"WHO with the UN has condemned vaccine passports. It is illegal under international law."

Can you please provide us with the authority that says that it is illegal?

Children born to unwed mothers have always been given citizenship. Indeed we as a Christian have always rewarded her adultery and punnished the Bahamian mother who dared to marry a foreigner and have their child outside The Bahamas by denying it to those children.
Where have you been???

You are correct. The brain drain of our educated is alarming.

They have gone because they see the advantage of living in the real world of the 21st Century and not the current Bahamas stuck in the old out dated thinking of the19th Century.

"Mr Goudie added that the annual cost of taking a rapid antigen test would exceed over $1,000."

Guess everyone will have to get a lower salaery increase (at the end of the year) for the business to cover the cost of the test for those who won't get vaccinated.

The cost of the test is an extra cost and the money comes off the profitability of the business.

Perhaps Mr. Rodney could give the Tribune the specific clauses of the legislation that he finds offensive.

"According to the document, the financial services industry is generally required to have “appropriately capitalised entities” in each market jurisdiction, meaning their profits are generally already taxed in each respective market."

This is the arguement to exclude the Financial Services etc in the UK from the Tax proposal.

We have no tax.

I have some reservations about the safety of these rushed vaccines, however, looking at the odds, I have decided to get vaccinated and have already had my first shot, second one soon.

We Bahamians like to talk about our soverignty but the fact is that we are a very tiny nation who no one, other than us cares much about. So if the other nations, exercising their "soverignty", puts us on a "watch list" or "no go zone" because we have decided not to get vaccinated as a nation we will pay the price.

The last year COVID 19 has bankrupted many businesses and put thousands out of work. The world is saying to get vaccinated or there will be restrictions.

Can we aford to fight the whole world?

Maybe that is because a number of small businesses that were approved NEVER received any money.

Need to see where the money is.

Many of the merchants on Bay Street got greedy during the 70's and 80's by paying off certain persons on each cruise ship to send the passengers to their shop.

The Bahamas Chamber of Commerce formed the Duty Free Promotion Board which, amongst other things tried to regularize the dealings with the cruise inustry so that Bay Street would not become what it has. The majority of the mercahnts would not cooperates as they thought that they couuld handle the cruise lines on their own.

Then you had others who were happy to "front" for the foreign jewelry merchants.

Bay Street doesnot need any tax breaks, it needs leaders with some brains and b..ls.

Mr. Klonaris is always whinnig.

Spot on.