under the circumstances, seems the best thing to do is to abandon this project. The FNM appears to be unable to govern effectively so all major decisions should be deferred while they seek out and engage the advice of specialists before making any other major policy or investment decisions. if one thing is clear, it has to be that corrupt practices and outright incompetence, seem to be characteristics that define our politicians.. we seem to be unable to overcome this yoke around our necks.. we are always blindsided whether by Oban or OECD.. how is it we never know anything beforehand?

hope for the best, but expect the worse... we need our people at the UN, who are living large in NY at our expense, to get in the huddle with the other despised States and see what we can do together, if only in a symbolic way, to push back. call it an act of aggression or something, but dont just sit on your ass and accept everything thats pushed in your direction.

i agree with John. they need to police their own people and businesses but instead put the responsibility on foreign governments.. its simple, so easy to bully small, defenceless states.. they know full well these states will come crawling and begging for mercy, then they will impose even more requirements. when you give into this kind of economic terrorism, you invite even more. its nothing more than a coup since gov't policy in this area at least, will now be dictated overseas..

The EU is hell-bent on ensuring that their nationals dont escape one euro of taxes. how that came to be our problem is beyond me, but they write the rules of the game. frankly i think we lose no matter what we do. KP and BS should save that travel money as i fear the outcome is a done deal. The OECD screwed up when they allowed 2 options for compliance but in fact really only wanted one, the automatic exchange mechanism, and when we chose the option they didn't like, the dye was cast. they fired warning shots through their mouthpiece the Economist magazine, but we didn't heed.

i dont see why the Report would affect morale. this is a small country and WSC a very small.operation. i'm sure most who worked there would have heard rumours, bahamians talk a lot. so really, only those of us who are not WSC staff should be demoralized to learn of yet more apparent corruption and mismanagement at another sorry gov't corporation. what they should be demoralized about is why instead of fighting to make sure we get good water, they remove such a requirement from the contract. again, we are getting screwed by our own, not the foreigner.

no reasonable person would suggest that the bahamians and residents of Cat Island dont deserve medical care commensurate with our ability to fund it. so lets agree that the concern is only about cost, and it is a legitimate concern.

did they ever say they were trying to run the place according to global best practice? thats idle talk. not a single gov't corporation knows anything about or cares about so-called global best practice.. give me a break..

i wouldn't lose any sleep over this. we dont have much of an offshore banking industry anymore. the big crooks are in Europe like the Vatican, luxembourg and Switzerland to name a few. in any event, we have regressed into the era of jungle rule again, might is right and the bastards will exploit the might. if we were the US for example, they wouldn't do sh*t...

the GM should be fired immediately if not sooner based on his own words.. he cannot pass the buck with talk about falling through the cracks.. his duty as GM is to ensure that very thing does not happen by holding the responsible subordinate accountable. every day and every revelation shows why we are in such debt with so little to show for it. God help us coz all indications are this trend will all continue.. we are lost as a people..

nothing new here. this is precisely why these corporations lose money by the truck loads.. government should not be running businesses that are better left to private enterprise. this is textbook corruption.. using taxpayer money to by votes..