Summer coming , school soon out go work it out there

The death rate may be one thing but who wants to be loaded with sores and scars and pus-filled boils for four-to six weeks. And reports are the itching is unbearable, especially when the sores etc start to heal ( the old people say ‘dry up’. The island people use to bathe in ‘bush’ and go soak in the sea to let the boils and lesions ‘drain’. And drink bitters ( creased) every morning with salt and plenty sour-lime.’ And don’t bathe with no one else towel and disinfect ya sheets.

And whilst many applaud the steps the Davis administration is taking to bring relief to Bahamians, if something more tangible is not done to Rescue Bahamians whose heads are already below beater. The sun of unpaid taxes will increase. And most of the victims b will be those who can’t afford to pay and those who need more time to make this thing make sense.

So when Brave Davis dem tell you they removing the duty off chicken parts, and other food items and electrical and plumbing supplies and other things tell Brave he ain’t doing you no favors. Tell him he only giving (some) back to the Bahamian people what his partner-in-crime was taking since 2015. And Minnis come behind with his sly move and tell the Bahamian people ‘he taking customs duties off clothing and shoes for clothing and shoes stores.’ Minnis knew for whom that exemption was intended. And notice Brave Davis leave it just like that, clothing and shoes bstores can get customs duties exemption, but they gatta apply.’ So why the electric, and plumbing and air conditioning and food stores and building supplies and electric car dealerships and solar installers and battery sellers and roofing supplies people don’t gatta apply? It is pure and unfettered gangsterism

Can someone explain this: back in 2015, government under the PErry Christie Administration, introduced VAT. At that time, the country was preparing to join WTO and one of the requirements was that The Bahamas remove customs duties as it was considered ‘a barrier to trade.’ So, as part of its tax reform, government had proposed to introduce VAT and REMOVE and eliminate Customs Duties and Stamp Tax completely. And VAT would not only be applied to goods, but also to services when offered by a VAT registered company. So they introduced the VAT, first on goods and then on services. But Customs Duties we’re never eliminated!!! And so the government has been doubling dipping in the pockets of Bahamian people and visitors and residents going on to EIGHT years! Double Dipping to the tune of some 30 percent in double taxes. And what has the government to show for it? Nothing except increased debt! No new major infrastructure hardly any improvements and an economy where the average Bahamian cannot survive and is not surviving! And government has the gall to ask why it is so difficult to collect other taxes! The bahamian people are taxed out! Period! Now they (tax collectors) going around threatening to take people property and collect rent from tenants, some who are already months behind on their rent. Don’t you think if it’s difficult for government to collect taxes it’s equally difficult for property owners to collect rents and businesses to collect outstanding debt? Why, despite being a brutal economy, government is collecting double tax and from all appearances a lot of tax revenue is being squandered.

Well monkey foot… one then no after the next. The disadvantages of living in a global village.

NIB needs to explain why many Bahamians haven’t received a red cent during the pandemic. Some have been making contributions for decades but these heartless workers at NIB found flimsy excuses tot to pay them a dime.
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Then there are the self employed people. Many owned and operated small businesses like car washes, lawn care, plumbing electrical and air conditioning business barbers, beauty saloons, clothing and shoe stores. ALL were closed during the pandemic by orders of the competent authority. And , according to nib, none of these people qualified for unemployment from NIB because they were self employed. Self employed yes, but banned from working by the same authority that banned employed workers during the same pandemic. The rules and rationale behind some decisions in this country are beyond mind boggling. Employed and self employed people work for the same purpose. To earn an income. So not only did self employed persons suffer the financial loss of having their businesses closed during the pandemic but they suffered the loss of not being compensated in the least for loss of personal income.

More bad weather may be on the way.

If you were referring to me about mis quoting then your application of this quote is inappropriate. I never put out any information that was false or inaccurate. In fact I was questioning the information put out by another poster who claims he was coming to the rescue of the Bahamian people, his brothers and sisters. Some also went to Africa claiming to help ‘the natives.’ Some ended up on ships and were taken ‘to a strange land where they were made slaves and mistreated for 400 years.’ Others were given ‘AIDs’ vaccines that were actually live AIDS. And even recently others in Nigeria lost lives and livelihoods as greedy oil companies went in and destroyed land, fresh water streams, fishing villages and any obstruction, in their way including humans, in their efforts to extract oil from this region.

Gas prices in California has now hit $10 a gallon thereabouts. Would be interesting to see what happens here over the next few days.