I still don’t see any greatness in the idea period. If foreigners coming here and establishing companies but bringing in foreign labor how does that help the country? Bahamians are still unemployed, Bahamian businesses will still be suffering and closing down and the little bit of capital that will circulate will eventually leave the country. Better to give 250 Bahamians crown land to farm, let them bring 20-30 Haitians each and employs Bahamians to supplement them. At least at the end of the day food will be produced, sold and the money stays here.

Hubert Minnis should have gotten more consultation on this bill before he rushed it through to appease his invisible but dictatorial masters. While there are legitimate and genuine foreigners wishing to come in and set up businesses in the Bahamas there are many financial vultures who are buzzing and waiting to gouge out the eye of Bahamians and deny Bahamians any and every opportunity that exist for them. Minnis should not try play the role of lone ranger or depend only on his (mostly) rookie cabinet when treading on dangerous ground.

You would think that Hubert Minnis and his government would use caution and common sense and get more advice and consultation on this bill before rushing to pass it. This along with the proposed changes in the immigration act is dangerous as it futher seeks to erode the assets of being Bahamian and throws the economic doors of the Bahamas and access to Bahamian wide citizenship wide open. Who really is behind this dirty agenda? Who is Hubert Minnis pandering to?

So the new car licence plate exercise started in October of 2016. So why are there still vehicles on the street bearing the old license plates?

Again one is reminded of the rivalry between Coke and Pepsi that led to a physical fight between the distributors of the two rival soft drink distributors some years ago. *Coca-Cola went to town, Pepsi-Cola knocked him down, Dr. Pepper picked him up, Dr. Walker stitched him up."* And as the rivalry between BTC and Aliv heats up one can expect for the fight to become more aggressive and more dirty. And while Aliv for the time being is the one making most of the accusations, BTC will either deny, deny or deny or else demand Aliv prove its claim. In the main time consumers are benefiting from the price slashing and the mad give-a-ways but the retailers and master vendors are suffering as BTC slash its prices. They are paid on a percentage of their sales and since BTC has made inter-network calls free and made many internet packages unlimited and made other once services that were chargeable now free many retailers have actually saw their commissions slashed by more than 50%. Aliv does not have master vendors but their margin to retailers is the same as BTC's, very small.

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> rights Bahamas yesterday urged the
> government to cease and desist its
> heightened immigration crackdown,
> pointing to an incident where a mother
> and child reportedly fell off the back
> of a truck and were hurt as they tried
> to evade authorities."*
>
> Emphasis

*Buy his own admission Fred Smith's mother was jailed in Haiti for being too vocal against the government (anti-government) and his pa was kicked out of Haiti and deported to the Bahamas under similar circumstances. And apparently the insanity continues. How can you justify the actions of someone who is injured or causes others to be injured in an attempt to flee from justice and intention to become a fugitive of justice? Are you saying the police should not have the right to shoot an armed and fleeing robber who is shooting at them?

Sheeprunner you sound like a jackass again...how can a democratically elected government mandate its citizens to invest????
."*an official order or commission to do something.
"a mandate to seek the release of political prisoners"
synonyms: instruction, directive, direction, decree, command, order, injunction, edict, charge, commission, bidding, warrant, ruling, ordinance, law, statute, fiat;*"
How can government even expect their citizens to invest when 70-80% of Bahamian businesses have not seen a profit since 2008? In Fact many are bleeding through their eyes and ears and it is only the injection of owner's capital that is keeping the doors of these business open and, yes, saving jobs. On the face of it, your suggestion for Bahamians to invest is a good one, but the major incentive to invest is profit. And in the absence of profit there is no incentive. And the fact is even when businesses are not profitable, the tax regime is designed such that government still gets its taxes: business license, national insurance, property, customs duties, VAT, immigration fees, excess light bills tax, dumping fees. So the current businesses are virtually enslaved to collect government taxes and many, very many of the businesses are collecting government taxes at the owner's expense. Now the government is seeking to make an even more uneven playing field by allowing foreign business to come in and bypass laws and regulations that Bahamian business owners are mandated to abide by. A more common sense approach would be to require that every businesses coming into the country float at least 30% of their shares and make them available exclusively to Bahamians, in the first instance, and only to foreigners when the shares are not purchased by Bahamians or the Bahamian government within a given timeframe.

As a letter of comfort there has been more mass killings (311) than there has been killings in the Bahamas. In fact that number is more than doubled., And in ninety eight percent of the instances or more, the mass murderers were not black. None were Bahamians.

The only shift in thinking needs to be ‘Bahamians running things’. And not no law making it more easier for foreigners to come her and put more chains on us. But ain’t no government gonna fix that but it will get fixed. Bahamians go in and possess the land that was given to you.... Amazing grace...how sweet the sound..

So Hubert Minnis woke up the sleeping demons bragging about he had crime under control. Three shootings in one 24 hour period plus a fatal (suspicions) stabbing.