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GrassRoot says...

just shows how crooked the Bahamian legal way of dealing with winding up businesses is. You can inject a loan ex-post that takes priority over general creditors without their approval? This is wild west.

On $50m drops Bahamians down Baha Mar queue

Posted 4 December 2015, 2:38 p.m. Suggest removal

GrassRoot says...

last time I checked the government had not released its policies in a form that would be binding upon a judge.

GrassRoot says...

reliability was never a problem of the aircraft itself, it is always the people operating, servicing the aircraft that were the problem. So much for "intact" "reputation" of Bahamasair.

GrassRoot says...

I like that Miller plays the Bahamian card. I agree send all foreigners back to where they came from. Chances are Miller's ancestors came from Ghana, so let him run the local utility there.

GrassRoot says...

Jack I agree, but you need to understand that there are a lot of donations for medication for poor people (.e.g the Clinton Foundation), and large portions of these donations don't make it to the entitled (poor) recipients. Health care in government hands is a breeding ground for corruption. There are other, better ways to deal with that than to nationalize health care (by a corrupt government already). so we tell people it is ok to gamble away the money in money houses, and in return they get free health insurance? what kind of screwed up concept is that? there is more wrong here than just poor people not having access to decent health care.

On Davis: NHI to absorb job fallout

Posted 2 December 2015, 2 p.m. Suggest removal

GrassRoot says...

Albeit DPM is credible when he says that the Government is concerned about job losses, there is simply no way the Government has the know how or the sophistication to design a plan that takes a job loss into consideration in any other way than to hire people that got laid off by the private insurance business. It will create lower paying jobs, will destroy peoples motivation and increase the footprint the government has in the economy. Basically everything THIS government would not want to happen. One of the few things that works in the Bahamas is the insurance industry, why the Government would put its fingers on this is beyond my comprehension. What this government needs to do first and foremost is to get a grip on spending and fiscal restraint.

On Davis: NHI to absorb job fallout

Posted 2 December 2015, 1:57 p.m. Suggest removal

GrassRoot says...

now all of a sudden we are not part of the group of developed countries anymore, ey? what are we? 2nd or 3rd world?

On Christie again speaks out on climate change

Posted 1 December 2015, 1:56 p.m. Suggest removal

GrassRoot says...

the mere fact that she is married to Mr. Cercone, disqualifies her from continuing to be paid with government dollars. So I wonder whether she was married by Mr. Cercone before or after she started working for the NHI projects for the government in 2000. Sounds like in the middle ages, power and influence through marriage.

GrassRoot says...

I agree with you. A cheap PR stunt does not help anybody. What does help is someone filing a criminal complaint against the PM and the Ministers in charge for not enforcing the courts decision. So I hear that if a lawyer pisses off a sitting judge for no reason, the lawyer goes to jail, but if a party to court proceedings refuses to accept and adhere to a court's decision, nothing happens? Maybe it is also up to the court/judge to make an impression on PGC and the gang?

On Activists warn over Blackbeard’s Cay

Posted 23 November 2015, 3:45 p.m. Suggest removal

GrassRoot says...

Well, I think he needs to be thanked for making that statement. We all know things are not good, but there are only a few that admit wrongdoings, and show a hint of willingness to improve the situation.

On Gov’t official: $100m health spend wasted

Posted 23 November 2015, 3:42 p.m. Suggest removal