@ Economist apparently you don’t realize Customs also collect VAT. And yes WTO was pushing for the elimination of customs duties, which was to be replaced by the VAT of the beast, you pay vat every time you buy or sell.

So where is El Chapo now? Did he escape again?

So it was revealed several decades ago that some of the largest businesses in the country are involved in some type of smuggling or tax evasion or the other and that is how they maintain their market share and control. And some of these businesses have ties to one or both governments and so that is how they maintain an established route to evade customs duties. And so you have members of government passing laws they do not intend to abide by. A few years ago some (young) customs officers decided to do an expose' about what was going on in customs. They were quickly made to disappear from customs but were barred from all other government jobs. When a company has an established method of not paying customs duties they obviously have control of the market. They can price their goods at the normal prices and make a windfall on the extra profit. They can sell lower than the competition and corner the market and force the competition out of business and then raise their prices in the absence of competition. And so when all other stores have their lights and air conditioners off, it is business as usual for these merchants, who are living high off the hog. And now government's cherry picking policy with exemptions and other tax breaks in the inner cities may further empower these merchants to come in the inner city and finish killing the poor, small businessman who been struggling for at least a decade to keep his door open. Whan ya dumb, ya dangerous.

So can one also argue that "Crooked" Sir Roland passed his crooked dealings down through generations and has even deeper pockets? Because he was able to clean up his money w/o heave taxation?

So when will Craig Flowers and Sebas Bastian be recognized and be receiving their awards. Asking for a friend who been buying numbers from they were coded ‘washer and dryer tokens.’ No not you D’Aguilar.

This voluntary separation or even mandatory separation package thing is something kinda new to the Bahamas and persons not yet at retirement age should do careful planning before they decide to take these packages. Many people have found themselves broke or even in debt before the age of 50 and at an age where employment is not easy to come by. Some persons in the private sector receive packages in excess of a million dollars and even then poor management can see them back on the employment line even after the age of retirement.

Correct me if the info is wrong but wasn’t there zero murders in July 2016, one in July 2017 and now how many so far this July? Or was it June with the low count.

And what about persons like Dr Earl Farrington. Someone who spent practically all of his life in the hospital saving lives or doing surgery to make people healthy or whole again. And many others like him in the field of medicine, in education, in religion persons on the police force or the defense force. Persons with life long dedication And untainted.

Playing the race card? Are you serious? One white, Four not.. One honoured, Four not. Can you guess the reason why? Don’t ask me because I forgot!