Why won't he say how much of the $6 Billion dollars we owe to international lenders has been paid off, and what is the new balance owing. The balance at May 2012 and the Balance at Dec 2014 ?
That is the real problem. Those are the people who can devalue our dollar.
Wow, and he says there won't even be any legislation even considered for fiscal responsibility until the end of this year. I can assure him that Bay Street and Shirley Streets will be shut down long before summer is over. The noise in the market grows louder every day. People don't mind paying the money to help their country - but for him to turn around in the 2nd week of Jan and go to China asking for more loans - that is what has people upset.
We dont' want a stinking "policy paper" - we want to know how much money comes from VAT - and from what business categories (ie. x amount from restaurants, x amount from trucking companies, x amount from variety stores, etc.)
THEN we want to know how much money goes out of VAT - and specifically what it is spent on. It is supposed to 100% be spent on the IDB international debt - but we know that won't happen - so just tell us what it actually ends up being spent on.
No Birdie, they don't want us to know how many of them there are, until their numbers reach 70%. Then the machetes will come out - and overnight their number will be 100% - cause we'll be dead.
As for the TOTAL number of grade one students - that is probably 6001. LOL.
So is that why BTC send out a text to everybody every 2 or 3 hours reminding them that they can get 15 free local texts if they make 5 paid texts?
These texts are sent out at all hours of the day and night. They think a lot of nickles heaped together are gonna save them? Or are people going to sign up for the new company's cell phone service, just so they don't get woken up in the night with text ads?
Wow - 6000 Haitians to be registered - and that's only grade one.
times that by all 12 grades and that makes 72,000 Haitians under the age of 18 - nearly a third of the entire Bahamas population. Add in those over 18 and you are probably getting pretty close to 50% of the entire population.
Should an order be sent out to all departments of Government and all police stations etc - to say "Don't even bother raising the flag each morning." We are getting new Haiti flags made up at the printers and will distribute them for pole raising by the end of next week.
The battle has obviously already been lost - due to this new information. Mitchell might as well forget those new immigration policies. They are a decade late and a thousands dollars short.
He is like the man on the bow of the Titanic shouting "Iceberg !!! Iceberg !!!". However, that movie must have been a hit with the Govt, and they wanna watch it again all the way to the end.
They should do a full investigation of the recently "built" Abaco airport - which is a complete and utter disaster. The tower is too short to be useable, the upper floor is chained off and unworkable - due to a lack of fire escape, the generator cannot supply power to the tower, and a host of other problems.
Maybe they can try to not make the same mistakes. In addition, the airport does not need 2 floors. The problem is there are like 10 different airlines there, and the place was a small square building about 40x40ft. Each line facing the counters on the wall, ran into each other and blocked the main entrance door.
What was needed was a long relatively thin building so that each airline could have either own counter and that no counter was in the front of an entrance door. Instead, they got a larger square building - which is better - but kinda missed the point. They got the airport that they needed for 20 years' ago traffic, and now they are 20 years behind instead of 50 years behind. Instead they should have gotten the airport they would need 10 years from now.
I'm sure Cat Island will be a similar waste of time and money. Abaco airport was like $28 million. I could have built them one twice as big and twice as functional for a third of that price.
TheMadHatter says...
Why won't he say how much of the $6 Billion dollars we owe to international lenders has been paid off, and what is the new balance owing. The balance at May 2012 and the Balance at Dec 2014 ?
That is the real problem. Those are the people who can devalue our dollar.
**TheMadHatter**
On Nation ‘on track’ to reduce deficit
Posted 12 February 2015, 3:54 p.m. Suggest removal
TheMadHatter says...
Condoms. One word small word, for a dozen giant problems.
**TheMadHatter**
On Increase in jobs not keeping up with growing labour force
Posted 12 February 2015, 3:52 p.m. Suggest removal
TheMadHatter says...
He would have gotten a much longer sentence if police found him with a single joint of marijuana.
Why does the church think that having a marijuana joint is a much higher crime than kidnapping and murder?
Why won't they fight for the release of so many of our young men in prison who have committed no violent crimes?
**TheMadHatter**
On Three years for role in kidnap that turned deadly
Posted 12 February 2015, 3:51 p.m. Suggest removal
TheMadHatter says...
Wow, and he says there won't even be any legislation even considered for fiscal responsibility until the end of this year. I can assure him that Bay Street and Shirley Streets will be shut down long before summer is over. The noise in the market grows louder every day. People don't mind paying the money to help their country - but for him to turn around in the 2nd week of Jan and go to China asking for more loans - that is what has people upset.
On PM says VAT will be a ‘major success story’
Posted 12 February 2015, 3:42 p.m. Suggest removal
TheMadHatter says...
We dont' want a stinking "policy paper" - we want to know how much money comes from VAT - and from what business categories (ie. x amount from restaurants, x amount from trucking companies, x amount from variety stores, etc.)
THEN we want to know how much money goes out of VAT - and specifically what it is spent on. It is supposed to 100% be spent on the IDB international debt - but we know that won't happen - so just tell us what it actually ends up being spent on.
**TheMadHatter**
On PM says VAT will be a ‘major success story’
Posted 12 February 2015, 3:37 p.m. Suggest removal
TheMadHatter says...
No Birdie, they don't want us to know how many of them there are, until their numbers reach 70%. Then the machetes will come out - and overnight their number will be 100% - cause we'll be dead.
As for the TOTAL number of grade one students - that is probably 6001. LOL.
**TheMadHatter**
On ‘No child will be denied access to an education’
Posted 11 February 2015, 5:23 p.m. Suggest removal
TheMadHatter says...
So is that why BTC send out a text to everybody every 2 or 3 hours reminding them that they can get 15 free local texts if they make 5 paid texts?
These texts are sent out at all hours of the day and night. They think a lot of nickles heaped together are gonna save them? Or are people going to sign up for the new company's cell phone service, just so they don't get woken up in the night with text ads?
**TheMadHatter**
On BTC faces 20% income cut via monopoly end
Posted 11 February 2015, 3:59 p.m. Suggest removal
TheMadHatter says...
Wow - 6000 Haitians to be registered - and that's only grade one.
times that by all 12 grades and that makes 72,000 Haitians under the age of 18 - nearly a third of the entire Bahamas population. Add in those over 18 and you are probably getting pretty close to 50% of the entire population.
Should an order be sent out to all departments of Government and all police stations etc - to say "Don't even bother raising the flag each morning." We are getting new Haiti flags made up at the printers and will distribute them for pole raising by the end of next week.
The battle has obviously already been lost - due to this new information. Mitchell might as well forget those new immigration policies. They are a decade late and a thousands dollars short.
**TheMadHatter**
On ‘No child will be denied access to an education’
Posted 11 February 2015, 3:48 p.m. Suggest removal
TheMadHatter says...
A pretty good article by Mr. Myers, as always.
He is like the man on the bow of the Titanic shouting "Iceberg !!! Iceberg !!!". However, that movie must have been a hit with the Govt, and they wanna watch it again all the way to the end.
**TheMadHatter**
On Immigration policy exacerbates worker productivity crisis
Posted 10 February 2015, 10:02 p.m. Suggest removal
TheMadHatter says...
They should do a full investigation of the recently "built" Abaco airport - which is a complete and utter disaster. The tower is too short to be useable, the upper floor is chained off and unworkable - due to a lack of fire escape, the generator cannot supply power to the tower, and a host of other problems.
Maybe they can try to not make the same mistakes. In addition, the airport does not need 2 floors. The problem is there are like 10 different airlines there, and the place was a small square building about 40x40ft. Each line facing the counters on the wall, ran into each other and blocked the main entrance door.
What was needed was a long relatively thin building so that each airline could have either own counter and that no counter was in the front of an entrance door. Instead, they got a larger square building - which is better - but kinda missed the point. They got the airport that they needed for 20 years' ago traffic, and now they are 20 years behind instead of 50 years behind. Instead they should have gotten the airport they would need 10 years from now.
I'm sure Cat Island will be a similar waste of time and money. Abaco airport was like $28 million. I could have built them one twice as big and twice as functional for a third of that price.
**TheMadHatter**
On Gov’t agrees to build new Cat Island airport
Posted 10 February 2015, 9:49 p.m. Suggest removal