Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Commercial banks get away with absolute thievery and discriminatory practices in the Bahamas!
Regardless of liquid and real property assets and 20 years of perfect mortgage payments, rbcfinco refuses to extend further mortgages to individuals after a certain age. This practice is illegal in Canada and the US, why are banks allowed to get away with discrimination here?
Mr. Rolle does not have to reinvent the wheel. He simply needs to implement the exact same standards and practices banks extend to Canadian customers.
Regardless of blah, blah, run for cover blah, this is not a "one time" occurrence. Physical and mental abuse is the prevalent status quo throughout the Bahamas within all government agencies.
These people act as if it is their sole solum duty to inflict inconvenience, pain, and suffering on the populace.
This shallow, arrogant, man with belly, bank account, and pocket always full, cannot begin to comprehend what people with empty belly, broke, and can't pay bills feels like!
When are the banks going to level the playing field for Bahamians? Customers that serviced loans and mortgages on time all their lives suddenly find themselves unable to get further credit after a certain age unless one wanted a luxury automobile.
This is an unfair discriminatory practice not allowed in the U.S. or Canada, but banks penalize Bahamians regardless of their credit history is good!
When is the Central Bank going to force banks to treat Bahamians with the same respect as they treat their Candian customers?
Darrin Woods is another lost soul way out of his depth trying to make sense of the tourism industry with absolutely no hands on experience at the wholesale travel level!
Contrary to Mr. Woods's statement "It seems like the deck is being stacked against us right now". Every competing destination in the region has the exact same obstacles and play by the same rules.
The Bahamas saw a steady decrease in tourism compared to the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cuba, Panama, Haiti, Barbados, and virtually all other regional competing resort destinations due to successive governments' "firsthand" ignorance of tourism, coupled with a pigheaded inability to listen to front line industry professionals with decades of hands-on experience.
Successive governments were repeatedly warned loudly for decades that our tourism product was losing its appeal with the loss of every native show, night club, duty-free shopping, Bay Street is a disgrace, the inner city over the hill is filthy, jet ski operators and other front line vendors are among some of the most unpolished individuals the country has to offer, etc, etc. ect,.
After 5 decades of Ministers of tourism, **NOT ONE** can identify an initiative implemented by them that improved the tourism product and visitor experience!
A simple 1975 to 2020 comparison of tourism development between Nassau, Ft. Lauderdale, and Key West shows the frightening remarkable level of ineptitude of successive governments.
Last week the Candian government reported despite COVID-19 recommendations of essential travel only, large numbers of Candians continue overflying the Bahamas to destinations of Jamaica, Mexico, The Dominican Republic, and Haiti.
Ironically, all these destinations offer deep cultural experiences and offer relaxed prohibition laws on marijuana use.
The politicians refused to listen, sat on their hands, stood in Parliament talking bullshyt, cracking jokes, legislating for their own personal gain, and allowed the tourism product to go to hell. Now we find ourselves standing around pointing fingers and making excuses about why we have such dismal tourism arrivals.
Agreed. Purposely no definitive reference to what and where these surpluses are derived. This government also has a knack for saying what seems popular, then doing the opposite as is the case with coconut vendors that were promised coolers, umbrellas, etc' which never materialized, and no explanation given. We are supposedly too stupid to remember.
Regardless of the electorate decisively voting the dancing clown out the last election after 5 years of unbridled, highly insulting stupidity, they continue to think we are stupid and forgetful.
Keep the Dominicans out at all cost! They didn't care about overfishing their own waters out and will care even less about our laws protecting our fisheries!
Let them take their Bahamian wives to the Dominican Republic and take care of them!
SP says...
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Commercial banks get away with absolute thievery and discriminatory practices in the Bahamas!
Regardless of liquid and real property assets and 20 years of perfect mortgage payments, rbcfinco refuses to extend further mortgages to individuals after a certain age. This practice is illegal in Canada and the US, why are banks allowed to get away with discrimination here?
Mr. Rolle does not have to reinvent the wheel. He simply needs to implement the exact same standards and practices banks extend to Canadian customers.
On Governor ‘lays down gauntlet’ for banking
Posted 20 January 2021, 8:36 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
The media made him say it?
On Police chief blames ‘pushy’ press for suicide blunder
Posted 20 January 2021, 1:39 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
The politicians silence condone torture
On EIGHT MINUTES PURE TORMENT: Urgent probe ordered as horror video shows care home beatings
Posted 20 January 2021, 1:35 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Unfortunately the Commissioner suffers from the same "know it all" complex politicians get on election day.
If he had taken 10 minutes to google 2020 suicides, he would have discovered suicides are up globally due to stress's of the pandemic!
On Rolle attributes some suicides to ‘weak’ men as numbers rise
Posted 20 January 2021, 1:31 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Regardless of blah, blah, run for cover blah, this is not a "one time" occurrence. Physical and mental abuse is the prevalent status quo throughout the Bahamas within all government agencies.
These people act as if it is their sole solum duty to inflict inconvenience, pain, and suffering on the populace.
On EIGHT MINUTES PURE TORMENT: Urgent probe ordered as horror video shows care home beatings
Posted 20 January 2021, 8:21 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
This shallow, arrogant, man with belly, bank account, and pocket always full, cannot begin to comprehend what people with empty belly, broke, and can't pay bills feels like!
On Rolle attributes some suicides to ‘weak’ men as numbers rise
Posted 19 January 2021, 10:46 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
When are the banks going to level the playing field for Bahamians? Customers that serviced loans and mortgages on time all their lives suddenly find themselves unable to get further credit after a certain age unless one wanted a luxury automobile.
This is an unfair discriminatory practice not allowed in the U.S. or Canada, but banks penalize Bahamians regardless of their credit history is good!
When is the Central Bank going to force banks to treat Bahamians with the same respect as they treat their Candian customers?
On Credit bureau to hit 30% of borrowers
Posted 18 January 2021, 9:14 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Darrin Woods is another lost soul way out of his depth trying to make sense of the tourism industry with absolutely no hands on experience at the wholesale travel level!
Contrary to Mr. Woods's statement "It seems like the deck is being stacked against us right now". Every competing destination in the region has the exact same obstacles and play by the same rules.
The Bahamas saw a steady decrease in tourism compared to the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cuba, Panama, Haiti, Barbados, and virtually all other regional competing resort destinations due to successive governments' "firsthand" ignorance of tourism, coupled with a pigheaded inability to listen to front line industry professionals with decades of hands-on experience.
Successive governments were repeatedly warned loudly for decades that our tourism product was losing its appeal with the loss of every native show, night club, duty-free shopping, Bay Street is a disgrace, the inner city over the hill is filthy, jet ski operators and other front line vendors are among some of the most unpolished individuals the country has to offer, etc, etc. ect,.
After 5 decades of Ministers of tourism, **NOT ONE** can identify an initiative implemented by them that improved the tourism product and visitor experience!
A simple 1975 to 2020 comparison of tourism development between Nassau, Ft. Lauderdale, and Key West shows the frightening remarkable level of ineptitude of successive governments.
Last week the Candian government reported despite COVID-19 recommendations of essential travel only, large numbers of Candians continue overflying the Bahamas to destinations of Jamaica, Mexico, The Dominican Republic, and Haiti.
Ironically, all these destinations offer deep cultural experiences and offer relaxed prohibition laws on marijuana use.
The politicians refused to listen, sat on their hands, stood in Parliament talking bullshyt, cracking jokes, legislating for their own personal gain, and allowed the tourism product to go to hell. Now we find ourselves standing around pointing fingers and making excuses about why we have such dismal tourism arrivals.
On 'Deck now stacked against' Bahamian tourism's rebound
Posted 18 January 2021, 8:55 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Agreed. Purposely no definitive reference to what and where these surpluses are derived. This government also has a knack for saying what seems popular, then doing the opposite as is the case with coconut vendors that were promised coolers, umbrellas, etc' which never materialized, and no explanation given. We are supposedly too stupid to remember.
Regardless of the electorate decisively voting the dancing clown out the last election after 5 years of unbridled, highly insulting stupidity, they continue to think we are stupid and forgetful.
2022 soon come!!
On ‘We’ll create a fund to benefit our nation’
Posted 15 January 2021, 7:15 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Keep the Dominicans out at all cost! They didn't care about overfishing their own waters out and will care even less about our laws protecting our fisheries!
Let them take their Bahamian wives to the Dominican Republic and take care of them!
On Foreign fisherman bar in legal battle
Posted 12 January 2021, 3:01 p.m. Suggest removal