Of course growth is sluggish ,simple reasoning tells you that all the taxes imposed upon the public mean less spare cash for investment and spending. Unfortunately a further downgrading is inevitable, higher VAT and devaluation very possible and still the Government will blame everybody else for their own failures. I can tell you now Mr Christie people are struggling to eat decent food, pay their bills and survive unlike yourself and cabinet who live in an alternative universe.

Has it ever entered their tiny minds that however hard you want something that the time has come to stop many projects, reduce the size of a bloated civil service and make departments accountable for losses. Watch out VAT will go up once the PLP gets back in. The Bahamas is fast pricing itself out of the holiday market.

Not a PLP supporter but Christie makes Minnis look like a rank amateur. Minnis has given this election away along with Butler. Sad but true.

VAT is a lifesaver ????

All of you who will vote PLP and were in awe of your politicians at the recent convention watch out when they return to office and raise VAT . Mind you Loretta and Minnis have done an admirable job of destroying the opposition .

Visitors complain frequently that cost of the Bahamian product is poor value and I bet that VAT will go up after these incompetents are re-elected. This will pay for all the extra hires and expenses incurred to please these individuals who will vote PLP soon.

One can only hope that independents hold the balance of power after the next election because Minnis can't even decide on a full slate of FNM candidates up to now.

From figures published expenditure rose and money borrowed increased as did the national debt.

Just unbelievable, it is the same as a married couple being deep in debt and about to loose their house when he gets a substantial pay raise. Pay of the mortgage debt----Hell no ,lets go and buy a big screen TV, expensive clothes and holiday. By the way the clinic in Exuma (sorry hospital) was completed sometime ago and never opened. How about gas prices where you pay tax (VAT) on a product already taxed. PLP supporters are so gullible you could sell them a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

Everything is stacked against him even if he was the best candidate in the Bahamas.