**The question isnt whether they "*can*" pay, the question is, is it more than they are willing to pay**. And certainly you can stand on principle and say this charge mirrors the service provided. The one thing you cannot do is demand people continue the service. It's why initial price setting is so important, changing it is hard.

Imagine starting tomorrow the Rupert Roberts says all packing boys must get a minimum 10 tip for any shopping cart with more than 2 bags. You "can" afford 10 dollars but how would you view that new tax and would the 10 **mandate** turn you off completely from use of packing boys? These tradeoffs are things that marketing professionals and economists mull over every day, at which price increase will the customer balk? Our decision makers are clearly unaware of the concept. They believe like you that if you have money for discretionary services, you'll just spend it no matter the jump in price. Twitter is experiencing this backlash on introduction of fees as well.

**The Excel spreadsheet that allows you to increase the service fee rate 200% and project a massive increase in profits doesnt tell the full tale.**

"*he was doing so on behalf of the prime minister, the Cabinet, “and Bahamians everywhere”*

He did that on behalf of himself. It was completely unnecessary

Yup the same potholes he's fixing now he just fixed in November. Compare that to Ingraham road built 10 years ago and no potholes. There was the breech in a pipe that led to a collapse, I'm still wondering it the pipe breech was a result of the earthquake. It happened within a few days

"*This is **the first time, madam speaker, in over four years that the ministry has been able to engage staff and obtain equipment to address the issue of potholes**.*"

**Hmmmm...**

Tribune **Nov 3 2022**

"*Sears said his ministry is commencing a blitz roadworks operation in various areas of New Providence, including The Grove, where a paving crew was present yesterday to patch potholes in the area of Fourth Street.*

*"With respect to New Providence we will be within the next several weeks, we will have a three-week blitz. We will engage additional contractors and the 12 zones, we will cover them and ensure that the potholes in New Providence are addressed,” he said.*

"*We will expand the capacity of the road paving crews within the ministry as well as with drainage crews so that we have a quick response in addition to the contractors. We also will bring in more inspectors through the various parts of New Providence to ensure the quality of work is up to the specification.*"

Said this before but it's clear the people who pushed this had very little understanding of technology and adoption. The Central Bank was moving full force to eliminating digital competition for its services inclusive of eliminating cheques and hand in hand with govt refusing to accept the country's legal tender in exchange for services. It was just bad design all around. The lady at the IDB's 2019(?) conference told them they needed a pre-education campaign, the govt's project manager sneered at her.

What they doing 5 years later? Trying to roll out an education campaign.

Our nation suffers from mostly men in suits who believe suits have brain cells

Possibly 3 groups. The 2nd home owner, black tourists and the persons operating the golf carts. **By now a reasonable law enforcement investigative team should have been able to provide a fact based update. Shame on us**

If the white gentleman did not start that fight and was simply defending himself, that guy who picked him up and slammed him on his back could be in for a very very very large lawsuit.

The worst thing that could have happened for us is the linkage of climate change to profits. Because the cause is now hijacked for speechification and profit. I see selling fill is big business,... where all this soil mixed with freshly cut trees coming from? Who watching?

Correction: Plotted "*weather", not "*climate*".

Climate change is real. The earth is warming, it is fueled by our use of fossil fuels. But what we do here is dump alot of gossip, poor comprehension skills and reading habits onto the debate.

I believe we do that because it's a cultural trait of a people who were never encouraged to move forward intellectually (Politcs and religious prostitutes feed on easily swayed uninformed people). Oral tradition is how our great great grandparents got information, it's a great tradition but some of the nonsense that's allowed today fueled by whatsapp and religion is mind boggling. I really miss the presence of Juan McCartney who would speak deeply and intelligently on a variety of topics and guard zealously the gates of information flow. Now any crackpot is allowed to express poor information often based on misinterpreted religious tenets and literally what they "*dream*". It's a very bad thing because for us, what's spoken "*on air*" is gospel truth.

I saw a climate graph on cnn... I believe it plotted climate for every year since 1960's(?).

I had recently heard commentary from "*young people*" that their grandparents had saidaid theyd, "*never experienced heat like this before*. I thought to myself, that's weird, cuz I'm younger than their grandparents and I remember heat like this, days at work where I planned not to set foot out the office until the evening hours...

anyway back to cnn... to my great surprise the graph displayed 2 prominent curves 2023 and 2016, almost identical temps, there were a number of other years where the temperature curve was also close. I suppose the grandparents could have alzheimers. The same hysterics happens every time there's heavy rain, lightening and thunder, like we never experienced this before. Then there are the people who mix sustainability with climate change like the fact that people can't walk to the shore and pick up a conch is all due to climate change. And Bahamians gobble up this unscientific sky is falling nonsense.

What the real scientists say is the heat is due to cyclical El Nino warming pattern Clearly from the temp graph, we've had multiple years with very very similar temps. When La Nina comes we'll be talking about how cold it is, when it happens, please just remember Nassau temps have been in the high 40's before