And they should take the boat. For the fish laws to work the punishment needs to be so severe that no one wants to risk it.

I know you need to make it seem as though nothing is happening as it affects your party, but if you are unable to see that there has been a downturn and that there will be effects then you are party blind. Maybe we will be lucky and it will be a few weeks thing, or maybe we won't . But we need to get the message out that yes there is a crime issue, but we are dealing with it (i hope we can soon say that), and that it does not affect our tourists (which seems strange that we are OK as long as its not in certain areas).

Can we not get any figures as to how many people this top 10% is. How much they think the tax rate should be? and finally how much said tax rate would bring in. I assume it will be if your income goes over a figure (say $50,000) then you pay 15% tax on the amount above. This would be OK to many, as long as the level of service improves dramatically. if you are just taxing people the 15% and then the roads are terrible, the hospitals non existent, schools not educating and crime rampant, i feel many in the tax bracket may say no point. The high tax level countries in the Nordic nations work because people can see the benefits.

They don't care. As long as the connected person gets the contract and therefore the money they don't care how lousy the service is. Notice that they never tell who you has the contract to redesign the website. no doubt at the cost of hundreds of thousands if not millions. Sure they will throw out the company name, but never the actual owners, as then it will all make sense why it doesn't work.

When will Bahamians realize that the Government doesn't care. Not this one, nor the ones before, and the civil service really don't care as they will be there no matter what, with pay rises even if the service is lousy. Sure you have to waste a couple of days each year doing government related stuff, but they don't care. They don't have to, they are now connected. You can be connected too and not have to waste that time, you just got to be willing to pay though.

apparently as long as they can show it will create 10 jobs there are no environmental concerns.

I bet it was actually much more then that, but most people don't let the government know they are sending money out of the country. Due to the 5% people would rather take the money out in other ways. Of course this then means they will never bring it back so that money is gone. I wonder if that's why the wealthy Bahamians don't invest in Bahamas as much, as they don't want to be in a situation where they are unable to get their money out.

There is no such thing as ease of doing business here. The Government just brought in a new business license regime which makes doing business here even harder. They did this so they can increase their revenue due to the fact that they are now making you pay business license on the year ahead rather then the year just gone. In order to do this they got a new portal, but using it makes it obvious that no testing has gone into it, Someone was no doubt paid a lot of money for something a child has made with no functionality in it ( i assume the only criteria was that the person must be known to someone). I become more sure each day that Government has decided it wants the country to fail as they consistently do stupidness with no idea how business actually works.

So 53 parking spots for 40 units (no idea how they said the 38 units was 1.5 spots per person when there is 40 units). I agree there is a chance all units won't be occupied, but lets say its a busy period so its at 75%, thats 30 units with at least 1 car. Then you have the 30 people who they say will be employed, and then you have guests. They need to turn that median into parking, or just give them Goodmans bay parking lot. I'll never understand how it can be called town planning when they think each unit will only need 1.5 car parking spaces. Most families have at least two cars, so you already have a problem.

The problem is this figure is wrong. They have no idea who owns what in the family island. I know of a Bahamian who bought a property from a foreigner 20 years ago and got hit up for unpaid property taxes, a small amount prior to it being bought and then each year after. When they pointed out that they shouldn't pay it was agreed they should pay the small amount and then the issue would be dealt with. Fast forward to last year and the government comes back saying they owe all this. They had to show all the correspondence showing this had been dealt with. He fully expects them to come back in 5 yeras as they don't update their records. Of course as this makes money for lawyers they have no inetion of changing the property records in thsi country to make it correct.