Truth hurts doesn’t it. Right is right and wrong is wrong regardless of party.

I am sick and tired of paying taxes for these pleasure trips. This corporation loses tens of millions of dollars a year,every year. Stop wasting our damn money. Funny ( sad) how when the PLP wastes money on travel it is corrupt and wrong but when the FNM does the same damn thing they criticize it is just fine and dandy for you FNM partisans. This is a big reason this country is in the shit it is in. I like Adrian Gibson a lot, but I will tell him to his face it is wrong. Same way the NIB office in Long Island just happens to be moving to a building he owns. It is wrong, it is corrupt, a terrible conflict of interest. He will be lambasted for this too, this is a new day even some FNMs now put country and right before party. Very disappointed in him, expected much better.

Stop making excuses for this profligate waste of taxpayer dollars, if it was wrong for the PLP then it is wrong for the FNM. Read, research the internet, call on the phone or limit the entourage size. We are borrowing money for these trips!

I am a fan of Adrian Gibson but these traveling entourages at our expense have to stop. The Prime Minister had a 15 member entourage going to caricom, should have been at most 5 people. The optics are terrible and the FNM are doing the same thing they criticized the PLP for, what hypocrites! We are in a serious fiscal crisis why in hell are we wasting money we do not have to pay for all these deadbeats to travel? Mr. Gibson stop these stupid photo ops, you want tax payers to be happy fire half of these people, and stop pissing us off wasting money on these pleasure trips for deadbeats.

Absolutely disgraceful behavior, Mr. Lockhart looked like he was under the influence from a far more potent drug than marijuana or alcohol. Indicative of a corrupt person using their influence to demean persons they feel are inferior to them because of their position. He should be thoroughly ashamed of himself and simply apologize.

The officer on the other hand handled himself admirably. If Mr. Lockhart had a shred of decency or class he would contact this officer and those involved and apologize.

It truly shows what he thinks of Bahamians. He is not quite so stupid as to act this way going through u.s. airport security.

Yes we needed to increase government revenue but we also needed to reduce government expenditure. The reality is we have too much government expense, we have more government than we can afford. Where are the cuts in expenditure? This is why it is paradoxically better if we did turn to the IMF. They would have loaned funds much cheaper than we can get in financial markets but with the caveat that government reduced the size of the civil service and sell/ offload Loss making government corporations. Yes we needed increased taxes but the FNM did the easy lazy move, they failed to govern by not reducing govt spending. It is unconscionable that government expenditure on salaries increased 40% in 6 years! cut expenditure.

Sorry to hear about the loss of jobs, but glad to hear more webshops locations are closing. They are a non- productive blight on our society. Hopefully most will close on Long Island, they have been bleeding this island dry.

No it is not selling or privatizing it. This deal simply concerns the generation side of power, the distribution will still be in govt’s hands, still dealing with this terroristic union that constantly threatens to place the Bahamas in darkness whenever there is a dispute. These BEC union leaders are criminals who threaten to sabotage and in the past have sabotaged and turned off power to meet their own ends. Bahamians are tired of this shit, you seem to love the status quo. We need BEC totally privatized to crush this union and remove this threat to the Bahamian people. Even if this FNM govt reduces staff size which we will be paying another $20 million to do, which we will BORROW, then subsequent govts will simply dole out jobs again and we are right back where we started. Only way to fix this is to privatize BEC totally, forever.

Actually there are many entities that would like to buy BEC and Even Bahamasair. It all depends on how the sale is structured. We would have to assume the pension liabilities and other outstanding debt ( which we have to pay anyway) and practically give them away but at least they will not be a drain on the treasury for infinity and might actually be run profitably in the private sector. But that means losing political patronage ( dishing out jobs to supporters) and taking on the unions and no govt even this one has the guts to do that.

This is the big issue I have with the budget. I hate taxes and loathe vat increasing to 12% but I appreciate we are in a dire fiscal situation, primarily because of corrupt and wasteful PLP administrations. Just look at Barbados which suspended foreign debts payments and have gone cap in hand to the IMF and see where we can be in a few short years. My problem is that we should have cut back on government expenditures, it can not simply be increasing govt revenues through higher taxes. We need to sell even at a loss, these govt ministries that perennially lose money. Bahamasair has lost half a billion dollars since independence and the minister just announced plans to expand routes and buy more planes? It is madness, every dumbass politician comes into power and thinks they can run these corporations efficiently and profitably. No one ever has! Can not name a single govt Corp that is profitable. We need to divest ourselves from these sinking ships now and forever. Sell them off to prevent further administrations from continuing to run them in the ground. Then NHI, we are BROKE so why the hell are we budgeting 40 mill to continue something we can not afford. It is a wonderful hope but we need to cut back on services and the size of govt. we can not simply tax our way to a balanced budget.