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ThisIsOurs says...

"*We are looking to put in fines on the delay of the removal of the wreck in Abaco. How our legislation is drafted…. is our legislation restricts our ability to have to issue what’s called spot fines, fines on the spot. They require us to go to court get a judgment and issue the fine. We are now redrafting some regulations under the DEPP Act to allow DEPP to issue spot fines in instances of continued non-compliance.”*

I'm always amazed at Parliamentarians who complain about what the law doesnt allow them to do when it's clear to everyone that "*the law is an ..*"

The job of parliament is not to wait until some incident happens and they accidentally bump into a restrictive covenant, their job is to fix and modernize systems continuously. **The Senate is a complete waste of time. They apparently do nothing**. Every bill that comes across their desk passes with no objection from the majority including this, "*let's not issue spot fines no matter how egregious the environmental damage is, let's open a court case so one or two of us could be assigned as lawyers and make millions from some waste generating lobby*" our laws are clearly made to benefit lawyers

ThisIsOurs says...

Completely off track: This nonsense "*high water mark*" needs to be abolished. What is Parliament doing? Are we brainwashed? No Bahamian should have to ask permission to sit on sand anywhere in this country.

To the story: "*, he admitted they did not take the garbage to New Providence and instead piled the trash “to be collected.”*

Who was supposed to collect the garbage and when. Because it's been pretty window empty cans foam containers and papers "*in a pile(" can be strewn "*everywhere*", inclusive of the water, a couple hours

ThisIsOurs says...

Why do they keep pushing this narrative that customers happily migrated to digital when they were actually forced to. Its their business and they can make any decisions they want but in no stretch of the imagination was this customer led

On RBC Caribbean chief: Low growth hits FINCO

Posted 12 April 2023, 2:18 p.m. Suggest removal

ThisIsOurs says...

Hmmm I didnt attend so I wouldnt know if what youre saying is correct or not, but it does sound like a generalization to say that nothing worked and noone did their job and everything was horrible. What I will say is The Bahamas has a tendency to spin stories to alternate realities. In the run-up to the games for example there was a narrative that this year we just might win for the 50th anniversary. It clearly had a foundation in fantasy as Jamaica doubled our medal count with the majority being gold. Why do that? Theres no purpose to it if it's clear there's no chance of an overall win. There is nothing wrong with second place or even last place if you did the best that you could do and you did it honestly. A better narrative eould have been we think we have a great chance to improve our medal count, that was possible and highly probable. The Bahamas needs to run its own race, stop inventing feel good fantasticsl narratives and plan for future improvement

ThisIsOurs says...

The seaweed is left now to rot for months too. There's supposed to a giant mass of it floating towards the caribbean

ThisIsOurs says...

Lol. They need to look at the beach end of Prince Charles where a previous administration spent about 2million to plant plant seawall protection along a stretch of a few hundred feet, the majority got killed by seawater (go figure), the next administration came in and poured cement over the soil, this administration came in and finished the job of chopping down the shrubbery the seawater didnt kill. perfect strategic planning.

Morale.. dont count on mangroves... some developer's million dollar development will be more important

ThisIsOurs says...

The letter last week said they were closing *the courier arm* of their business. They didnt say the entire business was closing. It would stretch belief though that courier revenue stream that employs people to clear packages, transport packages, sort packages etc could close down entirely but not impact staff. The helter skelter response from Finance says they realize that too.

"*Tribune Business sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, last week said Blue Postal executives were called in to a meeting by Ministry of Finance officials who, alarmed at reports the company was ceasing operations, feared it would close down without settling due tax liabilities to the Government.*

Again, Brave Davis needs to take control of the Ministry of Finance. How many times is it now, that someone has made these dramatic strongman policy changes only to have to reverse everything when the negative economic impact, clear to everyone else, becomes apparent to them.

There is another way to do this. They did it with Omni. They spoke to them then reported that this asset and that asset had been collected and there was agreement for future remediation.

On Blue Postal refutes closure, tax arrears

Posted 11 April 2023, 1:09 p.m. Suggest removal

ThisIsOurs says...

"*ensure the economic benefit stays in The Bahamas for generations to come”.*

Spare us

"* It did, though, promise to provide details on the project’s projected economic and environmental impact “in the coming weeks”*

How many years they been fighting with Toby and they just doing an environmental impact study as an afterthought? The administration walking into this with eyes open. Does someone still get a percentage finders fee on these projects? But the good news they havent sponsored a junkanoo group as yet

ThisIsOurs says...

When I hear initiatives that attempt to force people into use of technology like making it impossible to conduct a transaction without using their app, it's the perfect signal that the people behind them dont understand how systems work. 70% of the "innovation" in this country is conducted in that way. Imagine Henry Ford going on a campaign to kill all horses and forcing people to drive this new thing he called an automobile. It explains the low Sand dollar adoption rate, it's a wonder they havent tried to force payment of VAT and candy to only Sand Dollar as yet. I remember the FS saying of ClickToClear *they just have to change the way they do things to how the system works*. Now we're forced to use Exempt app, God forbid your phone dies

ThisIsOurs says...

The company "*agreed*" to pay a fine? And the amount is a "*secret*"? Is it $1?

"*How our legislation is drafted … our legislation restricts our ability to issue what is called spot fines (which is) fines on the spot.*"

2 years in we just noticed? After going around the world begging for the world to save us from environmental damage? After launching a carbon credits initiative for people to invest billions on our as ability to protect our seabed?