Super loud mufflers? Super loud music?

"An e-procurement system of the Ministry of Finance is being developed, but..."

WHY? Why "develop" one? There does not already exist an e-procurement system anywhere else on this planet? This is an infamous stalling tactic.

"Given that the DIT has zero experience in leading IDB-funded projects, the report called for outside executives..."

Same nonsense that happened when the online drivers license software was being put in place. "Outside" people were brought from Singapore - which seems to be the government's idea of actual Heaven.

"And, while the Auditor General had made recommendations..."

Once again, a body outside ITU steering the ITU ship.

"... it was currently not fulfilling such a role. It also does not feature in the Government's annual Budget as a separate line item."

Duh. At least the writer here wrote "between the lines" exactly why ITU is not fulfilling that role. They do not have a budget and do not decide how to spend money. Also part of the reason they are understaffed...need permission from others in order to hire. The other big reason is the weekly slaps in the face that every government employee and department receives from the Department of Public Service.

If you're looking for a big cogwheel in govt that is not allowed to turn, gets no grease, and thereby indirectly causes untold amounts of losses and unseized opportunities throughout all of government then you have found it here with the black sheep of the government family - ITU.

Hopefully i have not said anything here that can land me in jail, but let me shut up now before i accidentally do.

Go ahead....cut the pay. As the economy continues to improve, the best workers will leave and go elsewhere.

The church don't know nothing about these 3-year old boys though. Nothing.

Go in any store almost any time of day and you will find a single mother with her 3 year old son introducing him to violence at a young age; "You ain't hear me tell you to stop touching that?!!!!!!". Bamm across the face.

They learn the ropes. How to survive.

This threat oughta separate the men from the boys.

Interesting choice of words though, by Carl, "...you may, of course, speak freely, but the whip is on." Of course, i understand that this is a term used in our House and also in U.S. Congress, but it just sounds bad in a country with a not too distant history of slavery.

Regardless, ALL of these antics could have been avoided long time if K.P. did not utter the same nonsense after election that the PLP spoke before the election. That is, that the VAT money is not "missing" but is in the consolidated fund.

People are way past tired of hearing that nonsense. i agree with the budget and i agree that we need 12% VAT, but a new law should be inacted that half of the VAT money should go directly to paying down foreign debt with wire receipts printed in the newspaper every 3 months AND no more foreign borrowing nor even local borrowing in foreign currency except in cases of disaster relief approved by 90% of Senators, and the GG.

Somehow once persons enter into government, the question "Where the VAT money gone?" can no longer be interpreted by their brains.

Birdie - why is there only one "wash house man"? Why can't generation Bahamians own big businesses?

Poor people are hurting poor people. They are hurting their 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th child from the moment they are born.

Bahamians don't really understand what $381M in interest fees means.

Govt should say that nobody can travel out of the country or clear any shipment or buy or sell any real estate until they have paid their share of that debt. Divided by about 400,000 people equals $953 per person. Cough it up folks, esp. all of you who don't want to tax the "poor" people.

I know of a partucular case where an investor was told by a govt worker responsible for his application, point blank bold in his face "Government pays us a retainer, you pay us for services rendered."

The thing is, she was serious.

Now that same bi#€h knows that VAT is serious too. The increase in VAT is needed in part because of her actions. Imagine how many investors she upset over 20 years. Imagine how many jobs were not created.

170200 i sure hope you are right. What i see, however, is that just like Oban, we the people will not even get one cent per barrel of oil pumped.

I had suggested that we get $1 per barrel of oil pumped, and that this money be disbursed evenly amoung all the National Insurance accounts of Bahamian citizens every 6 months. However, is was called an a$$.

I've heard that instead the money will go into something called a "sovereign wealth fund" which will be a fund like the "consolidated fund" to which Bahamians see no bank statements nor any interest in their own pockets.

It's kinda like Crown Land. It belongs to "anyone but us."

Catch up with the times home-slice. Many going to Cuba now for years. They got the deals down there with great service.

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