Good point, but i doubt if govt cares if sales and this VAT collection goes down or room tax goes down or NIB contributions go down - they will just raise VAT to 25% and then 50%. They already thinking about placing an income tax on all law abiding, NIB paying people.

Let's see if 75% stay home that day. They wont though. They will come out like a herd of sheep and beg for bread.

If the residents and businesses of that island show up and serve the cruise passengers on ship day, then they will return again.

Someday, i predict, the USA will have black mayors, governors, congressmen, senators and even a black president. Someday.

LOL. Can't find the words...sorry.

He is obviously unfamiliar with shipping norms in this country. We will get the 2nd shipment after Christmas.

... at the same time, I would add that she seems (to me) to be pretty useless to us in a practical way. What has she done to increase human rights here? Fox Hill Prison (new name don't change nuttin), conditions in children's homes and old folks homes. Whenever any of them (her or Charles or whoever) do come here they announce their coming weeks/months in advance to that government can "pretty up" - just like how the health inspectors here announce their inspection date to restaurants days ahead of time - LOL.

"In 1970, Guyana cut ties with the Queen as its head of state, followed by Trinidad and Tobago in 1976, and Dominica in 1978."

Hence the HUGE numbers of Bahamians applying for work/residence permits and marrying to get status in those three countries - LOL.

Maybe the Bahamas should wait until we can actually package and market the salt from Inagua right here in the Bahamas, and do the same with sugar. Why are we buying salt and sugar packaged abroad?

People who think we should get rid of the Queen do understand our Constitution. The PM is the leader of the majority party in the House, and gets to appoint the majority of Senators and gets to appoint (with the Queen's approval) the Governor General. He is a virtual dictator as we saw for several years preceding 1992. The only hope we have to not actually become a dictatorship is that some Governor General would actually stand up to him if he did something really crazy.

We've been talking about an elected Senator for years. Talking about Constitutional reform, talking about ..., and talking about.... Perhaps if the Bahamas wanted to have it's own "independent" talk show we could do that. We kinda good at talking - although severely limited by the libel laws (more than needed).

People wanting to remove the Monarchy have no idea what affects the price of bread in the food store.

Can't wait to get my new passport so I can travel nowhere. Like how he couldn't miss an opportunity to advertise the vaccine. Wonder if there was a cure for cancer if they would have to shove that down our throats also? People know when they smell a rat. If there was a cure for cancer and people found out about it, and saw their friends and relatives getting healed from it, you wouldn't have to spend one dollar advertising it - duh.

Don't you believe that. They will be out there drilling and carting away our oil just like the aragonite ships are doing all the time. The official word is those aragonite ships don't exist. So now the oil drilling ship won't exist either. Ok, great. Of course the Defense Force can't go down there and ensure they are not there drilling, just like they can't go to the aragonite ships.
Just read the newspapers and believe they are all gone. All is safe now - LOL. Go back to the dominos game.