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.

Make sure trials occur in a timely manner and you won't have this issue. Of course this would affect the amount of money lawyers make and as most politicians are lawyers this is a no no. Better to make sure people think you are trying to do something and do nothing then affect your revenue.

So does the rest of the country and probably more, Glad you realized we need an exorcist for the whole country.

Thankyou to the letter writer for explaining that it is not that easy to just say death penalty. We do have the death penalty but are very reluctant to even have someone who is convicted to have this as their sentence. We can blame the privy council all we want, but they have left it in the hands of our leaders to change the law if deemed necessary. As they have not done so, says to me that they do not want it.

Watch you be the first to say how greedy they are when they put the price of fish up for Good Friday, whilst conveniently forgetting your beloved PLP are one of the main reasons for the increase.

Problem is no one will complain and government knows it. This is easy pickings for them. And for LaRoda to say its due to no increases in 20 years shows how out of touch Government is. No ones salary during that time went up by that much, minimum wage went from $100 odd to $250, not over $1,000 which would be inline with this. But then again he is just another person that will say what is needed in order for more money to be given to Government. At least Government will still be able to say no new taxes, just plenty increases on those that were there. And then in a few months as all the additional costs trickle down and the cost of living goes up even more, they can blame the merchants and say they are being greedy, as they put no new taxes on people.

LOL the idea that things were all great pre Hubert Ingram is laughable. There were serious issues then as now. As always i notice that it is easy for government's to say what other Governments did that was wrong, and yet they (who have the power to) never implement any charges to go back to how it was. Which i therefore take as meaning they have no intention of changing how things are, rather they like to say what the plebs want to hear and then do nothing. The plebs are happy (as can be told by this letter writer) and the Government can continue as is, knowing that in a couple of months they will only need to say some more words that will keep people quiet (maybe about foreigners, or gays or the bay street merchants).