I hope he actually already has it. You know how petty this crew is. Victimization in full force.

"with a view to.. enhancing Grand Bahama’s contributions to the government’s revenue base." Exactly how much more enhancement does this government need? Grand Bahama, Freeport in particular, contributes anywhere from $120 to 200 million to the government in taxes and other fees every year. Almost none of it goes back, but rather is absorbed into the wasteland of the "consolidated" fund for the betterment of New Providence and who knows what else. GB also pays car licencing, road traffic inspection and other associated fees, which are supposed to be for the upkeep of the roads etc, yet the Port actually takes care of that, so why are the people paying that. Then there is the absurd environmental levy fees they insist on being paid, but the Lucaya Service Company takes care of that, so again, where is this money going and to whose benefit? I may be off here, but isn't that supposed to be a tax free zone? But with the introduction of all these new taxes and methods of bleeding the place dry, it is driving businesses away to more friendly lands, further "enhancing" the decay of the place. The only time you see the politicians at the port building is when they are looking for money and that is the reality. These people have no interest in assisting Freeport or Grand Bahama proper; they want to "enhance" the amount of money they rip from the place. Can anyone say exactly what the Ministry of Grand Bahama's mandate is? From the poor school maintenance, the abysmal state of the courthouse in Freeport, the people still living in abandoned buildings and presumably on the beaches, the conditions of the outlying settlements and the climbing unemployment and overall misery, I see no point in having it. The government is "broke" and yet someone got a whole new plaza, opened new businesses for his sons ( all while serving in Cabinet), had a whole government ministry moved out of a government building and into his and his brother's where it pays one load of cash in rent, but the people's suffering gets worse and worse every day. It turns my stomach every time he and his cohort get up in parliament and brag about how Grand Bahama is booming. Booming for them, and no one else. Do these people see nothing wrong with the filth they perpetrate? How about you leave the money you all collect in taxes and by other means right in Grand Bahama, and let that money be used to help the place flourish like it should be? Let Nassau take care of itself, after all everything is there. The only thing you all need to be overseeing is that the Port does what it is mandated to do, since their hands aren't clean either. Together there is collective rape and abuse of the people and their money. Stop. We will never grow, prosper of move forward with this continued approach. Do what is best for your country and through that,yourselves, and stop with the self, family, friends and sweetheart elevation by dirty deals and thievery. We are collectively sick of you all.

Spoken like a true PLP, birdie. Stick to what is germane, will you? He wasn't successful in elections. So what? That little side track effort had absolutely nothing to do with this thread. Your demigods are great at smoke and mirrors. You're not at that level yet. Fail.

Then the time to start is right now.

I agree. My grandmother was hospitalized there several years ago as she was experiencing confusion. After a few days, doctor said "you know, she's old (she was 82 at the time), she has lived a good life", and I asked him to clarify exactly what he was trying to say. She had all her faculties about her up until a few days before hospitalization. They had ruled out major things like a stroke or heart attack. So, just because she was elderly she wasn't worth time and attention? Just let her go? It was sad how they just wanted to write her off because of age. Turned out she had a simple infection which after it was treated resulted in her springing right back to her old self. They do have some good staff but there are many of them who have to do much much better. I would also say that the young doctors should be told that just because they have a fresh new degree, and the ones who have been there a few years as well, that they are not superior to anyone else. People are people and this group in particular need to learn how to speak to people and how to treat them. Your degree doesn't mean you have arrived. Your work, healing the sick, has only just begun. Don't let the title get to your head. Too many do.

Freeport suffers also from a lack of vision. When the persons in charge are now simply inheritors of wealth, looking for healthy dividends to support a luxury lifestyle with nary a care for the citizenry, of course a situation like this will happen. The rigamarole one has to go through to get a business license, the high costs of those licenses, the service charges based on cost of living that they themselves have caused to be astronomical, the inactivity of the GBPA executives who are looking out only for themselves, the government representatives who look for a cut of every single potential investment into that place, and the slaying of a "Free Port" by the production of numerous, onerous and cumulative taxes are ALL responsible for the slow death of that formerly well developed city. As with all aspects in this country, when greed, corruption, short sightedness and these all for me baby characters are removed, then it can move forward. The only things the persons who inherited the city have in mind is how much can I rape from the poor people to add to my overinflated bank account? Then they turn around and re-possess what little these people have for failure to pay service charges that are way overpriced and many times not even performed. The cost of landing there is ridiculous and central government does not even see fit to regulate a thing. They just care about taxes collected to add to the kitty for their greedy, grubby fingers to attach to and make off with. The GBPA is of the past. I can pick paint for walls too. I can choose paintings. I can make pretty little speeches. This is all those people do. It needs to go, and the business licensees need to step forth and guide the growth and development of the city. They care, because it is their livelihood and that of future citizens that matter. When you haven't worked for anything, and it all just drops into your lap like these people with this inherited wealth, there will never be an interest in or a clue to be found to make anything better. They have to go.

perry's legacy: a single, stupid individual who brought the whole country down.

And just like the "leader" he is, perry brought her back and placed her in a position of extraordinary power. Go figure.

Remember that perry was handing out those "QC" designations like candy. Those who were not exactly the most deserving of the title got them, so I would not put too much into Alison's carrying of those initials. Her responses to this very obvious conflict of interest brings her "expertise" into question.

“Within the PLP he had become a poster child for emotional outbursts and not thinking through the many statements that he made."
Is this woman serious? This whole damn dysfunctional organization is known for this. You all are a disgrace on a world stage, but your ego is so huge and you are so drunk with the perception of absolute power that you cannot get out of your own way. Betrayal? Thank God WE, the people, the few remaining productive people in this country, have a voice such as his that speaks up! Legal action? Have you never heard the way you all carry on, particularly when slandering innocent people from the protected halls of Parliament? Please, please. Sit small, and stop trying to impress the sheeple who suck up and embrace any piece of sewerage you all put out there in the public domain. For your further information, there are more than just Dr. Rollins who are unhappy about how the PLP has run this country deep into the ground. The only ones to be pitied are those of us who have to suffer under this beyond awful administration as a result of the misplacement of Xs at the polls. Betrayal? That's an apt description of what this government has done to the Bahamian people. How you can even put pen to paper to come up with this, and take a stance of a wronged party is laughable, and were the situation in which we now find ourselves not so scary we would sit speechless. I encourage every thinking, productive person who wants better for our country to actively campaign and to vote for the ousting of each and every one of these incompetent bastards from power. Once that is done, a whole lot of genuine and legitimate legal processes need to take place and appropriate punishment enforce to have them make proper atonement. Unbelievable.