@John: It's so obvious from your posts that you either work for one of the crooked numbers' bosses or somehow have a horse in their corrupt activities.

We, the people, were certainly gullible enough to listen to the likes of Perry Christie, Michael Halkitis, Gowan Bowe, John Rolle and that crooked accountant, Ishmail Lightbourne, tell us that we had no choice but to accept paying VAT so that our national debt could be significantly reduced. And after paying the VAT they all wanted, we ended up with an even higher national debt! Yeah, we're all really stupid.

With the exception of my home, I sold back in 2005/6 all of the real property I once owned in the Bahamas. Now own properties in U.S. and Canada. Bahamian government should update our existing laws on abandoned properties.....I'm sure Minnis has this on his radar screen as a means of dealing with those wealthy property owners who are quite content to hold on to their derelict abandoned properties that handicap our tourism product. These wealthy irresponsible property owners should not be given the privilege of extorting handouts from hard working taxpayers as a means of incentivizing them to do the right thing, i.e. either sell or develop their deplorable properties. What Ingraham allowed to happen in the creation of the shipping port at Arawak Cay (ADP) was an unconscionable perpetuation of the port ownership by a privileged few with guaranteed profits at great expense to the Bahamian people. We, the people, certainly don't need anymore of that type of nonsense....and hopefully Minnis and our new FNM government concurs.

Let's just all hope we find a new sheriff (Minnis) has come to town notwithstanding some of the missteps made to date by the new FNM government.

Shrink-wrapping the derelict properties is certainly not an option. This would only invite government to sooner (rather than later) declare the property abandoned, confiscate it for the public good (eminent domain) and then arrange for its eventual development in the public interest by either a private developer or the government itself.

He may not appreciate that some of the most exclusive and successful charter schools in the NYC metropolitan area have dropped all use of electronic gadgetry from their education programs with the sole exception of hand held graphing calculators with basic trig, statistical and business functionality. Based on their successful education metrics to date, charter schools in many other parts of the U.S. have either already done or are thinking about doing the same thing. It seems the use of "electronic tools" in the primary and secondary education years (pre-college/university years) is not all that it was originally cut out to be, with some serious downside aspects to the overall quality of learning. But the school of thought here (pun fully intended) is still out.

Translation: Even if we fixed our failed public education system anytime soon (which I seriously doubt could happen under Jeffrey Lloyd's ministerial leadership), we are still destined to have decades of serious social unrest and crime. Yep, that sure sounds truly bleak indeed!

PowerSecure knew full well it was dealing with a very corrupt PLP government led by Christie at the time it was contracted to manage BPL. There was simply way too much info available in the public domain to support this fact. Frankly, PowerSecure and Southern Company need to be much more concerned about the circumstances under which PowerSecure obtained the management contract with BPL in the first place. The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act may come into play here if Southern Company and PowerSecure do not tread very carefully....and that's no threat....just the reality of the situation!

Didn't Minnis recently appoint Deepak Bhatnagar to be serve as a director on several government boards!!!! This worthless 'yes master' guy who will sing any song and do anything for his supper should be immediately sacked from all government posts that he currently holds....he should never receive another tax payer dollar of compensation and/or benefits of any kind from the people's purse! Minnis must act on this, and act now....not later. Wherever Deepak served in the last government, there's was way too much smoke...and we all know what that means!!!

*Repost -* FNM supporters already have a serious case of voter's remorse caused by Minnis's apparent willingness to adopt the same continuing failed bail-out plan that Christie created for Bank of The Bahamas involving Bahamas Resolve. Minnis and KP should have by now put both of these insolvent entities in liquidation in order to save the taxpayers the mega-millions of dollars that will be needed to subsidize their future operating losses. This one broken campaign promise alone has greatly enraged many FNM supporters.