Provisions in our taxation laws and related enforcement regulations that violate or conflict with well established due process and other rights laid down in our Constitution are not legally valid.

No government, minister of finance or revenue collection official, should be considered immune from legal claims for damages arising from their wrongful acts aimed at extorting a business or its owner(s), or wrongfully shutting down a business, in connection with a legitimate taxation dispute where there quite possibly has been a violation of due process and other fundamental constitutional rights.

The yapping little whited poodle with his checkered past of customs duty evasion is unfortunately not the best person to be crying foul in public about the ongoing abusive, and I dare say in many instances, illegal, tax enforcement requirements and procedures.

A cash strapped corrupt government creates the ideal environment for exceptionally sinister and greedy vultures, both local and foreign, to be 'invited' to swoop down on us and acquire our most valuable national assets and vital state-owned monopolies for mere pennies on the dollar of their true value. Our most valuable land areas and government monopolies are literally being given away by corrupt politicians to equally corrupt cabals without any kind of meaningful public input and with no transparent bidding process to try discover the best buyer at the best price for the Bahamian people.

Our government now desperately needs get its financial house in order. To do so, taxes and fees currently being levied on the cruise ship owners and operators, the port operators and the 'illegal' gaming web shop owners and operators, all need to be at least quadrupled (x 4) as soon as possible in order to be much fairer to our nation and to help ease the government's cash crunch. Any legislation necessary to accomplish this should be immediately readied for passage by parliament.

At the same time, PM Davis as minister of finance should be immediately directing budget amendments by way of ministerial orders that slash wherever reasonably possible the current amounts budgeted for each government agency, department and state-owned entity by at least 10% with a freeze on all new public sector hires, enforcement of mandatory retirements upon reaching the set age, and a hard freeze in the compensation packages of all personnel in the public sector, including all elected officials.

Without these types of harsh austerity measures we need only look at the failed state of Haiti to our south to see our future.

Perhaps Stumpy Davis, like his daughter, should re-locate to the U.S. in order to permanently escape the poor quality of healthcare that successive corrupt governments led by incompetent politicians like himself have created for most poor Bahamians.

This guy Darville is as corrupt and incompetent as they come and should have long ago been forced to resign from cabinet. Aside from being an utter embarrassment, he is most dangerous to the public's health and well-being. Seriously ill people needing quality medical attention and care are losing their lives because of him.

Taxes and fees currently being levied on the cruise ship owners and operators, the port operators and the 'illegal' gaming web shop owners and operators, all need to be at least quadrupled (x 4) in order to be much fairer and to help ease the government's cash crunch. Any legislation necessary to accomplish this should be immediately readied for passage by parliament.

At the same time, PM Davis as minister of finance should be immediately directing budget amendments by way of ministerial orders that slash wherever reasonable possible the current amounts budgeted for each government agency, department and state-owned entity by at least 10% with a freeze on all new public sector hires, enforcement of mandatory retirements upon reaching the set age, and a hard freeze in the compensation packages of all personnel in the public sector, including all elected officials.

Without these types of harsh austerity measures we need only look at the failed state of Haiti to our south to see our future.

Government has very deliberately stood by for well over a year and done nothing about BPL's problems. Management of BPL should have long ago been contracted out (not sold) to a professional group not in any way affiliated with the government. Criteria and specifications for the appropriate management contract should have been open to public input and debate. The contract should have been given to the most ideally suited independent professional group based on established criteria and a transparent bidding process.

Instead, this corrupt Davis led PLP government has allowed BPL's problems to worsen while pressing all and sundry, including URCA, to cry out about them in order to set the stage for the engineering of the greatest heist ever of national assets by the insatiably greedy Snake and his crooked side-kick Anthony Ferguson.

Bahamians and their businesses can kiss any hope for affordable electricity good-bye if this corrupt Davis led PLP government is allowed to simply hand over a controlling ownership interest of our nation's vital energy sector to the investor cabal led by Snake and Ferguson for pennies on the dollar of true value.

I am surprised Pia did not propose instead a three-day work week while claiming both public and private sector workers are much more productive when well rested. LOL

Vomit still believes that we "regular" Bahamians fully deserved his infamous and most contemptible flipping of the middle finger at us.

> Under the new law, the regulator has full authority to file a criminal complaint, ......

Rubbish. The regulator always had that authority under the previous securities industry legislation.

Comments by the "trueBahamian" beggar who is enthralled at the prospect of receiving reparations are amusing to say the least.

Hopefully The Bahamas National Reparations Committee founded by Slo Mo Sears and others in 2014 has had no taxpayer funded budget over the past decade.