Bodie,
With all due respect, you need help.
You have virtually no grasp of reality and your words are helping to hold this country back.

Ms. Thompson,

You are completely correct in your assessment.
We talk about Haiti, as if we are that far off from a similar situation here. Are we really?
Isn't there a point that The People finally say "enough"?
Can anyone look at the clownish activities in Parliament and say The People are being represented?
The bottom line is that our leadership class has failed completely.
And, we have failed to educate our people to hold these jokers in check.
I think we have run out of time, quite frankly, Ms. Thompson..
The social and political changes needed will require a few generations, at best.
The changes will require our people to become educated and to speak out.
Speak out as one voice, as opposed to muttering under one's breath, as we do now.
Sea levels are rising and it is very likely our children will be facing chaotic conditions in The Bahamas in the very near future. Personally, I don't think there is time to right the ship.
Our "leaders" are not equipped, either intellectually or morally to look out for the country as a whole. There has been a culture of criminality in Bahamian government for too long. It has now permeated every facet of Bahamian life.
This same administration is as bad as any other one. Dragging this country further into debt and shunning all moral considerations of their actions.
Few are less qualified to lead this country than the administration now in power.
The working class is beyond being squeezed. The average Bahamian is struggling to pay their outrageous bills, fees and taxes that this government has helped impose on its own people, while allowing the rich, both foreign and domestic, to have a free ride in running this country.
These new boating regulations, passed by a group of clueless people in Parliament will further devastate the otherwise forgotten Family Islanders. Forget about the fact that we do not have reliable electricity, water, internet or health services, all the while Central Government says they want us to grow and prosper.
Nassau speaks for itself with regard to the rapidly declining social conditions.
Worse, our politicians seem to think things are fine and getting better. Or, so they say.
Criminality is rampant among the political class and they seem to think they are untouchable.,And, so far, what is to prove them wrong? The police are only concerned with street crime. The police, because they are politically appointed, have neither the intellectual resources, nor the moral stature to go after the real criminals in this country. The police are bought and paid for by the political class. They do not work for The People.
The real criminals in this country wear suits to work.
The contract situation alone is dragging this country down.
People who have no business getting contracts because of their shady past performance are still getting contracts today due to their party affiliation. We are all paying dearly for this sordid situation.

“Revisit the minimum global corporate tax requirement, as it infringes on sovereign nations’ autonomy to establish and manage their own tax systems,” the two largest advocacy groups in the Bahamian financial services industry argued."
Exactly!
Allow us to tax our own poor people to death, while allowing the rich foreigners to bring their wealth to our shores, for protection. No taxation needed for them.
That's real national sovereignty.
Yes, allow us to run all of our inefficient State Owned Enterprises on the backs of The People, while the foreigners are wined and dined at the best hotels and restaurants.
Excellent ideas.

Wow. Just wow.

sheeprunner12,
Be careful about asking pertinent questions.
The cost of enforcing these onerous regulations will far outweigh the revenue being brought in.
At some point, there will be a violent confrontation between the Fisheries officers or police and those Family Islanders who have simply had enough.
This truly seems to be an out of control government The people simply can't take any more taxes and rules.

Obviously not a boater and have no clue about the Family Islands.
A most ridiculous comment, birdie.

The most important takeaway from this report is that we need to completely replace the entire government.
Completely.
They have failed, or been part of the problem. Every one of them.
Yes, or no?

Now, also go tell everyone who wears a uniform in this country that a wearing uniform does not make them God. Especially the police.
"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely."
And, "The cult of personality" is a real thing, hey?
Crazy stuff going on in this world.

Isn't "bad optics" the same as bad reality?
What's the difference?

So the bible says the poor will always be with us, birdie,
Could that possibly mean to a thinking Christian that we will always have work to do, to take care of our brothers and sisters? Does it say we should get used to it? Turn our backs as we do now?
Illiterate people who claim to "read and comprehend" the bible, and then pontificate about said bible, are as dangerous as any devil.