The govt just needs to give it up. There's no way they can justify a 500% increase in fees since they took over. Just apologize for the overr rcharge and give it up.

And while you're at it, stop black balling Bahamians with ideas and "*appropriating*" ideas then implementing them **very** poorly. You're shooting the country in the foot. If you allowed the innovator to realize **their** idea, who knows, your default of bleeding the Bahamian people for tax revenue might not be necessary. You might have a Bahamian FTX or Google or Apple on your hands

I'm not. I've had a sinking suspicion for a while that comments were being "*mostly*" allowed on sensational negative PLP stories. It's an unsettling notion for a paper that always touts its journalistic integrity and which I believe in. I could be wrong, there is no way for me to know if it's a fact, I'm not in the internal meetings... it just seems off

**Something is very very off with the stories being as allowed comment. Its is almost *tabloidish* at this point. We're allowed to talk about Dame Maguerite's upset, which is worthy of discussion, but meanwhile fishermen are sounding the alarm about the hazardous chemical spill in the waters off Abaco... and comments are disallowed???**

"***Paul Maillis, the National Fisheries Association’s (NFA) secretary**, in an interview with Tribune Business also urged the authorities to “not take a soft hand” in ensuring that those responsible for the MV Onego Traveller or their insurers ultimately cover all the costs incurred by The Bahamas in protecting its marine environment, tourism and fisheries industries from any pollution fall-out.

*“It’s something we’ve been watching very closely,” he said of the vessel’s sinking. “**I know that area, Hole in the Wall, and all the way up to Cross Harbour is a very important commercial fishing area. That area, from the point of Hole in the Wall up to Cross Harbour, is a very important potting, diving and pelagic fishing source***

oops

Hope he recovers

Comments open on a PLP dispute...

"*Mitchell told The Tribune he has no idea why she was upset, but she is entitled to her views.*"

Typical male, *I'm dumbfounded/crazy, hysterical woman talking out her head* response

I suspect part of what happened here was both sides negotiated a way forward and this statement was part of the deal. You dont like it, but you decide not to die on that hill, there's a bigger battle to get to. I'll wait for the filing of the *slander* suit against John Ray and the follow through to trail completion... along with the police presenting the stolen Oban files

"*The Securities Commission may have done the right thing with regards to the collapse of FTX*

This is like giving the security guard an award for locking the doors a year later after the robbers escape **undetected** with 90% of the money

**The SCB appears to have failed in their function as a regulator for FTX, they appear to have functioned entirely in a compliance role**, *do we have all the registration documents? Did all the exec's sign in the right place?* etc. Its the window dressing, necessary, but still window dressing. **This is clear from the Central Bank's statement 2 weeks ago. The Central Bank said in black and white, they *will step in to fill the GAPS left by the DARE Act*. The major gap they specifically identified was "Risk Management", well for an investment platform, risk management is the ball and chain, if you're not doing that exactly what were you regulating? The answer is "nothing", i.e. Sam calculating margins by himself in a corner**