Does anyone count 14 companies in the "list" of 14 above?

More importantly, however, the Govt should just come right out and implement the actual tax policy that they would like to do in Freeport.

All taxes, duties, fees, and levies shall include a 50% surcharge payable by all white or majority white owned businesses.

I mean, just admit it. Freeport, under the mgmt of the Port, has too many white people for Government's taste.

Their feeling is that now they can do away will all of these undesirables, and get the same amount of money and commerce available to the Treasury by implementing the VAT tax.

A truly sad and short-sighted view - but one that they are taking regardless. In short order they will learn the hard truth that you cannot get blood from a stone - neither can you reap ten million dollars in taxes from conch salad. 1967 all over again.

Trust me, come January you can still go to Nassau and make that same Disney mock-video - cause dem same garbage ga still be on da road. The VAT can't pay for no cleanup - cause it got baby poppin at PMH to pay for instead.

**TheMadHatter**

If I was Sarkis - I would say "I'm one white man who knows when he is not welcome in a black country. You guys keep the $800 million, and have a nice day. Adios." Then I would return to my residence in Switzerland and chill out with a Swiss Miss (I mean the chocolate drink - don't let your mind go in the gutter).

**TheMadHatter**

Correct. I think it is so funny how the article says Izmirlian lost his bid to control the hotel. He never had a bid to control the hotel. That was not his goal.

Most here are so silly in not understanding the man.

He is a developer. He like to develop things - must have played with Lego blocks a lot when he was a kid. This is a game to him. He has no interest in the $800 million. The Bahamas Govt, or whoever the liquidators give it to can keep it. He don't need it.

He will only be saddened that the hotel will not turn into the wonderful success that he had a vision for it to become, and he will be sad for the many many Bahamians who will suffer financially as a result.

He himself will be fine. He is a multimillionaire.

Some people on here - like Tal especially - seem to be so very happy that we are "getting rid of the white man" - that they don't care their grandchildren ga be trying to sell conch salad to wealthy Cubans in less than 15 years from now. Also the Chinese.

I guess they will have to turn their hatred toward the yellow man at that time (after obtaining permission from the Rasta's of course).

At this point I would say God help us - but even He can't help people who don't actually want help.

**TheMadHatter**

Why don't you idiots stop shutting down hotels and chasing away cruise ships - and instead try to get MORE businesses to come here - then employees can have a CHOICE of where to work instead of having to fight over table scraps?

If there are only 100 jobs and 5000 workers then the employer runs the show. Try get more businesses in here, and tell the church to allow women to have their tubes tied without permission from a male and we will be on the road to recovery.

An unmarried woman cannot have the procedure, and a married woman needs permission from her husband. Is this Saudia Arabia?

You guys need to get real. Well, actually, you don't need to get real - you can just keep living in a stagnant economy in a disgusting country like this one as long as you want to.

**TheMadHatter**

Absolutely true. Hopefully Govt will make Vaseline duty free and VAT free, cause we all ga need plenty.

**TheMadHatter**

Grace can't come here - she can't affort the VAT.

**TheMadHatter**

You don't need to create a group, and go to D.C., and make all kind of noise to make a positive contribution.

All you need to do is kindly ask your supporters to STOP overbreeding Bahamians in their own country - and trying to make us extinct.

Come here and live peacefully and sensibly. This is not Haiti. We don't have room here for yall to pop out 12 million puppies like you did back home and fill up everything. Where ya go then when you screw this country up?

Try to live different, please, try to live better. If you don't want to live better- then go back home.

**TheMadHatter**

We can only pray that Branville keeps his promise to hold his convention open to the leadership for all members to have a chance.

If the DNA could have a new, trusted leader - with Branville playing a supporting role - they might possibly win the election - and perhaps we can stop our backward slide into the abyss that is the Jamaican way of life.

**TheMadHatter**

This poor poor man. Hopefully the OAS will see his side of the story and agree with him - and they will provide safe refuge in some other better safer island for Mr. Georges and ALL of his supporters.

Perhaps, back to Haiti - or maybe Costa Rica, or Equador, or some other wonderful country will agree to take them ALL.

Let me know when the Agreement has been signed, and I will gladly chip in 10% of the flight costs, and wish them the very best in their future endeavors.

**TheMadHatter**

Don't be fooled by the apparent acts of Fred Mitchel. He is very much pro-Haitian. When last have you heard of a bus raid? How often are there any raids? Only every now and then.

Haitians are multiplying here out of control, and coming in by the boatloads.

Would Haiti be willing ot deed to us the 1/3 part of Haiti which is adjacent to Dominican Republic, and we will give them the entire Bahamas in exchange with the agreement that not a single Haitian would set foot on our new land? no - they would not.

They only want to take whatever we have and be veritable parasites.

I guarantee you that if such an exchange of territory (which would on the surface appear like a good deal for them) was offered to them - they would decline it. Moreover, after 5 years - Haitians would be moving illegally into our new territory looking for jobs and to rob the prosperity that we would have created in that short amount of time.

**TheMadHatter**