Who is Maynard to talk, grabbing shop allocation in the new hotel, What about, Fitzgerald and the rest. Your party was riddles with corruption and there was no truthful communication with the public. We got tired of seeing PLP's getting jobs ahead of better qualified candidates, lack of tenders, Having referendum results and the wishes of the electorate totally ignored. Your party was totally corrupt and even your own supporters voted FNM just to get your crooked backsides out. Or are you to dumb to realize that you need the old guard out .

You mean FWEDDY

I am a supporter of the FNM but all of us have to recognize that the last government spent money like confetti , no accountability, payments made for work not done, no open bidding process to get the best value and on and on and on. With this in mind the infrastructure of the country has been left to decay. Time to swallow our pride and think with our brains not our emotions. Run power lines from Florida where there is an abundance of cheap electricity because this country is so deep in debt that further borrowing only brings the downgrading and devaluation closer and closer. Christie and his ilk have a lot to answer for ,they acted like the captain of a sinking ship ignoring the impending disaster, yet they expect the public to conduct their affairs such as paying taxes on time and paying their bills. So much to be done, for starters instead of making flowers richer with his gaming shops have a national lottery , collect taxes from all the foreign rental property owners, tax all the winter boaters a hook tax.

Be realistic, the new government has to get the facts, get evidence and then serve notice of prosecution. What will be a problem is if the public are fed generalities and not given specifics at to misappropriated funds and the NAMES of those involved.

"enter the real world of goevernance" ?????? You had 5 years to do what was needed and in your terms it mean't taxing the crap out of the public, still borrowing, running up a huge national debt, making the peoples station the PLP station, encouraging ministers to feather their own beds and fail to curtail all the stealing and waste. Yes the PLP did start some projects but with no thought as to how they would be funded in the future. The people spoke, get used to it.

So I insure my home against hurricane damage. For 5,6 or 7 years I make no claim. Then my house suffers hurricane damage. I pay the deductible and if I am lucky the insurance company agrees to fund the remainder. The following year because I took advantage of my insurance I am penalized by an increase in my premium. WHY ? In other words the insurance company is going to claw back their money. As one person said to me , you only have to put the premium away for 2 - 3 years and that will repair most damage. In essence hurricane insurance is far to expensive and the companies never say a word when years go by without a storm but cry poverty when they do have to pay out.

Disgusting. Any event like this should be thoroughly vetted and a large deposit demanded to cover these expenses. It really seems that some persons got their palms greased to circumvent normal customs and work permit procedures,

Reign in Mr Flowers and the numbers shops and have a national lottery, at least the country will get some income from it. Stop all current projects until a thorough evaluation can be done to see how much political patronage was included in awarding the contracts, whether there are cheaper and better solutions and is it needed at this moment in time.

A construction boss I know when discussing a long time "old school" employee said he wished he had ten like him as most of his younger workers think only of their paycheck and not going that extra mile or improving their skills. As for tax free zones that's crazy because all tax free items in that area will create a black market whereby goods are simply purchased in that zone and then taken out to other places and islands. How about reducing expenditure then remove VAT from a very limited and specific number of items such as electricity/medical and basic foodstuffs. Add a cent duty to gas, tax the winter residents renting homes, tax the hundreds of foreign boats anchored in Exuma all winter. Its a simple maths calculation to balance income and expenditure.

It was so blatantly obvious that it was a PLP political platform paid for by our taxes. The "peoples station" like hell it was. In talking about the nightly 7 pm news a friend of mine disclosed that only now has he started watching again as previously it was Perry-Perry and more Perry. In fact it should have been renamed the Perry Christie hour. On another note the programming is so out of date and out of tune. Every afternoon about the time when kids are going home after a long day in the classroom is this boring useless "a time for eduction". I would be surprised if more than 50 kids listened to it. Then Sat when there should be fun music we have the same old Junknoo talks with the same subjects being discussed week after week.
As for TV -that's a joke and most citizens and residents watch cable or Netflix. Time for a great change.