Agreed. It seems that Hutchison is no better than the Chinese Construction Company in Nassau with Baha Mar and the Pointe.

I agree, but that only works well if there is true transparency in government.

They say that places like Norway and Sweden have some of the highest tax rates in the world but some of the lowest resistance to tax by their citizens. This is attributed to the fact that their citizens can see where their tax money is being spent and that they get value for their taxes.

That is why the IMF and those have pushed us to VAT. If they reduce the Customs duties to very little and up the VAT, as they have done in many other countries in Europe, the government can terminate the majority of the Customs officers.

These officers are not doing their job anyway so we may as well change the system, terminate them and save the country money.

Customs is not stretched too thin. Take a look at some of the cars or houses that the officers live in. One former customs officer is reported to have boasted of how much he had retired on.

If customs did their job there would be no problem.

Think it might be the Chinese?

With IT the way it is we need to be thankful that they have not fired the 80 persons and outsourced the services to an Indian company.

Be careful what you fight for. This is global world and a global economy.

Read the PLP constitution. First order of the day "remain in power".

They have always done that at any cost. They do not care about the people just keeping themselves in power. Davis waste of money is clear evidence of the PLP thought process for governing the country.

Who says that they do not meet the criteria?

Yes they know, but they want to see KPT working to fix the problem.

If they see him wasting time, on the PLP, it will leave them nervous that he is not up to the job of fixing the problem.

Very good article.