As compared to what: Your rainbow age thinking?!

With respect to the external auditors, Deloitte & Touche (D&T), the financial statements of CLICO Bahamas and CLICO Enterprises did provide sufficient disclosures of their underlying investments outside of the Bahamas. However, D&T failed to disclose in their audit reports that the Bahamian regulators (then James Smith at the Central Bank and Dr. Brown at the Registrar of Insurance Companies) had "enabled" both CLICO Bahamas and CLICO Enterprises to violate local statutes and related regulations by effectively transferring the bulk of their real assets abroad (real assets that should have remained in the Bahamas to back the obligations of CLICO Bahamas to its annuity holders and policyholders) in exchange for related party inter-company loans and advances bearing unusually high yields in order to accommodate the usually high yields being paid to annuity holders in the Bahamas. D&T, Smith and Brown all ought to have known, simply by virtue of the unusually high interest rates being earned on borrowings from related parties abroad and in turn being paid to annuity holders in the Bahamas, that both CLICO Bahamas and CLICO Enterprises were increasingly becomingly nothing more than highly inappropriate Bahamian incorporated (and supposedly regulated) vehicles for the purpose of raising funds in the Bahamas from annuity holders and policyholders to make very inappropriate high risk speculative investments in other jurisdictions. In other words, Smith, Brown and D&T each failed in their duties to the annuity holders and policyholders of CLICO Bahamas by not blowing the whistle much sooner on the massive defrauding that occurred over several years right under their noses.

The Tribune's unwillingness and/or financial inability to invest a lot more than it currently does in rock solid investigative journalism has brought it to the brink of becoming a rag tag tabloid full of opinions and commentaries designed to mislead and deceive. The owners of this newspaper are allowing it to become increasingly irrelevant to its current readers and advertisers. Neil Hartnell may well be practicing for a much more lucrative future job with The Punch. In the meantime, Ivan must be chuckling at how The Tribune is increasingly trying to emulate his rag tag tabloid!

Good. Your second sentence says it all. You agree Bahamianpride has the same basic right to disagree with you under the law as you have to disagree with him. Now clam up and move on to marrying whomever (or whatever) you wish!

Since when do polls replace election processes or form the basis for the bypassing of the legislative arm of government? Polls are much too easily manipulated by the pollsters for the outcome sought by their sponsors. This applies to even the largest and most reputable polling organizations in America to day, and most politicians in the U.S. will not dispute this very simple fact!

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Is this brief bio on Fred something you created or something you found in the classified material illegally taken from the U.S. government by Edward Snowden or Julian Assange? Not that it really matters; if created by you, the U.S. government would likely take little exception by way of comparison to their own bio info on Fred.

Cutely diplomatic way of you once again emphasizing that LBT is not at all a better alternative to Minnis.