A noble idea, save the fact that the FNM is marginally better, and in some ways worse.
Until we start seizing the assets of those who have pillaged, robbed and proven themselves to be self serving in elected or appointed office,
we will endure the same. Re-instate and enforce the rules as written, not as interpreted by those who rule afoul of them!
Where is the down side for any of them if they are their own judge, jury?
Ever seen one of them hang themselves burdened with shame?

Where is Obie and Pleasant's Grand Bahama venture? Or was that written off long before the liquidity issue?

What is with the friggin Dock Tal?
Tell us the story man!

Used to hold school under shade trees, that worked fine.
Seriously, someone needs to correlate all these Government "works" into $/Sq Ft so the ordinary folks have some reference to see how badly they're being ripped off!
Grand Bahama Fire station is at $530 odd/Sq Ft without fire station specific equipment.
That'll be years in arriving, like COB Northern Bahamas furniture.
If Ever.
Maybe we can all just take our fires there to be put out.
As they have dismantled all of the mechanisms for redress/prosecution/accountability
all that is left is public outrage, which must've left decades ago as it still hasn't shown up.
This pseudo Outrage shown by whomever is in opposition is as transparent as whomever is raiding the cookie jar!
Wait your turn !
Their biggest fear these days is the jar is damn near empty, full of holes and neither crew want to meet the jar empty.

Research SWER grid, Single Wire Earth Return.
While individual poles may be grounded, ask BEC how many poles have had the copper ground wire stolen.
The top wire pole to pole throughout Florida (for example) is a ground wire which usually takes a strike (which is what lightning wants, ground) and other than localized damage (immediate customers) the grid stays up.
Without that ground wire the hot lines get hit, and go to ground through the customers and substations!
Our grid is antiquated and not properly balanced, nor properly corrected for phase angle.

This is what happens when you discard your standards, both personal and professional.
Crime gets out of control, and the police respond to it as they will.
The Bahamas was warned back in the 70's, at a police/law enforcement conference in Jamaica. B.K. Bonamy brought the message home, and it was ignored.
It is too late to simply reinstate the old rules, those rules were designed to maintain law and order, not restore law and order.
The innocent will always pay, along with the guilty.
Vigilantism romanticized is the good guy taking the law into his own hands,
what do you call it when your sub-culture is killing each other off?
When your police force participates?
Makes the truth hard to find.

As always the implementation is the failure, not the push (by external forces) to modernize and make accountability the acceptable national standard.
Private sector first however, as that is where the revenue to be skimmed is generated.
accounting for how it is spent will prove to be elusive.
Gotta fund carnivals and drinking sessions on the park grounds or the natives will get restless.
Unfortunately the private sector is too busy staying under the radar trying not to get noticed to present a unified front against a) government b) unions c) bureaucratic idiocy d) crime.
It will come, but only when the business climate gets untenable, and many will have left.
By then it will be a last, desperate, and possibly too late effort.
It bites but we allowed it, played with it, picked sides in it, cut deals with it,
so we own it.

As a large business he has no doubt been "under review" as have other large business concerns for accurate and timely collection and remittance.
Just as the IRS in the U.S. has been used to target certain corporations and individuals, so too can VAT be used in the same way.
As for Government having data to assess the "sweet spot" they do already:
They just cannot go to 22+% overnight.
WTO compliance gives until 2025 to reduce/eliminate duties so the government gets to ride a revenue hump, or so they hope.
Seems Mr. Roberts finally got it, as based upon his last position (VAT vs.Price Control, Trib)
it seemed he didn't at that time.

The press should stay away from the old befuddled politicians of both ilk!
Money talks and funds elections (and special interests)
and while there may well be a move to shift Minnis out,
it would probably only be because the money fear that they cannot control him.
The "ruling class" is indeed still pulling strings wherever they can, black and white.
The only reason the PLP won was because the people voted Against Ingraham,
not necessarily for the PLP.
What other option was there? (The DNA is still identified as FNM discards, which hurt them as much as the DNA hurt the FNM)
Emotive voting, not intelligent voting.
That takes decades to develop and in our case we have yet to start on that path.

"The flight from Philadelphia, which was scheduled to depart at 9.15am on Tuesday, experienced long delays and didn’t leave until 8.30pm. While enroute to Freeport, the pilot informed passengers that the airport in Grand Bahama had shut down and that they would have to fly into Nassau".
Seems the issue was a hell of a delay by the flight, causing ramifications further on.
Of course the initial error was the Government taking over flight control in Grand Bahama.....
compounded by not paying them overtime when worked.
Let a private entity try not paying wages and overtime,
or NIB.