Nothing but PR poppycock to make the public think they are paying their fair share. The foreign owned hotels continue to enjoy enormous concessions when it comes to the electricity bills they receive from BPL. And the various government departments, agencies and government owned corporations owe BPL a fortune in respect of their unpaid electricity bills. And it's the financially struggling Bahamian people (and their near bankrupt businesses) who are left having to foot outrageously high electricity bills because of all of this nonsense.

Heat kills as many poor and elderly Bahamians are about to find out with all the load shedding BPL will be doing over the next 3 months.

Did the government (taxpayers) pay The Tribune for 72 pages of garbage?!

Not necessarily.

Our legislators must keep new legislation for spousal rape as simple, clear and straight forward as possible so that a fair and just framework exists for all concerned.

A spouse accused of spousal rape is innocent until proven guilty. The burden of proof in a spousal rape case will always lie with the spouse claiming to have been raped. Both spouses should be given the opportunity (but not forced) to agree to participte in joint counselling by one or more suitably qualified professionals. If either spouse refuses to participate in such joint counselling, then the case should go through the usual case management procedures before a judge before being set down for a trial hearing by a jury. A finding of innocence by a two-thirds majority of the jury should be assertable grounds for divorce by the spouse wrongfully accused of spousal rape. A finding of guilty by a simple majority of the jury should be assertable grounds for divorce by the raped spouse with an appropriate prison sentence for the spouse found guilty.

Aside from the voluntary election for counselling, the accused and accuser should be treated no differently than any other case of rape involving parties not married to each other.

Dat true!!

This idiot Paul Moss condescendingly thinks Bahamians are truly stupid. We opened the door to a 7.5% VAT rate which was then increased by our tax hungry corrupt politicians in the blink of an eye. And we still have most of the import duties, etc. that VAT was suppose to replace. Now brain-dead Moss proposes we open the door to a small rate of income tax. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what will then happen next. That small 5% income tax rate he speaks of would grow in a heart beat to be at least 15%, probably even more.

What Munroe really means is that Hanna-Martin is very much onboard with the idea of pliable little boys being taught in school at the earliest possible age that they are actually little girls while pliable little girls get taught they are actually little boys. The less pliable little children will of course be taught that they are "switch-hitters". Many of our public school teachers just can't wait to mold our young children to their sexual liking.

The corrupt and insatiably greedy Franky Wilson a/k/a Snake and his close-knit group of cronies in government are laughing all the way to bank with the overly generous piece of the financial action they get from BPL's leasing of each and every Aggreko commercial diesel generator at exorbitant rental rates.

@birdie always gets fired up on this subject because he fears losing the right to continue raping his wife whenever it pleases him to do so. We should all pity his poor wife.