> increasing value-added tax, raising water rates for heavy users and collecting patient fees at the Public Hospitals Authority are among the International Monetary Fund’s recommendations to help the government meet its debt target of 50 percent of GDP by 2031.

Our government and the Bahamian people need to start seriously asking themselves how is it the IMF and other similar international organisations are always so much more interested in telling us about how we should go about taxing ourselves to death rather than telling us how we can go about growing our economy in a sustainable way for the betterment of all Bahamians and not just the select few politically connected vultures among us that have been preying on the rest of us for decades now.

> A key influence is likely to have been Rothschild & Co, the major financial group hired to advise the Government on its debt strategy back 2022, and which is named as the adviser in the $210m ‘buy back’ offering.

For Pete's sake! No government in its right mind would ever want to have anything at all to do with any entity controlled by one or more members of the infamous Rothschild family. PM Davis is going to rue the day he ever listened to anything Tony Ferguson had to say. Our country is being tanked and Davis is either too stupid to realise it, or he simply does not care.

I am a big fan of PM Davis's proposal that this prison facility be built in an appropriate place on Cat Island in order to promote in a very big way the economic development of that island. Frankly, it's about the only sensible thing Davis has ever proposed since he became PM. For him, it would at least guarantee he keeps his seat in the HOA come the next general election. And if he gives my construction company the juicy contract to build it, I would funnel 25% of my generously padded profits to him through the back door of his choosing.

Parents, order your toys from the U.S. Doing so is much less costly.

Too many living in our country like the sea but don't know how to swim.

We all know you like gay festivities of every kind. I suspect you are also a big proponent of the transgender movement endorsed by most LBGTQ+ movements in the U.S. that have for years now been preying on vulnerable, young, and innocent, children through the public school systems they have managed to commandeer. Parents, keep your children close.

Obviously Paul Jones is unaware that the majority of the persons now employed by both our Police Force and Defense Force can trace their roots back to illegal aliens who were granted papers to reside and work in The Bahamas by corrupt immigration officials and others like sleasy greeen slime Fwreddy Boy Mitchell.

The big difference between when Sarkis got ripped off by the CCP related crooks with the help of corrupt Perry Vomit Christie, Bag Man Baltron Bethel, The Wicked Witch of The West Allyson Maynard-Gibson, Bozo Justice Ian Winder, and others like them, is now the entire U.S. government regards Communist Red China as an existential threat to the national security interests of not only the U.S., but also all nations in the West Indian and Caribbean regions.

And let's not forget for one moment that Trump and DeSantis alike are very much focused on the threats created by the CCP's corrupt influence on four nations in our part of the world - The Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica. Just ask Tyrant Minnis about how his meeting went at Mara a Lago with Trump and John Bolton during Trump's first term as President.

Nice to see Sarkis finally giving the finger to the likes of Vomit Christie and the others I mentioned with the full faith and backing of the U.S. government behind him. Be rest assured, justice will be dispensed to all who are known to have played key roles in the ripping-off of Sarkis and his family for their own self-gain.

Make sure and wear a warm sweater throughout your flight.

The aftermath of Hurricane Ian in 2022 and recent Hurricane Helene saw many hundreds of EVs in Florida literally exploding, with the resulting fires being extremely difficult to put out. Many Floridians with EVs parked in their home garages lost their home to fire in the aftermath of Ian and Helene. New laws are expected to be passed in Tallahassee that will prevent EVs from being parked in multi story public garages at airports and in cities, and in other garages immediately adjacent to or under office buildings, high-rise condominiums, etc.

It seems the lithium batteries in these EVs are ticking time bombs once exposed to storm surge (salt) water, or damaged in an accident or made vulnerable to excessive summer heat and/or heavily salt-laden high humidity. Personally, I don't like even being along side one of them at a stop light. There's a reason all of these cheap EVs are ending up being dumped in third world countries like the Bahamas.