID badges with their names, numbers and company or business name who they work for, giving them some degree of legitimacy. Here, these people have no ID and walk up to anybody about a "tour" or journey while the ship is in Nassau. This whole fiasco raises the question of "Who is in charge of the roads and parking and taxi cab drivers and tour buses at the Cruise Port?" because it suer doesn't seem to be Road Traffic or the police or the cruise port people.

The head of the police force needs a radical dose of reality. He considers murder cases as "solved" whenever they charge someone for the offence. However, what happens when the defendant is discharged because his so-called "confession" was beaten out of him or otherwise obtained by force or failure to produce any, or any credible, evidence? In most other countries that I know of, if the accused person is acquitted, discharged or the charge discontinued or withdrawn,that case goes is then considered as unresolved and still open. Only cases where there is a conviction of the person charged is considered "solved". After all, as the gatherers and testifiers of the evidence against each accused person, the job of the police is not concluded simply after investigating and charging but goes all the way to the end by getting a conviction. No conviction, no closed case, no "solved" matter because if it transpires that it is not the person charged, then someone, somewhere, is responsible for a murder.

So if Government made a presentation to 100 American companies who came up with 100 questions, doesn't seem like they are factoring too much Bahamian participation into this thing? A project of this scale should have a minimum 50% Bahamian participation and 50^ Bahamian ownership otherwise a major component of our energy supply is predominantly in foreign hands lie Freeport.

The Government ought to be ashamed of itself. This only brings home that there is nothing simple or straightforward about doing business in this country. The website for businesses o essentially file their tax returns and pay any VAT due to the government isn't working and try as they might, they seem unable or uninterested in fixing it but are meanwhile still demanding the filing of tax returns and the payment of VAT tax by or before 31st January knowing they have not and cannot provide the means for taxpayers to do that. These people need their heads examined. Typical uncaring attitude although this website is essentially the sole means to interact with the Government on anything to do with taxes. This should have been fixed from day one but it still lingers on with no resolution in sight.