> FREE National Movement leader Michael Pintard said an administration he leads would not let rehired retirees “double dip” by receiving a pension and a salary and would publicise the re-engagement of any retiree, providing information about the duration of their contracts and the position they will fill.

>“This transparency measure will slam the door on backroom deals,” he said.

Typical Pintard. He says absolutely nothing about what he would do to prevent the need for such re-hirings in the first place, thereby giving younger qualified Bahamians an opportunity to assume the positions previously held by retirees. It almost sounds as if Pintard holds the view that our public education system is no longer able to provide Bahamians with the basic education needed to move through the ranks of the civil workforce to fill the more senior positions vacated by retirees. If that's true, he should tell us what, if anything, he intends to do about it if the FNM wins the next general election. We don't need lip service from Pintard followed by more of the same.

The double-dipping of rehired-retirees is a red herring to the more serious problems that need to be addressed to put an end to the need to rehire retirees in the first place. Put your thinking cap on Pintard. Talk alone is cheap!

This is something all of us wish no parent would ever experience. Truly sad. My condolences to the Ingraham family.

Cant't help but wonder what was the quid pro quo to get Eric Carey to go along with this blatantly corrupt monopolistic deal rather than strongly speaking out against it. Davis's pretense that this most corrupt deal is justified by government's concern for the marine environment around the Exumas is laughable given that his government has never been the least bit concerned about all of the pollution the cruise ship industry has been spewing into our environment for decades.

And now he has added Elon Musk's rocket boosters to the toxic cocktail mix of pollutants being spewed into our territorial seas and the air we breathe while telling us and the rest of the world that he is a big proponent of the Green New Deal and efforts to stop climate change.

Davis cannot possibly justify giving a monopolistic lease over Crown Land seabed areas commonly used for sea vessel anchorage or moorings around the Exumas. Why should a group of his favoured cronies be entitled to greatly enrich themselves from such a monopoly?! And let's not forget that the very corrupt and greedy Tony Ferguson takes a big cut of the profits generated by these corrupt Private-Public-Partnerships (PPPs) that he engineers and then cons Davis to approve.

Tony sets himself up using many entities under his ownership and/or control to charge these PPPs with layer upon layer of management, administration, and custody fees of every kind imaginable that he and his insatiably greedy partners end up pocketing with no opportunity for anyone else to participate in the economic benefits of the people's property.

Suggest you stop raping your companion ChiCom troll bot.

> "Tribune Business can also reveal that the address for serving Bahamas Moorings Company, No.3 Bayside Executive Park in western New Providence, is the same as that for two entities playing a key role in the Government’s energy reforms - Bahamas Grid Company, which now controls New Providence’s energy grid, and Island Power Producers, the company that will supply energy to cruise ships docked in Nassau.

>The address is the home of Levant Advisors ......, which appears to be a newly-formed boutique financial services firm. Its website lists Levant’s principals as Anthony Ferguson, the company’s founder who is also CFAL chief, and Antoine Bastian, the Genesis Fund Services head.

>Both men are heavily involved with the Office of the Prime Minister...."

I only had to see Tony Ferguson's name and the term public-private-partnership (PPP) in this article to conclude that something underhanded and illegal has happened here.

The three directors of Levant Advisors according to *https://levantadvisors.bs/management/* are Tony Ferguson, Antoine Bastian and Prescott Adderley. They bogusly claim on their website to manage and administer assets for their clients totalling over $3 billion. Tony Ferguson prides himself on his ability to con less financially literate individuals into thinking he is some kind of financial guru when in fact he is nothing more than a conniving scoundrel who is always looking to unjustly enrich himself by any deceitful and devious means possible. He is frankly an embarrassment to many other holders of the CFA designation in our community.

Tony has perfected the art of ingratiating himself with persons who share his great lust for power and wealth and who are willing to turn a blind eye to very real conflicts of interest and shady deal-making of the worst possible kind. These persons includes our PM, Snake, and his Greek master who controls the Colina group of companies.

Hopefully Neil Hartnell will see fit to vigorously follow-up on his initial investigations into this most grave matter involving illegal activities of the greediest kind that were stealthily born in the Office of The PM with the PM's full knowledge as a willing participant. Davis really needs to stop listening to Tony Ferguson and all of his hogwash about how "we can PPP this and then PPP that" with Tony leading the PM around like a lost poodle on a leash. Davis is guilty of having wrongfully attempted to authorize seabed leases of Crown property in a monopolistic transaction that would have his favoured few cronies unjustly enriched. That's patently wrong and wreaks of corruption of the worst possible kind.

Davis should not now seek to somehow mischievously try justify his wrongful (frankly, illegal) actions on this matter by using the pretense of environmental concerns. Such concerns lask even the slightest air of legitimacy given has lack of concern about the pollution of our environment by cruise ships and now boosters.

Don't worry.......The Tribune will tell you our nation's murder count for the year to date is only 12 and that certain murders are really not murders at all by the government's definition of a murder.

I hope you're being cynical in some of your remarks here, otherwise you have a warped way of seeing some things.

Fully agree.

Paul McWeeney and his bother Sean know all there is to know about the history of the fraudulent lending practices at BoB involving the political elite and their cronies that resulted in a series of government bailouts that ended up costing taxpayers over $500 million, a portion of which was hived off into another government controlled special purpose vehicle named Bahamas Resolve.

And let's not forget the millions of dollars in loan losses attributable to loans made by BoB at the behest of government to college and university students; loans that were supposed to have been guaranteed by the parents of the students but which were never repaid by anyone leaving many Bahamian taxpayers holding the proverbial empty bag. Slo Mo Alfred Sears knows all about the shenanigans involving the students of wealthy parents who benefitted from the loan write-offs.

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is controlled lock, stock, and barrel, by the ChiComs. Our nation is in such dire financial straights that we must now look to the ChiComs for financing in exchange for ???????. Yup, that's the really big question, but we know full well that whatever the quid pro quo was, it was entirely in the interest of the ChiComs to the detriment of the Bahamian people.

Since 1992, our incompetent, corrupt, and greedy, politicians have gone about replacing our white masters of yesterday with new yellow ones, with the latter being infinitely more corrupt, conniving, evil, and racist. Our freedom was fleeting, and the days ahead will be truly sad times as is the case for many nations whose corrupt politicians sold out their citizenry to the ChiComs.