> We have been informed that the International Monetary Fund has recommended this course of action to the Ministry of Finance.

Good reason not to do it. They certainly don't have ours (or any other nation's) best interests at heart. Dealing with the IMF is dealing with the devil.

Not to dogpile, but our power grid is held together with bubble gum and ducktape. The Bahamas is not ready for mainstream adoption of electric vehicles.

Tbh I truly doubt that Bahamians will ever evolve past the FNM/PLP circus simply because not enough honestly care about the country to ever make a change. The "as long as I got mines' mentality is so prevalent that not enough realize that there might not be anything left to take one day. Lincoln put up respectable numbers last time, but the fact is that 66k Bahamians voted for the exact same PLP running the same exact old sorry looking faces that they kicked out in droves 4.5 years earlier; if that isn't depressing than God knows what is. I get that Minnis was horrid and doing a bunch of crap with the lockdowns, but the solution is certainly not to vote in the same exact crew you kicked out for 4.5 years earlier for shitty performance. It was at that moment I realized that this country is completely doomed and nothing will ever change.

My personal take is that a complete outsider has to take power and completely destroy every stranglehold that the old establishment has on the political and economic processes in this country for things to ever improve. I don't have high hopes of that happening, so the most likely outcome is continued decline into truly third world standards of living (despite our difficulties, the Bahamas is a FAR better place to live than most third world countries) ie. complete erasure of the middle class, even more rampant crime and unchecked political corruption, out of control debt and inflation (the inflation topic is only going to become more prominent as the US dollar's status as a global reserve currency continues to erode). The future is not very bright IMO, but of course only God knows for sure.

Pit bulls are responsible for over 60% of dog bites in the United States. Only those in a state of pure delusion cannot see that it is absolutely a breed problem.

Who really believes this kabuki theater anymore? It makes no difference whether it's "FNM" or "PLP", they are the same organization and are all on board with the same agenda. They all get rich off of the taxpayer dime living lavish lifestyles, while working class Bahamians suffer even more. They all go to the same lodge and all have their children in the same expensive boarding schools. They play us for fools and the 60 IQ electorate of this country still shakes up their booty every 5 years for some fried chicken, rum, and a marlin in a hat thinking "it's going to be different this time".

I wish Bahamians would break out of this illusion of "choice". It makes no difference which one you vote for, you are still going eat the same shit sandwich at the end of the day.

Takes two to tango, last time I checked women open their legs for these dead beat men as well. You can't eat your cake and have it too, either women have agency to make their own decisions or they don't.

White? Like the Cohens, Nulands, Blinkens, Garfinkles, Kushners, etc.? You need to look closer, it's absolutely not the White man that is pushing the homosexual agenda or these malicious laws designed to destroy the family unit.

The man is not wrong; people like pretend otherwise but there are plenty of women willing to lie for self gain or to simply spite a man that no longer serves their needs. The Johnny Depp trial from around a year ago is a good public example of this.

No woman should ever be subject to rape regardless of marital status, but there has to be a fair system to handle accusations that protects the rights of the accused as well. Otherwise, the system will only be used to defame the character of innocent men like happens so often in Western countries today.

Tal,

As far as I am aware we never signed on to the economic parts of caricom, and for very good reason. Our economy cannot support the natives much less thousands of more work permit holders functioning as scab labour. I for one am really sick and tired of work permits being given out for jobs that Bahamians can easily perform, I shit you not I know of a foreigner on a work permit for a local school teaching bahamian history. In my own industry I have to compete with Haitians trying to undercut me and American carpetbaggers trying to wedge their way in. Haitians need to go back and build up Haiti and Americans have 50+ states and territories that they can do business in, there really is no good reason for any of them to be here.

This. I won't believe they will ditch the business license regime until I see it. We got sold the same dream with VAT and duty. Our politicians thrive off of the electorate's short memory and collective stupidity.