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Giordano says...

Look at Peter,!! , in the picture above. He looks like he doesn't live here anymore,managing so much money without showing any tangible results.! And, without any transparency.

Giordano says...

Ok. I agree. There should be enough wise head in and outside government to set up a strong standard of Transparency as well as a strong culture of claiming,decensy,integrity,dignity & respect also wish to see all police patrol vehicles flashing their colorful lights all over the nights and days on the streets of new providence.
That's returning feeling of confidence and sense of public safety is badly needed and the government don't have any excuse not to satisfy this claiming,demands from all of us.
Overfloodding of overseas help,double VAT, loans here and loans there. Need to see tangible results.!!
There should be not turning back in fighting corruption at government cabinets' Members. How rich are they now? Let's apply "The Public Disclosure Act" and put an independent effective group of auditors,independent responsible television including ZNS,willing not to be in complicity with the wrongdoing by simply exposing it.
They should be effective and not like the so called independent prosecution. There is no change,we still see a bunch of drunkers in public areas like corners and public parks illegally ,in the open,drinking liquior,smoking dopes and disturbing the peace, starting and harassing young girls passing by. We still see cars bad parking on corners,provoking accidents. Why the prosecution got independent then?
This is demagoguery from government. Anyway,sticky fingers still out here abusing the public pulse.

Giordano says...

That hotline numbers 376-TIPS seems to be neglected because they do not answer,as well as the 502-9991/2.
Just waiting for somebody to answer the call is a "Torture" then that make the caller twice a victim.This
It's the case of myself calling such numbers,shorter after 2:00 A.M. last Saturday while watching three young guys from my bedroom's window breaking up my $10,000 dollars vehicle and my wife & son holding me inside the house in order not to allow me to come out Of the house with my cuttlass already in my hand because those numbers were not answered to avoid possible murder.
It's clear,the rbpf is a post-mortem institution.
They solve problems but after it is too late. The lifeless human body is already on the pavement of the road and could be prevented with much anticipation more than likely by just addressing "Minors Complaints" reported in nearly all cases of murders in The Bahamas .

Giordano says...

So let's say $3.00 Millions/day (money daily collected only from vat) × 365 days In the whole year equal to $ 1.95 billion dollars every year !!!
That's beside the money from costom plus all loans mostly from bid which adds more than double ,the bilion mentioned above.

Sticki-fingers,corrupt current newly elected government.
They should be in jail and all the money turn back to national treasury and start a new beginning in The Bahamas.

Giordano says...

Mistreatment is in all kind of way in The Bahamas. It is not only about Haitians immigrants but also against the Society in general. We are all victims of an official apparently unstoppable Cleptocracy,where the government is mishandling the public pulse with absolutely lack of promised transparency,creating an estate of human disaster worst than all hurricane combine. Where the VAT-Money is going and how much the government is collecting DAILY?
Where is the promised solution to the long standing problems of public safety ?
What is going on ? One seldom see a Police Patrol Car,on the neighborhoods' like gettoes' streets. Excluded -disenfranchise youngsters are breaking cars,stealing their radios,batteries,tires,engaging illegal sex with minor girls and walking wild on the streets with immunity or lack of approach by the Police.
Some neighborhoods look like "The Family Islands" .
This is Christmas' time and the shining colorful lights of a Bahamian Police Patrol Car are not doing their job by making themselves visible,at least once or twice during the night.
Police Stations look like hotels with lights off, late in the night, and "A Big Belly Police Officer" 😴 sleeping behind the counter unable to clearly verbalize their name IF they get to answer the Police Station's phone.This
Based on confidential sources,the math is very clear regarding sufficient government resources or funds to solve nearly all problems in the bahamas. They have all the money !!. And instead solving the Country Problems,they solve their own Personal ones.
It's very easy,let's do the math :

a) Native population according to last census 365,000.
With an average daily spending of $3.00 EACH only for VAT.
B) Foreign visitors 6 millions tourists/year(divided by 365 days in the whole year,it will be 16,438 tourists/day) with average daily spending of $20.00 each only for vat.
according to inf. from .minister of tourism and by the way each tourist pay $20.00 for "Departure Tax" before they even put their feet in Bahamian Soil and start to spend money 💰
tourists usually spend more money than native people. they come to have fun.
c) all foreign boat pay VAT and it's a public domain information that they add more than all hotels' room combine in the entire country.
So hotel's rooms plus all fact in the entire archipelago
clearly must double the MONEY of A) & B) combine plus departure tax.
hence:

a) .............365,000 × 3 = $ 1,095,000
b)................16,438 × 20= $ 328,760
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Adding a) & b). = $ 1,423,760

C)..........total above × 2= $ 2,847,520

that's nearing $ 3.00 millions dollars daily collected only from vat!!!!!

Giordano says...

This is what I call : "Constitutional Corruption" because no head of of state is approachable (like the Prime Minister & The Queen of England may be included to clear up her name) in terms of liability not even with the word " Trial" in order to confirm or verify the "Wrongdoings" with billions of dollars on detriment of present and future generations of taxpayer.
Constitutional because the government,entire justice system and also all those kaki-pants'people who swear the national pledge and rather than being on the right side of history,they are "Betrayors to the Nation" in total complicity with the corrupt politicians.

Giordano says...

That is good !. The problem is that boat fees plus $20.00 for departure tax (after the first three persons inside the boat) plus the Value Added Tax to those ⛵ boat fees which adds more revenue than all hotel rooms combine in the entire archipelago of The Bahamas; that huge amounts of collected money should be "Public Domain Information" after being scrutinized by competitive Auditors Firms under the most stricting Policy of Transparency . According to sources of common sense, VAT rises to nearing $3.00 Millions dollars daily and the government has it as "The Best Kept Secret In The Bahamas" ,which is not longer Inagua.
We need accountability for those Public Funds,they (The government) needs to explain where the vat-money went in the past administration and where is going under the current administration.
We didn't vote for any cleptocracy,we deserve dignity & respect.
And the politicians who applied sticky fingers to the public pulse should be in jail and forced to return the money stolen back to the public treasury.

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Giordano says...

Where the vat-money is going as well as every other pennies from international and local aids including those loans and loans from IDB and others, in aras of hurracane dorian ?
The majority of roads still without sidewalks,public safety is not approach properly yet,murders still happening by wholesale and socially excluded youngsters still all over neighborhoods committed to be criminals looking at the government as their mirror.

Giordano says...

The religious leaders need to be more focus on their own field where so many immoral activities are taking place with church's minister traveling overseas without their wives but with a group of their church's members,among them young girls, and conveniently creating circumstances about hotel allocation where suspicions of unlawful sex takes place.
On the other side,democracy is better displayed if the Christian Council creates the mechanism to record the whereabouts and behavior of their church's ministers by having the right and freedom of installing surveillance equipment including hiden cameras anywhere inside church's members of the Christian Council.
Also democracy is Better displayed if the government apply dignity & respect to all people by adding,in daily practical schemes, transparency in all government agencies and stands like governmental use of public funds relating them with the compliance of public disclosure act regarding each cabinet member of this current administration.
Revealing into public domain information the amount of money collected daily only from vat and further verified and certified BY an independent panel of private controllers and auditors.
Democracy is better displayed by the government showing tolerance to the claims of the people who elected them to be government.

Giordano says...

Domes village will be like upgraded shanty towns in the interplanetary styles consisting of half sphere that evade high speed winds still will be located in vulnerable spaces to floods and also without A.C. and an estimated value of $24,000/tent only to sleep like sardine in the can; that's not so smart to do because ,with that money, something better could be builded with blocks & concrete and all amenities in place plus internet free for everyone in that area. If the Domes are the ones to be installed,they should be the only part visible ,on the surface ,of a much more bigger and organized "Bunker" placed at least 50 feets under the Domes,fully equipped with all can goods,Oxigen,first Aid,water,meds etc. Etc. ,durable at least for a couples of years to be prepared not only to natural phenomenon but also to man made disasters like the result of using biological weapons making the atmosphere unsuitable for humans to be on surface.
If the government will engage a solution,they should do it good,always putting Quality First even before people.

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