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Robert Sands' view is of course very jaded by the fact that a shorter work week would give Baha Mar and the entire hotel industry many more financially appealing options for reducing their personnel costs by way of a greater number of lower cost part-time and shift workers with fewer benefit entitlements.

The corrupt Davis led PLP government's fears about growing civil unrest arising from the already extremely high and ever increasing true under-employment and unemployment rates are driving all of this four-day work-week nonsense talk.

Stumpy Davis' only solution to the extremely high under-employment and unemployment levels is to codify into our nation's laws, regulations and statistics that workers shall be regarded as fully employed even if they are unable to work a forty-hour work week in order to buy food, medicines, and pay for other necessities for themselves and their families.

Bottom line: This grossly incompetent and corrupt PLP government has been much too pre-occupied in back-room deals to greatly enrich themselves and their favourite cronies, with no attention devoted to meaningful policies aimed at creating job opportunities for the many under-employed and unemployed. Truly sad for all hurting Bahamians and their families to say the least.

GBPC's proposed 6.3% increase in electricity bills for Grand Bahamians is nothing compared to the eventual 15%+ increase that Snake and Anthony Ferguson have planned in their financial models for New Providence if they and their cabal of marauders are allowed to seize control of BPL's electrical power generation and distribution systems in the greatest heist ever of national assets for mere pennies on the dollar of true value.

It is truly alarming that this most corrupt Davis led PLP government believes it has the unfettered power to aid and abet the stealing of majority ownership and control of such a vital government monopoly, i.e. the bulk of our nation's energy sector, without public hearings or proper exploration of other 'management only' alternatives, and with no transparent competitive bidding process to discover the true and much higher value of the national assets being transferred to the cabal of marauders on the basis of financial theft engineering done by the corrupt and insatiably greedy likes of Snake, Anthony Ferguson and others like them.

Just more gaslighting hot air from an accomplish nothing politician.

Provisions in our taxation laws and related enforcement regulations that violate or conflict with well established due process and other rights laid down in our Constitution are not legally valid.

No government, minister of finance or revenue collection official, should be considered immune from legal claims for damages arising from their wrongful acts aimed at extorting a business or its owner(s), or wrongfully shutting down a business, in connection with a legitimate taxation dispute where there quite possibly has been a violation of due process and other fundamental constitutional rights.

The yapping little whited poodle with his checkered past of customs duty evasion is unfortunately not the best person to be crying foul in public about the ongoing abusive, and I dare say in many instances, illegal, tax enforcement requirements and procedures.

A cash strapped corrupt government creates the ideal environment for exceptionally sinister and greedy vultures, both local and foreign, to be 'invited' to swoop down on us and acquire our most valuable national assets and vital state-owned monopolies for mere pennies on the dollar of their true value. Our most valuable land areas and government monopolies are literally being given away by corrupt politicians to equally corrupt cabals without any kind of meaningful public input and with no transparent bidding process to try discover the best buyer at the best price for the Bahamian people.

Our government now desperately needs get its financial house in order. To do so, taxes and fees currently being levied on the cruise ship owners and operators, the port operators and the 'illegal' gaming web shop owners and operators, all need to be at least quadrupled (x 4) as soon as possible in order to be much fairer to our nation and to help ease the government's cash crunch. Any legislation necessary to accomplish this should be immediately readied for passage by parliament.

At the same time, PM Davis as minister of finance should be immediately directing budget amendments by way of ministerial orders that slash wherever reasonably possible the current amounts budgeted for each government agency, department and state-owned entity by at least 10% with a freeze on all new public sector hires, enforcement of mandatory retirements upon reaching the set age, and a hard freeze in the compensation packages of all personnel in the public sector, including all elected officials.

Without these types of harsh austerity measures we need only look at the failed state of Haiti to our south to see our future.

Perhaps Stumpy Davis, like his daughter, should re-locate to the U.S. in order to permanently escape the poor quality of healthcare that successive corrupt governments led by incompetent politicians like himself have created for most poor Bahamians.

This guy Darville is as corrupt and incompetent as they come and should have long ago been forced to resign from cabinet. Aside from being an utter embarrassment, he is most dangerous to the public's health and well-being. Seriously ill people needing quality medical attention and care are losing their lives because of him.

Taxes and fees currently being levied on the cruise ship owners and operators, the port operators and the 'illegal' gaming web shop owners and operators, all need to be at least quadrupled (x 4) in order to be much fairer and to help ease the government's cash crunch. Any legislation necessary to accomplish this should be immediately readied for passage by parliament.

At the same time, PM Davis as minister of finance should be immediately directing budget amendments by way of ministerial orders that slash wherever reasonable possible the current amounts budgeted for each government agency, department and state-owned entity by at least 10% with a freeze on all new public sector hires, enforcement of mandatory retirements upon reaching the set age, and a hard freeze in the compensation packages of all personnel in the public sector, including all elected officials.

Without these types of harsh austerity measures we need only look at the failed state of Haiti to our south to see our future.

Government has very deliberately stood by for well over a year and done nothing about BPL's problems. Management of BPL should have long ago been contracted out (not sold) to a professional group not in any way affiliated with the government. Criteria and specifications for the appropriate management contract should have been open to public input and debate. The contract should have been given to the most ideally suited independent professional group based on established criteria and a transparent bidding process.

Instead, this corrupt Davis led PLP government has allowed BPL's problems to worsen while pressing all and sundry, including URCA, to cry out about them in order to set the stage for the engineering of the greatest heist ever of national assets by the insatiably greedy Snake and his crooked side-kick Anthony Ferguson.

Bahamians and their businesses can kiss any hope for affordable electricity good-bye if this corrupt Davis led PLP government is allowed to simply hand over a controlling ownership interest of our nation's vital energy sector to the investor cabal led by Snake and Ferguson for pennies on the dollar of true value.