As the family goes, so goes the community. Bahamians use to grow up in families where all the siblings lived with parents under one roof. One could walk from one ornd of the corner to the next and identify each family that live in every home and each family member if you met them on the street. The area was virtually crime free. Today in this same area the females have children with two or three baby daddies, and the guys, grand children, have baby mamas. So there is strange faces in and out the neighborhood. Gunshots in the middle of the night. Drugs dealing and consumption, housebreakings, personal assaults and, yes, even murders.

Several other major businesses are just hanging on by a thread and may decide to throw in the towel and close shop at any minute. And while one of the major phones companies is saddled in debt, the other one may be experiencing cash flow problems as customers continue to migrate to the new company. This what happens when a government chooses to increase taxes rather than growing the economy and generating new revenue. The cost of doing business is already through the roof and when taxes are continually being increased on the formal economy, it gives persons operating under the radar a greater advantage. It also increases the amount of losses government incurs in revenue as more and more persons tend to evade taxes. For them it Becca matter of survival.

Since Mr Seymour was clearly the aggressor in the video, he should also be arrested and charged and/or the brothers released. And to deceive the , already fearful, public into believing the altercation was about his job as a prosecutor when eyewitnesses say the matter was an alcohol induced event.

Yesterday Macy’s stock suffered its greatest one-day loss in the history of the stock.

Well some people believe that the US is in for a rude awakening as investment money did not flow back into that country as fast and as much as expected after Donald Trump deep, deep tax cuts. And because the economic stimulus did not occur as expected, the US debt to GDP jumped from 76% under Barak Obama to 99% in just two years under Trump. And more troubling is that several automobile companies are now shuttering several of their US plants again after finding out there’s no market for their cars. Even some models have been discontinued. Tesla, on the other hand, is using hype to boost its car sales. The company is urging Chinese to purchase its battery vehicles ahead of production as some models may be sold out for years. The CEO of Tesla. Is also touting the market with the idea that the company may soon be making cars that fly.

And many of the established retailers in the US are missing their sales forecast for this quarter. Macy’s and Target are among them. Then there’s a plan to revive the Sears store chain again. This time the focus will be on online shopping and the stores will be mostly pickup centers . Apple (iPhone) had its worst December in six years and Samsung came right behind and announced their sales of Phones are down by 30%. And Jeff Bezos, President If Amazon, announced that he and his wife are getting divorced. She can e entitled to $80 Billion of his $137 Billion fortune. And exactly what impact will this have on Amazon? Some think the world economy is headed back into recession. Other think these are only ripples in the economy caused be Donald Trump threats of trade wars with China and Mexico along with adjustments in consumer behavior. As smart phones get more expensive, for example, persons will hold on to their old phones longer or buy cheaper models when they replace them. And Bahamian consumers are still suffering from ‘sticker shock ‘ especially on high end items after the recent VAT increase. Government is collecting customs duties plus VAT when the VAT was supposed to replace customs duties. Yet they have a hard time explaining where these additional billions in tax revenue are going. So yes they are taxing businesses out of existence.

The repair business is cohoots . Too expensive to pay technicians to be on the payroll. What Taylor’s started doing is sending two techs out on a call instead of one. And they would bill road time, minimum of an hour. So if you call to get a belt change on your dryer, the belt cost $20.00 but the labor charge will be over $100.00. Another company that services alarms charge $85.00 for service calls and the minimum charge is one hour. So if they come out just to change batteries that cost $10.00 you get billed $100.00. Another company that services appliances try to troubleshoot your problem on the phone. Then they tell you how much it will cost for the technician to come and do the repairs along with the parts. If you have a fridge that has a gas leak, for example, it will cost you $400 in addition to the $167 service call and the parts. They claim they will have to take the fridge to the shop to fix the leak because they don’t do welding in your home. So the total repair bill will be over $600. So most people will just dump the fridge and get a new one.

The Tribune needs to correct this story. Information shows that this prosecutor was the aggressor in the incident,who inappropriately approached two brothers who were witnesses in a case he is/was prosecuting and an altercation occurred. After he get a lil ‘touch up’ he run to the police and say he get stab. A prosecutor?

So did anyone ask the commissioner how many officers have been dismissed from the force since he became commissioner and how many of the police involved shootings that resulted in death are under active investigation?

Milo Butler has its own challenges. It recently closed the upstairs portion of its business on Blue Hill Road. But it also operates a number of new liquor stores. Home furniture has been closed for several years and Donald’s Furniture can tell you there’s little activity in the local furniture business. Persons shop online or in Florida. As for Super Value, it saw its share of hard times as well as it saw days when it operated almost as a single monopoly in the retail food business. Since City Markets closed only now are stores like Budget, Xtra Valu, Solomon’s opening a number of branches to compete with Super Value. Long hours, low profit margins, high cost of operating either prohibits persons from getting into the food business or keep them to a small size that they can manage.