But look at the hypocrisy of Roberts own statements: The best time to have babies, even for married couples, is when you are employed and can receive some benefits. Not when your unemployed and have to run to Social Services for cream and pampers. And quick as they does be changing cashiers in Super Value it’s surprising that many does be there long enough to get pregnant.

Racism existed long before Trump was elected and in the United States it is not an economic tool and a mechanism used for social control. It is unfortunate that young, racially balanced, people had to be exposed to that dirty, nasty part of America. But some of them will eventually live in the US, either for college or moving there so it is good to recognize real. Especially after twelve carloads of policemen arrived on the scene and were reluctant to act when they realized it was black people being assaulted and not the other way around. And don’t even dream racism does not exist here. It does. And some tourists also get carried away with it. One tourist really got carried away recently from a popular resort. He was told he could not engage in a certain activity at the resort unless he had a wristband band indicating that he had been cleared. So he proceeds to call the attendant the ‘n’ word, spit on him and go unauthorized on the ride. Well the ambulance came and it wasn’t for the attendant. He lost his job and said he rather sit at Home broke and unemployed before he let anyone spit on him and get away with it.

If you live in a house with only two bedrooms and five other people and don’t have no car then you have to sneak ‘one Lil piece ‘ on the job. One time you could go on the beach Evergreen Motel) or behind the stores but the girls may get raped and you robbed. And besides the police may pull up on you shooting. But someone say Roberts is the one who taught the cashiers ho to ‘sneak on Lil piece ‘ on the job especially when they have ride picking them up and have to go straight home.

BTW did anyone else see the notices that banks are about to increase their fees again in August? RBC for sure!

Go up in The Northern Abacos where everyone owns two and three homes. Can they show receipts to show customs duties were paid...and there are are some businesses up that way that are highly reluctant to take Bahamian dollars. Why? because they buy most of their supplies in the US and pay in US currency. Then why there is such a vast difference on a pack of cigarettes. Take for example DK's that are manufactured in Freeport, Bahamas. Some places have this cigarette priced at $5.38 a pack and other stores have it at $9.66 before VAT. And not to speak of the price variance on imported brands like Rothmans..going from $6.00 a pack to upwards of $10.00. And lamb chops have moved from $2.99 a pound in 2016, before Vat to $5.39 a pound.. Unfordable for most families while pork chop has only increased a few cents..

If AML can see fit to declare an extraordinary dividend (as they did) then the increase in sales had to have been more than 'a few weeks. ANd for sure it had to be more than the few weeks between the announcement of the VAT increase and the time it was implemented.

The key point here is AML saw. fifty percent increase in sales from continuing operations in the weeks prior to the VAT increase. So this is in line with the government’s claim that there was some growth in the economy in recent months. Mostly due to Bah Mar opening and creating new jobs and the tourist sector as a whole showing strong numbers. And so a 10% decline in spending after the increase in VAT should be expected because a portion of consumers disposable income must now towards the VAT increase. And based on Vatchorn’s touting of a 50% growth in sales, this may have been sufficient to cover the government’s shortfall in revenue had they continued to stimulate growth rather than creating doubt, reductions in disposable income by increased taxes and doubt to investors. In the US, over 2 million persons have come off food stamps this year, so far and there are 500 thousand more jobs available than there are workers. This government cannot expect to grow the economy by tightening the purse strings too much And squeezing more tax dollars out of businesses and consumers. There is natural growth happening in the economy, even now, and government must be careful not to stunt that.

So what about the fraudsters who are the government? And then there is this large portion of the population who own boat and private aircraft. And they travel back and forth to the US like it’s just one country. Bringing in what they like when they like. So some of that $220 million in Defense Force assets has to be spent on things other than rounding up Haitians.

And how does that past history fit in today’s economic environment? Well because government has a financially dumb person, with no experience, calling the shots, it is now the government who is discriminating against the (mostly black) businesses in the inner city and inviting outsiders to go in and take control of the business sector. It is this (Minnis) government who has decided it will have two rates of customs duties on certain items and further disenfranchised the smaller businesses they claim they set out to help. So now instead of importing their own goods, these businesses may now have to go and buy their goods from the businesses that are duty exempt. A dumb and inexperienced person can destroy an economy in a flash.

Does Minnis remember when The PLP first introduced price control on bread basket items? First the white merchants refused to bring in these items, in an effort to force government to remove the price controls. Then they started importing limited quantities and only selling to white owned food stores. When a black food store owner placed his order he would get everything except the breadbasket items: rice, flour sugar, cooking oil.. they got none. So there was a severe shortage of these items. And it was people like Sir Milo Butler along with other small (Black) businessmen who pooled their resources and started to re-import these food essentials into the country. And guess what? Since the white merchants had exclusive agents to products like Matahma Rice, Robin Hood Flour, Wesson, Quaker grits, these smaller businesses could only import off brand products. And since the off brands were not included in the price control gazette they were not on price control. But it was enough to cause the white boys to remove their embargo and start importing goods again and not restricting their sales to only white Store owners. But by this time some customers had already gotten use to the cheaper brands and this caused businesses like Portion Control (now owned by Super Value) to enter the market.