A purely weak attempt by Keith Davies to expand his order books. Transparency in borrowing has never been an issue with government. Bahamians already have the opportunity to buy government debt.

It is not unusual to give a jonser a good old fashion cut hip when you catch him t'iefin. But if you tie him up beat him, threaten him with a machete, have all your actions recorded and posted on Facebook, then your actions are a bigger crime than what the jonser did. It may have been better to call the police for him.

A few years ago when Doctor's Hospital (WEST) was on the market for sale, I suggested the government purchase the facility along with surrounding properties. The idea was to use the existing facility as a foundation (stepping stone) and build out a new. state of the art, full service hospital over a period of years. Because of the location, the hospital could provide both local and private care and while taking some of the burden off the Princess Margaret Hospital, it can eventually generate revenue for the government. No only is it unwise to have all of the emergency care at one facility, for a growing population that is spreading out, but The Princess Margaret Hospital is just too over crowded and too overtaxed. I have witness doctors and other care givers have to wade through sewerage from broken or overflowing pipes to render care to patients. The money for a brand new, state of the art hospital may never be available all at once, but if government was to identify a location with sufficient property, and start with say emergency services and commit to completing a full service hospital over a say 10 year period, utilizing each part of the facility as it is completed, then that's how the country will afford a new hospital.

*disheartened

@sheeprunner your suggestion about limiting the number of vehicles and taxing larger vehicles are both irrelevant and premature. Firstly government already experimented with taxing vehicles based on engine size. This didn't work because there are large vehicles out there with small and efficient engines and so they ended up paying less duty than smaller vehicles. And as you can see now the availability of cheap Japanese vehicles have caused a shift from the larger more expensive American cars to these. But guess what? Rather than a family purchasing an American that costs $20-$30,000, they are now buying 3 or 4 Japanese cars that cost around $5,000 each. So the shift to smaller vehicles means more vehicles on the streets. And before government can consider restricting cars or taxing families that have more than one vehicle it must fix the public transportation system. It has to be mordenized and become safe and reliable. But wait. Experts predict that the highways will be filled with mostly driverless vehicles in five years. These vehicles will be programmed to use most efficient routes from one destination to another and also to be forewarned about traffic congestion and to avoid them. Public transportation will also become mostly driverless and because it will be more affordable, persons who don't want to take the public bus can hire a driverless taxi. And if that isn't exciting enough fore planners also expect that drones will be transporting passengers in the next 10 years. So getting from the airport to Paradise Island will be like a zip and a flash, providing the weather is good. Then maybe the next step will be teleportation. Wow!

Some have secretly left the PLP to drown in its own self made sorrows

Freddy still seems to be dazed or bedazzled by the cut hip he got in Fox Hill and the overall a$$ whooping the PLP got in the last election. Politics is a strange animal in this country and if someone with political ties is accused of wrongdoing one must weigh the consequences before publicly supporting that individual. Firstly there may be persons who support the individual but they clearly do not condone the actions he is accused of doing. So they will definitely not support that individual until the matter is cleared up. Then there are persons who support the individual, regardless of what he has done. But they know the possible consequences of supporting him publicly so they won't. Then there are persons who are not only in shock and awe, like Fred, from the results of the election, but they are equally disheartening and disoriented by what has beef exposed about their party and its governance over the past five years. They too will want the law to take its course and will not participate in lending support.

If you go to sleep watching CNN or even Fon News you would expect to wake up the next morning hearing Trump has been impeached because of the revelations that are coming out about his relations with the Russians before the Elections. But fortunately or unfortunately, the people who don't want Trump to be president and want him impeached are the same ones who don't want Hillary Clinton to be president . So it's like having a coin with two sides the same. But for certain Obamacare being repealed and replaced is becoming more difficult to the point where Trump is suggesting it be repealed and replaced later... just to fulfill his election promise. Trump's Great Wall of Mexico also seems to become more uncertain day after day not only because of the high price tag but because it was not a good idea in the first place. And now even immigration reform is hitting brick walls after judges reveal that Trump cannot bar immediate and extended family members of US residents from entering the country. So while Trump seemed to have hit the ground running and was appearing to accomplish a lot in his first 100 days, he seem to have hit a lot of loose sand recently. And despite the engines revving up and blowing the smoke of anticipation, Trump doesn't seem to be doing much more than spinning tires.

In the main time CCA says there will be missed deadlines at Bah Mar because of lounge chairs! Are you (people) serious? Are you?

While it is important that the government do it's cleansing of the public sector and bring justice against those for whom there is a preponderance of evidence of wrong doing, it must not allow this process to drag on too long. The economy is already in jitters as many have taken a 'wait and see' attitude while government drains the swamp. This is not good for businesses. Yet some wonder if there is a new culture where everything will be above board and hands will be clean when dealing with government or when the government is dealing with the people's money or is this simply a case of the FNM telling the PLP.., "itch take dat."