Sure it is cheaper, by importing you have cut out Bahamian Salaries, Power bills,
Insurances, rent, all the overheads including theft/losses.
The airfreight operations overheads are minimal by comparison.
Why spend $2.11 billion/yr in Florida, go for broke and spend it all there!

Firearms "tax" already tripled!
Legally registered that is. Yep, for 40 years they were looking after us all right,
now we get to pay for it and more!
Income tax is just around the corner anyway, these are just "minor taxes"
to lube the wheels until..........
What we have is our Government joining the Governments of the world in the shift via the IMF, WTO etc in considering the wealth and productivity of their citizens as "theirs"
Theirs to tax, spend and borrow against.
Fine to say you're leaving but, where to?
Anyone else remember the influx of Jamaicans in the 60's?

Those in Government, Cabinet, house, opposition, senate could care less about socialism, it will not affect them as they have placed themselves above the law and population.
It is the public that will pay for the failed experiment, just as the public will end up paying the debt.
Amazing how we don't lend tools, cars, houses to family or friends because we know the outcome, (loss/destruction)
but we let these miscreants trade on our assets, productivity and futures.
The private sector better wake up, it is your money they want.
Got your exit strategy figured out?

That such a pair of twits could be the subject of so much discussion is amazing unto itself!
How on earth will we fix anything when the side show becomes the main event?

I've seen a hundred of these "sick slips" usually issued by Govt Doctors!
Meanwhile the Chinese should have built us a state of the art prison, not a Stadium!

I wouldn't touch that number based on where he pulled it from...........

Like it or not, we let them in, utilized them, shun them, abuse them, and now want to throw them out.
Mr. Mitchell presides over this mess, and has presided over it in the past along with other who have all done nothing (except lip service) as policy.
It is no different than the erosion of the rule of law in all other areas of Bahamian society.
Some things once let go (or destroyed) cannot be put to rights, cannot be wiped clean, cannot be done over.

You would think the Government would applaud all efforts by the business community to
explain, educate and inform the public.
Am I to believe that while the Government has insisted on VAT inclusive prices to be displayed,
the tags cannot say VAT is inclusive?
"He disclosed that Super Value’s pricing transition had been delayed for two months, after the VAT unit rejected its initial ‘inclusive’ tags in October/November 2014."
Dumb as Dumb can be.

VAT exclusive pricing is the best for consumer eduction, awareness, ease of inquiry,
investigation and overal transparency.
Hiding it within the price displayed serves only the Government,
ducking the blame for the inevitable inflation that has already started!

When it is free, it will not be valued,
and will always be in short supply.
Nothing, I repeat nothing the Government currently runs could be considered efficient, of quality, or inexpensive.
Yet another reason for the best and brightest in the medical field and educated abroad to stay away.