The biggest news coming out this story is "BTC will not be charging their customers for "Wats App" as long as they have a data package. Does this mean that when Cable Bahamas comes on stream with wireless their customers will have to pay or will Cb have to sign an agreement with BTC. Of course the increase in unemployment contributed to the drop in BTC's revenue as well as the mass deportation of illegals, Haitians especially. Many f them made frequent calls back to Haiti and so that revenue no longer exist. Many local Bahamians have also stopped making cell phone calls. Instead they use Wats App to communicate. There has also been a drop in the number of hours an average person spends on the internet. But then one would wonder if C&W is painting a gloomy picture because competition is coming.

There were a number of attempts to purchase BoB even when it was not on the market and its performance was stellar. Shareholders were receiving regular dividends and the share price had a steady climb upward. Then the bank was looted. But BoB may not be the only bank in problems. Expect to see further downsizing at RBC. Next to the oil industry bank shares are losing value around the globe. European central banks are following the trend set by Japan and adding negative interest to large deposits. This is an effort to get member banks to start lending more money. However many of these banks have too many bad and even toxic loans on their books. They don't want to make risky loans. So some of them are passing the interstate expense on to their customers. In the main time the US has decided to raise its interest rates. This is expected to draw more deposits to its banks, but it will also increase the expense of countries who have borrowed American money.

Some say BoB is in a recovery stage and there may be a turn around soon (Before Election 2017 if one was to guestimate). They claim they have no more problematic accounts to pass on to Resolve. I the the term they use is 'toxic loans'

setting the proper time frame for the opening of bah mar:

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Bah Mar will not and cannot physically open for at least SIX months after works commence on the project. That is basically how long it will take to get the works completed and the businesses started up.

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It is now the middle of February. So if work was to commence on Bah Mar tomorrow, it will be at least July before the property can open.

.Likewise if the work does not start until next month, it will be August before the hotel property could open. That said can you see how quickly the window that will allow Bah Mar to open this year or even before election 2017 is closing?

Now the Minimum wage has been increased by 40% even more companies may default on their NIB payments. This is not always a situation of not wanting to pay but some companies just don't have the funds to pay. The situation will grow even worse when NHI is piled on. The best advice is to get out of a business that cannot pay its bills rather than getting buried under and more seriously facing jail time .

It is not really a private matter. government must give approval before a hotel is sold

Murder up to 146, but the detection rate for decreased from around 65% to 46%. Meaning less than half the murders have been detected. Does this mean that murderers have become more sophisticated in avoiding detection, the police are falling off or it is a case of 'spy vs 'spy' where when a person commits a murder, they are killed before the murder they did was solved.
."***Sunday*** was the most violent day of the year in 2015 with 25 persons being murdered followed by 24 on ***Friday***, 23 on Saturday and Tuesday, 19 on Monday and 16 on Wednesday and Thursday. It appears the weekends start with violence and ends the same way. Are these mostly gang related or domestic or personal conflict cases.
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***According to the figures, police confiscated 391 illegal firearms and 8,297 rounds of assorted ammunition in 2015.***
Three Hundred and Ninety One firearms confiscated and also over 8,000 rounds of fire power: How many people went to jail or was fined ?(besides John Bostwick) Are citizens beginning to arm themselves out of the fear of crime or are more criminals toting guns and arms?

What about vehicle thefts? the police compound is spilling over with stolen vehicles and there are numerous videos on social media with car thieves in action and some even eluding capture after chases. What are the figures for car thefts and how many arrests?

Obviously you are not Bahamian and you are definitely not Black. When and where have you ever heard a Bahamian crying that "the white man is keeping him down?' Black Bahamians are some of the proudest Black people in the world so where did you even dream that Black Bahamians have an issue with skin color? You want to use this post to vent your opinion about Bahamians being corrupt and lazy but obviously you are confused. Maybe you think (black) Bahamians are lazy because you still want them to work for free. #slavery. "Who in this country calls themselves an "African-Bahamian?" The average Bahamian has not even heard the term "African-American!" If you want to discredit a people and attack them get your facts straight first..o you lousy imposter!

@ Banker: Less than 10 years ago a young man wearing dreadlocks could not get a job anywhere in the Bahamas, not even in the gas station. So the Rastas started their own enterprises selling peanuts and fruits and newspapers. A black woman did not stand a chance landing an office job if she was dark and her hair was nappy and hence the hair relaxers and bleaching cremes and acrylic nails. Some have paid dearly for their choices as fibroids have now been linked to relaxers and hair dyes and skin cancer to bleaching. Whilst most White folk living in the Bahamas are the descendants of slave owners and all Black Bahamians have a slave history there have been many years of peaceful discourse in this country. Yes there maye be discrimination but it is is always subtle. In fact Black Bahamians are more mistreated by foreigners than they are by White Bahamians. And yes there is a form of self exclusion and separatism: White Bahamians are active in politics and business but you will seldom see them taking on roles as policemen, customs officers, immigration officers or very few public service jobs for that matter, but that has come to be accepted. Like White Bahamians, many Black Bahamians have left the Bahamas and have excelled elsewhere. In government, in religion, in medicine and in practically any other career field there is. We, the ones, who are left behind here in the Bahamas, are the ones who suffer when these people leave and do not return. We have a nation to build and when the country keeps losing the crème de la crème, that job becomes more difficult. Some professional Bahamians who have visited the Bahamas say, yes they would love to return. But isn is too difficule to be a professional and live in the Bahamas. We are still struggling to provide basic, essential services. And the political overtones are ringing too strong and too frequently. "you have to be PLP to get this or you have to be FNM to do that." They don't want to expose their children to that lifestyle. Despite the US having their race issues, the opportunities there for a career Black person and the standard of living is more than the Bahamas can offer. We spend too much time and energy tearing ourselves and our country down, allowing others to benefit while we are distracted.

Acting..? thought all of them are acting and none are good at it..if you don't believe me ask Sir Sidney...rotfl