What a shame former Prime Minister Minnis did not put in place the Freedom of Information Act while he was in power. Now, as an ordinary Bahamian - like the rest of us - he would be able to benefit from that Act and obtain the information he seeks.
What goes around comes around.
Wait another five years sir and when you become a dictator again then you can get the info. In the Bahamas we have "elected" dictators. There is no democracy here.
No Freedom of Information Act. No freedom. No information.
The people of the Bahamas keep voting in the same people half-decade after half-decade - the same people, the same Parties, the same results. The Bahamian people have received their end of the bargain - paid in full.
The agreement was, come out get your chicken and drinks, listen to the free music at the rally, dance and sing - get your t-shirts and bumper stickers, hats and pins. Then go and vote for the people who could afford to put on those big shows and give you those trinkets.
They did their part by providing all of the above THEN you did your part by voting them back in power. It was an arranged deal, completely fulfilled by both sides. I don't see why there is reason to complain at this late date.
That chicken, the one that comes home to roost, just got a tattoo on his leg last week. It says FTZ. I figure that's pretty good spelling for a chicken.
So what report are they "demanding"??? lol. The Central Bank has no power !!! Zero power to demand anything. Remember when the female governor just kept sending letter after letter to BOB prior to their meltdown about 17 years ago???
In addition, this is just STUPID on the whole because bahamians were not allowed. not allowed to have accounts at FTX, just like we are never allowed to have anything that other residents of this planet can have.
I wish the Tribune would stop assisting the Government by printing these STUPID reports on VAT. What difference does it make how much VAT money is put into the Treasury? Seriously. What difference does it make? We have no idea where that money goes.
As was said many times in 2016, "Where the VAT money gone?" That is still unanswered. Our debt is soaring and what payments are being made on it with VAT money that was designed in 2014 and has run around a billion dollars each year? Have we paid 8 billion dollars so far on our national debt? Of course not. Do politicians fly all over the world in jets and stay at luxury hotels? Of course they do. Will WE pay the price when our currency is devalued like Jamaica? Of course we will. Will they be OK and just fine while we suffer. Of course they will.
Tribune - please stop helping them to pretend like they are doing something for us. It would not matter if VAT money had risen by 300% instead of 15%. Nothing would change in this country.
FNM may want to know whatever they think BUT in this country the Leader of His Majesty'a Official Opposition has no power under the Constitution (aka New Slave Agreement) to know anything. Nothing!!!
He ought to know his job is to keep his mouth shut for 5 years. Well, he can TALK but that's all he can do.
Finances are kept secret !!!
When his Party was in power, they did not make the law fair in that regard, so now he can suck teeth.
JokeyJack says...
What a shame former Prime Minister Minnis did not put in place the Freedom of Information Act while he was in power. Now, as an ordinary Bahamian - like the rest of us - he would be able to benefit from that Act and obtain the information he seeks.
What goes around comes around.
Wait another five years sir and when you become a dictator again then you can get the info. In the Bahamas we have "elected" dictators. There is no democracy here.
No Freedom of Information Act. No freedom. No information.
On ‘How many taxi plates have been issued?’
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JokeyJack says...
The people of the Bahamas keep voting in the same people half-decade after half-decade - the same people, the same Parties, the same results. The Bahamian people have received their end of the bargain - paid in full.
The agreement was, come out get your chicken and drinks, listen to the free music at the rally, dance and sing - get your t-shirts and bumper stickers, hats and pins. Then go and vote for the people who could afford to put on those big shows and give you those trinkets.
They did their part by providing all of the above THEN you did your part by voting them back in power. It was an arranged deal, completely fulfilled by both sides. I don't see why there is reason to complain at this late date.
On Power to the people?
Posted 28 November 2022, 10:01 a.m. Suggest removal
JokeyJack says...
That chicken, the one that comes home to roost, just got a tattoo on his leg last week. It says FTZ. I figure that's pretty good spelling for a chicken.
On BAHAMAS REBUTS FTX ACCESS CLAIMS: Securities Commission given lawful permission to transfer assets to ‘a safer space’
Posted 19 November 2022, 1:05 p.m. Suggest removal
JokeyJack says...
Whatever they did im sure did "save" millions for Bahamians, but probably only 39 of them.
On Pintard says minister ‘misled House’ on BPL fuel hedging
Posted 18 November 2022, 9:37 a.m. Suggest removal
JokeyJack says...
So what report are they "demanding"??? lol. The Central Bank has no power !!! Zero power to demand anything. Remember when the female governor just kept sending letter after letter to BOB prior to their meltdown about 17 years ago???
In addition, this is just STUPID on the whole because bahamians were not allowed. not allowed to have accounts at FTX, just like we are never allowed to have anything that other residents of this planet can have.
On ‘Minimal exposure’: Central Bank demands FTX report
Posted 16 November 2022, 9:35 a.m. Suggest removal
JokeyJack says...
I wish the Tribune would stop assisting the Government by printing these STUPID reports on VAT. What difference does it make how much VAT money is put into the Treasury? Seriously. What difference does it make? We have no idea where that money goes.
As was said many times in 2016, "Where the VAT money gone?" That is still unanswered. Our debt is soaring and what payments are being made on it with VAT money that was designed in 2014 and has run around a billion dollars each year? Have we paid 8 billion dollars so far on our national debt? Of course not. Do politicians fly all over the world in jets and stay at luxury hotels? Of course they do. Will WE pay the price when our currency is devalued like Jamaica? Of course we will. Will they be OK and just fine while we suffer. Of course they will.
Tribune - please stop helping them to pretend like they are doing something for us. It would not matter if VAT money had risen by 300% instead of 15%. Nothing would change in this country.
On VAT’s ‘real’ 15% rise since January’s cut
Posted 15 November 2022, 12:58 p.m. Suggest removal
JokeyJack says...
Since your Party passed the Freedom of Information Act (LOL) you can just get the info thru that right?
lol. lol. lol
On Pintard demands account of public funds to BPL
Posted 15 November 2022, 9:52 a.m. Suggest removal
JokeyJack says...
Jungle Justice
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JokeyJack says...
FNM may want to know whatever they think BUT in this country the Leader of His Majesty'a Official Opposition has no power under the Constitution (aka New Slave Agreement) to know anything. Nothing!!!
He ought to know his job is to keep his mouth shut for 5 years. Well, he can TALK but that's all he can do.
Finances are kept secret !!!
When his Party was in power, they did not make the law fair in that regard, so now he can suck teeth.
On CRIMINAL PROBE OF FTX LAUNCHED...while FNM wants to know if government was left exposed
Posted 14 November 2022, 9:21 a.m. Suggest removal
JokeyJack says...
No, not forever - just only until it's too late.
On 'Shanty towns will not go unchecked forever’
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