They seriously need to reconsider VAT on private health care. If public is free of VAT, then private should be also. When Bahamians go abroad to seek medical care, are they going to charge VAT on them when they return? Demand to see their bills to add the appropriate VAT when they re-enter the country? What about for tests not available in the public sector, which are referred to the private sector? Persons will die from inability to pay. Health care is an essential service., already expensive and about to get even further out of reach. Instead of the hours waiting to see a public doc, we can now look forward to days. I bet the "governing party" did not even stop to think about that. You would think at least Halkitis would, considering he married a doctor and would have access to greater insight here. Christie and company are killing this country. These junior achievers need to go!

So because they made that gross error in judgement twenty years ago, it's okay for you to do it now? You're telling me that you didn't learn anything from that mistake, but can quote it and use it to justify your actions now in the twenty first century? You are an utter disgrace, Mr. Christie. An embarrassment.

I suggest all media boycott Government House and anything having to do with this woman. It is also my hope that the Bahamian people's money does not go toward paying for anything for this woman, not her parties, her dom or anything that we are not privy to. They all forget that they are public servants and serve at our pleasure and not the other way around. Are you happy now Perry? So many of us want to forget the dismal piddling era and you bring it to us again and again. Go see Black Moses. You need a memory refresher.

They love to taunt and threaten, don't they? The time can't come soon enough for all you "honourable" individuals to fall deep into the cesspool you deserve to be in. This man has the audacity to look down on someone else? Bring them all down Rollins, and record everything in the event there are any adverse "suggestions" or consequences being hinted at. Enough is enough.

$100 million for BAMSI, $16 million to be borrowed for COB, $9 million for Carnival, $10 million (that's only the lil bit reported so far) that was stolen from PHA, $1 million for an opinion poll and this flipping government can't put out the money to repair the traffic lights? 98% of us don't have the luxury of outriders or police escorts to get around this lil island. How many have to have serious injury or die before this important issue is address. We are so sick of this mess! Perry and Co., you are a disgrace. a failure. Do the honorable thing and remove yourselves as the government for this country. All them years in politics and you people have no damn clue on how to govern. Mismanagement and misappropriation rule. For the love of God, country and the legal citizens and residents of our country, just go!!!

I'm still laughing. Perry or Brave?!? Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!

Congratulations, Mr. Christie. We are truly on a fast, one way trip into the hell you have created for us. Your legacy is assured. This is the icing on the cake.

These people really are clueless. Mr. Christie, your legacy is assured. the worst Prime Minister in Bahamian history. You will be remembered for your ineptness, the return of corruption on a mass scale, and the remarkable ability to take us all on a trip back in time, first to the Pindling era, and then further back, to the farming and fishing village we were prior to the sixties. Congratulations. Health care is an essential service, and you well know that public health care is already overburdened. DO NOT apply VAT here. Good Lord. research before you have us suffer any further. Lazy man.

Seriously now, is there no way around this foolishness? How about the government try to collect all outstanding real property taxes? Investigate how all these politicians got rich so quickly and confiscate what you know they didn't get cleanly? And go back for that, way back in time cause God only knows how some of these people got to be millionaires. Confiscate all funds and assets from known and convicted drug dealers, including the wealth hidden in their lover's, family and friends names? What about stop paying double pension, bringing people out of retirement and paying them exorbitant consultancy fees, cease with wasting out national insurance funds by buying your friends derelict buildings with our money? What about making use of existent government space like the entire first floor of the deGregory building in Freeport rather than renting out of a sitting Minister's brother's building (after moving from another government building at NIB) or buying one that is settled in water whenever it rains, like the one that the gaming board in Freeport was placed in? When are you going to put country above self? We are hurting, Mr. Prime Minister! Get your act together and be fiscally responsible and lead! Why must we suffer to support the greed of a few? You always talk about your legacy. What do you think this VAT crap will do to that?

Mr. Christie: just don't!!!