Makes too much sense.

Were any lessons learned by our government visionaries?

Fine. I agree. Is this justification for putting an essential public service in private hands? "Privatization" has been the word of the day for most of our lifetimes now. Pray tell, the advances to society and the world's people. The game is rigged. If you don't understand this, you don't understand.

Mr. Allen,
You are spot on. However, in the time required to properly educate our population so as to understand what you are saying, sea level rise will have forced the migration and impoverishment of the majority of The Bahamian population.
Those who orchestrated the sale on BTC should be in jail.
We gave away our cash cow, at the same time insuring that we now receive some of the worst phone and internet service in the world, at the highest prices.
Politicians Do Not want a populace that can read and write.Their "success" depends upon the ignorance of those at their feet. .

Mr. Bowe fails to mention what every major study concludes has been happening to our people, our economy. The rich are getting richer and the poor poorer. Is this how nature works, or is this how our financial gurus have made it to be? The Bahamas places very very little tax burden on those who bring their money to our shores. We give them tax advantages that they cannot get in their home countries. So long as the rich can come here, be offered all sorts of incentives not available to Bahamians, bid up the price of real estate, and sway our political system, be they drug dealers or fashion moguls, then we will continue to see things become more difficult for the average Bahamian.
There should be no profit in banking. It is merely a valuable public service, just like policing or firefighting. that should be in the public sphere. We have merely been conditioned to accept that some people should be able to make a profit on this extractive enterprise.
Banking in The Bahamas has reached an all time low. BOB is a disaster of a "business model"
People like Mr. Bowe, clever and bright as they are, have been thoroughly indoctrinated into this dog eat dog world, yet still manage to call themselves Christians. The intellectual dishonesty is starkly sad.
Taxation that is regressive, like we have in The Bahamas, is wrong from a moral and Christian religious perspective. Anyone bright enough to get through college, yet won't admit that is simply what is called a hypocrite.
Until we do our own homework, we will be subject to the whims of a Bowe, or a Davis, or anyone else who has given up on the basic Christian tenets of compassion and fairness.
The root of most of our problems in this country come from dishonesty and hypocrisy. The bankers and politicians sell their snake oil, while our country continues to descend into financial madness and poverty for the many, Yet, we keep honoring them by placing them on the front page of our paper and voting them into office.
Sad.

We seen to miss one of the most obvious recurring issues affecting our finances. Other than wholesale government mismanagement
A horribly low productivity of our work force.
While our government is full of morons, who simply do not understand economics, including Mr. Davis, it doesn't help that we as a country don't seem to give a shite. About anything.
This is a generational issue that cannot be fixed by a government in 5 years time.

Banks should be a public service.
The Bank of the Bahamas, along with most banks are basically a criminal enterprise, if anyone has followed, or remembers history. In most of The Bahamian Family Islands, BOB costs our communities in both productivity and in money directly. The customer service is nonexistent nonsense as one waits and waits simply to be served. While their are many good and decent employees at our banks, it remains that the people of The Bahamas are shackled by the practices of these banks.
There should not be a profit incentive for banking. Just like we do not expect there to be profit in policing our streets. Banks merely facilitate our economic lives. They produce nothing. Banks merely place taxes on our money. It is difficult to live without a bank, and even more difficult to live with them.

Not a coinsidence, darkest day of the year, December 21, 2020. And the darkest set of commenters in Bahamian history. What, politically incorrect, but say it, human scum.

Exactly right! Disgusting.

You are a sick fluck. Why won't you disclose your identity, if I will? Weak pale office boy? Likes to hide, for good reason. Your job is done, get lost now.