To paraphrase a great parliamentary statesman: "Mr. Fitzgerald, some hurricane, some privilege."

Pure fiction. This speech will be given serially for the next twelve months until the election is concluded.

These regulations are a cash cow for the "connected" in government service. You cannot operate without a license and without some form of periodic certification. That means you cannot operate absent regular, extra legal payments to those in power. Good plan, but not designed to protect the public. Designed to line the pockets of the corrupt.

Working well here in the Bahamas isn't it.

Fire Moody's. All critics, Black or White are racists. Nothing to see here, move on. A little soft corruption is just part of our national character. Don't like the news, kill the messenger. I will table a full report in Parliament soon.

You don't like the news? Shoot the messenger. Brilliant indeed.

Beyond silly musings from someone who has not a clue about business. What the Bahamas needs do is to recognize that far her biggest asset is her geographic location next door to one of the largest single markets in the world. If the Bahamas were to stop the silly preoccupation with viewing every foreigner with a job as "taking a job" from a Bahamian, there would be thousands of good jobs for Bahamians created by the advantages to many large U.S. engaged enterprises in moving some activities off shore while remaining geographically nearby.. Instead, the old Bay Street Boy mentality prevails, and the Bahamians are relegated to tray carrying resort work. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

This is simply pathetic. Does this government actually think anyone believes anything they say?

If all are to blame, none are to blame. More hot, smelly gas, the natural byproduct of political decay.

Someone explain to me how it "helps Bahamians" to cut off all the Bahamian contractors from payment for the services they rendered. It is quite clear they are never going to get paid, not even for their out of pocket expenditures, much less their lost profits. That is directly attributable to the government's refusal to permit the project recourse to the U.S. Court system which has a "workout" provision missing from the Bahamian Bankruptcy procedures. Why? Because if the matter were to have been adjudicated in a U.S. Court all the payables and receivables would have been scrutinized and the corrupt dealings between the Chinese contractor and "friends of government" would have been exposed. This was not about protecting Bahamians, it was about covering up corruption.