problem can be mitigated by 60 day amnesty to surrender any illegal firearm e.g AK 47 and unlicensed firearms. if course these are the gangster's tools so dont expect them to respond. then back to the days of 4:00am house raids where you suspect them to be and random traffic searches day and night indefinitely. if caught, $10,000 fine and 10 yrs in prison.. or how about mandatory death sentence? they have it in Asia for drug trafficking and they dont seem to have a drug problem...

comments like these from arguably the biggest non-performing Minister of Tourism in the history of the independent Bahamas, help to explain why so much money is spent by MOT while visitor numbers remain flat and our neighbours flourish....

so if you cant negotiate a rent reduction, stop paying, let the bill swell, then get your reduction through the backdoor by agreeing to pay if they write off 1/3 of what you owe.. what masters of corruption we bahamians are.. a few questions about this... who was responsible for accounts receivable at NAD? what did they do as this bill started to swell? where was the Board finance and audit committee while all this happened? who lost their job because they weren't doing it?

Miller is wrong on this.. never in the history of this country have we ever had reliable and affordable electricity..NEVER.. i dont know why it seems to be such a mystery here.. certainly elsewhere, people seem to be able to keep the lights on and they have above ground cables, storms, etc.. what a mystery...

i would not hold my breath for anything significant to happen.. how many millions was spent for example on Commissions of Inquiries and how many people were ever prosecuted as a result? a few folks will have their names put in the paper, they will come up with creative excuses and that will be it...

this is the problem with BIG government.. we need privatization on a wholesale scale to stop this influence peddling/corruption which is practised by both sides... in the process reduced public spending and debt reduction will benefit all taxpayers...

good decision by AG.. we small outsiders need some protection from egotists using the public platform and privilege of parliament to possibly slander us.. me and you say something we can't prove and we are in great jeopardy.. in a democracy, that principle needs to apply across the board regardless of status..

Much ado about nothing. As far as aviation is concerned, i think it is clear the biggest beneficiaries will be Bahamasair and Nassau Flight Services, entities they (gov't) own. Most likely done as a backdoor subsidy to them and in the process a few crumbs drop to the others. As for whether he knew or not, since they just got elected and it is a PLP budget, that is not so far fetched. If anyone out there really believes these MPs know what is in the budget, we have a bigger awareness problem and more naivety than even i imagined... They read a few lines before time to speak, find a couple words they can twist to suit their speech, then argue for the sake of it afterwards. Finally, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. In the history of this Bahamas, no government and some of its representatives believed in hiding information from the public more than the PLP, one of the most secretive governments on earth.

not sure how much benefit we get from MOT programs to fund airlines and hotels where tourists have no interest in visiting, like Freeport for example. tens of millions of dollars for airplanes to fly empty to Freeport. any spend by tourists is a joke compared to govt spend because the numbers are so small.. has to be a better way...

the concern with a bahamasair pullout locally is the players left to fill the gap. they, except for Sky and Western, have sketchy safety history and seems the govt is weak in overseeing them.. bottom line, it could become a gamble flying domestically unless regulatory oversight is significantly improved and aggressively enforced..