Where is the outrage!

HAI is a hypocrite not just for the way he left but for what he has been doing after he left. After leaving the Party in a vacuum and disarray and after trying to covertly undermine Minnis for the past couple years he now unapologetically says unity is needed as if he was not involved in the disunity and disarray. Well HAI why just talk about unity in the third person, state unequivocally that you support the three time duly elected and legitimate leader of the Party TODAY and call the spectacle that is LBT and the six angry men exactly what it is.... a spectacle. Minnis for sure has not performed like a star and has hurt himself with some self-inflicted wounds and therefore has his detractors, of which I am one. However, the fact of the matter is that he is the duly elected leader of the Party, having won on multiple occasions fair and square and he did not use the trickery that the PM had to stoop to to win. As I see it there are still several strategic avenues that can be exploited but time is running out. However, most of those strategic avenues would require HAI to become apart of the solution and not the problem and therein resides the rub. HAI has always been only for HAI as he needs the glory to feed his non-satiable ego. The fact of the matter is HAI wanted to be PM and maybe had a issue with LOP but to me appears to be quite comfortable with PGC as PM. In short HAI is still a PLP at heart.

Please enlighten us with your deep and exclusive wisdom.

Wow! Now you talking straight up Bull Dutta. Just shut up man because what you are saying just makes absolutely no sense.

Very irresponsible statement! This is and should never be a partisan issue.

Should be "who" then in turn purchases medical services.

This report from KPMG is nothing short of professional malpractice. While the report boost about the projected GDP growth benefit to the economy of $500 million in its headline, buried deep into the report is an opaque statement the the costs of implementing and executing NHI will actually exceed the $500 million dollar benefit to GDP. One may ask a common sense question like, "if the economic costs of NHI will exceed the economic benefits of NHI how then can KPMG claim that NHI will provide a GDP boosts to the economy". The answer is that KPMG can do so because of the manner in which GDP is calculated. GDP is only concerned about what is produced or demanded by society, it is not concerned about how that production is funded and therein lies the rub, What KPMG is not saying is how this $500 million increase in GDP is going to be funded and the reason for that is because it is likely to be funded by the government or by higher taxes. If it is funded by the government it will be exactly similar to the government giving a subsidy to the administrators and each patient of NHI how then in turn purchases medical services. In short a government funded social program or stimulus or whatever you want to call it. In this scenario GDP will increase but the national debt also increases at a time when we have just been downgraded for too much debt. This GDP increase will add nothing, zero, nadda, zilch to our sustainable economic growth or development and the costs of NHI due to the endemic free rider and moral hazard problems in the Bahamas will explode well beyond the $500 million projection leaving us with an empty bag of increased national debt to show for NHI. So KPMG and Christie shame on you for misleading the Bahamian people.

It is you that need an education comrade! I do not engage in idle talk for the sake of blogs. I know of what I speak.

Zakary you absolutely correct about the lack of innovation and ingenuity of the merchant class and Bahamians in general. What is interesting is that as much as we may malign these little black numbers boys, what is undeniable is that their innovative thinking and their technological ingenuity has produced locally intricate systems that are more scalable, efficient and cost effective than even the systems of our dinosaur predatory commercial foreign banks who are more interested in repatriating their profits earned off the backs of Bahamians back to their Canadian citizens as fast as possible.

The Finlayson family has failed at every business it entered!