"*Investors have not received their share certificates, and the Issuers were assessed additional fees by the company not shown in their listing agreement. We have started a verification/reconciliation process for one issuer to ensure completeness of its share register and will undertake a similar exercise for the remaining issuers.*"

What was the Securities Commission doing in terms of oversight? And we're going to guide Botswana???

"*nvolved in it.

"The whole thing was an innocent idea. I was having a beer at Spritz. ArawakX was right in front of me. I thought I may as well knock on the door and give my customers a chance to invest in the business.*"

Maybe theres more to the decision process than he's saying but seeking investors shouldnt be such a *btw* thought process. You're seeking investment dollars because you have a very specific thing to do and you've worked this thing out strategically and how it will pay off. Cause if it doesnt work, the investors get your business (unless you have a rich uncle to pay back the money)

I'd like to see a Papa Doc style clawing back of all the money ferreted away out of the Bahamian treasury.

I'd like the PM to relay why he let the police harass the BEC union president's elderly parents. I hope the mother doesnt have a heart attack. Recall one of the US capital police dying of a heart attack a day or so after the storm on the Capital building due to stress. We know the police here dont make any high profile moves without checking in.

"*Having a say in how it is run" doesn't translate in being a bully*"

"*shouldnt*" is the operative word. The reality is it does. Many people see it play out in this country and on their jobs. The people with power do what they want. Even if its counterproductive to the goal.

Lol. Oh God please help Johnny

Lol. You and your strawman arguments

but extremely odd for a minister of foreign affairs to almost poo poo the threat of illegal immigration. Ive always wondered who exactly was profiting from the illegal racket in forged documents and why it never gets resolved. Also why Shame was so interested in getting back into politics.

I listened to the President of Botswana, he said he wants to find out how we got to 9million visitors. I find both this and the last Tourism Minister are overly arrogant about what they did to accomplish this. I have a short answer for the President of Botswana, find a way to move your country within a 30 minute plan ride of one of the largest consumer economlies in the world and you too can have 9million tourists. In fact because you also have an ecotourism base with interesting things for people to do and see, you might make it 18million

The highly politicized atmosphere at the moment, scrambling to appear to do alot of good things without any plan or budget to actually complete reminds me of Perry Christies promise of free electricity right before the election

The cost of doing business is too high. Thsts not a complaint but a reality and its artificially high due to successive govts inability to innovate and at the same time placing strangleholds on Bahamians attempting to do so. #TobySmith. The kickback tax is also a real thing. It triples prices, then has the tax man trying to replace those liberally awarded dollars by increasing taxes on the poor yet again. 2.5 million for an elevator? 100k to travel to Grand Bahama? Now the toilets need to fix. If only we hadn't padded the elevator contract by 2 million dollars.