"*because now you have new taxi drivers who just entered the industry who knows nothing about taxi driving, who doesn’t care about the industry and don’t care about tourists nor the government, all they want to do is make that money so the taxi industry is now in turmoil because of the minister being so reckless in her behaviour.”*

**since the minister came in in "2021" fares got unreasonbly hiked, taxi drivers refused to pick up Bahamians and tourists got charged ridiculous per person fares??? We sure he didnt mix up year 2000 with 2021? That was a year of turmoil**

This is a very interesting story reported on cnn.com. It sounds so familiar

By Tara Subramaniam and Vedika Sud, CNN
Published 6:47 PM EST, Fri January 13, 2023
CNN
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*.**For YEARS, residents** in the northern Indian city of Joshimath **have complained to local officials** that their homes are sinking. **Now authorities are being forced to take action**, evacuating nearly 100 families in the **last week** and expediting the **arrival of experts to determine the cause.***

***Cracks running through the city are now so wide** that hundreds of homes are no longer habitable, and some fear that India could lose a key gateway to religious pilgrimages and tourist expeditions on nearby mountain trails.*

*Kwatra added that the natural factors which put Joshimath, home to around 25,000 people, at risk of sinking are **“being exacerbated by large scale construction projects** as well as climate induced flash floods and extreme rainfall.”*

***Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami visited the affected areas last saturday inspecting the homes** of residents who fear the structures may collapse.*"

This is what we do with everything. Ignore it, scurry around when the problem becomes too big to ignore then some official shows up with cameras and a large entourage to *walk around* to see for themselves.. as if that does anything. The next update I expect to hear is the city gone and the officials have arrived with remediation equipment

Their info is really lacklustre I can't get a sense of what's happening. They reported 18 cases a week ago and nothing since. Did those people recover, did noone else get sick, did they perform testing on family and coworkers of those individuals... is the wave over... nothing

If this were a dangerous strain, and I havent seen anything to say it is, it's too late to protect the border. We probably looking for the wrong suspects anyway. That strain has already infiltrated the US and is travelling around with blue eyes now.

The problem with COVID is, dangerous strain or not, our bodies are unique chemical and biological compositions. While 99.5% of people were always fine, even with delta, there's the 0.5% for which this is deadly. To this day nobody in the Bahamas has given us any data on what is likely to put you in the 0.5% at risk. Just this blanket vaccinate everybody campaign. Enough people have been impacted for some study of "us", not the US, to have taken place. I expect government by social media to adjust their statements shortly

I find this extremely troubling. I dont think they understand that there is nothing to get. This focus on squeezing as much as possible out of the public will have a disastrous long term impact, it is not sustainable. They will find in the long run businesses will simply fire more staff or shut down completely. Then they'll most likely come up with a bright idea to tax you at every street light.

Im trying to figure out what her husband have to do with this? He's not in the Ministry of Sports is he?

again?

"*Suggesting that EDI “integration” will also produce greater efficiencies and reduce the cost associated with clearing imports, the Ministry of Finance said: “EDI submissions, while reducing revenue losing errors, are also quicker, which means that the importer can get his goods released by Customs much faster. A submission, which can take days to prepare under UI, can be done in hours through EDI.*"

Customs simply paid for a very bad system that was ill suited to facilitate the processing customs brokers actually have to do. I recall when they first implememted Click2Clear they said *this the way the system works and theyll have to do it this way*... basically. Said at the time that this was backwards design. What Finance is now doing is essentially forcing customs brokers to pay for new software to cover up their badly designed software. Which ultimately means the Bahamian people will see increased import fees due to another poor contract award. bleeding GDP

I dont think people get that OUR research told us we'd make 2m annually, thats OUR research. Theyre currently making 10m annually. That is what the airlines are complaining about. **Even by our OWN estimates the fees are ginormous**

Too many people jumped on the digitization bandwagon post COVID but completely forgot its still about customer service

And just because...

"*Missing teenage girls in Pakistan ran away to meet BTS, police say*"-cnn.com

For the record, if Atlantis ever books BTS I'll run away to see them too.