Our governments since 1992 (both PLP and FNM alike) have driven us to the precipice and now urgently need to discontinue their practice of paying for votes through grossly bloated payrolls in just about every government department, agency and corporation. At the same time, the efficiency of our government must be greatly improved by hiring well educated and talented Bahamians to replace the numerous dimwits who now hold key positions in our government just because they are in someway politically connected. The UK Government ignored the IMF's recommendations to increase borrowings and taxes as a means of digging itself out of the great recession. Instead, the UK government adopted much needed painful austerity measures that resulted in more than 500,000 public sector workers immediately being laid off. Low and behold, as the UK economy has now turned around much for the better, Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF, has recently publicly admitted that the IMF had it all wrong and what the UK government did was right. We need to ask ourselves why is it the IMF is not pressing for us to have a smaller more efficient government and to cap our public sector borrowings. We must do what common sense tells us is necessary rather than blindly follow recommendations made by the IMF that will do nothing in the long term to reduce our budget deficits and national debt. One only has to go to www.globalexchange.org/resources/wbimf/… to understand that the IMF's mission is to impose structural adjustment policies (SAPs) on us down the road if we foolishly continue to tax and borrow in order to spend, whether for the short term or for the long term. We cannot afford to have the IMF calling the shots when they, together with their cohorts (the Word Bank, the IDB and the WTO) have a well established track record of destroying the economies of third world/lesser developed countries in a way that allows their first world masters (the U.S. being chief amongst them) to easily exploit the natural resources of others like ourselves. wake up bahamians! the government of the bahamas must be pressed to adopt severe austerity measures now no matter what the political consequences, or we will soon never have any type of meaningful government and foreigners will come to own most of our natural resources whether it be our land, our aragonite or whatever.

OK - Government's over spending touched on in another KPMG related article in today's Tribune. But the soft "intellectual" talk about these issues is not enough....the time is here for the gloves to come off as the government will otherwise remain deaf to the seriousness of the matters at hand!

We can only hope and pray that Freddie Boy's own travelling budget (and that of his typical entourage) has been significantly reduced!

Not one word said here about the urgent need for government to tighten its belt through layoffs of unnecessary non-productive workers in our public sector. Our governments since 1992 (both PLP and FNM alike) have driven us to the precipice and now urgently need to discontinue their practice of paying for votes through grossly bloated payrolls in just about every government department, agency and corporation. At the same time, the efficiency of our government must be greatly improved by hiring well educated and talented Bahamians to replace the numerous dimwits who now hold key positions in our government just because they are in someway politically connected. The UK Government ignored the IMF's recommendations to increase borrowings and taxes as a means of digging itself out of the great recession. Instead, the UK government adopted much needed painful austerity measures that resulted in more than 500,000 public sector workers immediately being laid off. Low and behold, as the UK economy has now turned around much for the better, Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF, has recently publicly admitted that the IMF had it all wrong and what the UK government did was right. We need to ask ourselves why is it the IMF is not pressing for us to have a smaller more efficient government and to cap our public sector borrowings. We must do what common sense tells us is necessary rather than blindly follow recommendations made by the IMF that will do nothing in the long term to reduce our budget deficits and national debt. One only has to go to www.globalexchange.org/resources/wbimf/… to understand that the IMF's mission is to impose structural adjustment policies (SAPs) on us down the road if we foolishly continue to tax and borrow in order to spend, whether for the short term or for the long term. We cannot afford to have the IMF calling the shots when they, together with their cohorts (the Word Bank, the IDB and the WTO) have a well established track record of destroying the economies of third world/lesser developed countries in a way that allows their first world masters (the U.S. being chief amongst them) to easily exploit the natural resources of others like ourselves. wake up bahamians! the government of the bahamas must be pressed to adopt severe austerity measures now no matter what the political consequences, or we will soon never have any type of meaningful government and foreigners will come to own most of our natural resources whether it be our land, our aragonite or whatever.

Sadly, thanks to the failed immigration policies of both the Ingraham and Christie administrations, most of the volunteer organizations that at one time had the resources to step in and help out are now just too overwhelmed and on the down and out themselves. Both Christie and Ingraham should be made to live a week in the heart of the Nassau Village area to feel the pain inflicted on our society by their corrupt system of politics. They have greatly failed the people by just about any measure of common decency while handsomely rewarding a new small uncaring ruling elite of black Bahamians that make the old white UBP boys of yesterday seem like angels in comparison. A country with so much promise run into the ground by unworthy greedy politicians who are content to manipulate for themselves and their business cronies the dumbed-down electorate they have created through the destruction of our once proud public educational system.

This $13 million should come out of Frankie (aka Snake) Wilson's pocket as he was the developer who made millions off of developing PInewood Gardens without incurring the cost of putting in a suitable drainage system notwithstanding his prior knowledge of the topography of the area......snake new full well before he starting making millions from the development of pinewood that the whole area was prone to serious flooding. Millions have been spent by the government (Bahamian taxpayers) over the years dealing with this problem....millions that should have been spent by Snake as the developer in the first place!

There's something not quite right about the photo to this article: Nottage is shown in front of the bars in the background when in fact he should be "behind bars" for his dismal performance on crime!

If Cable Bahamas is unable (unwilling?) to provide full coverage of FIFA Word Cup matches in their basic programming package at no additional cost to subscribers, then it is high time the Bahamian Government and Bahamian people insist on the market for cable and streaming television providers being opened up to any and all competitors, including foreign owned providers. Cable Bahamas, in seeking (in these hard economic times) to leverage the monopoly the good people of the Bahamas granted them in a shameful extortive grab for more revenue, has shown that it should be subjected to wide open competition at the earliest possible time. URCA is a useless regulator standing in the way of affordable cable television and online streaming video for all Bahamians; leave the market wide open, save (use) the ever growing annual budget of URCA for other more important purposes (e.g. school supplies for our public schools) and let Bahamians enjoy affordable TV and internet in a desperately needed highly competitive market place for such services.

No guilt of any kind would not have required the involvement of Carl Bethel to strike a deal in Court with BOB (and by extension between Perry Christie and Minnis). It is clear now that the deal struck means no one in the FNM can speak out about or pursue investigation of the claims of corruption in the lending and loan write-off practices at BOB as published by the Punch, which corruption has apparently resulted in the need for BOB to be propped up by injections of additional capital from the working people's National Insurance Funds. Minnis made a terrible mistake here and has lost much more political capital than the deal involving Cash was worth.

Is Freddie Boy afraid of that small tail between his legs being seen by the poor peasant voter standing next to him while he relieves himself in the restroom? Don't be so shy Freddie Boy!