Business-owners who expected anything different had to have been wishing on a star. The story is the same throughout the Caribbean as pertains to VAT refunds. And this government - which owes just about everybody - is going to be late to its own funeral, so there was no hope under the sun or moon that business-owners would not be handled this way.

Successive governments need to stop this irresponsible, unsustainable and unjust practice of taking on private liabilities for political expediency or otherwise.

This man is psychotic - Christie, that is.

Cry me a river. The reality of the situation is this - the PLP was not checking for Save the Bays all this time. Save the Bays isn't being terrorized, they are in the middle of a political war that they have a hand in creating. They decided to strike a political blow and the PLP - never to be outdone in how low they will go - decided to strike back. Am I supposed to cry if a bunch of adults are in a park throwing rocks at each other and one or the other gets hit? Getting hit is par for the course. And once this is all over, the PLP will go back to not checking for Save the Bays - all in a day's work in politics in this country. Meantime, everyday Bahamians are getting trampled by the system and these high-class "human rights activists" don't give them the time of day because they don't make for good headlines and wont get them a slot on the UN's roster of momentary popularity. That is what I cannot stomach. Louis Bacon, Peter Nygard, Fred Smith - these people **are not hurting.** They are living and twirling. It is the people in this country who are truly hurting despite their best efforts or desires to make it that concern me. Who fights for them? Who takes their plight to global agencies? People are being pushed into poverty, being killed extra-judiciously, being marginalized into permanent underclass, but Save the Bays wants us to cry with them to global agencies because they couldn't beat the PLP at a game of chess.

When will real victims of the system in this country get the attention and justice they deserve?

Two of the four amendments have nothing to do with illegal immigrants or foreigners - it is to do with the children of Bahamian women and Bahamian men - Bills 1 and 3 respectively.

And no re-wording of Bill #4 prevents Parliament from legislating same sex marriage if it so chooses. But because most Bahamians have never even read their Constitution, it is next to impossible to have an intelligent dialog about the same.

No it does not.

> it will be unlawful to make same sex marriage unlawful.

You are incorrect. Read the article of the Constitution (26) which Bill 4 proposed to amend. Start with Article 15, which is where our entrenched rights and protections begin and is the umbrella article for Article 26

This march was not political. I live in The Bahamas, where people seem almost wholly incapable of discerning anything in this country for its true merit and can only view things through the eyes of partisan support - often rabid and tribal in nature.

Bottom line - nothing gets done in this country unless someone is getting a kickback, and even then, the job is done piss poor - so that more kick backs can arise in order to fix the problems. Add to that the inevitable waste that comes from government management of services and you have the systemic rot that no one aspiring for power seems remotely interested in, knowledgeable about or competent in truly addressing and fixing. The type of political will required to address our problems would necessitate a politician essentially working himself or herself out of a job. How many aspiring politicians do you know who would enter politics to get kicked out of it shortly thereafter for doing what the country needs done? Once power is tasted or even imagined, the thirst and hunger for the same becomes immediately insatiable.