Dawes is right. It makes a big difference. All such assets seized and/or confiscated by government from a private business or individual are required by law to be disposed of by means of a public auction (to the highest bidder) for the benefit of the public purse, i.e. all the Bahamian people. Therefore the government should have had this particular asset appraised for the setting of a reserve price and then giving notice of a public auction.

No government under our laws is legally entitled to have any seized and/or confiscated asset "re-purposed" for its own use. Our laws impose a fiduciary duty on the government to maximise the value obtained for the public treasury from the auctioning of all such assets.

It seems our very corrupt PM was not satisfied with his latest toy he purchased at the taxpayers' expense, i.e. his outrageously expensive new fully loaded BMW. Now he wants a another outrageously costly toy ....... a private plane fully renovated to his ridiculously expensive taste. The corruption here at great expense to the taxpayers is of the shameless illegal "in-your-face" kind!

Why hasn't Pintard bothered to make these important points known to the public? Is it because Hubiggity and Brent Symonette like the idea of government having a private plane that they too will be able to fly around the country in if the FNM is fortunate enough to win the next general election? Is Pintard and his dinosaur political advisers no better than corrupt Davis? What's going on here?

Truly sad.

If you're borne in the Bahamas today, you have an incredibly high probability of being murdered by the time you reach age 50 compared to all other nations, excluding those engaged in ongoing wars ....... and that's assuming the current annual rate of murders does not increase over the next 50 years, which is indeed most doubtful.

Living in constant fear of one's life and the lives of one's family members is the greatest legacy successive corrupt politicians in both the PLP and FNM parties will have left the Bahamian people when all is said and done. Make no mistake about it, the corrupt politicians in this Davis led PLP government are much too busy feathering their own nests to be concerned about the out-of-control violent criminal activity in our country today.

And perhaps the most troubling thing is, even if these corrupt politicians were genuinely concerned about the soaring murder rate created by their decades of failed policies, they are much too daft and incompetent to do anything about it.

***let me sum this up for all of us:***

***this most corrupt davis led plp government, with the aid of the u.s. and european sponsored alphabet soup agencies and the chicoms, is now promoting and engaged in the weaponization of and all out assault by our nation's government against its people, especially those that it perceives or deems to be wealthier and able to pay or face the threat of their businesses being shut down or their property being seized and confiscated by the state.***

***and to think corrupt davis and his favoured local cronies are among the biggest tax dodgers in our nation, with the sinister and evil snake and that sleasy thug known as king sebas being the shining examples among them.***

***it's high time we the people send davis and the elitist hierarchy within plp party a message they will never forget.***

This stumpy, incompetent and most corrupt PM is going to leave it for the sinister and evil Snake to put many of us and our businesses "in the dark", with lights and air conditioning, through unaffordable electricity rates of the kind that no nation can possibly withstand.

Yup. Thanks to ChiCom 'owned' Vomit Christie, the sinister ChiComs really have their hooks in corrupt Davis dug in so deep that he cannot do anything to help Bahamian voters in any area of our economy today, including the construction industry sector.

Has anyone ever wondered why over the past 40+ years neither our government nor the evil ChiComs have done anything substantive and sustainable to promote and finance vocational trade schools and trade programmes that would have helped our nation to develop a strong cadre of skilled Bahamian construction workers?

Sadly, so true.

You must be kidding! LMAO

Yup, you're so right my friend. Both Sands and Doctors Hospital only provide their services to those who are lucky enough to be able to afford the medical bills. And Hubiggity is enrolled in the taxpayer funded super deluxe government health insurance plan that enables him make sure all of his exorbitant medical bills get paid.

And to think you (@birdie) say the same thing about the Symonette Family. LMAO

And history has shown the 'grease the wheel' practice you speak of is most prevalent in nation's destined to become failed states. And this is because of the failure of the citizenry to insist (by their vote) on elected officials maintaining an education system capable of producing generation after generation of well educated voters imbued with critical thinking skills.

The ChiComs realised almost 50 years ago that their foreign policy efforts aimed at dumbing down generations of American voters would eventually have a huge pay-off by toppling the U.S. from its number one global position without the need for any kind of traditional military warfare.