Your premise is a bit flawed in the sense that someone doesn't need to discharge a firearm to be considered an active threat. Simply having a gun pointed at you is more than enough reason to be in fear for your life and justify the use of deadly force.

The EU is nothing more than a vassal of the US at this point, and the little economic and political independence that it had is now gone thanks to the economic suicide that they have brought upon themselves for the past six months. Talk to the people in charge and not to the jokers who pretend that they have some influence on what goes on in the world. The EU will soon have much more pressing matters to worry about as winter approaches anyways; freezing to death is a much bigger concern than harassing us.

Yeah, I would think that it would lose most of it's value considering that Dorian destroyed practically everything in the community.

Kovats is a joker and I said from the beginning that it was a waste of time even entertaining someone who would not put down a performance bond. That being said, I don't think that selling Treasure Cay to a committee is a good idea either. Plenty of questions as to who is going to be in charge and where the money to develop it will come from. Treasure Cay is dead in the water at this point as far as I can see.

Not that I disagree with the gist of your comment, but most wealthy individuals are born into it. Success stories are rare and few, and people can still fail at their goals despite trying their best.

The Bahamas is starting to develop an international reputation for this crap. It needed to stop a long time ago.

I think that a lot of this is a moot point in the sense that marriage as an institution is on life support at this moment. Marriage rates are the lowest that they have ever been since recording started, and I see nothing that indicates the downward trend will reverse any time soon.

No where did I see anything about slashing government spending which is a must if the financial situation is ever going to be improved. The IMF will do it if Bahamian governments are too afraid to.

You should be well informed enough to know that businesses in this country pay license fees on GROSS revenue and not NET like literally every other part of the world does. Too bad if your business records a loss for that year, it is time to pay up; government needs money for their five star hotels and first class plane tickets abroad.

Regarding an income tax, are you really naive enough to believe that poor people are not going to pay that as well? This was the same exact argument used to bring income tax to America, that poor people would not have to pay anything. Fast forward a 100+ years and we clearly see that was a bunch of baloney. Are there even any wealthy Bahamians left that are not politically connected? Do you really think that the numbers boys will have to pay? The quality of your posts here suggest that you really cannot be naive enough to believe that there will not be any tomfoolery going on.

We need to starve this monster, not keep feeding it.

Bahamians must love this treatment though, because they sure go to the polls every election to reelect the same exact people doing the same exact foolishness.

I did not vote for the PLP or FNM last election, and will not vote for either in the foreseeable future barring a massive "come to Jesus" moment for one or both. I have zero idea why anyone would continue to vote for these proven failures knowing full well that they are never going to do anything different. Guess that fried chicken and rum at those rallies must taste real good.

Some people definitely did die from COVID, but I absolutely do not trust the governments numbers considering that 1.) there was never any distinction between death FROM or with covid and 2.) that there is a financial incentive to label deaths as related to COVID. My comment was more snark towards the notion that all of us who refused the clotshot would be dead by now and that the famous "winter of death" was coming to kill us almost a year ago.

As an aside, the whole COVID debacle will go down in history as one of the worst international embarrassments known to man. I vividly remember all the people who wanted to throw those of us who refused the clotshot in prison, or have us go bankrupt. I actually had someone wish that I catch COVID and die because I refused it. Sadly, those people will never reflect on how wrong they were and and are now trying to memory hole everything that happened last year. I will not forget.