But now that the VAT department is involved again that may slow things down. When they were involved a couple of years ago they slowed the whole process down.

Good points Mr. Symonette.

I am pleased to see that finally something is going to get done. The special interest group known as the "Conveyancing Lawyers" have a strangle hold on the conveyancing market and are the reason that land transactions take so long and cost so much.

Registered Land would enable land sales to happen quickly and greatly help move the economy forward.

I hope that Mrs. Smith is successful where others have failed.

The days of the "bush" mechanic are fast coming to a close.

Passing Religious Knowledge in school will not a mechanic make.

BGCSE's at grade "c" and above are required.

Need to have a good knowledge of English Comprehension, Math, and Computer, as a minimum, to be a mechanic in the coming years.

Those who feel that they should have got the posts will now need to up their game and show everyone how much better they are. Alternatively, they can go into private practice and beat up, if they can, on these new foreign appointees in court.

Competition is healthy, we can't expect to get an appointment just because we are Bahamian.

Look to the UK where their current head of the Bank of England is a Canadian. Just because you are a UK citizen does not mean you get the job.

Welcome to the real world.

Good comment. Agree completely.
These unions are killing our economy.

The Bahamas has a bad reputation when it comes to labour relations and the union is making it worse.
One of the reasons Syntex pulled out of Freeport was labour.

Some of the unemployment in The Bahamas is directly attributable to the labour unions.

This bad reputation is another reason we have not been able to attract much FDI in the last 20 years or so.

Bahamasair thirst for money will soon require another increase in VAT. Another $22 million for the Min of Education would be a good idea, but $22 million for Bahamasair...crazy waste of money.

Old man , give up. You clearly don't have the first idea of what WTO is about.
All you can do is reminisce about the good old days of 60 or 70 years ago.

Things were a lot tougher then. Your beloved Bay Street Boys kept everything for themselves.

WTO has nothing to do with anything that you spoke of. The reason the gas station owner doesn't leave it to his children is either they are not interested or there was no succession planing.

Succession planing would require your beloved cheap minded gas station owner to spend some money on getting professional advice.

By the way you should also spend some money and get someone who really is an expert on WTO to teach you on that subject.

"Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told reporters they remained committed to tackling the issue, and warned that if they did "nothing", a quarter of a million migrants would reach the US this year, according to Reuters news agency."

Hardly a million a day. Please get your facts straight.

I am suggesting that the Defence force do its job along the 80 mile part of ocean through which all the Haitians come through.

It is only in the last 20 years that the US has decided to deal with illegals. It is much easier for one to cross a 2,000 mile boarder with tunnels etc. No tunnels to The Bahamas.

Since we can't fix the Haitian economy we have to do the next best thing and that is to plug the 80 mile gap.