Bahamians will not get duty free status to be able to compete with the shanty town shops. Even if some do, they still have to add VAT which the shanty town shops dont charge.

You cant compete with shanty town people or businesses. They not only have a local big time lawyer on their side, but a whole international community of "human rights" agencies batting for them. Try mess with them and they will shut the whole country down and every Bahamian will be serving jail time in Geneva.

Haitians ... good
Bahamians ... bad

That's the rules.

No power, no generator, no water, no air conditioning - forward, upward, onward together.

Same nonsense with Princess Towers & Country Club. They left here owing millions of dollars in back pay and National Insurance and on top of that they must have made some very scary threat to the Government because they are frightened to death - too scared to reopen the road between the two properties.

Businesses closing left and right. Ruby Swiss, an icon of Freeport, recently closed. Bazaar closed.

Now government spending 65 million to buy a hotel but they wont spend 1 million to reopen a major artery at the heart of Freeport.

How much has been paid on foreign debt in the last 60 days? Why is this a secret?

When you get elected to government, do you have a secret brain surgery to cut out 90% of your brain before you are allowed to take your seat in Parliament?

Push the damn road!!! Yesterday.

John...this is the 2nd time we agree :-)

They do anything to prevent the small man from tapping into the Wall Street (type) money games. Just like the upcoming restructuring of the cruise ship terminals etc in Nassau. Ordinary Bahamians with only, say, $200 to invest will not be allowed to buy shares.

Wait and see.

The EU has got KP and them watching the fingers on the flute trying to guess what note gonna come out next, so they can twist their feets correctly to match the tune.

Ban all EU financial services, ownership, travel, communications, everything. I said this last week.

Now i say, add Canada to the list. Invite in banks from Singapore and Japan, and tell all Canadian affiliated banks they have 15 months from today to make their complete exit from our country.

We need to stop being taken for suckers. Tell them, what they're selling ... we don't wanna buy.

"tetelestai says...
And if I refuse to pay the money, what's the recourse? You take away my child? I go to jail..."

NO. You keep your child. You dont go to jail. No penalties at all, except you don't get a birth certificate, therefore no passport, therefore no travel abroad.

That's all. Many children will end up paying their own $500+interest when they turn 18 and want to travel or go away to school.

No money? No birth certificate. That's all. You can even still get kidney dialysis on the backs of your hardworking, tax paying, fellow Bahamians.

Yeah, it's "funny" about those 3 BPL fires. Funny. Real funny. Hilarious in fact. It's even more funny that NOBODY will be held accountable. Nobody. Zip. Nada.

Bahamians bend over and pay the bill. Oh, and hurry up and hire back them 50 employees dismissed a while back (today's Guardian). You know better than to "let go" union workers. If ya didn't, well maybe now you know :-)

ohdrap4 - when our country breaks down into civil war and we have the Northern Bahama Islands of Nassau, Abaco, FPO, Andros, and Eleuthera (under Haitian rule) and the other islands will be the Southern Bahama Islands - will you then comment saying "So what. In 2011 Sudan in Africa split into North Sudan and South Sudan." ?

Just close the hospital down. Send everyone home, and bulldoze it to the ground.

At least then we won't have to keep hearing these assinine stories.

How much would it cost to have one security guard next the AC 24 hours a day? Heck, he might even be able to catch one of the many prisoners that escape through the bathroom window (located directly above it) .... :-)

Finally, a tiny piece of justice for Bahamians. However, it won't be of much value after we lose our entire country to the invading army.

Parents should be required to put on deposit with NIB $500 at the time of each of their children's birth. If NIB added just 4% interest, by the time the child is 50 and may need dialysis, this would have ballooned into $3,553.34 A hundred patients would therefore yield over 350 thousand dollars which could help greatly with machine maintenance and duty nurses.

Unfortunately, this was not thought of 50 years ago and people were just told by the church to "be fruitful and multiply."

Nowadays, the prices of those fruits are being struck up on the cash register. What will be the prices in another 50 years as a result of the current epidemic of belly-swell-itis?

It's a sad story. I wish it wasn't true.

$500 birth certificates. That's the answer here.