So ya tink Minnis's Long Island boys gonna slaughter us taxpayers eh?

You would love to see the auditor-general's limited resources squandered in chasing small minnows when there are much bigger very greedy fish to fry. Take for instance Christie who, as Minister of Finance and PM, illegally arranged for mega-millions of dollars of our National Insurance funds to be ploughed into Bank of The Bahamas (BoB) at a time when he knew or should have known that BoB was (and still is) insolvent. Every director of the National Insurance Board at the time this was done, along with every director of BoB at the time (especially Paul McWeeney), Wendy Craigg (former governor of the Central Bank), Michael Halkitis and many others all failed to cry foul when all of this was being done - they all knew our National Insurance funds were being illegally used to prop up an insolvent financial institution. But none of them will be held responsible or accountable because Minnis will now protect them all by simply saying that the previous corrupt Christie-led PLP government has committed him to continue using our tax dollars (or increasing our national debt) to try and bailout BoB, a bank that for all intents and purposes has been irreversibly technically insolvent for a long time. As Mudda_sic would say - What a joke!

@John: Sure everyone wants a piece of the economic pie....why wouldn't they? But after decades of a majority of the people voting for corrupt politicians, there is no pie - only a ton of unsustainable national debt. How do you think Sir Snake's family, the Symonette family, the Maynard-Gibson family, the Mosko family and others like them got to be so filthy rich? Over many years these super wealthy families cut many outrageously lucrative deals with our corrupt politicians (FNM and PLP alike) and together they feasted on the entire economic pie and then some, leaving only debt for the rest of us. It is perhaps a fitting consequence for the less privileged voters you speak of.

New hefty government taxes, fees and borrowings are soon coming our way. Minnis will not be shrinking a bloated civil service that gave him his landslide victory. Nor will Minnis be reducing the mega-millions in handout entitlement programs recently created by Christie in an effort to buy votes because those same programs now benefit mainly supporters of Minnis. And let's not forget the many police officers who gladly took their promotions and pay-grade increases from Christie but nevertheless voted for Minnis - obviously Minnis ain't gonna roll back those mega-millions in new annual costs either.

The only thing Mr. Turnquest needs to know is that the Bahamian people will not look too kindly on significant budget variances down the road of the kind seen throughout the last five years of the corrupt Christie-led PLP government. Sharpen your pencil well Mr. Turnquest. The people will not accept excuses later along the lines of the Christie government did this or that which the Minnis administration did not know about at the time of drawing up the budget. The Minnis government must be realistic and give us the true picture in the first budget they present no matter how painful it may be for us to see. We demand the transparency that has been promised to us!

Re-post: We can only hope and pray Minnis is smart enough to keep the newspaper columnists and radio and TV talk show hosts out of his cabinet. Sadly, both Symonette and D'Aguilar have no doubt already bought and paid for what they think will be the key cabinet posts they want to come their way. If D'Aguilar gets the cabinet post I think he has lobbied for, we (the people) will never get the fully story on all of the corruption behind the Baha Mar development because D'Aguilar himself as a former director of Baha Mar would have considerable exposure to various illegal activities involving of the original developer and high ranking corrupt politicians and officials in the last government. Lest we forget, D'Aguilar was sitting on the Board of Baha Mar at the time the anticipated very lucrative leases of many thousands of square feet of prime retail space were approved for the Hazelwood family who are fronting for immediate family members of Allyson Maynard-Gibson who have a very significant interest in those same leases. Hopefully Minnis appreciates that D'Aguilar must be kept as far away as possible from any matters involving the Baha Mar development. For similar reasons, Minnis must keep Brent Symonette as far away as possible from any cabinet post that would involve ministerial responsibility for the ports, shipping, banking or infrastructural developments. Its high time Brent Symonette be made to give back to the Bahamian people. If I were Minnis I would make appoint Symonette Minister of Education and if he shows no initiative in that role I would take him out of the cabinet altogether!

Sadly it's the pharmaceutical enterprises that are driving everything today when it comes to labelling, diagnosing and treating the myriad of different types of mental illness. Psychologists and psychiatrists are steered for the most part wherever big pharma research and pill producers choose to take them with the goal being the maximization of profits for all concerned from writing scripts for expensive pills to charging hefty hourly rates for talking softly to patients. Keeping it all much more simple and less costly with typically better results was thrown out of the window many years ago by big pharma in the U.S., Germany, Switzerland and France. The long term effects of many of the medications prescribed today are intended to create permanent chemical imbalances that leave patients dependent on expensive pills for the remainder of their lives. My brother was a victim of all of this greed and foolishness....and it's also why most health insurers refuse to provide affordable significant coverage for most types of mental illness.

Someone please grab MassExodus and whisper the following in his good ear: "Hellooo, do you have any grey matter in here?"

I believe you. The corrupt racketeering web shop owners are well known for hedging their bets. But Minnis and the FNM really should have refused to take their money offered for campaign purposes. Sidney Collie is the problem here - he would take money from anyone, including Lucifer himself! Minnis must watch Collie very carefully until he can be sidelined.

We can only hope and pray Minnis is smart enough to keep the newspaper columnists and radio and TV talk show hosts out of his cabinet. Sadly, both Symonette and D'Aguilar have no doubt already bought and paid for what they think will be the key cabinet posts they want to come their way. If D'Aguilar gets the cabinet post I think he has lobbied for, we (the people) will never get the fully story on all of the corruption behind the Baha Mar development because D'Aguilar himself as a former director of Baha Mar would have considerable exposure to various illegal activities involving of the original developer and high ranking corrupt politicians and officials in the last government. Lest we forget, D'Aguilar was sitting on the Board of Baha Mar at the time the anticipated very lucrative leases of many thousands of square feet of prime retail space were approved for the Hazelwood family who are fronting for immediate family members of Allyson Maynard-Gibson who have a very significant interest in those same leases. Hopefully Minnis appreciates that D'Aguilar must be kept as far away as possible from any matters involving the Baha Mar development. For similar reasons, Minnis must keep Brent Symonette as far away as possible from any cabinet post that would involve ministerial responsibility for the ports, shipping, banking or infrastructural developments. Its high time Brent Symonette be made to give back to the Bahamian people. If I were Minnis I would make appoint Symonette Minister of Education and if he shows no initiative in that role I would take him out of the cabinet altogether!