I flew in on Bahamasair today, looked at the new issue of the inflight magazine. Well done btw,
great presentation and stories. However, the first 4 pages are all the Government content outlining all the new and wonderful taxes. Penalties and all right up front. I suppose that's a good thing, saves anyone wasting their time with realtors, lawyers and all the other services they'd need if they were thinking of investing here. Quite the presentation for looking elsewhere tho.
I can't believe anyone in Government could think that's a good thing.

They only sell our souls, not theirs. The irony is not missed, the Chinese having to fix their own
rotten worthless structure.

How about the housing shortage for the workers sent to the site, with proper sanitation and food supply chains, mailboat and freight routes, community integration or kept behind a wall in their own village, and how about the hit other islands get to their workforce when people move in droves to the "new anchor project" Seen that a few too many times, especially in Grand Bahama.
Ya know, I remember a national development plan drawn up in 67-69 that covered all of this,
including inter island logistics, traffic, workforce allocation, the whole enchilada.
A shame it was thrown into the garbage pail.
I'm sure a copy can be found. Read it, it'll blow your mind even for today.

So, cops pay themselves rewards from the pockets of citizens harassed/arrested based upon officers fiscal needs? Or Treasury needs?
Apparently immigration does the same when rounding up Haitians so precedent has been set,
I suppose the fire dept will start charging to respond to fires?
In the words of Forest Gump……….

If they ever possessed a veil of humility they soon exchange it for the cloak of arrogance.
Those appointed to positions of Authority assume some great power, to be wielded with impunity, but always one wrong step away from the undercarriage of the political bus.
How could it be otherwise? We elect on a hastily mustered popularity contest, not based on capability or merit.
The very party structures employed are rigged in myriads of ways depending on the flavor of the day.
Politics and Prostitution, no shame in either.

Perhaps Fred Michell could focus on that Government area, instead of Freeport where the streetlights work just fine, courtesy of the GBPA and the GBPC.
For all his noise few realize the Port Authority does road works for Government in those Government areas, including repair and repaving of Queens Highway/Levarity Highway, the only Government road on G.B. from east to west.

Just as we are all monitoring our personal insolvency! These rates are a disgrace particularly with successive administrations babbling on about solar and fuel hedging et Al. All they’ve done is make solar difficult and regulated it out of the realm of possible.
Their focus is to control it. Restrict it. Push it beyond the reach of those who need it most.
URCA is a useless tool. Sandwiched between BEC/BPL and the Ministry of works, and cabinet.
A more inept bunch of incompetencies couldn’t be found.

“Administrations typically incur substantial deficits in June, as ministries, agencies and departments rush to present bills for payment that the Ministry of Finance never knew existed before the fiscal year closes at that month’s end. Conceding that “just one thing can blow everything up”,
Drunken spending sprees? Summer time cookie jar raids? What kind of an admission is this?

There should be a licensed association and would have been, had the Port Authority and government not actively blocked its formation, on at least four occasions over the last 4 decades. Imagine any government denying citizens rights to associate, a constitutional right.
Just another of many disgraces since independence.

Show me a race or nation that has not been enslaved at one time in history or the other, that we may consider reparations properly. Or is it simply a need for money, driven by National mismanagement, incompetent self determination in these small island Nations?
Good luck with any of the above. Something for nothing doesn’t exist.