WHAT???!!! I renew what I said in a previous article related to this issue. The Government i.e. my taxdollars are not resposible for bailing out a rich compay owner because he doesn't want to pay his employees what is rightfully theirs in a contract issued by the company and signed by the employee.
This is the most idiotic reason that Shane Gibson is giving to 'give the employees some relief'. The Government did not employ the employees of City Market, Mark Finlayson or whomever did. That is a private company. The government, customs or anyone has no use for this overpriced building that apparently is in a state of arrears and no money to buy it! Need I remind you of your colleage the Hon Michael Halkitis' recent financial report.
The employees didn't protest for the government to save them they did that so hopefully the police would arrest the owners of City Market since they have not acknoledged their end of the agreement. What needs to happen now is a very good lawyer should take on the case and add on some pain and suffering and any extra debt accrued by the employees for not receiving their payment. Unless the Finlayson family is bankrupt and let's be real, we know that's not true.
Get it together!!!!! Shane Gibson should be ashamed for trying to come up with that crazy line about saving the employees, you are trying to save your crony. please keep pressing them opposition and don't let them get away with this rubbish!
What kind of rubbish agreement was this! There is no such thing as free money! These people are worse than the crooks at NIB and those employers that don't pay national insurance.
Any legitimate job I know the employee must pay a portion of his salary toward a pension. There are employment based pensions and social state pensions. Employment based pensions is what the rest of the country I assume is operating on and the social state-LIKE pension is what BEC must be doing. However, it still isn't even the social state like because that would require all Bahamians to be contributing to this fund nationwide.
I'm sorry my hard earned $ should not go to the pension of the BEC employee who has nothing to do with me or my family, and can't even keep the light on to say well they earned it for a job well done. I need to go work at BEC, I would get pension from other people's pockets and loads of overtime pay as a friend recently worked it out to be $101,000 a year in overtime alone!
Mr. Miller please whip this company into shape. This is disgraceful!
I agree 242, I'll believe it when I see it, but boy what a gimmick this is! lol First raffling off cars and houses now this. Galanis is a former PLP, the former MP for Englerton, so who knows....lol
Who are monitoring these electronic bracelets? Is there a GPS encoded in the bracelet to be able to immediately track them down? Is there an alarm that goes off when they leave a said perimeter?
Well my dear AG, you could conveniently leave the country again and have Jerome Fitzgerald go in there and dismiss a few until you are caught up and then say its in the name of national security.
While I know it is allowable by law, how is Jerome Fitzgerald even sitting as acting attorney general when Gibson was simply out of the country. She wasn't on sick leave, dead (God forbid), or fired. The case, as many of them do, should have been postponed until her return.
Before I even read the article and just read the title the first thing that came to mind was, how in the world is a government bailing out a private company?!
After reading the article, my initial thoughts remain. It is utter rubbish to say that the government needs a warehouse, etc. when:
A. the building is unusuable and needs to be demolished-a new one would be cheaper to build/maintain. B. and with WHAT money is the goverment (full of debt, Moody's abysmal report) supposed to be using to acquire this crap building?! A building that will have an unspecified purpose. C. How is it the responsibility of the Bahamian people to pay employees (with their pension) that City Market hired.
City Market was a private company owned by regular citizens who are living fat off the land. They need to dip into their savings and pay these people their money or the law needs to deal with them.
It seems as though the families are doing the policework here. They have the name of the smuggler and proof that he/she was involved in human trafficking by their own admission on the recordings. Why are these people not at minimum locked up for that? I pray that the families find their loved ones, but the truth of the matter is that all parties were involved in illegal activity and all should suffer the consequences.
Not to sound inhumane or cold, but how the Bahamian government/police force is now responsible for finding their family members who admittedly and consensually got involved with the illegal activity of being smuggled into another country is of question.
Ironvelvet says...
WHAT???!!! I renew what I said in a previous article related to this issue. The Government i.e. my taxdollars are not resposible for bailing out a rich compay owner because he doesn't want to pay his employees what is rightfully theirs in a contract issued by the company and signed by the employee.
This is the most idiotic reason that Shane Gibson is giving to 'give the employees some relief'. The Government did not employ the employees of City Market, Mark Finlayson or whomever did. That is a private company. The government, customs or anyone has no use for this overpriced building that apparently is in a state of arrears and no money to buy it! Need I remind you of your colleage the Hon Michael Halkitis' recent financial report.
The employees didn't protest for the government to save them they did that so hopefully the police would arrest the owners of City Market since they have not acknoledged their end of the agreement. What needs to happen now is a very good lawyer should take on the case and add on some pain and suffering and any extra debt accrued by the employees for not receiving their payment. Unless the Finlayson family is bankrupt and let's be real, we know that's not true.
Get it together!!!!! Shane Gibson should be ashamed for trying to come up with that crazy line about saving the employees, you are trying to save your crony. please keep pressing them opposition and don't let them get away with this rubbish!
On Gov’t pushed NIB’s City Markets HQ acquisition
Posted 15 January 2013, 4:42 p.m. Suggest removal
Ironvelvet says...
What kind of rubbish agreement was this! There is no such thing as free money! These people are worse than the crooks at NIB and those employers that don't pay national insurance.
Any legitimate job I know the employee must pay a portion of his salary toward a pension. There are employment based pensions and social state pensions. Employment based pensions is what the rest of the country I assume is operating on and the social state-LIKE pension is what BEC must be doing. However, it still isn't even the social state like because that would require all Bahamians to be contributing to this fund nationwide.
I'm sorry my hard earned $ should not go to the pension of the BEC employee who has nothing to do with me or my family, and can't even keep the light on to say well they earned it for a job well done. I need to go work at BEC, I would get pension from other people's pockets and loads of overtime pay as a friend recently worked it out to be $101,000 a year in overtime alone!
Mr. Miller please whip this company into shape. This is disgraceful!
On BEC pension, medical plan ‘unfair’ to Bahamian taxpayers
Posted 15 January 2013, 4:26 p.m. Suggest removal
Ironvelvet says...
I agree 242, I'll believe it when I see it, but boy what a gimmick this is! lol First raffling off cars and houses now this. Galanis is a former PLP, the former MP for Englerton, so who knows....lol
On Web shops 'prepared to offer shares'
Posted 15 January 2013, 3:19 p.m. Suggest removal
Ironvelvet says...
Most excellent! There should be more prominent businesses doing the same as Baha Mar.
On Baha Mar matches $10,000 of Salvation Army donations
Posted 14 January 2013, 3:08 p.m. Suggest removal
Ironvelvet says...
Who are monitoring these electronic bracelets? Is there a GPS encoded in the bracelet to be able to immediately track them down? Is there an alarm that goes off when they leave a said perimeter?
What is the point of the ankle bracelet?!
On Woman stabbed to death - suspect held by police
Posted 14 January 2013, 10:54 a.m. Suggest removal
Ironvelvet says...
Well my dear AG, you could conveniently leave the country again and have Jerome Fitzgerald go in there and dismiss a few until you are caught up and then say its in the name of national security.
That is one way....lol
On Attorney General says backlog of cases is a 'grave concern'
Posted 10 January 2013, 4:20 p.m. Suggest removal
Ironvelvet says...
While I know it is allowable by law, how is Jerome Fitzgerald even sitting as acting attorney general when Gibson was simply out of the country. She wasn't on sick leave, dead (God forbid), or fired. The case, as many of them do, should have been postponed until her return.
Mighty convenient PLP.
On 'We need answers over gun case'
Posted 10 January 2013, 2:22 p.m. Suggest removal
Ironvelvet says...
Before I even read the article and just read the title the first thing that came to mind was, how in the world is a government bailing out a private company?!
After reading the article, my initial thoughts remain. It is utter rubbish to say that the government needs a warehouse, etc. when:
A. the building is unusuable and needs to be demolished-a new one would be cheaper to build/maintain.
B. and with WHAT money is the goverment (full of debt, Moody's abysmal report) supposed to be using to acquire this crap building?! A building that will have an unspecified purpose.
C. How is it the responsibility of the Bahamian people to pay employees (with their pension) that City Market hired.
City Market was a private company owned by regular citizens who are living fat off the land. They need to dip into their savings and pay these people their money or the law needs to deal with them.
On Butler-Turner: PLP tried to use NIB cash for bailout
Posted 10 January 2013, 12:55 p.m. Suggest removal
Ironvelvet says...
I concur! That would be the appropriate venues (the Finlayson family businesses and homes). lol Pay the people their rightful money!
On City Market workers take protest to streets
Posted 10 January 2013, 12:37 p.m. Suggest removal
Ironvelvet says...
It seems as though the families are doing the policework here. They have the name of the smuggler and proof that he/she was involved in human trafficking by their own admission on the recordings. Why are these people not at minimum locked up for that? I pray that the families find their loved ones, but the truth of the matter is that all parties were involved in illegal activity and all should suffer the consequences.
Not to sound inhumane or cold, but how the Bahamian government/police force is now responsible for finding their family members who admittedly and consensually got involved with the illegal activity of being smuggled into another country is of question.
On Families seek answers over missing trio
Posted 10 January 2013, 12:27 p.m. Suggest removal