Government has a lot of answering and accounting to do and Bah mar will just be a small piece in a big puzzle come 2017. Here are some points to ponder:

1. Why are Bahamians still paying $5.00 at the pump for gas when oil prices are less than half what they were this time last year and the lowest they have been in nine years? In fact oil is expected to drop even lower in the next two weeks to 1/3 the price is was last year.
2. Same for BEC. The government promised an instant 40% decrease in the price of electricity. But since the fuel surcharge is 60% of your bill and fuel has dropped so much, the surcharge should now be negative and your bill should be at least 70% what it was last year.
3. Hotels, airlines, shipping companies operating in the Bahamas are still tacking on a fuel/energy surcharge to their bill, why?
4 CRIME< especially MURDER is increasing at an alarmingly increasing rate. The murder count for this year is 95. The projected number of murders for 2015 is 150. The government, including the commissioner of police has gone silent on this matter.
5 The new minimum wage, coupled with VAT will cause the demise of many small and medium businesses, especially those that are labor intensive. The increase is 40% and national insurance on these workers will bring a whopping 50% increase in labor costs for these workers.
6. Many workers will now find themselves unemployable. While the national average for school leaving students has dropped, the government has raised the minimum wage by 40%. Unskilled and uneducated workers will not find work. to be continued

sounds like bull $shit to me.. how can a handful of people employed for a couple days out of the year affect the unemployment rate in a workforce of 208,000 BY 3.7%??? get real! if carnival employed 7,000 people they must have been holograms

The facts are that the government never expected Bah Mar to come to a squeeching halt as it did so they were not prepared for the revelations about the improprieties and conflicts of interest at the project. When Izmirilian lashed out at the government apparently he had already gone through a whol lot and apparently he couldn't take any more. Now that it is more apparent that the government is siding with the Chinese and apparently had a move afoot to oust him from the project, Izmirilian has taken a defensive stance that makes a resumption of the constructions do completion of the project even more difficult. Obviously he no longer trusts the China Construction Company. He is weary of the China Bank and his opinion of the Bahamian government has gone from that of frustration to that of complete distrust and disappointment. So he continues to hold on to his bankruptcy filings and lawsuits as a lifeline. He is protecting his family interest in what has become a hostile and suspicious environment. The government seems prepared to see him walk away with nothing Rather than run for cover or admit to their wrongdoings, the government is posturing and making everyone else out to be the bad guys . In the main time, $3.5 billion sits baking in the sun, thousands of jobs are insecure, the Bahamian economy is depressed and the world is watching.

First of all Cobolt I expect no more from you because you have proven time and time again that not only are you a racist (that turns blue with poison). But you despise Bahamians to the bone. While I said our businesses were successful until the recession hit in 2008 I never said they failed. Sometimes you have to make economic decisions to determine the way forward and whilst I will not go into specifics when it is no longer feasible to continue to operate a sensible person will cut their losses. And when you explore other opportunities that prove to be more beneficial that is not failure, that is wise decision making. It is ignorance and prejudice on your part to judge it as such. Further you don't know me to know if Inam lazy minded and it is people like you that come into this country and try to belittle and exploit Bahamians. You try to get them to do all the work while you reap all the benefits. When Bahamians get wise to your game and refuse to be a modern day slave you despise and ridicule them even more. There are very few Bahamians that are functionally illiterate, as you claim and most Bahamians, despite poor grades in school, are trainable and do become a functional part of the work force. It is venomous and destructive persons like you that come here and try to belittle them and destroy their esteem and self worth. The bible refers to you as a"a dirty dog that refuse to bark". The truth is not in you.

When I was in school I had two brothers. One was a grade above me. He never took school seriously and always had bad grades. The brother below me did as much studying as I did and put as much time and effort into his school work as I did but his grades we're not as good as mine. So I use to be the yardstick that the other two brothers was measured by. And it was not a good feeling. Eventually the three of us managed to set up and run our own businesses that were successful until the recession hit in 2008. The point being that everyone was not meant to be book smart. We must redesign our Education system to capitalize on the other potentials of individuals who may not be book smart. The time when we are led to believe that Bahamians are dumb and lazy must come to an end. Those are lies spread by opportunist who want to exploit us and rape the natural resources of our country. Rebuke them in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, AMEN

Do you really expect children to focus and obtain good grades in New providence? I bet the Family Island grades are better by at least two points. Nassau is no longer conducive to learning... Too many distractions

Having a casual conversation with a few young males. They say the average guy does not feel safe on the streets or home so more and more young men are taking up arms. The preference these days is more high powered guns that can hold more rounds. Their reason being "when they come to collect you they ain't sending one person no more, they sending three and four "niggas" and all of them strap. Guys would take chance traveling with weapons in their car rather than being caught off guard. There is also a lot of young men out there who are hurting because they have lost family or best friends in this "war". If they know who the person is who did the murder and don't see the police doing nothing about it they eventually go after the person. That is the reason you hear about guys who had changed their lives "a few years ago" getting killed. The police have a tough job on their hands. The problem with these killings is going to get worse before it get better.

The fact is that the Bahamas is now a society that breeds criminals and murderers. If you have 149 killings a year, you must also have 148 killers, give or take. And if only a small segment of them are being taken out of society and brought to justice then the population of murderers will increase. Criminals breed criminals!

If you wake up at 2 o'clock in the morning and the PLP tell you the light you see in your window is the sun they want you to believe them. If they tell you the moon is the sun you also have to believe them.

In the main time China has agreed to a one-time devaluation of its currency to help stop its economy from slipping and preventing it from becoming another Greece