Many of the Tribunes bloggers have disappeared because the site is hacked and your privacy is invaded and you lose computers. But the biggest problem with this government is that while they have made drastic efforts to collect more taxes, too much tax money is being squandered, being stolen, not being properly accounted for or wrongly appropriated. When you pay your business license it is for one full year and payable in advance. Yet this desperate tax greedy government has saw fit to charge late fees on the business license and in addition interest on the late fee and the license fees. How desperate can you get?
But yet in a regular basis you hear how tax`dollars are being stolen, squandered. misappropriated or wasted. And no one being fired, no one getting charged. In fact one of the persons in charge of a department where many millions have gone missing has now been 'promoted' to a position in the highest office in the land. Exactly what message does this send to the tax-paying people? And until government cleans this foolishness it will continue to see shortfalls, get into deficit spending and burden Bahamians with tax after tax after tax. How can you justify taking over 10 years to complete a building at Sandilands? A park that has been building for over 4 years and not yet open to the public? A government that is many years late is double-dipping on tax payers who are only a few days late?
Obie will be one of the first PLP's to get kicked to the curb and he sees the writing on the wall so he is only grandstanding. He told bold faced lies to the Bahamian people about having permanent access to the beaches on Paradise Island among other things. He is starting to realize that some of the same people that got fenced out, locked out and threatened with arrest over Paradise Island are some of his former constituents who came to New Providence after they could not find jobs in West End and Freeport. Others have friends and relatives there. They know Obie deceived them and betrayed them and come election he must get his 'tings.
When this government took to the streets and the air waves and boasted and bragged about how successfully they had implemented VAT and how much money they had fleeced from the Bahamian people, there was no call not to make politics or political footballs out of that. Now after Bahamians, many of them have exhausted their life savings and some have taken out loans to pay off taxes and keep their businesses going with the promise and expectation that things will get better, how can you tell them not to cuss out the politicians? Yes, the recession started in 2008 and this same government, whilst in opposition, denied that there was any recession and declared that the economy was being mismanaged, what can they say now? While most of the world economies saw some recovery and was able to get some relief from the recession, the Bahamas economy is still lost in a deep dark , seemingly unending recession, many have lost much and add crime and other factors and the misery level is beyond unbearable and you say don't blame the politicians? Then who to blame Edison?
Well when the US brought sanctions against Jamaica and there Janaican dollar was devalued, the Jamican economy was saved, even though it hit rock bottom a few times, because there were so many Jamicians living outside of Jamaica, USA, Canada Great Btitian, and these persons sent money home frequently. So this had a reverse effect because every US dollar or Canadian dollar or British pound sent to Jamaica had almost 100 times the value. In the case of the Bahamas we are so tied to the US and China made American products it may be the reverse. Then most Bahamians who leave the Bahamas don't look back
Imagine if every mail boat that goes to a family island does not return to New providence empty, but laden with local produce, not only destined for New Providence but for other Family Islands. How many additional hands will these mail boats have to add? How many mail boats will have to be added. Imagine small cargo planes taking Bahamian produce, eggs and chicken and fish and bananas and tomatoes to every part of this country and bringing back perishables to transport to other islands. Why does salt have to go all the way to the US to be processed and come back here at 10 times the price? Why should the average Bahamian have to subsidize the vacation for a tourist staying on Paradise Island or Cable Beach or in Freeport when the average Bahamian cannot afford these vacations themselves?
But taking Bah Mar out the mix for a second there are small, simple, not expensive things the government can do to stimulate the local economy and develop inter-island trade and economic activity so that the Bahamian economy is not so harnessed to the US' economy and the world economy and there are some degrees of freedom. For example there are some 30,000 Bahamians in this country on welfare. Yet a large percentage of what is grown in this country goes to waste. So let's say rather than just giving cards to spend in the food store, each welfare revue pant gets vouchers to get 10 pounds of produce each week from strategic outposts, preferably run by private enterprise. That is 300,000 pounds of produce that can be moved weekly and get money flowing back into the family islands. Then let's go a bit further and include 5 # of fish and 5# of conch a week, keep following. Then let's say the seafood has to be cleaned and processed, that is ready to cook. Can n our fyou see the number of jobs created already? And no foreign person has to be hired yet. But wait chicken and eggs are also produced locally. So we include them in the mix and in five years our fishing and farming sectors can be booming and that can stimilate then entire economy with only seeds, fertilizer and animal feed being imported. please. Don't squeeze the mangoes
Well at least if our government had not interfered Izmirilian would still have possession of Bah Mar. The property would have most likely been finished, Bahamians would be employed and the Chinese would have been held at bay for two to three years. At least Bah Mar would have been given time to catch its bearings, test the market and determine if it was a sustainable operation. And even if the Chinese had to repossess it after three years there would have been some economic benefit to the Bahamas economy and it would been clear that Bah Mar failed on its own and was squeezed by its financial 'gonards' by the Chinese. But as it sits there today unfinished and unopened and its future uncertain, only the Chinese have benefitted. Perry Christie needs to stop going to China bank and bowing down on behalf of the Bahamian people get to stern negotiations. And no more concessions and definitely NO Citizenships!
John says...
Many of the Tribunes bloggers have disappeared because the site is hacked and your privacy is invaded and you lose computers. But the biggest problem with this government is that while they have made drastic efforts to collect more taxes, too much tax money is being squandered, being stolen, not being properly accounted for or wrongly appropriated. When you pay your business license it is for one full year and payable in advance. Yet this desperate tax greedy government has saw fit to charge late fees on the business license and in addition interest on the late fee and the license fees. How desperate can you get?
But yet in a regular basis you hear how tax`dollars are being stolen, squandered. misappropriated or wasted. And no one being fired, no one getting charged. In fact one of the persons in charge of a department where many millions have gone missing has now been 'promoted' to a position in the highest office in the land. Exactly what message does this send to the tax-paying people? And until government cleans this foolishness it will continue to see shortfalls, get into deficit spending and burden Bahamians with tax after tax after tax. How can you justify taking over 10 years to complete a building at Sandilands? A park that has been building for over 4 years and not yet open to the public? A government that is many years late is double-dipping on tax payers who are only a few days late?
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John says...
Obie will be one of the first PLP's to get kicked to the curb and he sees the writing on the wall so he is only grandstanding. He told bold faced lies to the Bahamian people about having permanent access to the beaches on Paradise Island among other things. He is starting to realize that some of the same people that got fenced out, locked out and threatened with arrest over Paradise Island are some of his former constituents who came to New Providence after they could not find jobs in West End and Freeport. Others have friends and relatives there. They know Obie deceived them and betrayed them and come election he must get his 'tings.
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John says...
Did any one send this info to BPL/BEC?
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John says...
When this government took to the streets and the air waves and boasted and bragged about how successfully they had implemented VAT and how much money they had fleeced from the Bahamian people, there was no call not to make politics or political footballs out of that. Now after Bahamians, many of them have exhausted their life savings and some have taken out loans to pay off taxes and keep their businesses going with the promise and expectation that things will get better, how can you tell them not to cuss out the politicians? Yes, the recession started in 2008 and this same government, whilst in opposition, denied that there was any recession and declared that the economy was being mismanaged, what can they say now? While most of the world economies saw some recovery and was able to get some relief from the recession, the Bahamas economy is still lost in a deep dark , seemingly unending recession, many have lost much and add crime and other factors and the misery level is beyond unbearable and you say don't blame the politicians? Then who to blame Edison?
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John says...
Sounds like Bull$hyt to me...
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John says...
Well when the US brought sanctions against Jamaica and there Janaican dollar was devalued, the Jamican economy was saved, even though it hit rock bottom a few times, because there were so many Jamicians living outside of Jamaica, USA, Canada Great Btitian, and these persons sent money home frequently. So this had a reverse effect because every US dollar or Canadian dollar or British pound sent to Jamaica had almost 100 times the value. In the case of the Bahamas we are so tied to the US and China made American products it may be the reverse. Then most Bahamians who leave the Bahamas don't look back
On Bahamas facing Moody's downgrade threat in two months
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John says...
Imagine if every mail boat that goes to a family island does not return to New providence empty, but laden with local produce, not only destined for New Providence but for other Family Islands. How many additional hands will these mail boats have to add? How many mail boats will have to be added. Imagine small cargo planes taking Bahamian produce, eggs and chicken and fish and bananas and tomatoes to every part of this country and bringing back perishables to transport to other islands. Why does salt have to go all the way to the US to be processed and come back here at 10 times the price? Why should the average Bahamian have to subsidize the vacation for a tourist staying on Paradise Island or Cable Beach or in Freeport when the average Bahamian cannot afford these vacations themselves?
On Bahamas facing Moody's downgrade threat in two months
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John says...
But taking Bah Mar out the mix for a second there are small, simple, not expensive things the government can do to stimulate the local economy and develop inter-island trade and economic activity so that the Bahamian economy is not so harnessed to the US' economy and the world economy and there are some degrees of freedom. For example there are some 30,000 Bahamians in this country on welfare. Yet a large percentage of what is grown in this country goes to waste. So let's say rather than just giving cards to spend in the food store, each welfare revue pant gets vouchers to get 10 pounds of produce each week from strategic outposts, preferably run by private enterprise. That is 300,000 pounds of produce that can be moved weekly and get money flowing back into the family islands. Then let's go a bit further and include 5 # of fish and 5# of conch a week, keep following. Then let's say the seafood has to be cleaned and processed, that is ready to cook. Can n our fyou see the number of jobs created already? And no foreign person has to be hired yet. But wait chicken and eggs are also produced locally. So we include them in the mix and in five years our fishing and farming sectors can be booming and that can stimilate then entire economy with only seeds, fertilizer and animal feed being imported. please. Don't squeeze the mangoes
On Bahamas facing Moody's downgrade threat in two months
Posted 4 July 2016, 3:50 p.m. Suggest removal
John says...
Well at least if our government had not interfered Izmirilian would still have possession of Bah Mar. The property would have most likely been finished, Bahamians would be employed and the Chinese would have been held at bay for two to three years. At least Bah Mar would have been given time to catch its bearings, test the market and determine if it was a sustainable operation. And even if the Chinese had to repossess it after three years there would have been some economic benefit to the Bahamas economy and it would been clear that Bah Mar failed on its own and was squeezed by its financial 'gonards' by the Chinese. But as it sits there today unfinished and unopened and its future uncertain, only the Chinese have benefitted. Perry Christie needs to stop going to China bank and bowing down on behalf of the Bahamian people get to stern negotiations. And no more concessions and definitely NO Citizenships!
On Bahamas facing Moody's downgrade threat in two months
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