Mr. Nygard clearly does not respect the Bahamian people much less our Bahamian courts. He should be held in contempt of court and the court’s judgement enforced. It is absolutely ridiculous how much deference is paid to this man by our authorities, a Bahamian would be treated far more harshly. The double standard needs to stop.

You miss a very important point. We are broke. Every cent spent on these state funerals are spent with borrowed money. Put on the govts credit card so to speak. We need to get our fiscal house in order. If it were up to me not one cent would be spent on a state funeral for anyone. Each of these persons were well compensated with taxpayer dollars in salary and innumerable other perks while alive. Why should we pay to bury them too when we can not afford it? Why should the poor in this country be saddled with a regressive, oppressive 12% vat? I will tell you why in part to pay for these funerals when these families could well pay for them themselves. Every cent adds up, with interest. When our dollar is devalued will rue the day we wasted so much money.

I agree tal. State funerals should be only for those who held the office of prime minister or Governor General. We are a broke country and need to pay down our debt. Funny how these politicians love spending other people’s money (taxpayer dollars). Next time they want a frivolous state funeral let members of parliament pool their resources and pay for it themselves.

This government and all previous governments could care less about clean energy and specifically going solar. I live in a southern family Island and the red tape to install a grid tie system is ridiculous. Then we are severely restricted in the size system we can have. The best that I can hope for is a 4KW system because of assine rules. I want to install a system large enough to cover my entire energy needs. BPC has these rules in place to prevent this, so they would rather have a barge bring in dirty oil with the possibility of an accident rather than let me power my home entirely off of clean energy. Any excess power generated and put back into the grid only credits the homeowner with the fuel charge amount. All of this is to subsidize a corrupt, inefficient government owned power company. If the govt is serious this needs to change tomorrow.

No. We are broke, only when our debt is completely paid off. Stop thinking of ways to waste our hard earned taxpayer dollars.

I agree 100%. Maybe the first thing you have ever written that I can wholeheartedly endorse.

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.