VAT is not a BEC law, it is the law of the land. The statement he made was not consistent with the law, that is the point being made here. Further, it is not a journalist's job to assume someone's comments are accurate, it is their job to check that it is. Miller is always talking foolishness, but how often is he checked for it?

For the sake of the country, let's hope you don't happen to hold a position of influence in the Opposition, because it seems you do not know what the purpose of a convention is in a democratic political organization. Hunt never openly campaigned against her leader at any stage. On convention floor though, people vote as is their right to (or as they are paid to as was reported in the FNM's convention). Then again you may very well be an active FNM, because we all know how ungrateful many FNMs are and how they toss their people to the side like trash after they have had productive use of them. The way you have torn Hunt down is evidence of this. So she is only worth something so long as she worships one man? This is the message being sent to the young Bahamians that political parties keep claiming to support? The Opposition is doomed with thinking like this. They might as well give the PLP the crown again right now and not even bother encouraging people to dirty their thumbs because right now the FNM is behaving alot like the PLP they always complain about.

True. It's a major problem in the media in general in this country. Almost anything someone says into a microphone gets printed or aired with no balance, no context, no fact checking. All everyone wants is column inches, a headline or a soundbyte; true journalism be damned.

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True, though atleast the PLP had the good political sense to squash the Andre Rollins fodder, at least for now. As for the gender equality point, coming from Roberts it is laughable for sure, but in the main it certainly holds water. That snap convention held by the FNM last year was held for one reason only, and that was to remove a woman from the deputy position she held. The leader of the FNM made no secret about that and in fact often bragged about it, telling many that his sole intent was to get rid of Loretta Butler Turner. And now two months into this new team, the first decision their leader makes is to cut down another woman, all because she supported the woman the leader wanted gone. It doesn't look good for the FNM right now in terms of how its active female politicians are being treated.

Frankly I fault the Tribune for running Leslie's comments in the first place without any balance, since BEC as a VAT registrant is required by law to charge the 7.5% and since the government made no amendments to the VAT Act to permit BEC to charge less than 7.5%. Just another example of Leslie running off at the mouth talking foolishness that he talks on a regular basis, unchecked.

While Roberts should be the last person to talk about the treatment of women, the point made is a legitimate point. Mr. Minnis knows he got rid of a young active female in his group for purely self-centered and insecure reasons. Everyone who knows what is going on knows the serious leadership problem all three prominent parties have. As for the FNM, those who know, know that the leader of that party only wants mindless sycophants or yes men around him who tell him every day how wonderful he is while the country is going to hell. If any of these political parties really had the country's interests at heart, they would stop supporting people in their upper ranks who are doing nothing but making matters worse for any Bahamian who actually has something productive to offer to his or her nation, whether it be in or out of politics. FNMs know Ms. Hunt was forced out simply because she was not a lap dog to their leader's sublime sense of self and because she has a mind of her own - a characteristic the FNM claims to embrace. The FNM is not building a party of change agents, they are amassing a gaggle of strange agents.

This is a wholly stupid - pun intended.

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No he won't. What they believe to be his political affiliation would disqualify him from such patronage.