It's admirable that you should try set Sears straight, but he's really much too far gone now. Sears had some terrible childhood experiences that unfortunately left him vulnerable later in life (notwithstanding all of the help he has received from so many) to selling his soul to the likes of the numbers' bosses. Sears has made his bed and will now have to lie in it for the rest of his life. There can be no redemption for a man who has played such a key critical role in plaquing our country with the organized crime associated with the racketeering gaming web shop owners

The rating agencies will love our new borrowing binge given that they are in cahoots with the international lending agencies to drive the Bahamas right into the ground as they did in the case of Venezuela. All of these organizations serve the interests of a higher power and the U.S. has not been happy for years now with our cozy relationship with Red China right on their door step just off the coast of South Florida. And these are not conspiracy theories, but rather harsh realities. My oh my ..... we can only reap what we have sewn!

He or she certainly knows how to goosie you but good! LOL

And next comes the coup de grace from the lips of Turnquest by order of Minnis: "We must increase VAT to 15% to help pay for all of this new borrowing."

You're right about Mr. Moree - he spends too much time beating his chest in public without properly thinking things through.

Like the U.S., the OECD countries have seen their governments become puppets of the wealthy ruling class (with their global business enterprises) who have succeeded since World War II to push an ever-increasing share of the taxation needs of their countries down to the middle and lower classes. The wealthy ruling class soon realized though that their countries faced serious taxation challenges arising from unchecked government waste, fraud and corruption, as well as pension and healthcare benefits obligations to their aging citizenry, e.g. the "baby boomer" generation in the U.S.

Nevertheless the greedy wealthy ruling class (with their equally greedy global business enterprises) continued to lobby (coerce) their governments to introduce even more harshly regressive and unfairly burdensome taxation structures on the middle and lower classes to meet the growing taxation needs of their countries. It was this insatiable greed and unwillingness of the wealthy class (and their global business enterprises) to pay their fair share of the taxation requirements of their own developed countries that gave birth to the offshore financial services sector. As the gap between the 'haves' and 'have nots' grew in the developed countries, the offshore financial services industry flourished while the tax bases of the developed countries shrank.

Fast forward, and the offshore financial services industry, in low or no income tax jurisdictions like the Bahamas, finds itself in the dire predicament that it is in today. The U.S. and OECD countries are, by internationally unlawful bullying tactics, forcing low or no income tax jurisdictions, like the Bahamas, to help them for their exclusive benefit, but at our great cost, police and enforce compliance by their citizenry with their very own unfairly imposed regressive and oppressive taxation regimes.

We are being unfairly coerced by the governments of these developed countries because of their own failure to deal with public sector waste, fraud, corruption and outright theft that has taken a serious toll on their tax bases, as well as their own failure to properly implement and monitor (at their cost, not ours) progressive taxation structures considered to be fair to their middle and lower classes. What these developed countries are doing to us, through their sponsored organizations like the OECD, shamefully impinges and wrongfully infringes on our sovereign rights under long standing internationally recognized laws applicable to nations.

As both a senior medical practitioner and a senior ranking member of the FNM while Crooked Christie was PM, Dr. Sands has all along known full well what was and was not being done as regards NHI. For him to now suggest otherwise is deceitful to say the least. It seems all the new cabinet ministers are only interested in telling us they need to borrow, borrow, borrow like there's no tomorrow! We haven't heard a single one of them say they are seriously addressing the means by which they can realistically cut a significant amount of the unnecessary wasted costs (fat) in the public sector areas they have responsibility for.

I think it's safe to say most of us have stopped reading whatever comments you post to this or any other website. Cheerio!

You have a very misguided understanding of history my friend when it comes to the Haitian people. Remember, everything you read on the internet is not necessarily true. There's an awful lot of misinformation deliberately put out there in cyber space for consumption by the more naive or less well educated among us.

With Minnis at the helm, the new FNM government will soon be reminding us too much of the corrupt Christie-led PLP government.....or as @Mudda forewarned us....a Christie-led govt on steroids!

In other words, he's no different than the grossly incompetent Glenys Hanna-Martin who owes her station in Bahamian politics to nepotism and voters in her constituency who fully deserve having her as their ding bat representative!