That's the beauty of democracy: that's her right although anyone who has lived through the last 5 years would be hard-pressed to agree with her

So what are people like Dread Fred and Alfred Sears really, really inferring: keep quiet, say nothing and Moody's and the other ratings agencies won't find out how bad they and their colleagues left things because it might precipitate a negative rating? This is the kind of lopsided PLP thinking that we got rid of on 10th May for at least the next 5 years. Fred and Sears are trying to keep themselves relevant in the hope that should the voters swing back to the PLP in 2022 they will be in the frontline and able to secure the leader or deputy leader positions. Tell them to get lost, we don't fall for their brand of crap. The revelation that China Construction still is no closer to completing the unfinished work at Baha Mar demonstrates that we would have been worse than clowns to have followed the PLP's Pied Piper song and dance routine when they can't get this contractor to complete anything. Fred and Sears and others like Picewell, Brave and Glynnis don't seem to have gotten the message that there are a great many of us who have a severe credibility problem with them. To follow them is to court disaster of untold dimensions.

So why has the Tribune, a newspaper respected in some quarters, given this man with no credibility so much columnar space in order to tee off on the FNM government when he was so silent for the better part of the last 5 years over the warts and defects of his beloved PLP which is in dire need of taking the mote out of its own eye before telling someone else how to rectify the problems they met in place? Please! Enough already.

So what is URCA doing about the frequent power cuts by BPL in Abaco, Nassau and Harbour Island? They levied a big fine on BTC when they did it twice but nothing on the electrical dinosaur that can't keep its over priced power on in any of the major population centres that it serves? Can anyone say Power Secure?

This is at the AUDIT stage. When the auditors have finished they pass their findings to the board or the minister or whoever engaged them. If the report indicates criminals activity then the POLICE will be called in to investigate, collect evidence and then prosecute. Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves people. The BAIC matter was small fries in comparison to what is described in this story. Talk to the police about that one as there was no auditors involved that we know about.

The Road Not Taken - Poem by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Yes John you hit the nail on the head. Dealing with Central Revenue you wonder if the people at the top know what they are doing. Property tax bills went out telling people that their property had been reassessed at a higher value than the previous year and you had a few weeks to challenge the "reassessment". That's not the way to do business. Property owners should be notified well in advance of the actual bills coming out that the value of some/all properties were going to be reassessed and why. The owner should have ample time to object to the reassessment and provided with written reasons as to why his/her/their objections were not accepted so that they can appeal the matter if they wish to. Everything here is so arbitrary and fails to recognize that people have rights too.

If you listen to Dread Fred and Alfred Sears, you get the impression that lying or saying nothing is exactly what they want people/the government to do - lie and cover up for the PLP's chronicle of fiscal irresponsibility. No, we voters need to know so that we can prepare for what might next follow. And all this crap about "show me the plan" and "get on with the job and stop telling me what I already know" is BS. How can I plan or move on until I know what I have to work with, what I have to spend, what are my pre-existing commitments? It is time to face facts and bite the bullet. Perry and company may have known how to dance but they sure didn't know how to manage anything with any degree of accountability, frugality or rationality.

He's had a long run, at times apparently furled by political relations. My memories are that he initiated high priced, call dropping cellular service that became BTC's lifeblood and it has taken 20 plus years and mobile competition for us to finally see lower prices and better cellular service from BTC. The fibre to the home is overdue although I gather that Flow TV needs some work to become a viable competitor to Cable Bahamas. At least he made sure their services are national which you can't say the same thing about the competition.

This is either laziness on the police officer's part or sheer ignorance of the law and not acceptable in either case. Under the road traffic regulations made under the Road Traffic Act, the Controller of Road Traffic is responsible for designating bus stops, no parking areas, loading zones and the like. The police are then responsible along with road traffic inspectors (the people in the blue on dark blue uniforms) for enforcing the Act and its multitude of regulations. If buses started parking in the taxi spaces or no parking zones, the police are not going to say "That's not my responsibility, go see Road Traffic". As one respondent noted, when you drive down Bay Street the police are on every corner with their summonses waiting to book you for expired inspection and other driving infractions. So it's okay to book us for an expired vehicle inspection regarding a vehicle that the police don't register or inspect but they can't enforce the law regarding loading zones. The Commissioner of Police needs to jump on this immediately and get his people in line. They can't selectively enforce the road traffic laws. And the police should understand that it's their job to resolve issues like these not tell a civilian "This is a Central Police Station matter, call them". They should take the matter up with the Commissioner, resolve it and advise the public as to what was done, why and what will happen going forward. I agree that taxi cabs have too many of the parking spots on Bay Street and no one has ever explained why. Regarding the handicapped parking spaces, unlike Florida and other places there is no law penalising people for parking in such spaces without the requisite decal. If you watched the Parking Wars show on TV, you see where the penalty is $300 for parking in such spaces. Also, there is no information available as to where one would go in order to apply for the handicapped decal.