Tyrant Minnis long ago cooked his own goose and hopefully the good people of Killarney will put the final nail in his coffin come the next general election. Carl's revelations to the public are therefore much too late with no apparent purpose other than to endear himself to Pintard. The equivalent of a non-public confessional would have been a better place for him to get these now very "old" matters off of his chest.

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Sadly, the only reason Terrance Bastian held his auditor-general job for 24 years is because the leadership of PLP and FNM governments over that span of time knew they could count on him not to aggressively tackle corruption, waste, fraud and outright theft within government departments and agencies. He kept his job for 24 years by making it a point to not rock the boat too much. But preserving his job came at very dear cost to the financial well-being of our nation.

The auditor-general job takes a tenacious blood hound who is tirelessly dedicated to sniffing out and aggressively acting on the most egregious instances of corruption, waste, fraud and outright theft within government departments and agencies involving millions of dollars. One who is not afraid to let the chips fall where they may notwithstanding the political heat. We can only hope and pray that Terrance Bastian's replacement will be such a fearless blood hound.

The IDB has for decades been used as a tool by the World Bank and IMF to mire small nations with corrupt and incompetent governments in debt.

The ever increasing mountain of debt created by the IDB putting its fat milk laden lending teat ("tit") to the hard sucking lips of known corrupt politicians allows the lenders to suck out of our economy as much of our nation's GDP as it possibly can in the form of foreign currency denominated interest payments and investment opportunities created at bargain basement prices by foreign corporations.

These alphabet soup agencies are always crying out from one side of their mouths that The Bahamas needs to borrow more and more in order to do this and do that as a so called "developing" nation.

Meanwhile, out the other side of their mouths, the globalist bureaucrats behind the IDB, World Bank and IMF are always simultaneously crying The Bahamas has taken on too much debt. They do this in order to keep our nation's credit risk in relation to its GDP at the optimum level possible for the international lenders and foreign corporate investors they represent to suck out of our economy as much of our growing GDP as possible.

The overriding mission of the IDB, World Bank and IMF is to keep The Bahamas an undeveloped nation mired in costly debt that greatly enriches the foreign interests they represent while leaving the Bahamian fighting over the mere scraps they choose to leave behind to ensure the vast majority of Bahamians remain a controllable cheap source of labour.

Bottom-line: These alphabet soup lettered agencies are the western hemisphere's equivalent the debt traps the ChiComs have become notoriously known for setting (creating) in other nations around the world to get from them whatever they want,

The budget announced by corrupt Davis and now being defended by his two lackeys singing for their supper, namely Shuffler Halkitis and Angry Simon, is loaded with countless glaring examples of deliberate "set ups" for outright future theft in addition to the usual wastage, including the shockingly enormous increase in the amount budgeted for the Office of The PM.

The bottom-line here is that Simple Simon, who is so obviously unable to control his innate blood boiling rage and anger, is much too unfit to serve the public as Financial Secretary. This guy has a lot in common with that arrogant, wicked and demonic tyrant Hubert Minnis who proved himself to be the most malicious, vindictive, wicked, cruel and harmful government official our people have ever known.

Davis should demand a resignation letter from Simple Simon because is now a permanently broken vessel with no ability to carry water for the minister of finance.

You miss the key point in the awarding of this monopolistic government contract without a proper competitive bidding process imbued with complete transparency.

I suspect Youri Kemp has knowledge of the principals behind JDL and the tight connections they enjoy with certain government officials who stand to benefit greatly from the windfall profits the contract is virtually guaranteed to produce for them.

Bahamians should by now know that the term Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) is a euphemism for an exploitative arrangement whereby certain corrupt politicians partner with their cronies in the private sector get to enjoy unjust riches from unfairly heaving on to the people much higher costs for goods or services than they would otherwise have to pay.

And too often the monopoly subject to the exploitative PPP arrangement is not a natural one but rather one very deliberately created by unfair, and all too often, unconstitutional legislation that is financially harmful to the people.

I see this $10 million as but one small example of a budget glaringly set up for future outright theft as opposed to "wastage". The budget announced by corrupt Davis and now being defended by his two lackeys singing for their supper, namely Shuffler Halkitis and Angry Simon, is loaded with countless such examples, including the shockingly enormous increase in the amount budgeted for the Office of The PM.

I've always had zero respect for Carl Culmer and his admissions here only serve to prove why.

Had Carl been much more concerned about the Bahamian people and much less concerned about keeping the FNM party in power under the prime ministership of tyrant Minnis for as long as possible, tyrant Minnis might have been forced to call an election much sooner than he did, thereby ending much earlier his most wicked and evil authoritarian rule over us.

Carl Culmer did a great disservice to all Bahamians by choosing not to speak out back then on the matters he now chooses to speak about in order to curry as much political favour as possible with Pintard. It is a sad reality that the more senior lodge brothers in our political system are always much too loathe to speak out against a fellow senior lodge brother even when doing so is in the much greater interest of the Bahamian people at large.

Sadly, the only reason Terrance Bastian held his auditor-general job for 24 years is because the leadership of PLP and FNM governments over that span of time knew they could count on him not to aggressively tackle corruption, waste, fraud and outright theft within government departments and agencies. He kept his job for 24 years by making it a point to not rock the boat too much. But preserving his job came at very dear cost to the financial well-being of our nation.

The auditor-general job takes a tenacious blood hound who is tirelessly dedicated to sniffing out and aggressively acting on the most egregious instances of corruption, waste, fraud and outright theft within government departments and agencies involving millions of dollars. One who is not afraid to let the chips fall where they may notwithstanding the political heat. We can only hope and pray that Terrance Bastian's replacement is such a fearless blood hound.