possibly much too little, much too late Mr. Christie "Vomit" Christie! Both you and Mr. Hubert "Hubbigity" Ingraham, have been too easily conned into sucking much too much on that irresistible "poisonous lending tit" put to your mouths by the U.S. government and its agencies.

once again: As a US citizen who has resided in the Bahamas for many years, I can only simply laugh at how foolish Bahamian voters are. It is well known that the imf, wto, World Bank, idb, oecd, etc. are all agencies in the main of US foreign policy tasked with destabilizing other countries whenever it is considered to be in the best economic or security interest of the US. The destabilization is typically accomplished by getting the country hooked on more foreign debt than it can possibly ever service. It is also often accomplished by forcing a country to replace its more cost efficient and more easily monitored/enforced taxation systems (like import duties in the case of the Bahamas) with other taxation systems that are not suitable for the country due to their revenue raising ineffectiveness, excessive costliness to administer (for both the government and taxpayers alike) and inability to be cost effectively enforced.

It is really all too easy in countries like the Bahamas with a largely poorly educated voting citizenry to get dimwitted greedy influence peddling politicians and their crony supporters (whether they be on the PLP or FNM side of the table) to "sell out" their country by sucking on the "borrowing tit" placed at their lips by self-interested foreign interests.

Japanese whalers does harpoon whales for erl......dis Butler lady better stay 'way from dem kinda people!

Politicians (whether PLP or FNM) have created a failed educational system where most Bahamians can't even cope with basic mathematics and now they want to put in place a complicated VAT system that very few will be capable of understanding and complying with! Come on!! Not only that, but these same politicians will choose the winners and losers in business under a VAT system by deciding who pays how much VAT, if any, based on the businesses operated by their cronies and those who line their pockets, especially with funding come election time! PLP and FNM governments can't run the business license system in a fair, efficient and cost effective way and they now expect to implement, administer and enforce a fair VAT system.....please....say it ain't so!!!!!!!!

I hate sounding like a broken record, but this guy Christie has been in government far too long. He is now the farthest thing from a visionary decisive country leader with the national interest of the Bahamas in mind and the closest thing to a plebe bureaucrat who represents foreign interests seeking to destabilize the way of life in the Bahamas for their own benefit at the expense of Bahamians. The more the Bahamas tourism industry goes down hill, the more the U.S. tourist economy goes up hill, especially in places like Florida....it's really as simple as that! The value of all of our imports from the U.S. is a mere drop in the bucket compared to the tourist and investment dollars that the U.S. is anxious to keep on shore in their own economy. Not to mention that the poorer the Bahamas becomes, the better able the U.S. becomes in its ability to "manage" the Bahamas from the stand point of U.S. national security interests.

As a US citizen who has resided in the Bahamas for many years, I can only simply laugh at how foolish Bahamian voters are. It is well known that the imf, wto, World Bank, idb, oecd, etc. are all agencies in the main of US foreign policy tasked with destabilizing other countries whenever it is considered to be in the best economic or security interest of the US. The destabilization is typically accomplished by getting the country hooked on more foreign debt than it can possibly ever service. It is also often accomplished by forcing a country to replace its more cost efficient and more easily monitored/enforced taxation systems (like import duties in the case of the Bahamas) with other taxation systems that are not suitable for the country due to their revenue raising ineffectiveness, excessive costliness to administer (for both the government and taxpayers alike) and inability to be cost effectively enforced.
It is really all too easy in countries like the Bahamas with a largely poorly educated voting citizenry to get dimwitted greedy influence peddling politicians and their crony supporters (whether they be on the PLP or FNM side of the table) to "sell out" their country by sucking on the "borrowing tit" placed at their lips by self-interested foreign interests.

We borrowed a fortune for studies to improve traffic flows, fix roads, etc. and this dimwit Hanna wants to keep horse-pulled carriages on our roads! Is she for real !! The effect of our extremely hot summer temperatures on our asphalt roads creates a very dangerous environment even for people sitting in their air-conditioned vehicles.....the stress we experience in traffic during summer time from flaring tempers on searing, scorching roads is horrible to say the least. one cannot imagine how much suffering a horse endures pulling over weight tourists around town under such conditions!!! These ladies, Kim Aranha and Hanna, should be cited for animal cruelty as a result of their failure to understand that the day of horse-pulled carriages in our country came with dirt roads and went out when they were paved with asphalt and packed with motor driven vehicles.....it's as simple as that. This mode of transportation adds nothing to our tourist economy as most tourists are horrified on seeing the suffering horses.

Will someone tell this twit we don't need any new laws to grow government......we need for our many existing laws to be enforced!!!!!

Someone please remind Nottage that each new Act he proposes comes with considerable administration costs for taxpayers who are already very much over-burdened. We don't need knew laws to grow the size of our government that typically are not properly administered or enforced. If Nottage wants to do something to help with the conduct of our children, let him start by enforcing the laws that already exist against dead-beat fathers who do nothing to help raise and support their children thereby making them much more vulnerable to poor environmental factors that often cause unacceptable behaviour. Nottage really needs to stop blowing hot air and do something truly constructive to address the causes of rising crime.

As a US citizen who has resided in the Bahamas for many years, I can only simply laugh at how foolish Bahamian voters are. It is well known that the imf, wto, World Bank, idb, oecd, etc. are all agencies in the main of US foreign policy tasked with destabilizing other countries whenever it is considered to be in the best economic or security interest of the US. The destabilization is typically accomplished by getting the country hooked on more foreign debt than it can possibly ever service. It is also often accomplished by forcing a country to replace its more cost efficient and more easily monitored/enforced taxation systems (like import duties in the case of the Bahamas) with other taxation systems that are not suitable for the country due to their revenue raising ineffectiveness, excessive costliness to administer (for both the government and taxpayers alike) and inability to be cost effectively enforced.
It is really all too easy in countries like the Bahamas with a largely poorly educated voting citizenry to get dimwitted greedy influence peddling politicians and their crony supporters (whether they be on the PLP or FNM side of the table) to "sell out" their country by sucking on the "borrowing tit" placed at their lips by self-interested foreign interests.

As a US citizen who has resided in the Bahamas for many years, I can only simply laugh at how foolish Bahamian voters are. It is well known that the imf, wto, World Bank, idb, oecd, etc. are all agencies in the main of US foreign policy tasked with destabilizing other countries whenever it is considered to be in the best economic or security interest of the US. The destabilization is typically accomplished by getting the country hooked on more foreign debt than it can possibly ever service. It is also often accomplished by forcing a country to replace its more cost efficient and more easily monitored/enforced taxation systems (like import duties in the case of the Bahamas) with other taxation systems that are not suitable for the country due to their revenue raising ineffectiveness, excessive costliness to administer (for both the government and taxpayers alike) and inability to be cost effectively enforced.
It is really all too easy in countries like the Bahamas with a largely poorly educated voting citizenry to get dimwitted greedy influence peddling politicians and their crony supporters (whether they be on the PLP or FNM side of the table) to "sell out" their country by sucking on the "borrowing tit" placed at their lips by self-interested foreign interests.

As a US citizen who has resided in the Bahamas for many years, I can only simply laugh at how foolish Bahamian voters are. It is well known that the imf, wto, World Bank, idb, oecd, etc. are all agencies in the main of US foreign policy tasked with destabilizing other countries whenever it is considered to be in the best economic or security interest of the US. The destabilization is typically accomplished by getting the country hooked on more foreign debt than it can possibly ever service. It is also often accomplished by forcing a country to replace its more cost efficient and more easily monitored/enforced taxation systems (like import duties in the case of the Bahamas) with other taxation systems that are not suitable for the country due to their revenue raising ineffectiveness, excessive costliness to administer (for both the government and taxpayers alike) and inability to be cost effectively enforced.
It is really all too easy in countries like the Bahamas with a largely poorly educated voting citizenry to get dimwitted greedy influence peddling politicians and their crony supporters (whether they be on the PLP or FNM side of the table) to "sell out" their country by sucking on the "borrowing tit" placed at their lips by self-interested foreign interests.