Lol you cant make this up with the big PLP "everything ok" hand sign behind him

It's not a question of too much development, our economy is clearly in a terrible position, double digit unemployment and the govt doing the only thing it can brainlessly imagine, raise taxes everywhere while bending over backwards in word parsing exercises to explain that it's not additional taxation.

What we have is the WRONG type of investment. We give away our crown jewels when these investors wave the word billion in front of us. And we get nothing but a few jobs. Now if you're hungry calling it *just a minimum wage job* is not doing it justice, it's a lifeline. But how many more decades are we going to continue with this model biting off pieces of the Bahamas that Bahamians never set foot on **ever** again? And pricing land so high that it's impossible to own?

Our investment needs to be part and parcel with the advancement of our people. Not squeeze us all into the islands center and wave "*entrepreneur*" and "*share ownership*" in front of us.

Yes today you need the job, but there has to be a strategy to say this our situation today but in 5 years we'll move up. But ev eff n while we're in our current situation, we're making decisions today to ensure the Bahamas is there for Bahamians tomorrow.

**Nothing** RCI says makes sense. With their argument they will buy up land on every island and Cay and capture the entire tourism market for themselves. And as business people that's what they supposed to.... "*try*". It's our job to protect us.

The politicians clearly dont care so there has to be some benefit for them over or under the table, and the realtors dont care theyd sell all the land if they could.

We need to stop this *whole sale* of the Bahamas

*lessons learned”*

It "appeared" to lean more to incompetence and negligence. Had no clue the number of clients or valuation. "Appeared" to exercise zero oversight because Sam admitted to personally performing the risk management function and manually calculating margins? Unheard of for a firm with billions of assets under management. What regulator could claim that's "*lessons learned*" versus total mismanagement

"*because building it would not look good*"
I suppose this applies to a new parliament building as well

It might become a fashion statement. I can see it now rappers walking around with one pant leg rolled up to show of their gold ankle bracelet
You could get be a fashion forerunner

"*Of course, both the condition of our prison and the speed of the trial process are the choice of our politicians. But instead of immediately reading the ruling as an indictment of our trial system and prison, which must immediately be fixed, they proceed like business as usual.*"

Couldnt have said it better, the politicians act as if their job isnt to create, amend laws and vote for capital budget projects. They see a new comfortable parliament building as more important than a functional, sustainable prison

"*Munroe said the wide circulation of the video could cause a jury to not be impartial.*"

Videos of police shootings are released ALL the time in the US. Why are they trying to brainwash us into this thinking that having information is bad?

No you cant. Imagine a trial **IF** it goes that route, a sitting PM called to testify in a rape case involving one of his MPs whom the police waited over a month post incident to question while the MP continued to appear for cabinet and parliamentary sessions. This could make world news. Which could have a positive side effect as we could tell the world once again that we are not corrupt

I hope Solomons had working cameras.

Ive often wondered if birdie acts dumb to frustrate everybody. I still havent figured it out