I wonder if Bishop Simeon Hall knows that certain Bahamians in the Butler and Maynard families managed to recover most of their CLICO related losses incurred from the investments they had held in annuities that paid them interest at 7% per annum or more for many years prior to CLICO's foreign and local operations going belly-up. The fraudulently preferences here were kept secret by the governments and insurance regulators concerned both here and abroad.

Disappointed Pintard said little if anything about the following matters he would need to address if he is successful in becoming the next PM:

- The need to significantly reduce the grossly over-bloated size of our very costly and unproductive government.
- The need to address our illegal alien problems.
- How he proposes to address our country's cost of energy woes and BPL's immediate problems.
- How he plans to address our country's growing potable water problems and the bleeding of the W&S Corp by way of the roller coaster ride of debt build-ups to a US publicly listed company that must be periodically paid down by increasing our national debt.
- His willingness to initiate a public investigation of those Bahamians identified in US court proceedings who seem to have engaged in criminal activities related to the sbf/ftx/Alameda debacle.
- His position on sending Bahamian troops or other Bahamas aid to Haiti in connection with the US sponsored proxy war that President Ruto of Kenya is prepared to be the poster-boy for in exchange for debt relief to his own impoverished East-African nation.
- His willingness to forthrightly address the unfair blacklisting tactics employed by the OECD and others at great cost to our nation, which tactics are for the purpose of addressing their own wasteful government spending, high taxation issues, aging populations, and dwindling tax base.

There are many other pressing matters and issues I could add to this short list, not least of which is the need unshackle The Bahamas from the debt traps that have been set for us over the past several decades by both the ChiComs and the US through its alphabet soup agencies like the IDB, World Bank, IMF, etc.

Getting rid of outside toilets is easy. Pintard really needs to speak candidly about what he would have a government led by him do to address the more important problems of the day and future.

This sleazy contemptible thug has for decades now been allowed to suck our nation dry with his illegal operations supported by some of the worst elements within the governments of both the Bahamas and US.

Scummy Sebas continues to be a major contributor to the growing divide between the "haves" and "have nots" in our society. He is responsible for much of the gambling addiction among poorer people and for our under-resourced and dysfunctional public education and public health systems not having the benefit of the profits they so desperately need from a national lottery.

Reporters like Youri Kemp and Neil Hartnell really need to keep turning the heat up on this most dangerous thug and his crony current and retired government officials who aid and abet him in all of his illegal endeavours.

The SBF/FTX scandal belongs to Stumpy Davis and Allyson Maynard-Gibson a/k/a the very greedy dragon lady or the Wicked Witch of The West.

Tyrant Minnis was on his way out as PM while his successor Stumpy and the very greedy dragon lady were paving the way for SBF/FTX to set up shop in The Bahamas.

Stumpy Davis just sat by and allowed Latrae Rahming and Keishla Adderley to make complete fools of themselves in their unbridled haste to support the contemptuously angry and ragingly misbehaved Simple Simon while wrongfully castigating in public the calm and cool headed Youri Kemp.

Tyrant Minnis long ago cooked his own goose and hopefully the good people of Killarney will put the final nail in his coffin come the next general election. Carl's revelations to the public are therefore much too late with no apparent purpose other than to endear himself to Pintard. The equivalent of a non-public confessional would have been a better place for him to get these now very "old" matters off of his chest.

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Sadly, the only reason Terrance Bastian held his auditor-general job for 24 years is because the leadership of PLP and FNM governments over that span of time knew they could count on him not to aggressively tackle corruption, waste, fraud and outright theft within government departments and agencies. He kept his job for 24 years by making it a point to not rock the boat too much. But preserving his job came at very dear cost to the financial well-being of our nation.

The auditor-general job takes a tenacious blood hound who is tirelessly dedicated to sniffing out and aggressively acting on the most egregious instances of corruption, waste, fraud and outright theft within government departments and agencies involving millions of dollars. One who is not afraid to let the chips fall where they may notwithstanding the political heat. We can only hope and pray that Terrance Bastian's replacement will be such a fearless blood hound.

The IDB has for decades been used as a tool by the World Bank and IMF to mire small nations with corrupt and incompetent governments in debt.

The ever increasing mountain of debt created by the IDB putting its fat milk laden lending teat ("tit") to the hard sucking lips of known corrupt politicians allows the lenders to suck out of our economy as much of our nation's GDP as it possibly can in the form of foreign currency denominated interest payments and investment opportunities created at bargain basement prices by foreign corporations.

These alphabet soup agencies are always crying out from one side of their mouths that The Bahamas needs to borrow more and more in order to do this and do that as a so called "developing" nation.

Meanwhile, out the other side of their mouths, the globalist bureaucrats behind the IDB, World Bank and IMF are always simultaneously crying The Bahamas has taken on too much debt. They do this in order to keep our nation's credit risk in relation to its GDP at the optimum level possible for the international lenders and foreign corporate investors they represent to suck out of our economy as much of our growing GDP as possible.

The overriding mission of the IDB, World Bank and IMF is to keep The Bahamas an undeveloped nation mired in costly debt that greatly enriches the foreign interests they represent while leaving the Bahamian fighting over the mere scraps they choose to leave behind to ensure the vast majority of Bahamians remain a controllable cheap source of labour.

Bottom-line: These alphabet soup lettered agencies are the western hemisphere's equivalent the debt traps the ChiComs have become notoriously known for setting (creating) in other nations around the world to get from them whatever they want,

The budget announced by corrupt Davis and now being defended by his two lackeys singing for their supper, namely Shuffler Halkitis and Angry Simon, is loaded with countless glaring examples of deliberate "set ups" for outright future theft in addition to the usual wastage, including the shockingly enormous increase in the amount budgeted for the Office of The PM.