One born every minute. Anyway I am starting a scheme where you pay me $500 for a return on 1000 coconut trees that will be planted next year. Investors will be assured of a return of $2000 in the not to distant future. Please apply to the fairy godfather, cloud avenue, planet earth.

There is no easy solution as long as you have young ill educated unemployed young men but maybe cameras like they have everywhere in the UK being placed in crime hot spots might be a start.

Maybe you should ask the same question of some of the pastors who live extravagant lifestyles on the backs of their often struggling congregation.

Whilst I agree with the general trend of your comments it is a ridiculous situation where home grown and produced products such as Kalik are cheaper in the USA than here, where Bamsi produces nothing that the ordinary farmer cannot already produce rather than producing vegetables that are presently imported at great cost and finally with oil prices at an all time low did you notice air fares drop, mail boat freight charges drop, food prices drop-No because merchants rarely pass on any savings. Can you begin to understand the price of ONE tomato in a family island shop costing $2.00 .

I can buy 6 good clean s/h Japanese cars for the price of 1 average American car. Bought a new truck once-never again. $18500 in Nassau $9.500 in USA ?

The troubling problem is that so many die hard PLP supporters are so woefully lacking in any understanding of the bigger picture and have their heads stuck in the sand. Minnis is right to get the wasteful spending under control and the double dipping that is going on. Mind you why iis the Director of Education still employed and way past retirement age, why are costly projects still continuing , why do local clinics have little or no medical supplies but have three or four recently employed persons with nothing to do, The long term risks to the country of any future downgrading are to unpleasant to contemplate.

These scams take place everywhere. Sounds like either an outright quick cash scam or the makings of a Pyramid scheme where initial investors get paid out by the next set of investors..
Mind you whist not coming under the heading of scams I have to question why a local beer Kalik Platinum had just gone up by $4 a case from $50 a case to $54 a case a rise of just over 12%. Funny how items rise by such large amounts. As for buying Bahamian, WHY when even local produced items often cost more expensive than imported items ?

As a Bahamian I love all this blame the foreigner crap, no wonder nobody wants to invest here with all this underlying hatred. Face facts the PLP practiced third world economics and spent spent and spent again whilst ignoring the maintenance and replacement of old and inefficient utilities. Christie was smart because if power and light had succeeded in making a go of the power situation he would (if re-elected) have taken the credit but if they failed then its back to blaming the foreigner. As a country we have had plenty of time to get our economy in order train people and run our own show but seem happy to accept cash donations and volunteer help when it suits us but put out this same old "blame the foreigner mantra" .Remember it is our own black Bahamians that have the power and freedom to make these choices.

I sympathize with the dealerships but years ago I bought a new vehicle but one year old from standing unsold. Cost $19800. Same brand new vehicle in USA $9500. j You can get parts for these cars and literally buy 4 or 5 for the cost of one average new American car. Duty is way to high and successive governments seem to not understand this. Added to which if you own a new car on a Family island and repairs done under guarantee mean the customer footing the shipping. If I get 5 years out of an immaculate clean fuel efficient Japanese car I can afford to throw it away and buy a new one and have it shipped to me for a minimum savings of $15-2000.

Everything was timed to happen just before the election, like the hirings,contracts etc. How long do these PLP idiots expect to lie to us.