>However, Sir Franklyn Wilson, the FOCOL Holdings and Arawak Homes chairman, yesterday urged Bahamians to “look for the silver lining” rather than always focus on the negative elements associated with changes such as Donald Trump’s tariffs and the Chinese-made ship fees.

The sinister and insatiably greedy Snake and his cabal of wealthy marauders are in the process of raping, pillaging and plundering our nation as a result of the gross incompetence of this most corrupt PLP government led by wimpy Davis and his minions. What's happening with our nation's energy sector is going to force Bahamians to take justifiable extreme measures to unwind the shady crooked deals involving Snake, his wealthy cronies, and certain senior government officials.

The last thing our country needs is another public holiday. Our nation's domestic productivity levels are already way too low as it is.

Corrupt and wimpy Davis is desperate to distract our attention with all kinds of nonsense, including the PLP's non-stop worshipping of Poodling. Wimpy Davis may even be unaware that most Bahamians, especially those under age 55, now appreciate that the last 15 years of Poodling's 25 year reign as PM put our nation on course to the very dismal state it finds itself in today.

The PLP must be truly desperate if they are trying to turn Poodling into the Bahamian version of Islam's Muhammad. LOL

> The Bahamas Creative and Performing Arts School (CAPAS) will operate out of the former Phil’s Food Service building on Gladstone Road, which is being renovated at a cost of between $5m and $7m. The site will feature studio spaces for singing, dancing, and acting.

The ownership changes and money poured into this building over the years is the gift of waste and fraud for certain individuals closely connected to this corrupt Davis led PLP government.

> The government will pay UTA more than $300,000 a year, covering around nine paid positions. Under the agreement, UTA instructors may be terminated at any time.

And to think we have many public schools in need of renovations, especially their restrooms.

Hanna-Martin knows no shame and will always be nothing but a loud-mouthed and most incompetent wretch who likes to flash a big cross around her neck as if that will somehow overcome the impossible and help get her to a much higher place.

This quack is the last person the FNM party should be endorsing as a candidate in the next national general election or considering for any type of cabinet or senate position. Where's the new blood?

The cunning and conniving Snake and his wealthy cronies, with the help of Shell Oil, have for years been trying to obtain monopoly control over our nation's energy sector. They have successfully interfered with every effort made by past governments to find a solution to BEC/BPL's financial and management problems while lying in wait for their moment to strike.

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The Business Editor, Neil Hartnell, wrote the following which appeared in the November 26, 2024 edition of The Tribune:

>"The Attorney General yesterday confirmed that Shell’s Bahamian subsidiary, which generated $1.6bn in pre-tax profits in 2023, will be subject to 15 percent corporate income tax on those earnings in future.

>"Ryan Pinder KC, in a messaged reply to Tribune Business inquiries, reiterated that imposition of the just-passed Domestic Minimum Top-Up Tax (DMTT) on the energy giant’s local affiliate - as well as other Bahamian entities that are part of major multinational groups - will generate “significant” and much-needed extra revenue for the hard-pressed Public Treasury.

>"Speaking after it was revealed that Shell Western Supply and Trading paid nothing in direct taxes to the Bahamian government on those $1.6bn profits, he explained that the DMTT’s enactment will ensure this nation and its people now receive some benefit from these mammoth earnings.

>"Tribune Business calculations show that the Public Treasury would have received close to $240m had the DMTT, which gives legal effect to the 15 percent corporate income tax, been in place to capture the Shell subsidiary’s 2023 profits. The $240m is higher than the Government’s own estimates for when the tax has been in place for a full year, with forecasts ranging from $140m to $200m."

As a integral part of this LNG terminal facility, our corrupt PM and his doofus AG have no doubt cut a most corrupt deal with Shell Oil's hugely profitable oil trading operation in The Bahamas (known as Shell Western Suppy & Trading or SWST) and various entities controlled by the evil and insatiably greedy Snake whereby the annual 15% Domestic Minimum Top-Up Tax (DMTT) our nation was expecting to receive from SWST will now be significantly reduced. This tax for 2023 would have amounted to $240 million based on SWST's profits for that year.

Yes indeed, corrupt deals are being cut here that will result in our nation's coffers being robbed of mega millions of dollars in annual taxes. Pockets are being lined here at great cost to the Bahamian people. Are the EU and OECD global tax regulators fully aware of what is going on here? Neil Hartnell should be asking the hard questions to the right people and avoid having way too many free lunches and dinners with the evil and insatiably greedy Snake.

Because it's much easier to get the sinister and evil ChiComs out of our country, and do whatever we can to help the US clamp down on illegal aliens and the trafficking of humans, drugs, and arms through our nation into the US. And we had better get serious about doing all of this before a travel embargo preventing US citizens from travelling to our nation is ordered, together with the closing of our US pre-clearance facilities, and the suspension of issuing US visas to all residents of The Bahamas, not just Bahamians.

We need to recognise and accept that all of our nation's more serious problems that have developed over the last 50 years have come our way from our neighbours to the South, not the the one's North. And the ChiComs long ago seized control over many of our neighbours to the South who are closer to the Panama Canal. Need I say more!

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