We seem to have the need to pander to these international bodies when they do not appear to offer any tangible benefits to the Bahamian people. In fact they seem to operate by making threats to countries or their economies. Donald Trump has totally ignored the EU as he slapped tariffs on US trading partners including China, Canada and Mexico and no one seems to dare question his actions, at least formally. He is not threatening to pull the USA out of the WTO. And this is how the big and powerful countries operate. They cherry pick which rules and regulations they will follow. And smaller countries, like the Bahamas, spend lots of resources and take great pains to try to become compliant, even when these organizations keep moving the bar. So we get no benefit.. just threats of exclusion.

And how much did this air show cost the Bahamian taxpayer?

Donald Trump says if they impeach him the world economy will collapse and make a lot of people poor, sad and angry. Take that!

This is a good test case to see if Government should really be using taxes as a whipping tool to punish businesses that are successful. And of course the irony of Mr. Superwash, Vincent D’Dguilar who owns 90 percent of the clothes washing business be caught up in the middle of it all. Should government impose an outright moratorium on Superwash opening any more stores until other wash house operators gain 20 percent of the market or should they charge a patron tax at all stores he open in addition to the ones he now operates. Maybe the government should charge a 2 percent monopoly tax on Superwash or a sliding scale tax in addition to the taxes they now pay. See how ridiculous it’s sounds Vincent, when it is applied to your own industry? And you have generation money. What about the web shops that are just starting out? And of course, since legal web shops are a new product in the country, business is a booming and yes, some may appear to be making a killing. But what about four, five years down the road when web shop gambling becomes a regular part of the landscape and sales start to decline. The operators will have to use some of the same profits they are making now to rebuild and rebrand the industry. You know more than anybody else, D’Aguilar, that Bahamians don’t like washing in no ole break down machines and you are able to keep your market share by refurbishoyour laundromats every so often and giving the Bahamian people, at least your customers, new toys to play with. What y’all and Minnis dem should be doing now is be using the web shop dem and your own Superwashes dem along with Super Value as models to get the rest of the Bahamian economy going. Stop listening to them racist who telling you ‘dad too much money for dem (Black) gambling boys to be handling. Cause they surely don’t have a problem with how much money the traditional casinos (Paradise and Cable Beach). Bimini Brooklyn? Handling. On Vince happy customs duties on washers and dryers still!

> "Fourteen men “who are known prolific
> offenders” were also arrested for
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They always quote these figures but you never see that amount of persons going to jail or being charges. And was it really effective policing to disrupt the sleep and rest hours of almost the entire island to arrest persons for drugs? And always be suspect of any operation of which the Us is a part of. Just watch how they treat the minority sector of their own population when it comes to policing.

Marvin Dames got played into the fact that he participated into a "major drug sting operation" that netted 21 suspects! WOW!. Then they turn around and use this activity to brand The Bahamas as a major -narco trafficking state..

The hypocrisy of it all is while Minnis told the Bahamian Southerners to abandon their homes and not rebuild, he is busy purchasing a hotel and will spend over One Hundred million to repair the hurricane damage to it. This is after the foreigners , also abandoned the property, and did not want to sink the necessary funds in it to make it operational again. Now stop me when I say something false or incorrect. The Bahamas has been experiencing hurricanes ever since the history of these islands began. There is no known part of the acrhpeligo that has been declared uninhabitable due to threats of hurricane and has been left abandoned due to previous hurricane damage. Even the most severely damaged areas do manage to recover and live for years before they experience major hurricane damage again.

Y’all islanders must realize one thing. Dis ting goes wit cents and plenty dollars. The sellers of fossil fuels have deep pockets and massive inventories of products they need to sell. Not only today or tomorrow, but decades into the future. When they allow you to switch to renewable energy, not only do they lose your conch eating self as a customer, but causes them to have an increase in supply of fuel they have to sell. As the supplies increase and the demand decreases then the price will also decrease. So they will spend millions to keep countries, like the Bahamas, with little regulations, as a customer. So if you think the bust up and full dissolution of BPL’s board was about makeup and security cameras you been eating poisoned conch salad. There’s a lot of pressure on someone to get things done ad someone went and got some grease (ok lube) for BPL’s engines without a purchase order.

Oldfort212: ‘no one pisses away $130 million willingly.’ Maybe not. And the general consensus is there are millions to be made from the city dump/landfill. But they can do it in such a way as to see returns on their investment with no real benefits or relief to the Bahamian people in terms of fires and air pollution especially.

First of all there has to be a clear distinction between the terms 'low cost housing' and 'affordable housing.' Houses built at a low cost or low budget may not always be affordable. And the problem trying to fulfill the need for affordable housing does not only exist here in the Bahamas. And even countries like the US the problem exists. Former Us President, Jimmy Carter, who has been involved in the construction and distribution of low cost housing for many years, believes that the time to rethink the low cost housing market. To make homes more affordable and more available. Too may people do not qualify for housing and for them that do, the time to get them processed and get them into a home is too long. One alternative he suggested is government subsidized rental units as an entry point for applicants who do not qualify initially and then some adjustments to the construction process to make homes more available.

well at least someone is willing to invest in entertainment in the Bahamas. The Bahamas government say,"dey broke." A large project for a stand alone entertainment complex. It should have been developed as a a part of a shopping center or some other facility to keep constant traffic. But hopefully it will be successful