We are so far behind the eight ball we aren't even on the slate! Compliance without signing commitment would've been the best 20 year plan, getting our internal affairs in order, but we had no plan.......still don't. Lawsuits coming over the EU-EPA non compliance very soon. Another stupid action, signing a super WTO agreement before membership. carib-can is another example.
The sad truth is, the state of government healthcare, an oxymoron, will not change. Clinics will remain unstaffed, ill equipped, and the PMH will remain a sink hole of public money and peoples hopes for treatment. Ambulance fleets at the wrecking yard, drug shortages, etc. The other thing that will not change is the politicians getting their treatment at foreign hospitals, retaining their private health insurance to pay for it.
However, he said within “three or four” years the government expects the national debt to be “totally eliminated.” Whaat? Did he just say that? $6+ billion eliminated? They may not share what they steal, but should share what they're smoking!
No doubt the "establishment" is pulling and tugging to have its way, as are the old "standards" and back benchers who refuse to acknowledge their obsolescence or think it is "their time". Both will hand the election to the current bunch of crooks if half of what is apparently going on is true.
"The new ambulances are equipped with automatic transmissions and are customised with features that will improve “performance, reliability, patient and staff safety as well as improved visibility and audibility”, according to Health Minister Dr Perry Gomez at the handover ceremony." That didn't pan out too well. Lack of due care and attention, but only shortened its life by a few months, would've been bone yarded within 6 months anyway.
We assumed the freedoms without the responsibilities, we dismantled the clerical system of rule left behind and replaced it with cronyism, but kept the pomp and ceremony. We turned our back on everything and lined up facing Miami. here we sit in our own filth, decay and angst.
There will always be crooks willing and able to scam any system, but as it stands the political civil service sector has that market cornered probably 4/1 over the private sector! Hence turning tax collection over to the private sector. While Mr. Roberts about face does raise questions, VAT is pretty straight forward, and unlike every other aspect of Bahamian law fraud had better be prosecuted, but not in the typical "guilty until we find something on you while we have you shut down" Bahamas customs method. Exercising a little intelligence would go a long way. I suggest they buy some with the VAT proceeds if it will not be spend on the national debt as promised.
If so Banker, that would be the fault of internal management, to be addressed internally. To cut a performance short and evict under 18 Bahamian performers who finally have someone investing in them, teaching them, should not happen. The Manager demanding they should leave sound like he has competency issues, again, an internal issue to be resolved.
The_Oracle says...
Exactly, get your inventory and ordering processes together and then pontificate about things beyond!
The 2 food stores in Grand Bahama are pathetic!
On AML chief fears Bahamas talking itself into decline
Posted 25 January 2016, 3:25 p.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
We are so far behind the eight ball we aren't even on the slate!
Compliance without signing commitment would've been the best 20 year plan,
getting our internal affairs in order,
but we had no plan.......still don't.
Lawsuits coming over the EU-EPA non compliance very soon.
Another stupid action, signing a super WTO agreement before membership.
carib-can is another example.
On Bahamas on track for WTO accession record
Posted 25 January 2016, 10:17 a.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
The sad truth is, the state of government healthcare, an oxymoron, will not change.
Clinics will remain unstaffed, ill equipped, and the PMH will remain a sink hole of public money and peoples hopes for treatment. Ambulance fleets at the wrecking yard, drug shortages,
etc.
The other thing that will not change is the politicians getting their treatment at foreign hospitals, retaining their private health insurance to pay for it.
On PM: We will press on with NHI as we have the right advice
Posted 22 January 2016, 6:06 p.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
However, he said within “three or four” years the government expects the national debt to be “totally eliminated.”
Whaat? Did he just say that? $6+ billion eliminated? They may not share what they steal, but should share what they're smoking!
On $33m to be borrowed to help monitor govt finances
Posted 21 January 2016, 5:10 p.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
No doubt the "establishment" is pulling and tugging to have its way, as are the old "standards" and back benchers who refuse to acknowledge their obsolescence or think it is "their time".
Both will hand the election to the current bunch of crooks if half of what is apparently going on is true.
On FNM convention - but no voting?
Posted 21 January 2016, 1:05 p.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
"The new ambulances are equipped with automatic transmissions and are customised with features that will improve “performance, reliability, patient and staff safety as well as improved visibility and audibility”, according to Health Minister Dr Perry Gomez at the handover ceremony."
That didn't pan out too well.
Lack of due care and attention, but only shortened its life by a few months, would've been bone yarded within 6 months anyway.
On New ambulance left up in the air after morning collision
Posted 18 January 2016, 4:14 p.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
We assumed the freedoms without the responsibilities,
we dismantled the clerical system of rule left behind
and replaced it with cronyism, but kept the pomp and ceremony.
We turned our back on everything and lined up facing Miami.
here we sit in our own filth, decay and angst.
On Archdeacon tells members of the judiciary 'legal system is broken'
Posted 17 January 2016, 4:12 p.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
Good riddance, move forward.
On Former MP blasts FNM council changes
Posted 14 January 2016, 3:34 p.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
There will always be crooks willing and able to scam any system, but as it stands the political civil service sector has that market cornered probably 4/1 over the private sector! Hence turning tax collection over to the private sector.
While Mr. Roberts about face does raise questions, VAT is pretty straight forward, and unlike every other aspect of Bahamian law fraud had better be prosecuted, but not in the typical "guilty until we find something on you while we have you shut down" Bahamas customs method.
Exercising a little intelligence would go a long way.
I suggest they buy some with the VAT proceeds if it will not be spend on the national debt as promised.
On Super Value chief: We have ‘lowest and simplest VAT’
Posted 7 January 2016, 3:09 p.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
If so Banker, that would be the fault of internal management,
to be addressed internally.
To cut a performance short and evict under 18 Bahamian performers who finally have someone investing in them, teaching them, should not happen.
The Manager demanding they should leave sound like he has competency issues, again, an internal issue to be resolved.
On Choir ‘kicked out’ of resort as staff claim abuse by manager
Posted 30 December 2015, 7:50 p.m. Suggest removal