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ExposedU2C says...

Fully agree. Government should have long ago required that a comprehensive and up to date list of properly described price controlled items, clearing showing their prices, not only be posted at all times in an easily accessible place, but also **very visibly displayed** right in the entrance area to each and every food and grocery store location licensed to sell food to the public on a retail basis. And more frequent and regular inspections must be done at all locations to ensure this is indeed being done by the store owner(s).

ExposedU2C says...

I would encourage all persons deeply concerned about the disastrous consequences to flow from the new Electricity and Natural Gas Bills to read Claude Hanna's excellent letter to the Editor of The Tribune that was published in a late April.

The letter concisely addresses the unconstitutional, national security and many other most serious issues that these two new statutes will expose and subject our nation and its people to. The dire consequences Bahamians will experience from the enactment of these two bills should deservedly be fully owned and worn around the neck of every current sitting PLP member of parliament and all future candidates for a PLP seat in parliament.

Opposition leader Pintard and the entire leadership apparatus of the FNM party should be taking immediate appropriate steps to publicly announce their intent to fully repeal these two new frightening statutes for constitutional and national security reasons as one of their first acts if successful in winning a controlling majority of parliamentary seats in the next general election.

No private investor supportive of the passage of these egregious statutes for self-gain at great cost to the Bahamian people should be allowed to reap and enjoy the huge windfall profits they so eagerly await to receive while leaving the Bahamian taxpayers on the hook for most if not all of BPL's debts amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. Pintard needs to get off of his duff and make this unequivocally known to all concerned, especially Bahamian voters.

I smell both a PM and AG only too willing to let the Bahamian people be bitten by a most poisonous Snake among the other greedy financially interested local scoundrels and their foreign partners now lying in wait.

ExposedU2C says...

This is an excellent letter that concisely addresses the unconstitutional, national security and other most serious issues that this new Electricity legislation will unwisely subject our nation to. The dire consequences to come from its enactment will be fully owned and worn around the neck of every current PLP member of parliament and all future PLP candidates for a seat in parliament.

Opposition leader Pintard and the entire leadership apparatus of the FNM party should be taking appropriate steps to immediately publicly announce their intent to fully repeal this most dangerous new Electricity legislation as one of their first acts if successful in winning a controlling majority of parliamentary seats in the next general election.

Thank you Claude Hanna for your well written letter.

On Concerns over Bill on electricity

Posted 12 May 2024, 2:19 p.m. Suggest removal

ExposedU2C says...

These dolphins were much too weak and ill from their long period of abuse to survive simply being released into the open sea. They need appropriate medical care that might take weeks to restore their ability to survive on their own anywhere, let alone the open sea.

ExposedU2C says...

Davis, as both PM and minister of finance, really owes the public a full throated explanation for why his government has effectively done away with the Fiscal Responsibility Council (FRC). As Bowe rightfully points out, the FRC was intended to play a vital role in carefully scrutinising and commenting on the government's annual budget projections and actual spending.

When first established It was well recognised that the FRC had to be as independent of government as possible in order for its reported findings to receive the credibility needed both at home and abroad. Any other similarly tasked body that is directly dependent on the minister of finance or ministry of finance for selecting its members and determining its operational funding would have the effectiveness of its mission and credibility neutered to the point of having none.

PM Davis has an opportunity here to do the right thing by the Bahamian people before the Pintard led FNM opposition start jumping all over this matter as the most shining example of why the current PLP government seems to have great disdain for transparency and accountability when it comes to their stewardship over our nation's public finances.

No doubt the international lending and credit rating agencies are also carefully watching how PM Davis reacts and responds to the sensible recommendations put to him by Bowe and others who have a good grasp of the important role an independent body like the FRC has to play in providing much needed objective credibility to the government's annual budget projections and actual spending.

ExposedU2C says...

> The Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources said more details will be shared during a press conference on Monday.

The only additional details Bahamian taxpayers really need to know is that all costs associated with the emergency rescue and medical treatment of these poor suffering highly intelligent aquatic mammals will be billed to and borne by the very greedy and soul-lacking Damien Gomez. And if he refuses to bear the total cost, he should somehow be made to spend not less than a week in the same small water-pen without food.

ExposedU2C says...

Nice try Economist at deceitful reverse psychology, but you have it all so wrong.

It was a Vomit Christie led PLP government that ignored the will of the Bahamian people as expressed in the outcome of the last duly held national referendum on PLP proposed changes to the most sacrosanct citizenship provisions of our Constitution. Back then most Bahamians saw through the many deceitful nationwide tirades of intellectual disingenuous clowns like Sean McWeeney, Sr. and Rubie Nottage, with many Bahamians (men and women) being so disgusted at the PLP's hideous objectives in changing the citizenship provisions that they even refused to bother voting.

Vomit, Sean and Rubie ended up being so embarrassed by the outcome of the referendum vote that they unconstitutionally dismissed it as a mere "survey" in an effort to try save face.

ExposedU2C says...

You are so right. It was difficult enough finding impartial jurors. Finding an impartial sole judge would make it exponentially more difficult to obtain an impartially and fairly determined judgement which is one of the key reasons why this new legislation is fundamentally flawed and unconstitutional.

ExposedU2C says...

Your last sentence would be especially true in most criminal cases where a corrupt political official obtains his or her judgement from a sole judge of the same political persuasion. And you can bet these situations would more often than not arise by design.

ExposedU2C says...

What has and is happening here should be reported to every institution of higher learning in North America that has a marine biology centre, a veterinary school, and other similar programs concerned with the treatment of aquatic mammals.

And that moronic minion Damien Gomez fully deserves to be named and shamed internationally for only being concerning about growing his own personal pocket book rather than doing the right thing by these suffering highly intelligent mammals.