The comparison between Brexit and the Bahamas is far from accurate. Britain can and will trade once outside the EU and will prosper but the Bahamas is on the edge of a very real precipice and if the IMF have to step in then life will be even tougher for the middle class.

We need independent MP's to hold the balance of power but whoever gets in is going to have to take some pretty drastic action to get the country back on track. Given the decaying, antiquated and downright inefficient infrastructure and huge national debt it is hard to see what can be done that will not seal the fate of the next government to one term

Christ Birdie you need to travel the world and see what real first world governments do rather than practice national discrimination. You need to wake up and realise that the world doesn't need the Bahamas, and can invest in many more affordable countries. As for the salary differential theory one can only assume that you have been taking drugs..

Foreigners may be leaving the sinking ship but sure as hell the Captain and officers will have their own lifeboat whilst the average Bahamian sinks.

Yeah right and I'm the tooth fairy.

Oh good electricity never got cheaper, fuel never got cheaper and oil prices are due to rise, why the f--k do you expect foreigners to keep propping up this corrupt and totally fiscally incompetent government and stay here.

Typical dictator style African financial attitude. There is no way this government seems able to reign in expenditure. Look at all the school athletes going to Nassau this week and being put up at the expensive hotels at the government expense. The time is come to stop so many of these wasteful schemes. Yes it will hurt but not half as much as devaluation and the IMF. Mind you Bradley Roberts is a mindless ignorant deluded individual with little or no sense.

"check you tomorrow"a great Bahamian saying when owing or providing a service. Tragedy is that the genuine hard working entrepreneur get lumped in with all the others.

As a foreigner/expat there is a definite discrimination albeit unwritten. As a long time serving expat teacher of 40 years it was moved at the Bahamas Union of Teachers Annual General Meeting several years ago that long serving expat teachers be entitled to a teachers pension like their Bahamian colleagues. The overwhelming cries of "no" and "no way" resounded through the conference hall. And guess what the slogan of this union clearly displayed and shouted at the end of each meeting is "solidarity". If this country ever aspires to be first world then they need to start acting in a humane and legal manner. I wondered in my case and that of other expat teachers (very few in number) who decided to make the country their home why we doing the same job as our Bahamian colleagues and more in many cases should we be second class when retiring or legally and morally entitled to any other benefits.

Wouldn't it be interesting to have the PM or DPM host a televised question time attended by journalists with direct and pertinent questions such " Sir can you explain why in this day of computer records is so much money missing from the road traffic department and why nobody has been prosecuted to date"