Any funds raised will just slip out the back door. I can't justify giving government anymore money than they already get.
Government first needs to plug the holes in their consolidated fund bucket and then get rid of the +10 thousand staff that don't even show up for work let alone put in a full days' labour.
Then, and only then, could I think about giving government any more money.

I don't really care anymore. Sad!

I take your point and I agree that some Bahamians do it when going to the out islands. I try to take only things that I 'probably' won't find - like good scotch. Other than that my family always goes to the local supermarket. Additionally, we tend not to cook when we have island getaways as we consider them vacations. If we can't afford a vacation we simply don't go on vacation.

*"They come in, bring their food and there is very little economic impact left for the community where vacation rentals exist."*

This is just a lie. I have never heard of tourists flying in with their food for a family of 4 for a whole week. Ridiculous statement for what might be a tiny fragment of the VRBO rental market. Also, these renters are more likely to rent a car and visit attractions than any hotel guest would. And where almost all of the money spent by VRBO guest go to private individuals and family business this is a far cry from hotel guest revenue where almost every penny goes into the pockets of one large offshore corporation.

Silly argument. Crown land is for all Bahamians not just those few who choose to burn it down, farm on it or live on it. It's for ***everyone***... which means no individual or group of individuals can claim it.

Imagine if all 400 thousand of us decide to go to the same tract of crown land and start building... it would be a blood bath.

Lincoln... you must do better.

I can see if the IDB suggested that amount of investment to make us food secure. But then again they wouldn't do that because that would make us less dependent on important and less desperate to borrow money we can't afford.

The police know all of this but there's obviously political connections and money involved so nothing will be done.

I wish the police would say if the people dying are gang members or related to gang members. Why the secrecy?

Let's not forget though that the black slave trade as we think of it started in Africa by African tribes rounding up other weaker tribes and selling the enslaved men and woman to the white man.
Throughout history the conquering army enslaved the losers and kept them for labor and for fighting in their front lines. Native American Indians did it, the Romans did it, the Huns did it. This is not only a black people's story... this is a story of mankind. White, black, indian... every race has been enslaved at some point and will be again I'm sure.

Damn right! The new mini baseball stadium is $70 million and that's still not guaranteed to be completed at that price.
They just want to trap the government into borrowing more and having to borrow another billion later to complete any project in the future.
This is just another way the IDB tries to bankrupt a small country.

They know that corrupt politicians will use a report like this to steal more money from the treasury.