LMAO......so much so that my ribs are hurting.

And who do think is responsible for the creation of the lazy dumbed-down mindless masses you speak of? The corrupt super wealthy in the private sector and their mutual beneficial unholy alliance with our corrupt politicians is the root cause of the crony capitalism that greatly enriches only a few in our society while denying opportunities for everyone else. The elites like cheap labour but not competition.

Whether you care to acknowledge it or not, most Bahamians have become victims of a hideous form of neo-feudalism evidenced by the enormous and ever increasing divide between the few "haves" and the many "have nots" in our society. The lack of a fair and level playing field is by design of the few "haves" who are in cahoots with our corrupt politicians to deny as many impoverished Bahamians as possible the opportunities necessary to escape the clutches of poverty. Our nation would be much better off with a much greater number of Bahamians enjoying opportunities to improve their quality of life as opposed to being reduced to cheap labour for the few feudal lords.

Crony capitalism facilitated by corrupt politicians inefficiently distributes capital and robs others of the equal opportunities they should have to create and spread wealth throughout a society.

Rumour on the street has it that The Tribune's owners and management have been told by Bahamian law enforcement officials to "lock down" all future public comments by its online readers about this developing story.

This is nothing more than the US government and greedy US corporations seeking to regain full control over our sovereign airspace for their own economic benefit. They are literally willing to rob our nation of the very same kind of revenues the US government charges foreign airlines that make use of its own airspace.

And of course US intelligence agencies have a thick dossier on Chester the Chester that leaves him seriously compromised in his ability to negotiate any type of fair arrangement for the use of our airspace by foreign commercial aircraft.

Yeah, right. And I suppose our unemployment rate is now less than 4% and our national debt is rapidly declining to zero. LMAO

The 50% of NCP owned by Bahamians is locked up in a so called Bahamas Sovereign Wealth Fund that is being bled to death by fees of every kind imposed by the greedy Bahamian vultures who own CFAL and who promote Public-Private-Partnerships as a means to fleece the Bahamian public of valuable national assets like the downtown port for mere pennies on the dollar of true value. And you can bet that 50% Bahamian ownership of NCP ends up being held by the small number of controlling vultures when all is said and done. The de facto giveaway of the Nassau cruise port by our corrupt politicians was never intended to spread economic wealth to a great number of Bahamians.

And now our corrupt politicians are wheeling and dealing with the greedy Snake and his cabal of marauders who seeking to gain control of BPL's power generation and grid distribution assets for mere pennies on the dollar of true value using Public-Private-Partnerships that will result in BPL/BEC's debts being socialized and borne by Bahamian taxpayers while all of the upside profits from an energy sector monopoly go into the pockets Snake and his cabal.

Pray tell, what is happening to the great bonanza of wealth for Bahamians that should be accompanying all of this prosperity you speak of? Why is our nation's unemployment rate so high, especially among younger Bahamians? Why are so many Bahamian families living at or below the poverty level and struggling to survive in our country today? And lest you forget, Atlantis has been for sale for many years now with no interested buyers knocking on the door because of its poor cash flow situation and enormous capital expenditure needs given its age.

> The PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) accounting firm was hired by the Government to analyse, and calculate, just how much the GBPA owes the Public Treasury for public spending in Freeport that exceeds the tax revenues generated by the city. The GBPA denies that anything is owed, alleging that Freeport contributes around $200m annually in tax revenues.

The corrupt Davis led PLP government continues to foolishly borrow millions of dollars to pay the exorbitant legal fees it has already incurred and will incur in this matter as a result of the bogus report that it commissioned the PWC Bahamas accountants to prepare based on seriously flawed assumptions and incomplete and inaccurate data obtained from the ministry of finance.

One only has to read the ridiculously lengthy terms and conditions that the PWC Bahamas firm insisted be included in its contract with the corrupt Davis led PLP government to understand and appreciate why the accounting firm agreed to accept what it should have known at the very outset would be an incomplete and inaccurate "garbage-in, garbage-out" type report laced with seriously flawed assumptions.

The confidentiality and indemnification terms of the contract are such that PWC only agreed to prepare the report on the condition that government would accept all responsibility and fully indemnify it against any and all unfavourable financial consequences arising from the government's use of the report. The "garbage-in, garbage-out" aspect of the report seems to be the very reason PWC sought to have such a "tight" and all-encompassing guarantee from government that it would suffer no harm or financial loss from lending its name as preparer of the report.

**breaking news**

Insiders at Atlantis say it expects to lay off 350+ Bahamians as a result of the revenue losses it will experience from the proposed nearby Nassau Cruise Port water park attraction.

> Simon Wilson, the Ministry of Finance’s financial secretary, could not be reached for comment despite numerous attempts.

Always Angry Simple Simon should be fired now that he has made it known he will never again speak to another reporter at The Tribune unless The Tribune's management and owners fire his nemesis Youri Kemp.

> However, one financial source, speaking on condition of anonymity, questioned whether the lack of detail on the Government’s external funding plans will impress the global capital markets and holders of existing Bahamian sovereign debt.

We all know Neil Hartnell's two favourite and most common financial sources are the extremely greedy, conniving and boisterous Snake and that wannabe politician who is the CEO of Fidelity Bank. And right now Snake and his corrupt cabal are much too busy scheming with our corrupt PM on how to best go about stealing our country's entire energy sector for pennies on the dollar of its true value. So the source is likely the banker wannabe politician.

Meanwhile, our most corrupt PM is indeed working overtime with the greedy Snake and his cabal of marauders to devise a scheme whereby control of our nation's power generation and distribution systems will be transferred into their private hands such that the debts and losses of BPL remain socialized and borne by Bahamian taxpayers and the profits and gains get privatized and put into the pockets of the sinister Snake and his cronies, both local and foreign.

Just think of the irony here. While our nation is struggling to refinance its unsustainable debts, this most corrupt Davis led PLP government is proposing to literally giveaway control of our nation's entire energy sector (a government monopoly) for mere pennies on the dollar with no competing bids to explore, discover and maximize the full value for the Bahamian people. This crazy idea of putting control of BPL and our entire energy sector in Snake's hands for next three decades will result in most Bahamians and their businesses being crushed by sky high unaffordable electricity bills.