Do the country really need another let down

Yet government want these people to file VAT returns in 30 days. How heartless and how inconsiderate. Look at the damage. Water still remains four foot high in some areas. Some persons have no home or warm bed since the storm. The sensible thing to do would be to all persons in the affected area to combine their third and fourth quarter VAT returns and give them until January 28 to file. Then dispatch VAT personnel to assist with the fillings. How can you tell people who have lost everything and who are still living under survival conditions they gat 30 extra days to file their tax returns when help and hope ain't reach them yet?

That can be an easy feat at this present time with the entire country in turmoil.

So what exactly has NEMA done so far? Seems like the only HELP and HOPE these people received thus far is from private donations.

As Darryl Miller would say "let us pray". amen
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Almost half the country will be non-productive and barely contributing to the treasury for at least another year. In fact they will be dependent on government assistance for at least another six months to a year. What this government needs to do:

1. Perry Christie MUST recant his statement that even after persons go to GOD in need, they must still come back to him.
2 Have a national day of Thanksgiving and healing.
3. STOP making persons homeless and allowing them to be burned out and becoming social dependents and welfare receipients under the guise of ridding the country of shanty towns.
4. restore the faith and confidence in government that it is devoid of corruption and can be trusted.
As for Bah Mar:
If all else have failed,
1. How about trying to raise the funds locally either through the floating of bonds or allowing Bahamians to purchase shares in the project.
2. Since there are five hotels on the property, what about trying to finish and open each one separately, along with the stores and the casino. This would create a revenue stream (hopefully) that can contribute to the completion of the reminder of the project or to the pay down of the creditors.
3. The government must restore the confidence in the investor(s) that they will quit meddling and allow the project to operate without interference. How can you convince Izmirilan to pump more money into the project and complete it, when government has already shown its 'dirty side' and attempted to yank control and kick Izmirilan to the curb. Even if the project is completed, there is no guarantee that it will be a successful operation. Even if it is, it may be years before it shows a profit, so it does need the assurances of government and major creditors that it will receive their full support.

Was some of this $60 million hurricane relief money going to pay Bah Mar staff, had they not been terminated.

The problems of ignorance, arrogance and cockiness still prevail: Government could not comprehend what iIzmiriland was trying to accomplish when he filed for chapter 11 in Delaware. Bah Mar sought to be free from the claws of China Bank and China Construction company, who's work was sub par, so that any new financing could go toward completing the project and getting it open. The government in their ignorance, interfered with this process and with arrogance they flew off to China to meet with the people who the developer felt was the problem causing Bah Mar to become stalled, over budgeted and unable to be completed and opened after 3 postponements Then Christie became even more cocky, calling the developer of the project a mental case. Short lived was the glee when the courts ruled in the favor of the government taking possession of the winding up of Bah Ma,r because in ignorance or arrogance they did not realize the amount of money it would take, even to wind up Bah Mar. In fact the PM start giving deadlines, like November 2, for the developer to come back on board. Had the Christie government allowed natural justice to take its course, not only would Bah Mar not have lost Rose Wood, but the project could have been open at least be December. Now the future of the project and the fate of employees are more uncertain than ever. Thanks to the man who said, "after you go to your God and pray for something, you still have to come to me because I is the prime minister." Choose this day whom you will serve o Bahamaland!"

fifty thousand people being evacuated in Southwestern Mexico, Thirty Foot storm surge expected, 220 mph winds, but where is the storm headed after it crosses Mexico?
#Patricia is currently comparable to #Haiyan in intensity. This is a very dangerous hurricane https://twitter.com/NHC_Pacific/status/… …

4:30 AM - 23 Oct 2015

But why is the attorney general still in the media saying he government's position about the loss of jobs remains unchanged. Maybe she needs to meet with Bah Mar officials and tell them how to pay 2,000 workers, many of whom are idle, when the company is insolvent. These people sound so ridiculous when the speak obvious nonsense.