K P Turnquest Economic Policy has caused more money to leave the country in the past year than in a very long time. Bahamians, who are employed, say they just refuse to give government 12% VAT on everything so they travel abroad to avoid it evade taxes. So not only is this over aggressive and burdensome tax cause the erosion of government revenue, but it is also causing more businesses to shut down and more unemployment. And if the downward spiral continues, the economy will go into recession without recovering fully.
When Sarkis Izmirilian went to , then prime minister, Perry Christie and said ‘help me O Prime Minister, these Chinese are robbing me blind.’ PGC response was ‘The man gone crazy, he losing his mind.’ And, of course, the FNM opposition was the first to jump and holla, ‘help this man, help this foreign investor. Now a few years later another foreign investor , though not as humble and as begging as Izmirilian, presents himself to government and says ‘ hey I love investing in your country, but I’m drowning here, can you throw me s lifeline?’ And so government including the PM and the minister of tourism totally missed the message (despite commercial washers and dryers and aircraft and helicopter parts and caviar being duty free) and called the man a terrorist, a threat, arrogant but they missed the message completely, And having some experience in the hotel industry where they( licensing people) would send you a laundry list of 100 items to be completed for you to get your license. Then when you complete that list, they would send you another and another and just a few weeks before the new license is about to expire, they grant you the license, only for the process to start all over again.
When people say some of the crime in this country is driven by the actions (or inaction)of the police, many will scream ‘o you bashing the police!’ But even in the absence of all information, how can one justify the police beating two females in this fashion? And if it is your mother or sister or wife or daughter or cousin even , it will make you mad and feel the need to retaliate. Your manhood dictates that you protect the woman in your family even from an overzealous bastard wearing a police or law enforcement uniform. And so these actions breed criminal behavior.
For too long you have allowed them to lull you to sleep with catch phrases like , ‘the victim was known to police ‘, or ‘he had an extensive criminal record ‘, or ‘he was wearing an ankle (monitering) bracelet ‘, or ‘he had been recently released from prison,’ or ‘its just a small group of prolific offenders trying to wreak havoc on the rest of society,’ or even ‘one set of criminals ( bad boys) killing up another (gang wars) nothing to do with the rest of us really, ‘You go on ahead now and carry on smartly with your life and feel safe ‘cause we (police) gat this.’ And now even withe declining number of murders ( which must be acknowledged and can be appreciated, how many of the murders this year, for example, meet any of the criteria above? Truth of the matter is, whilst capital punishment is no longer practiced legally in The Bahamas, execution without trial is. And the executed (victim) is determined by who is meeting out the punishment. And one execution begets another, not unlike a tit for tat game. And so that is the value placed on life in the country and the longer the games go on, the less persons are off limits. No murder should be justified to the point that the perpetrators are not vigorously sought and brought to justice.
# two women in Exuma who claim they were brutalised on Sunday by one of the most senior officers on the island.
Do you think if they were males, both of these persons would've been shot dead and thepolice report would read, "Both men pointed guns at the very senior and well-trained officer, who became fearful for his life, so he shot both suspects DEAD! On the spot! Active police investigations continue."
John says...
K P Turnquest Economic Policy has caused more money to leave the country in the past year than in a very long time. Bahamians, who are employed, say they just refuse to give government 12% VAT on everything so they travel abroad to avoid it evade taxes. So not only is this over aggressive and burdensome tax cause the erosion of government revenue, but it is also causing more businesses to shut down and more unemployment. And if the downward spiral continues, the economy will go into recession without recovering fully.
On Compass Point owner 'speaks for 85% of us'
Posted 8 August 2019, 3:30 p.m. Suggest removal
John says...
When Sarkis Izmirilian went to , then prime minister, Perry Christie and said ‘help me O Prime Minister, these Chinese are robbing me blind.’ PGC response was ‘The man gone crazy, he losing his mind.’ And, of course, the FNM opposition was the first to jump and holla, ‘help this man, help this foreign investor. Now a few years later another foreign investor , though not as humble and as begging as Izmirilian, presents himself to government and says ‘ hey I love investing in your country, but I’m drowning here, can you throw me s lifeline?’ And so government including the PM and the minister of tourism totally missed the message (despite commercial washers and dryers and aircraft and helicopter parts and caviar being duty free) and called the man a terrorist, a threat, arrogant but they missed the message completely, And having some experience in the hotel industry where they( licensing people) would send you a laundry list of 100 items to be completed for you to get your license. Then when you complete that list, they would send you another and another and just a few weeks before the new license is about to expire, they grant you the license, only for the process to start all over again.
On Compass Point owner 'speaks for 85% of us'
Posted 8 August 2019, 3:10 p.m. Suggest removal
John says...
When people say some of the crime in this country is driven by the actions (or inaction)of the police, many will scream ‘o you bashing the police!’ But even in the absence of all information, how can one justify the police beating two females in this fashion? And if it is your mother or sister or wife or daughter or cousin even , it will make you mad and feel the need to retaliate. Your manhood dictates that you protect the woman in your family even from an overzealous bastard wearing a police or law enforcement uniform. And so these actions breed criminal behavior.
On ‘Assault officers must be punished’
Posted 8 August 2019, 2:35 p.m. Suggest removal
John says...
So you don’t mind the police punching up your mother or grandmother or sister or any female in y’all family? You must have on big panties.
On ‘Assault officers must be punished’
Posted 8 August 2019, 2:28 p.m. Suggest removal
John says...
The way things going, we will have blackouts until the rapture. Only then will there be real light in the world.
On We could have blackouts until November, warns Maynard
Posted 7 August 2019, 4:46 p.m. Suggest removal
John says...
What is Firefox the Disney Channel Netflix? Competition costing less than $20 a month compared to Cable and Btc flow for $100 a month for basic
On BTC suffers $13.6m first half revenue fall
Posted 7 August 2019, 2:22 p.m. Suggest removal
John says...
For too long you have allowed them to lull you to sleep with catch phrases like , ‘the victim was known to police ‘, or ‘he had an extensive criminal record ‘, or ‘he was wearing an ankle (monitering) bracelet ‘, or ‘he had been recently released from prison,’ or ‘its just a small group of prolific offenders trying to wreak havoc on the rest of society,’ or even ‘one set of criminals ( bad boys) killing up another (gang wars) nothing to do with the rest of us really, ‘You go on ahead now and carry on smartly with your life and feel safe ‘cause we (police) gat this.’ And now even withe declining number of murders ( which must be acknowledged and can be appreciated, how many of the murders this year, for example, meet any of the criteria above? Truth of the matter is, whilst capital punishment is no longer practiced legally in The Bahamas, execution without trial is. And the executed (victim) is determined by who is meeting out the punishment. And one execution begets another, not unlike a tit for tat game. And so that is the value placed on life in the country and the longer the games go on, the less persons are off limits. No murder should be justified to the point that the perpetrators are not vigorously sought and brought to justice.
On MP’s brother gunned down: Renward Wells’ younger sibling shot outside home
Posted 7 August 2019, 5:18 a.m. Suggest removal
John says...
How come the murder rate has increased five fold after the abolition of capital punishment
On MP’s brother gunned down: Renward Wells’ younger sibling shot outside home
Posted 7 August 2019, 4:53 a.m. Suggest removal
John says...
# two women in Exuma who claim they were brutalised on Sunday by one of the most senior officers on the island.
Do you think if they were males, both of these persons would've been shot dead and thepolice report would read, "Both men pointed guns at the very senior and well-trained officer, who became fearful for his life, so he shot both suspects DEAD! On the spot! Active police investigations continue."
On ‘Police officer punched us in face’
Posted 6 August 2019, 7:18 p.m. Suggest removal
John says...
Yea, they were Donald Trump's first cousins.
On ‘Police officer punched us in face’
Posted 6 August 2019, 7:15 p.m. Suggest removal