Sadly, ThisisOurs, it is a lot more than that. He has already cost taxpayers over a million, all because he did not properly carry out his official duties (something he has finally admitted) by denying his pal the right to table quite obviously stolen and illegal material in clear violation of the Constitution. A scandal of the first water. His blithering is just more cover up for PLP incompetence and corruption.

When the Nygard payback by his cronies is fully disclosed, where will Brave hide. He can't go to the States. Maybe he and Fred can hide out in the Castro Brothers Paradise.

Get a grip Tal. We know who bribed the PLP for endless special favors don't we. Glass house, throw no stones.

That campaign mode was going for the full five years of the Christie Administration. It prevented release of the report on BAMSI; Chinese sale of Baha Mar; Marathon Oil Spill; Serial oil spills at Clifton and the nature of the insider deal on who sells the bunker crude at inflated prices; why the numbers referendum as ignored; and myriad other matters that would have been addressed if only "campaign mode" was not in full swing.

When will the lesson ever be learned. Having the government own and operate enterprises for the primary purpose of employing Bahamians is a terribly inefficient way to support the local population. Let private enterprise run enterprises. If necessary tax those enterprises to raise funds to distribute to the needy. That way at least the money goes to those who need it, not insider multi millionaires or persons scamming hundreds of thousands a year in illegal dipping. The government should privatize everything that is not an essential government service that can only be delivered by government. That means all but public education, police, defense, and infrastructure.

This is a request for a fairy tale. No government anywhere, anytime, downsizes staff and tightens operations. Privatization is the only way to induce efficiencies into such enterprises.

You can't get kickbacks unless you sign big deals. Let's have a contest to pick what percentage of these "off budget" payments ended up in some PLP's pockets.

Oh, and Brave forgot: "The dog eat my homework."

Oh, gee Brave. I guess the cupboard was indeed bare. What a bunch of brazen crooks!

To the contrary absent the careful, professional, legal conviction and imprisonment of these former cabinet members, corruption at the mid level bureaucracy will remain entrenched in this country. The only way the mid management government functionaries will mend their was is if they see the top dogs being convicted and doing real time. Ingraham was unwilling to take these steps with his former friends from the early days and we got the last five years.