Remove the VAT Doc. The average person in The Bahamas cannot afford to eat healthy. I do not eat fast foods. What is outrageous are prices at supermarkets being hiked up daily, e.g. a small bag of onions at a popular supermarket used to be a little over $2:00 one week, then hiked to $4.45 the next week, then add the poisonous VAT. One orange or one apple costs over a dollar, same with tomatoes and other produce. And Im not even talking “organic”. I am referring to imported grade F produce that are already half rotten. Check that bag of oranges that costs almost $8.00 without the VAT, rotten. Do we have “price control” in The Bahamas?
"Porcupine for Prime Minister"!!. Seriously mean it. The Bahamas is in urgent dire need of brilliant minds like yours and immediate action, and I agree with what you wrote 100%.
I had hoped this FNM government would go with Florida Power and Light or its parent company for Solar or any alternative affordable clean energy but very disappointed in the FNM. We are in a crisis, and where is the Prime Minister? Silent. MIA. Why is he not addressing this on national TV? I also give up on Bannister, and the BPL Board.
Tribune Jan 8, 1973 “BEC have corrected problems and now we’re up to scratch and loadshedding is a thing of the past: PM. “We made a ‘boo boo’ and we ordered some engines that really didn’t perform up to scratch, but now we’re up to scratch and loadshedding is a thing of the past,” Prime Minister Lynden Pindling declared Friday at the official opening of the $15m Blue Hills Power-Water Complex. The period of 1967-1970 encompassed ‘The years the lights failed’ and ‘we shudder to think of them’ but with the coming online of the Blue Hills Complex’s generating power the energy crisis is over and the preliminary planning has been completed for the addition of further equipment third and fourth were cancelled.
Tribune Jan 25, 1973 "PM claimed recently it would be ‘a thing of the past’ but loadshedding again after trouble at Blue Hill plant: Ever since Prime Minister Lynden Pindling declared 20 days ago that load shedding was a ‘thing of the past’ the Bahamas Electricity Corp has been doing just that - loadshedding – at irregular intervals and in widely separated areas”
Nassau Guardian July 7, 1981 “Power cuts jolt island economy - further, this development has occurred right at the beginning of the Ministry of Tourism’s Goombay Summer promotional programme. Tourists have reportedly packed their bags en masse, especially those on pre-packaged group tours, and left for other destinations.
Tribune July 11, 1981 “Concern over utilities: The constant malfunctioning of the nation’s utility systems is causing citizens ‘intense concern over their and their country’s future economic welfare’, Official Opposition leader Normon Solomon told the House of Assembly. The nation’s major industry ‘tourism’ he said, has been dealt another severe and adverse blow. Thousands of vacationers who were here to enjoy a July 4th holiday soon found themselves on their way home filled with disgust and defamatory comments about the Bahamas, he said.”
Tribune Oct 25, 1983 “Dark night for PLP delegates: PLP delegates attending the opening session of the party’s national convention at the Holiday Inn hotel last night were forced to leave the convention hall around 9pm, fanning themselves frantically with their programmes, when a power failure plunged Paradise Island into darkness for about 45 minutes. Lady Pindling wilts in the heat of the Holiday Inn as the power was cut for about 45 minutes, delaying her husband’s speech by an hour, at the opening of the PLP’s 28th Annual Convention last night.”
Raptor22 says...
The no brainer looked better with "black" hair.
On ALICIA WALLACE: Black and white lives - the conversation is long overdue
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Raptor22 says...
What an angry racist.
On ALICIA WALLACE: Black and white lives - the conversation is long overdue
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Remove the VAT Doc. The average person in The Bahamas cannot afford to eat healthy. I do not eat fast foods. What is outrageous are prices at supermarkets being hiked up daily, e.g. a small bag of onions at a popular supermarket used to be a little over $2:00 one week, then hiked to $4.45 the next week, then add the poisonous VAT. One orange or one apple costs over a dollar, same with tomatoes and other produce. And Im not even talking “organic”. I am referring to imported grade F produce that are already half rotten. Check that bag of oranges that costs almost $8.00 without the VAT, rotten. Do we have “price control” in The Bahamas?
On 'We're eating ourselves into an early grave'
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Raptor22 says...
"Porcupine for Prime Minister"!!. Seriously mean it. The Bahamas is in urgent dire need of brilliant minds like yours and immediate action, and I agree with what you wrote 100%.
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Raptor22 says...
and that's a fact !!!
On Falling short: Minnis addresses power crisis - but blackouts go on
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As for Paul Maynard he is against Solar, for many obvious reasons.
https://thenassauguardian.com/2019/01/0…
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I had hoped this FNM government would go with Florida Power and Light or its parent company for Solar or any alternative affordable clean energy but very disappointed in the FNM. We are in a crisis, and where is the Prime Minister? Silent. MIA. Why is he not addressing this on national TV? I also give up on Bannister, and the BPL Board.
On Crisis? This is a catastrophe – Maynard warns ‘no end it sight’ for blackouts
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Tribune Jan 8, 1973 “BEC have corrected problems and now we’re up to scratch and loadshedding is a thing of the past: PM. “We made a ‘boo boo’ and we ordered some engines that really didn’t perform up to scratch, but now we’re up to scratch and loadshedding is a thing of the past,” Prime Minister Lynden Pindling declared Friday at the official opening of the $15m Blue Hills Power-Water Complex. The period of 1967-1970 encompassed ‘The years the lights failed’ and ‘we shudder to think of them’ but with the coming online of the Blue Hills Complex’s generating power the energy crisis is over and the preliminary planning has been completed for the addition of further equipment third and fourth were cancelled.
Tribune Jan 25, 1973 "PM claimed recently it would be ‘a thing of the past’ but loadshedding again after trouble at Blue Hill plant: Ever since Prime Minister Lynden Pindling declared 20 days ago that load shedding was a ‘thing of the past’ the Bahamas Electricity Corp has been doing just that - loadshedding – at irregular intervals and in widely separated areas”
Nassau Guardian July 7, 1981 “Power cuts jolt island economy - further, this development has occurred right at the beginning of the Ministry of Tourism’s Goombay Summer promotional programme. Tourists have reportedly packed their bags en masse, especially those on pre-packaged group tours, and left for other destinations.
Tribune July 11, 1981 “Concern over utilities: The constant malfunctioning of the nation’s utility systems is causing citizens ‘intense concern over their and their country’s future economic welfare’, Official Opposition leader Normon Solomon told the House of Assembly. The nation’s major industry ‘tourism’ he said, has been dealt another severe and adverse blow. Thousands of vacationers who were here to enjoy a July 4th holiday soon found themselves on their way home filled with disgust and defamatory comments about the Bahamas, he said.”
Tribune Oct 25, 1983 “Dark night for PLP delegates: PLP delegates attending the opening session of the party’s national convention at the Holiday Inn hotel last night were forced to leave the convention hall around 9pm, fanning themselves frantically with their programmes, when a power failure plunged Paradise Island into darkness for about 45 minutes. Lady Pindling wilts in the heat of the Holiday Inn as the power was cut for about 45 minutes, delaying her husband’s speech by an hour, at the opening of the PLP’s 28th Annual Convention last night.”
On Crisis? This is a catastrophe – Maynard warns ‘no end it sight’ for blackouts
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Blackouts / loadshedding began after PM Pindling was elected
On Crisis? This is a catastrophe – Maynard warns ‘no end it sight’ for blackouts
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"Yes"
On Did Minnis jinx Saxons?
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