The tax per passenger head they pay us is a mere tuppence of what they should be paying for the privilege of spewing highly toxic pollutants into the air we breathe and our territorial seas while at the same time annually pocketing for themselves mega millions of dollars of profits.

A mere tuppence compared to the mega millions in profits they derive from our small nation each and every year while polluting our territorial air and seas.

We really need to get all of these ChiComs, who are all too quick to grease and bribe to get whatever they want, out of our country at the earliest possible time.

Your last sentance had me immediately cast my mind to our really dumb arse AG Ryan Pinder who has already crippled our nation's ease of conducting financial services business with the onerous annual economic substance reporting he allowed to be imposed on bonafide Bahamian owned and controlled companies by CESRA, 2023. Time and time again, doofus Pinder has displayed his great eagerness to genuflect to the taxation masters of the "big government" globalist bureaucrats within the OECD and the EU Council who believe they are entitled to stomp all over the sovereign interests of smaller nations like the Bahamas.

Now we have doofus AG Pinder, at the behest of corrupt PM Davis (who is also minister of finance), collaborating with our Inland Revenue agency to weaponize CESRA, 2023, against Bahamians and Bahamian businesses by imposing even more onerous annual reporting requirements on them if they are a fee-paying client of a local financial and corporate services provider.

What's being done here is fundamentally wrong for the following main reason:

Registered agents are paid an annual fee by their corporate clients and are expected to represent the interests of their clients as opposed to the interests of the Inland Revenue agency. Corporate clients should not be paying their registered agents to gather information that should already be readily available to Inland Revenue from other departments or agencies within the government, which are funded by taxes and/or fees collected from the public.

Registered agents were never intended to be primarily used for, nor should they be primarily used for, gathering information at the fee paying expense of their corporate clients, especially in instances where another department or agency of government is already responsible for gathering the information in question. Registered agents must avoid becoming an arm of the Inland Revenue agency simply because this agency finds it convenient and less costly for itself to simply deputize registered agents as tax information gatherers rather than gather only the information truly needed from another government agency or department that should already have it.

The advocacy role a corporate client pays for and has every right to expect from its corporate and financial services provider should not be wrongfully diminished by an Inland Revenue agency that wants to deputize employees of law firms and accounting firms as its own tax compliance agents. This is a slippery slope that registered agents should be anxious to avoid.

Pilots who are unable to pass this most basic qualifying examination should have their pilot's license suspended or downgraded so that they are no longer allowed to pilot an aircraft carrying passengers, especially fare paying passengers, until such time that they are able to pass the exam within a maximum of three attempts. Not everyone has the intellect, health, and instinctive aviation skills, needed to be a pilot. We have too many Bahamian pilots today who fly by the seat of their pants, lacking the aptitude, training and frame of mind necessary to help ensure aviation safety.

Corrupt PM, corrupt AG, corrupt court judges, corrupt lawyers, criminal numbers bosses......yup, this is the morally and financially bankrupt Bahamas rightfully regarded by President Trump, Governor DeSantis, and now Secretary of State Rubio, as an unacceptable shiit-hole nation on the door step of the Southwestern USA that presents an existential threat to vital U.S. national security interests.

Why no mention 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 loosing 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 Hartnall, 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.

And if the pigs do get char-broiled, the great people of Exuma who manage to survive the rocket fallout will get enjoy a pork feast at the beach!

You really cracked me up with that humdinger. You have @birdie shopping for an affordable space helmet on Amazon.

Your pocket is probably too full of "shingles" for anything else to fit in it.