They are unable to do that. The MOF software has separate account abilities, but nobody really knows how to use them. Besides, it does not link with Swiss accounts, so that may be a problem. Also, I doubt very much that a single dollar of this so-called annual revenue has yet been received.

However, overriding all of the above is the fact that Bahamians really don't care about money - and are happy to pay 10% VAT and 45% import duty. You will see just how happy they are on July 10th. Watch the streets. Singing, drinking, dancing, you name it. Happy happy people. Government should raise VAT to 100% and Duty to 200% the we won't have any debt, the economy will stop completely, and Bahamians will be even more poor - but trust me, they will be MUCH more happy.

Exactly. Local Government boards will not be allowed to open bank accounts and keep some portion of taxes collected for direct local use. Nope. Can't happen. If you mailing a letter from San Salvador to Exuma, it still has to travel through Nassau - so that tells you all you need to know. Numbered voting ballots, etc. We live in a veiled dictatorship, but then, so do the people in the USA. We are equally free (or unfree really). This remains the case due to election laws here and there and the state of education. An uneducated population cannot operate a democracy.

Since 2014 they haven't figured out how to tell us "Where the VAT money gone" - so I don't hold out any hope on this one.

I wonder if, for example, when people pay their light bill at a place like Omni - if Omni is required to tell the power company how much money they collected and for who? Probably yes. But why should they? Why can't they just collect people's money and keep it and spend it without any reporting whatsoever, just like government does?

But of course, if they did not report correctly to the power company - they would be put in court and possibly go to jail. They are just ordinary common dog citizens - not high and mighty government officials - that's probably the difference.

I like how Min Darville focuses only on the building issues - not the worker issues. Getting an appointment/promotion letter out of the Department of Public Service is near impossible. I knew someone in Social Services who had not been "confirmed" in her post after 12 years. Social Services and Nurses - it's just ridiculous. Luckily for them, Canada and USA will take them in a moment (if they have 2 years nursing experience). It's just crazy here.

Then you have the "even more crazy" situation which is it seems that air conditioners can work anywhere on the planet Earth - except Princess M Hospital. That foolishness has been going on way more than 10 years now. I wonder if the Auditor General could audit all monies spent on air conditioning the past 10 years? Of course not. The AG is not allowed to release any information from his/her investigations unless it has been tabled in the House of Assembly. We truly have amazing secrecy in this country when it comes to what happens to people's tax money - and that goes double for VAT money.

But, as I say, the people love it because they keep putting the same people in power.

RBDF should be given shoot to kill authorization. These migrants will get a majority here and then they will simply kill us. Persons in Abaco have had their cars torched because they were "outted" as anti immigrant.

Doc Sands ... what a joke. How does he expect bills to be paid? He must want our currency to be like Jamaica so Bahamians can be poorer dogs that he can control better on a financial leash.

Exactly !!! I just think some people simply are not happy unless they have a boogie man to be afraid of or to blame for something.

J Hall, people were forbidden by governments worldwide from having medication for this (whatever sickness it was) - that's why they got sicker and died.

Please ask several persons that you can find/know that went into hospital, WHAT medications they were given to take upon release and while at the hospital. The answer/s may shock you.

"... and health officials reclassified several other deaths that took place between August 2020 and June 2021."

Hey, if you go back to like 1975 you can get that number up to the tens of thousands.

Poor people need to voluntarily control their fsmily size or starve or die of viruses.
Time's up. Time to control their penises.
Too many poor starving people for too many decades. That will now come to an end nicely or not nicely. Their choice. The powers that be have had enough.

Yes, you are correct. But of course UK won't suspend our "Constitution" (Independence Order of their Parliament) and take us over because they don't care about us.
Bahamians will still be dancing on July 10th. Bahamians dont care about Bahamians either.
Don't Stop the Carnival.