And to think the U.S. has the temerity to bash the ChiCom's for the debt traps that they set in order to exploit the resources of other nations. The U.S. is the pot calling the kettle black!

The Shell trading enterprise/operations are (were) deemed to be domiciled in The Bahamas. The entire amount of the DMTT 15% minimum tax is therefore payable to The Bahamas as the country in which the taxable enterprise is (was) domiciled. Where the counter-parties of Shell's oil and gas trading activities are (were) domiciled is irrelevant.

Bingo!

U.S. DOJ is no doubt working with U.S. intelligence agencies to figure out how best to approach this highly sensitive matter given that (1) no charges would ever be pressed against the high ranking government official in the Bahamas, and (2) the high ranking Bahamian government official would likely assert he has some kind of diplomatic immunity of the kind enjoyed by senior elected officials of many countries around the world.

> Administrator Terez Newry said the decision followed extensive review and discussion, citing significant financial constraints and ongoing operational challenges.

Same can be said of the whole country thanks to decades of corruption and incompetence cultivated by politicians like Davis and Cooper who frankly could not care less about the Bahamian people.

Our country has been raped, pillaged, and plundered, to the point where we have become the type of shiit-hole nation that Trump likes to diss.

And way too many of our politicians today lack the vitally important soft skills you speak of in addition to their lack of adequate grey matter.

Amen!

This is a dismantling of the PLP government's grossly mismanaged and failed NHI scheme which will result in taxpayers footing the mega-million dollar bill for the bailout the scheme needs before being turned over to private health insurers, such as Colina, Family Guardian and CG Atlantic. Taxpayers and the insured alike are going to pay a dear price!

The Doctors Hospital transaction is nothing but a devious scheme to rob the taxpayers of our nation in order to wrongfully and unjustly enrich a select group of politically connected wealthy doctors who have mismanaged their controlling interest in Doctors Hospital to the point where they now feel justified in disingenuously claiming to government they require a bail out to stay in business.

We are reaping the dire consequences of decades of failed education policies by incompetent and corrupt politicians that could not care less about how dumbed-down the vast majority of the electorate became. After all, corrupt politicians simply detest discerning voters who cannot be easily manipulated. See my earlier post above.

We long ago reached the point where we would never have politicians with the character, integrity, smarts, and stature to do anything about the key factors contributing to the exacerbation of our nation's brain-drain and rising youth unemployment. And some of us already know what's ultimately in store for nation if our most corrupt senior politicians remain on the dole of the ChiCom government.