I am the poster child of a Bahamian who benefited from Cable. At the time of cable's IPO twenty years ago I was 25 and I poured all my savings into buying cable at $1 per share. During that time cable has returned an annualized rate of 14.2% per year for 20 years! And that is not including dividends. Because of cable and other wise investments on Bisx I was able to retire 3 years ago at the age of 43! Ingraham pledged to offer 9% of BTC shares to the public and when he came to power Mr. Christie blocked it. Now he is refusing small Bahamian investors to buy into the new cellular company. It is being reserved for large investors only. And he has the nerve to say he cares about Bahamians. The truth is he does not give a damn about us, if he did he would do what Ingraham did with cable, and the port, and what he planned to do with BTC,let the little man get his shares and get his part of the economic pie. So birdie ask your P.M why he does not believe in Bahamians or at least the little man and only believes in his cronies and favored few!

I love and defend your right to say it my brother. But me and Mr. smith ain't going no where.

So do you support cable Bahamas now birdie?

It became 100% Bahamian owned 5 years ago. That is the current state- buy and support Bahamian!

Birdie if you love the Bahamas and Bahamians so, you would be praying and lobbying yourself for cable Bahamas to win the second cellular license. The government owns 29% of cable (NIB - 22% and the treasury 7%). The other 71% is all Bahamian owned. So if you really believe in Bahamians and this country it is time to start tweeting a new tune and supporting Cable Bahamas' bid.

Investigate what? We live in a democracy not a dictatorship. There is nothing to investigate as I doubt slander or defamation against a state is a crime in any democratic country. There is nothing anyone can say defamatory about a country that I could see possibly constituting a crime. An individual most certainly but not a government. Mr. Mitchell knows this of course so nothing as usual will come of it, it is merely political lip service designed to attack his detractors and deflect from his continuing failures in immigration. He is now planning and announcing ahead of time an immigration exercise in Abaco, with no money left in the budget for repatriation. What an joke! Wake up Bahamas Mr. Mitchell is not serious, and is playing you like a fiddle.

Reprimanded for what? because he used the word genocide when referring to the Bahamas? That is no crime, using that word was incorrect, tasteless, and inflammatory but it was nothing to be reprimanded for - it was freedom of speech. As for crossed lines : whose lines? yours or the government, or the man down the road? Who defines these lines? That is the problem with censureship it is used to intimidate and control and is the antithesis of democracy.

I agree Fred Smith has used colorful, extreme hyperbole, intended to shock and elicit a reaction, not so sure it was to intimidate. Mr. Mitchell is trying to intimidate his detractors into silence, this is clearly wrong. Either way we must defend the freedom of speech of both of these men. That is essential to a democratic country. I do not want anyone telling me what I can or can not say in this country, and I am sure you feel the same way.

Mr. Mitchell stop trying to intimidate people and impinge upon their freedom of speech, it is beneath you and your office and the democracy you claim to support. I may not like many of the comments you and Fred Smith make but I would defend your right to make them. Free speech is at the heart of this great democratic country and must be defended at all costs, censureship is at the heart of dictatorships and totalitarian regimes.

I emphasize with this writer but the truth is cable should have been allowed to increase prices long ago. The cost of basic cable ($30) has not increased in 20 years! Cost for programming and inflation have increased during this period so an increase is warranted. URCA mandates that on basic cable there must be a rate of return of 10.86%, cable has provided accounting and URCA agrees that they earn less than this. So based on the fundamentals cable should get this increase otherwise URCA will be violating and forcing cable to violate it's own regulations. As for vat blame our wasteful governments that is not cable's fault.