Is the assumption that the workers lived paycheck to paycheck?
Did they put nothing aside for "a rainy day"?
Realizing the concern some might have with not being fed for a day,
where in this is the Government obligated to do squat?
It is stated they were paid out properly,
Bad ideas and ideology all stemming from this perverse need to remain enslaved.

Better put the Standards Bureau to work upgrading political standards
if you want to see anything other than the 40 year slide we've been on.
Seriously, elect garbage, garbage you get.

While I agree Crime is rampant,
The Authorities will always be restrained by the rule of law,
pertaining to their conduct and quite frankly should be.
Otherwise, the result is a police state, where the ends justify the means.
Many innocent people will suffer at the hands of over zealous officers, Judges,
There is no limit to the depravity of man once let loose.

While I agree with you Well Mudda,
The IMF is driving this bus.
What the private sector should be doing, in light of the ever changing "interpretations" emanating from the Ministry of finance and their Agents,
is requiring a Ministry sign off on their compliance Prior to January.
Those businesses who have a clue and have been working towards software solutions should not open without it, as one could be fined for "government incompetence".
No doubt the Government will be looking to make examples of a few fish, big and small to intimidate everyone into compliance.
While they want to hold the private sector accountable and liable, the same should be applied to them.

The next election will exchange one set of fools and incompetents for another,
for the simple reason that Bahamians have found the switch!
Not that there is any intelligence required to flick it,
but like a child, we will flick it a few times more before we realize that this too hurts us as a country.
5 year plans are obsolete as soon as formed,
political expediency alone is a sorry plan.

Reduced Fuel costs only equates to higher profits for fuel companies and Government via taxation here in the Bahamas.

What other reaction would you expect from the Bay street property owners?
VAT, real property taxes, Income taxes, and now Non Bahamian ownership on Bay street?
Mercantile entrenchment and prominence is under perceived attack,
Slowly awaking from their mistaken belief that their world will never change!
Sad only due to the fact that the current administration is such a cluster bomb in most respects.
We are now rolling down the WTO/IMF road in multiple directions and no administration will be able to stop or reverse it, nor will they want to.
"The power to tax involves the power to destroy" U.S. Chief Justice John Marshal.

I still can't figure out why so many Bahamians sit around waiting for their Elected "servants" to
Do something for them!
Get of yer keister and TELL them what needs doing!
We bind ourselves into modern day slavery and poverty when we place these people on these pedestals they are only too willing to sit upon.
Look at how they're steam rolling VAT right on us, needing it to cover their decades of political cronyism and sticky fingers.
BOTH Parties!
How we slunk up to the elected in dark corners to "fix this for me"
If every Bahamian scooped up a bucket of sand we could move a beach,
instead we brain each other with the buckets while the elected laugh their way to the Treasury!

Yep,the Peoples Numbers Bank of the Bahamas.

If the Government hacks would stop Flip flopping when asked serious procedural questions by Private sector concerns wanting to comply they might actually gain some respect and cooperation from the private sector.
As it stands now, there is some freelance "interpretation" going on by their own "Team" created by their own ignorance.
Not that their team brings any credibility to the table, being a few marginal accountants and far too rapidly promoted Customs officers.
It is the private sector which will police and collect for them, via a desire for self preservation!
Not giving the private sector one straight sensible story and set of rules is like playing soccer with goal posts on wheels and a square ball!
The VAT inspectors will just roam around like the VAT M'coute with clubs, kinda like price control on steroids.
After all is said and done, we will all pay for the Governments debts and their botched VAT job so instead of creating an enemy out of the private sector the Government should be begging for their input and help.