I suspect quite a few of Sands' lodge brothers and their family members will be first in line for whatever healthcare funds may still exist. And of course there has been no accounting or maintenance of records for the funds already spent that can be audited by the auditor-general.

The invoice(s) and/or claim letter(s) government submitted to GBPA and the PWC firm's detailed report are not one and the same. Yet Davis is apparently content to have the public believe otherwise.

Yet PM Davis returns from Botswana with the idea of inviting diamond traders and diamond depositories to our shores which would only serve to attract those who engage in untraceable money laundering activities. Go figure!!

Sebas Bastian.

LMAO. Only government bureaucrats using known inaccurate accounting information could call over-shooting a deficit target by 33% a near miss. Aiming for $131 million and arriving at $175 million would be no small $44 million miss of the mark even if the accounting information used was correct.

As for the views of the dishonest rating agencies like Moody's, their reputation was left in complete tatters back in 2008 with the great recession caused by the housing bubble that nearly took down the entire global financial system. And the very leftist leaning Moody's is the only one the three largest credit rating agencies that has steadfastly refused to downgrade the credit rating of the U.S. as a result of its frighteningly high and unsustainable debt to GDP ratio that is now threatening to topple the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency.

who does this idiot dpm think he's kidding??!!

he's not the least bit embarrassed about any of the umpteen things attributable to his gross incompetency as minister of tourism.

Word on the street has it that the terms of the contract government signed with the PWC firm to prepare the report prevents the report from being made public without the consent of PWC even though it was paid for by the taxpayers. That aside, the GBPA should certainly have the right to know what information was provided to PWC by the government in order to ascertain the legal validity and correctness of the extortionist sum of $357 million the government claims is due from the GBPA. Many in the legal community suspect the PWC report is so heavily qualified and caveated as to the accuracy of the $357 million that the government would find releasing its contents to the public, or even the GBPA, to be most embarrassing.

> He said hospital and surgeons’ fees for that operation cost around $80,000.

As one of the more well-known and greedy heart surgeons in the Bahamas, Sands also knows if you're unable to pony-up the $80,000, then its "sayonara" in Japanese or "tant pis" in French, or, as many Bahamians would simply say, "prepare to meet your maker."

None. It was all spent on vaccines for the sheep.

Yes, but as we all know, cockroaches do not like the light of day.