> The attack occurred around 6.30pm on February 7, 2025, as the women were swimming back to their boat.

When it comes to the chance of experiencing a shark attack, dawn and dusk are the most dangerous times of the day to be swimming in the sea anywhere in the Northwestern Bahamas.

It's not just the recent ridiculous amendment to the VAT Act, but also the fact that Bahamians and their businesses were not carved out of and made exempt from the onerous economic substance form filling that their registered agents must do annually under CESRA, 2023, even though most of these companies only do business in the Bahamas, and in many instances only hold real property in The Bahamas for their Bahamian owner(s).

Our doofus AG and the other incompetent douchebags who hold leadership positions with departments and agencies that fall under the Ministry of Finance, like Inland Revenue, have little if any common sense, and they behave as if they have a mandate to make life as difficult as possible for honest and hard working Bahamians.

These imbeciles wrongfully assume we are all crooks and tax dodgers in order to justify their own laziness in adopting a draconian "one-size-fits-all" policy to everything because of their immature power crazed mentality that drives their insatiable appetite for more and more form filling and paperwork, no matter how outrageously costly and unfair the burden may be for Bahamians, their businesses, and their service providers. The cost of doing any kind of business in the Bahamas is literally putting legitimate and hard working Bahamians out of business and denying young entrepreneurs the opportunity to establish new "start-up" businesses.

It's not just the recent ridiculous amendment to the VAT Act, but also the fact that Bahamians and their businesses were not carved out of and made exempt from the onerous economic substance form filling that their registered agents must do annually under CESRA, 2023, even though most of these companies only do business in the Bahamas, and in many instances only hold real property in The Bahamas for their Bahamian owner(s).

Our doofus AG and the other incompetent douchebags who hold leadership positions with departments and agencies that fall under the Ministry of Finance, like Inland Revenue, have little if any common sense, and they behave as if they have a mandate to make life as difficult as possible for honest and hard working Bahamians.

These imbeciles wrongfully assume we are all crooks and tax dodgers in order to justify their own laziness in adopting a draconian "one-size-fits-all" policy to everything because of their immature power crazed mentality that drives their insatiable appetite for more and more form filling and paperwork, no matter how outrageously costly and unfair the burden may be for Bahamians, their businesses, and their service providers.

The cost of doing any kind of business in the Bahamas is literally putting legitimate and hard working Bahamians out of business and denying young entrepreneurs the opportunity to establish new "start-up" businesses. Dare I ask, just how stupid can doofus AG Pinder, corrupt PM Davis, Always Angry Simple Simon, and Dumbo Halkitis, all actually be??!!

The comments made by existing and former senior government officials, as quoted in this article, all point to the complete incompetence of sleazy Fwreddy Boy Mitchell as minister of foreign affairs.

The actions being taken here by our Passport Office are much too late of a response to the threats made by President Trump to either make it very difficult or altogether shutdown the ability for foreigners to travel to the U.S. if they possess a passport from a country deemed to have weak verification controls and procedures over the issuance of their passports.

President Trump has already signed Executive Orders regarding new U.S. Immigration and U.S. Customs & Border Protection policies that are going to rightfully make it extremely difficult for Bahamians to get visas to travel, study or work in the U.S. because of the incompetence, corruption and fraud that has existed for many decades within most of our government departments and agencies.

And at some point in the near future you can bet Elon Musk and his DOGE team will be carefully scrutinizing the enormous costs associated with maintaining the U.S. pre-clearance facilities in our nation.

A most important subject, but, unfortunately, like her father, she is prone to bloviating too much and accomplishing very little of any good behind the scenes.

LOL. Such small statements without any reasoning are usually indicative of one's rather small mind.

> Amid complaints that the declaration, a 16-page form that registered offices must fill out for every one of their corporate clients, is “crippling” and “onerous” to the ease and cost of doing business in The Bahamas, he challenged why the required information would not be readily available given that it was required for annual Companies Registry filings and maintaining an entity in good standing.

Here Dexter Fernander readily admits most of the information the Department of Inland Revenue is seeking should already be available in other government departments and agencies. So why should he expect corporate clients to pay additional fees to their registered agents to gather this information! Either Inland Revenue is unwilling to incur the cost of gathering this information from the other government departments and agencies or the records kept by those other departments and agencies are in a complete state of disarray to the point where the loads of information already in their possession has been incompletely and/or inaccurately processed, and is therefore unreliable.

Take the Registrar of Companies for example. This department should be readily able to confirm that a company is in good standing. Yet financial and corporate services providers are constantly having to tell their corporate clients that getting a Certificate of Good Standing is typically a much longer and costly process than one should reasonably expect. This frankly is absurd, and our doofus AG Pinder does not seem to be the least bit concerned about it. Instead, he has registered agents now collecting loads of info for another department, Inland Revenue.

I can just imagine how difficult it's going to be to obtain a Certificate of Tax Compliance!
Doofus AG Pinder and his cabinet colleagues need to focus on fixing what's already broken within many government departments and agencies and avoid transforming registered agents in the private sector into government agents at the fee paying cost of their corporate clients.

Doofus Pinder also needs to keep in mind that the more information government collects, the more costly government gets, and its the taxpayers who ultimately bear the cost of all the duplicative and/ useless information gathered that government departments and agencies seem incapable of processing or utilizing for the betterment of public services and the financial well-being of our country.

Some posting above sound like persons I know who work in either the AG's office or a department or agency that exists within or falls directly under the ministry of finance. The worthless international alphabet soup agencies like the OECD have perfected their blacklisting craft by unilaterally moving their goal posts whenever it suits them in order to force smaller nations like The Bahamas to act as financial information gatherers and tax compliance agents for European countries with severely bloated government bureaucracies, including an added layer of bloated EU government based in Brussels.

The government structure of the OECD countries and EU became so large over the last four or five decades that draconian levels of taxation had to be imposed on their citizenry. The unfairness here forced ever increasing numbers of Europeans to become tax cheats. Rather than introducing policies to reduce the size of their costly over bloated governments and in turn reduce the draconian levels of taxation unfairly imposed on their citizenry, the governments of the OECD countries (and the EU Council itself) wrongfully decided to bully and 'beat up' on the sovereignty of smaller nations like The Bahamas in order to coerce them into becoming financial information gathering and taxation compliance agents for their own outrageously costly governments, at great expense and harm to the oppressed smaller nations. Just look at the great harm caused to the financial services sector and overall economy of The Bahamas over the last 40+ years. Now our own grossly over bloated and costly government wants to take a page out of the OECD and EU's playbook and weaponize CESRA, 2023, to go after over burdened and aggrieved Bahamian taxpayers.

All of this must be changed because the taxpaying citizenry of a country should never be expected to support corrupt socialist (or progressive) politicians who are either hellbent on creating a costly welfare state or are just too incompetent (incapable) of controlling the size and cost of the public sector that should exist to serve the citizenry and not bankrupt them through outrageous levels of taxation and fees of every kind imaginable.

You sound like many I know who work in either the AG's office or an agency that falls under the ministry of finance.

And to think Disney throws only this very tiny morsel our way after they read recent posts to this website like the one below.

"Why no mention by The Tribune reporter of the current total Bahamian head-count at Lookout Cay, at Lighthouse Point?

Why no disclosure of the total cost of purchases from Bahamian owned suppliers and businesses domiciled in The Bahamas during the last fiscal year?

Also, how much in taxes and fees did our Inland Revenue Service collect from Disney during the last fiscal year?

Why didn't The Tribune staff reporter put these questions to our PM (who happens to also be our minister of finance) or the Secretary of Inland Revenue, namely Always Angry Simple Simon, before publishing this promotional article for Disney?

Has The Tribune thrown aside professional journalism and become a publicity agent for the cruise line industry because it fears losing the advertising revenue it pockets from members of the cruise line industry? Most of us know by now that The Tribune's Business Editor, Neil Hartnell, has effectively become a publicity or promotional agent for the seedy likes of Snake and certain of the numbers bosses for fear of loosing the advertising revenue they bring to The Tribune's owners."