No question the miniumum wage should be higher, as the cost of living has gone up considerably. However, to do it in this economic climate is just asking for trouble. With VAT looming and no relief of duty and freight costs, many busiinesses are barely hanging on. If wages increase now, many businesses will have to close their doors.
Then raising the miniumum wage will mean nothing if jobs are lost when businesses close.
Isn't anyone just a little curious why Leslie (and his family members) just happened to have $100,000 in CASH laying around? Why not just get a bank cheque? What's the source of this huge sum of cash? I sure as hell would want to know, wouldn't you? And if PGC had any shred of integrity, he would be asking the same questions -- after firing Miller.
It's as good a place as any to start digging in that crowded field of yours. And if we keep digging, I'm sure many more will show up -- unless of course, they all run to the treasury tomorrow with $100,000 in cash to pay off their outstanding taxes.
Memories indeed! We're just reaping what was sown back in the 80s and earlier. No more "nation for sale" mandate, it's become "nation all for me, baby" with no regard to the needs and good of the Bahamian people.
Another corollary is if we do not learn from our history, we are doomed to repeat it. And the mistakes just keep on coming. When will we learn?
I am a Bahamian who pays all my bills on time -- electric, tax, property tax, National Insurance, etc. So do all of my 80-something relatives, so this talk about giving her a pass because she's old doesn't wash. Most old people aren't getting $75k a year for doing absolutely nothing -- have you seen what National Insuance expects people to live on these days? Stop making excuses for her -- she needs to pay her taxes like everyone else. And if she can't pay them, sell the house and move into a nice condo or apartment somewhere. That is everyone else's reality.
Oh, then that's ok, as it isn't her fault. Maybe with the dreadful mail service we have, she never got the bill for 14 years either. And then the bank lost the cheques that she did send faithfully all those years, and the treasury applied it to the wrong account....
14 years? I suspect it has been longer than that. I guess $75k in pension isn't enough. Perhaps the PLP will ask for an increase in pension, or in Ishmael Lightbourne fashion, offer Dame Marguerite the Governor Generalship with a raise so she can afford to pay her bills.
Doesn't anyone pay their bills any more? Or are the politicians and their friends claiming "hard times" too? This is a disgrace.
DillyTree says...
You mean like Peter Nygard?
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Posted 25 June 2014, 7:33 p.m. Suggest removal
DillyTree says...
No question the miniumum wage should be higher, as the cost of living has gone up considerably. However, to do it in this economic climate is just asking for trouble. With VAT looming and no relief of duty and freight costs, many busiinesses are barely hanging on. If wages increase now, many businesses will have to close their doors.
Then raising the miniumum wage will mean nothing if jobs are lost when businesses close.
On Union chief seeks 100-133% increase in minimum wage
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DillyTree says...
Folks, this is the same man who refuses to understand why paying his bill of $100,000 in CASH is a problem. What else do you expect?
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DillyTree says...
Isn't anyone just a little curious why Leslie (and his family members) just happened to have $100,000 in CASH laying around? Why not just get a bank cheque? What's the source of this huge sum of cash? I sure as hell would want to know, wouldn't you? And if PGC had any shred of integrity, he would be asking the same questions -- after firing Miller.
On Miller’s family pays off $100,000 of BEC bill - and he says he won’t resign
Posted 20 June 2014, 10:58 p.m. Suggest removal
DillyTree says...
It's as good a place as any to start digging in that crowded field of yours. And if we keep digging, I'm sure many more will show up -- unless of course, they all run to the treasury tomorrow with $100,000 in cash to pay off their outstanding taxes.
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DillyTree says...
Memories indeed! We're just reaping what was sown back in the 80s and earlier. No more "nation for sale" mandate, it's become "nation all for me, baby" with no regard to the needs and good of the Bahamian people.
Another corollary is if we do not learn from our history, we are doomed to repeat it. And the mistakes just keep on coming. When will we learn?
On When memories grow dim, history repeats itself
Posted 19 June 2014, 9:27 p.m. Suggest removal
DillyTree says...
I am a Bahamian who pays all my bills on time -- electric, tax, property tax, National Insurance, etc. So do all of my 80-something relatives, so this talk about giving her a pass because she's old doesn't wash. Most old people aren't getting $75k a year for doing absolutely nothing -- have you seen what National Insuance expects people to live on these days? Stop making excuses for her -- she needs to pay her taxes like everyone else. And if she can't pay them, sell the house and move into a nice condo or apartment somewhere. That is everyone else's reality.
On LADY PINDLING OWES $306,000
Posted 19 June 2014, 6:09 p.m. Suggest removal
DillyTree says...
Oh, then that's ok, as it isn't her fault. Maybe with the dreadful mail service we have, she never got the bill for 14 years either. And then the bank lost the cheques that she did send faithfully all those years, and the treasury applied it to the wrong account....
The excuses keep coming! LOL!
On LADY PINDLING OWES $306,000
Posted 19 June 2014, 11:04 a.m. Suggest removal
DillyTree says...
14 years? I suspect it has been longer than that. I guess $75k in pension isn't enough. Perhaps the PLP will ask for an increase in pension, or in Ishmael Lightbourne fashion, offer Dame Marguerite the Governor Generalship with a raise so she can afford to pay her bills.
Doesn't anyone pay their bills any more? Or are the politicians and their friends claiming "hard times" too? This is a disgrace.
On LADY PINDLING OWES $306,000
Posted 19 June 2014, 10:58 a.m. Suggest removal
DillyTree says...
Wow, did you even proof read what you wrote? When you can make sense, repost. As for knowing one's history -- I do, but clearly you don't.
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