They announced the policy. They are going to create a "Sovereign Wealth Fund" - which is kinda like a "Consolidated Fund" which can very basically be defined as "A place where the Government will put YOUR money, and not tell you how much is there, and not give any to you."

We would still like to know where the VAT money collected in the last 6 months has gone. They simply refuse to assign VAT money to any particular use - such as education, or public transport, or anything. It just goes into a black hole for which you never receive an accounting. Anyone can make a budget and then stay silent on how real money is really spent.

New Government
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Effectively this ruling handed down the death penalty to the nation known as the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. We are now dead. We will get no reprieve from the Privy Council. They have no way to protect us from this. Her Majesty (our Head of State) will not step in and save us either.

It is so hilarious that on this same day the Government announced no business license fees for first time businesses this year. If you are a Bahamian today, I would not advise investment in a business - but instead you should invest in a prepaid funeral plan. At least we can have the decency to pay for our own burial.

One big joke. Until you see employers getting fined and jailed, don't waste your time with too many words on this issue. You wait and see how many churches take truckloads of food and clothing in there. You check the records of the money transfer businesses. You will see tons of money going to Haiti - but after this tragedy you will see NONE coming back.

Why should they send any money back? They know that Bahamians will pay the costs. Look for VAT to go to 10% by June.

Sheep - that's an easy question. The answer is Chris Mortimer.

Amazing how everyone wants to blame the Port. The Government has been tying the Port's hands since 1992.

Why hasn't the road from Hawksbill to Ranfurly Circus (Bazaar roundabout) been pushed through? Re-open the damned road that separates Princess Towers & Princess Country Club. That place has been closed for years and the owners left owing NIB and severance tons of money. open the road.

Until that road is re-opened, you can afford to disbelieve any optimistic rubbish coming out of government or the Port because its continued closure proves that neither of them have any true authority.

A bulldozer should have been sitting there in front of Ruby Swiss the night of the election just waiting - in case the FNM won. Once the election was called in favour of Minnis, it should have been cranked up.

No. They did not. They were unable to get permission from the U.N.

You are correct. Their rooster already winning. I predict Andros will be 90% Haitian occupied in the next 3 years. Bahamasair will have to pay a fee to fly from Nassau to Miami over Androsian airspace, meanwhile the Bahamas airspace treaty with the USA that Hanna-Martin started will still be "in negotiations."

It's not my theory - it's only what i heard. I only give it some credit because it is the only reason I have heard yet that can explain how they can violate our Flag Law daily, tief land, build without permits, enroll in school without having to provide half the documents a Bahamian has to provide and get special assistance in enrolling from Cabinet ministers, drive cars without license plates, operate businesses without licenses and sell duty free products, sell illegal products, operate strip clubs 24-7, etc.

I am not saying they should not be allowed to do these things either. Bahamians have voted over and over for the same people, so obviously they want the same things to happen. I am just upset that as a Bahamian I cannot operate a strip club, or operate a business without a license, or drive a car without paying license fees. I want to do those things too. I don't want to pay VAT on my food. I want to travel abroad without paying departure tax too and without even buying a plane ticket, and I want to get towed into Nassau free of charge when my boat runs out of gas. These are wonderful things. I say let everyone living in the Bahamas enjoy these benefits - including Bahamians.

We will face similar issues here (although under the Westminster system), as our complement of Haitian MPs rises in coming years from its current count of one. Over-breeding in the population, Affidavits to get into the House of Assembly - it is a brilliant strategy that proves either Haitians are smarter than Bahamians - or they care more about each other than we do about ourselves.

This same approach is what has brought the U.S. to its current insane crisis. Talk of a "migrant community", a "Latino community", an "African American community" - these terms prove that most immigrants have no intention of blending into the societies to which they immigrate. We have followed like monkey-see-monkey-do with the term "Haitian-Bahamian".
These immigrants are only there (and here) for the money. Americans and Bahamians are behaving similar to a man who sleeps with a prostitute and he is looking for love: She's only there for the money buddy - but you can still pretend if you want. Americans want to pretend. Bahamians want to pretend.

At the end of the day, though, we will all reach a point where any discussion of budgets is a waste of time because there will simply be no money to argue over. Our multi-billion dollar debt and the U.S. multi-trillion dollar debt are trail markers on the path to destruction.

The 19 year old girl who was stabbed to death last night over a cellphone was a mother. She had a 3 year old child. Does that mean (considering a 9 month pregnancy and the child being 3 1/2 instead of just "3") - that she could have been 15 when she became pregnant?

Are these the kind of citizens we are counting on to pay their power bills?

Bahamian culture does not aspire to a certain living standard. Throw in a few dozen shanty towns and you have a backward unwashed society speckled with a few points of light. The fact that high end places like Atlantis and BahaMar etc are able to get an ounce of electricity is just amazing. I do not understand why anyone would land a jet (of any size) at the airport in Nassau in order to visit this primitive place.

I suppose the only saving grace we have as a nation is the "Mother Mary Effect", where so many of our young (esp. underage) women are able to perform immaculate conceptions - the act of becoming pregnant and bearing children without any involvement of men. They do deserve credit for that magic trick at least.