Many foreign home owwners either find it difficult to pay their property tax or deliberately never pay it and upon sale come to an agreement to pay a portion. So 10 or 15 or 20 years of lost revenue, lost interest and inflation reducing the value for the government.

Bad leadership. The re-lection of any MP depends upon the public in that constituency making visible improvements whether they be infrastructure or services. Hank Johnson the MP for South and Central Eleuthera was never a polished career politician but an excellent community worker, hated by some and loved by others but he got things done within his community, BUT he was all but excluded from funding major projects to improve roads, docks, schools and health facilities. Just look at what Clay has done already, for example just look at the road resurfaced with tarmacadam, and clinic refurbishment. If the PLP can give Clay Sweeting the funds to do these things where the hell was Minnis and his "its the peoples time" funding for the FNM Eleuthera MP ? Your problem does not require any advisory consultants just good leadership and concrete visible improvements.

This iscthe root cause of our problems in that since independance government policies. have been made simply to hold on to power as opposed to approaching infrastructure and costs as a business requiring profit and investment. It really is simple Mr Davies, no commision is needed. . You cannot continue to generate electricity at a price lower than the cost of producing it. Yes it is painful but all you are doing is kicking the can down the road, addingt to the national deb t and leaving no room to reinvest in modern generating equipment.

Having been a true unpaid volunteer for over 20 years raising thousands of dollars it was obvious that the asumption that anyone involved with cash or goods normally takes a cut. Having personally been accused of misapropriation of funds on a local forum without any proof whatsoever I can empathise with this lady .

As one example under the FNM teachers were given a $1500 gift . Why do this nonsense when under fiscal problems. Governments are just like councils in other countries, never look at ways of saving expendoture just up the rates. If businesses were run like governments they would all be bankrupt.

And bought from a local well known ex PLP minister, and nowhere the water.

Is Dr Darville aware that on several family islands there are self funded , efficient ambulance services manned by unpaid and unrecognised volunteers. These ministers fly around, shuttled around by the appropriate PLP or FNM lackys, hire car, free lunch but never care to meet these volunteers. The previous PLP government drew up plans, awarded contracts and paid a local contractor hundreds of thousands of dollars to level a hill for the proposed hospital in Palmetto Point. As per usual, pm visited with huge delegation, speeches,, etc etc and now P Point has a curry hill big enough to ski on, and of course no hospital.Money is wasted time and time again. On one family island the cost of a chartered medical flight to the capital varies enormously often with no official reciept being given. I very much doubt that anything will ever change.

Dear Ms Hanna,
Education has been in a mess for years under both PLP and FNM.. In 40 years of teaching I have seen incompetent Directors, fleeting visits to the family islands using rental cars, paid for lunches and absolutely no results except words and speeches. As for regular supplies especially on the family islands what a joke. Year after year chemistry departments have (maybe) 20 year old equipment and chemicals, woodwork departments sporadic wood supplies, cheap Indian woodwork tools that break within weeks, Cuban teachers who can barely speak English, are here for what they can buy and take back, even teaching subjects that they are not trained for. Hiring expat / Cuban teachers when you have retired skilled local teachers willing to work but ignored in favor of Cuban teachers. Skilled , qualified, experienced Bahamian teachers who will never become principals because they don't talk the talk or have no high up connections. Advertsing promotional positions when we all know existing employees are already in line for these positions. As for Principals, there are some very good ones but also Principals in those positions who are arrogant ,have no people or organisational skills. As for virtual learning, pray what planet are you on ? On family islands in particular so many students don't have internet, don't have desktop ot laptop computers ,don't have a regular electricity supply and finally are unwilling to work even when in a class with a teacher..

Seem to remember the PLP campaigning on several issues one of which was the severe methods used by the FNM to handle the covid crisis. . Oops reality strikes home.

Unbelievable, The PLP last time in power terminated so many FNM workers in the civil service and played the usual "hire our supporters" game. This is an obvious veiled warning that some FNM,s will be fired to make way for PLP supporters promised jobs during the election. What is really needed is the termination of so many people in made up jobs or jobs that they are not qualified for, to reduce a bloated expensive civil service.