These are some strange clouds hovering over the Bahamas over the past few days. HARP on that.

Yes and 80 Billion tons of cocaine goes into the US every year. Wonder who’s smuggling and distributing that. A multi trillion dollar illegal narcotic industry.

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While the VAT increase may be a bomb that left many shell shocked, many still have confidence that the country will fare better under the Minnis led FNM than it did under Christie and the PLP. The absence of wastage and reduced corruption and tighter fiscal management should help deliver benefits.

So someone took some monopoly money and decided to pretend it was real money. People bought into the idea and so the idea grew outrageously. And hence the introduction of the BitCoin. And then others followed and so did the criminals, who chased the 'artificial' currency who have found ways to clean out cryptocurrency accounts. Imagine if the Bahamas was to create a Conch Shell currency to try and wipe off the $8 Billion national debt. This country would be on every blacklist (no pun intended) in the world!

Many persons are confusing web shop gaming with a national lottery. But they are two completely different products. Persons who buy lottery tickets do so specifically with the intent of winning a prize. Persons who gamble sometimes are not driven by their winnings but by the act of gaming itself, just like someone may love playing basketball, even though they may never win a game or even pulling for a team in the NBA that does not have a winning history. So those who advocate closing down the web shops may be opening a backdoor for the resurgence of illegal gambling as the great demand for it will not be fulfilled by a national lottery. And experts have already informed the government that the success of a local lottery will be limited in its success because of the competition from Florida and other lotteries. Why spend a dollar to win a few Hundred Thousand Dollars locally, when that same dollar gives you the same chance to win milions if Florida.

so since they are not selling heroin (or cocaine) your point is moot. But anyways apply it to the casino boys over the bridge or on the Cable Beach strip now there you go!. Take the lumber our your own eye so you can have 20/20 vision and be more impartial when you speaketh.

Troubled Bahamian have you been drinking flit? How can you tell a nonBahamian that if he wins a lottery in the Bahamas he cannot take his winnings home with him? What if he/she is on a once in a lifetime cruise to the Bahamas from Australia or even Alaska? Would you trust leaving your prize money here? See how dumb you sound. And while persons on work permits are legally banned from gambling in the casinos, the fact is many of them still do. They were only casually thrown into the law to disguise the true intent of the law. The more you try to justify this blatant discrimination the sillier you sound.

you do the math: while you are concerned about a few colored boys making money from numbers who is benefiting from all the cocaine going to the US annually. 80 Billion tons. A ton of cocaine is about 907 kilos. A kilo of cocaine sells for average $20,000 in the US. So multiply 80 Billion by 907 by $20,000.00. And so trillions of dollars worth of cocaine enters the US annually. And that is not to mention other drugs. And what evidence that even a small fraction of that is passing through the Bahamas? And the data shows where the three major entry points to the US are.

Aeageon: If an once of what you were saying was true do you think the Bahamas would be in the economic shambles it is in today? Most of the eighty billion metric tones of cocaine that goes into the United States enter through Mexico, California and New York. And even most that now go into Florida go on commercial craft and established shipping routes and do not involve Bahamians.. so who is responsible for smuggling all this drugs into the US, distributing it and even consuming 80 Billion tons of cocaine? So while The Bahamas has been conveniently lebelled a narcotic trafficking it appears that the biggest organization of drug trafficking is within the US itself. As for the unrelenting killings of so many young men in the country many blame this on drugs and gang warfare. But many who are now dead and cannot speak to defend the label that was put on them after they were killed, spent most of their short, barely adult life trying to avoid the things they are accused off. In the US, sitting judges and other high ranking officials have been accused of human and weapons trafficking and some, even after being found guilty have yet to receive jail time. But in your eyesight everything Bahamian is wrong. And while Donald Trump is blaming Mexico and South America for the most deadly MS-13 gang. This gang was created in the jails of America. Then the jails were emptied of the gang members and they were deported to their homelands. There the membership grew by leaps and bounds and the gang became so deadly members are now sneaking back into the US and hiding out in non traditional gang territories. And since they are known for killing non gang members and high ranking officials is what has the president so concerned. Yet the lie is put on The Bahamas that young men want to form drug cartels and terrorists groups. If the Bahamas was such a significant narco trafficking state, why hasn’t the quantity of drugs being trafficked into the US been reduced after drugs passing through the Bahamas has been cut by more than 80 percent? In fact drugs flowing into the US is increasing.