Let's not forget that there are hired or contact killers in the country. Persons who kill people they don't know for no other reason than they get paid to do it. Think about that.

So are you suggesting the police become the judge, bench and jury? What happens if the police wants a certain person dead? Let me guess: he kills them and plants a handgun on them?

What Mr Albury needs to take into consideration is the average car on the street is valued under $10,000 while the average car on the car lot is over $20,000. The market has changed and may never come back to what it use to be. The average citizen can go on line and purchase a car from as far away as Japan. By the time the car arrives he has accumulated enough funds to pay duty and license and insure the vehicle. He usually gets a good running vehicle and will have no bank payments. If he gets 3-5 years life out the vehicle he can save enough to purchase another one when the car is gone. The Japanese market has taken over. tThis is not only the case for cars, but many people shop online for consumer goods. The prices are not always better but it is a matter of convenience and selection.

If Izmirilian was the problem, like they wanted you to believe, then the problem should be moving forward by now. Obviously there are other problems that cause potential investors to get cold feet and walk away from the project. With all the major brands gone the hotel has lost value. How does $3.5 billion look sitting idle? Someone really dropped the ball even more than once.

You do the math: with the murder rate of 150, that means 1,500. With a conviction rate for murder of around 60%, some 900 convicts will be in jail every 10 years serving sentences for murder. If the sentence ranges from say 10 years to life imprisonment you can see the enormous tax burden this will have on the country. But of more concern is that you grow a prison population to near 1,000 murderers. What happens if there is a jail break, (or several) and these persons get loose in the community and decide they are not going back to jail (alive). What is obvious is if nothing is done to stop the killings, the problem will get worse. So if no capital punishment what are the alternatives?

The problem is there is the public health system that is overloaded and under maintained and so it is barely functioning effectively. Then the other major healthcare facility in the country (New Providence) is underutilized because many feel it is too expensive and unaffordable. In fact some insurance providers recommend their clients seek treatment abroad rather than at that facility. So how then will NHI fix this problem? Standardized rates? and who will determine which facility a patient will attend?

When a local auto company wanted to bring in electric cars a few years ago they were told that the Bahamas was not yet ready to have hundreds of these vehicles on their streets. There has to be special training for rescue personnel or something to that effect.

Good riddance to bad rubbish!..time to deal with them who come here and belittle and mistreat Bahamians...his behavior is well documented.

Ok lets get this straight. Bah Mar is now in receivership, "**solely in the hands of China’s state-owned Export-Import Bank and its Deloitte & Touche receivers**," So shouldn't these people now be paying its taxes, when due, BEC its light bill and all other suppliers to the property their 'just' as it becomes due? Understanding that what was due when Bah Mar became bankrupt and went into receivership can only be recovered when the property is sold and the bankruptcy settled, but the government is under no obligation to allow property and other taxes to accrue and neither is BEC or any other company obliged to supply utilities to Bah Mar indefinitely. Collect the people's taxes and disconnect the power if the current bill(s) are not being paid.

The facts are that there is less money in circulation than was a year ago: Employment is down so less persons are earning an income to have any money to dispose. Then VAT sucks out 7.5% at every transaction. If there is no growth in the economy, the VAT is actually feeding like a parasite. Then there is the national debt that is ballooning out of control? And the cloud of a worldwide recessions looms. As for price increases remember that labor costs (for minimum wage) increased 40% a few months ago. Also since VAT is prepaid on inventory the carrying costs of inventory has increased. So when a supermarket has to throw away a dozen limes that spoiled, the vat is included in that loss. Or when someone steals a $150.00 pack of remy weave from the Beauty Palor, they also lose the VAT that was prepaid on that weave, along with the other costs.