Bahamian voters who voted FNM in the last general election got swung by Minnis! This latest borrowing is proof positive that the Minnis-led administration is no different than the last PLP government when it comes to being unwilling to implement the painful austerity measures so desperately needed as a result of our country's dismal financial mess. This latest anticipated foreign currency denominated borrowing will put our already unsustainable national debt at the suicide level, no ifs, ands or buts!!

Well at least it seems they may have now found at least one of the imported RBDF weapons that were not properly accounted for as a result of an unusual chain of custody and paper work irregularities according to the Auditor General.

@cocernedcitizen: You must truly think we the people are dumb and stupid. Airport taxes, parking fees, etc. are now killing us Bahamians! The same goes for our soaring cost of living, especially increased food costs, caused by the very sweet deal Hubert Ingraham gave the controlling owners of APD. Perhaps you would be enthralled if our entire government became just one big public-private partnership with government and its select few cronies owning all of our most valuable national assets, and to hell with the rest of us!!

What is our country going to be left with at the end of the day, aside from very burdensome taxes and fees, to generate revenue for our public treasury if successive governments continue to sell off our country's most valuable assets at bargain basement prices to foreign corporations with only a select very few of their cronies participating in the raping, pillaging and plundering?! There will soon come a time when we, the people, own nothing of any value in our own country, either directly or indirectly, and have absolutely nothing to show for what was sold to foreigners and the very privileged few locals, supposedly in our interest!!

Here we have another classic example of one of our country's most valuable assets - the Prince George Wharf - about to be effectively sold off at a bargain basement price to a group comprised of a major foreign port operator, and a 'favoured' few very wealthy Bahamians who already have a de facto highly profitable controlling stake in the Arawak Cay port.

The international lending and rating agencies, that are effectively controlled by global lobbyists representing powerful corporate interests in the developed countries, have over decades crippled our political system and enticed our corrupt politicians to take on national debt at unsustainable levels. As a result our country remains in desperate need of foreign direct investment to acquire the hard currency it needs. This in turn allows foreign buyers like Global Port Holdings to swoop in like vultures to acquire controlling de facto ownership stakes in some of our country's most prized natural resources - in this case our natural deep water harbour between New Providence and Paradise Island. And of course our government is only too anxious for this deal to go through so that it get's the hard currency it needs for usual squandering while a select few of its most favoured cronies (who are big time wealthy FNM supporters) get a very lucrative piece of the deal, with only a few crumbs thrown the way of the Bahamian public at large. Yes indeed - another classic example of the raping of our country by a foreign corporation in cahoots with a select few very wealthy Bahamians, and with the help of a government in dire need of hard currency. Those Bahamians lucky enough to get a job with the new Prince George Wharf owners will find themselves working very long hours for slave-like wages. What a tragedy!

BOL - Me too!

I know what a cockroach is, but what the hell is a cocker roach?

And to think Greenslade is now basking in the riches of police commissioner pension benefits he should not have been entitled to receive as well as new lucrative diplomatic posts thanks to Marvin Dames and the Dimwitted Doc!

Rumours abound that Bannister is receiving treatment for a very serious illness and that Minnis should have never given him such a demanding portfolio as a cabinet minister. Meanwhile Minnis sits back quite comfortably as PM with his press secretary and no really demanding portfolio of his own other than the very mischievous office of the PM.

It is becoming all too easy for Brave to look like an elder statesman of considerable public stature because of Minnis's political missteps and apparent inability to govern. If there was only one batch of cow dung hidden away somewhere in the vast landscape of politics, Minnis would somehow manage to plant his feet in it!