That would be true if our govt could direct the actions of the police and law enforcement everywhere. "Sadly" its beyond their control. You only need to look at Ryan Pinder's too late speech to understand this isnt the same ole same ole.

Yup. Everyday I hear more and more men whom I'd assumed to be honourable saying "*what wrong with that* when weighing in on slippery slope issues. We've completely lost our ethics and honour compasses

just like the carnival. Apparently everybody but the general public knew they was paying off the ruling party of the day to operate. And when you in a relationship with "only" the ruling party giving them hundreds of thousands of dollars or you cant open, there's only one word for that

nobody. In fairness to them theyre probably understaffed

"*investment was “more than double the bank’s worth at the time”, *

"*The fact that an offshore hedge fund, that was basically a crypto firm, was buying a stake in a tiny bank for multiples of its stated book value should have raised massive red flags for the FDIC.,*"

Said the **exact** same thing about local happenings. **The fact that in Nov 21, FTX, a cryoto firm whose fundamental existence disparages cash, was OPENLY approaching local banks offering a 12% interest rate for CASH should have sent massive shockwaves through the banking industry, the central bank, the SCB and the ministry of Finance. They ALL had to have been aware. We talk juicy news too much**. "Crickets". Even when the story was reported it was reported as **dictation** Up to today, noone has pointed out how odd this was beyond the general, *yeah they ask us for money but we didnt give any*.. These guys were in trouble for at least a year and desperately seeking cash to cover over leveraged positions. This would mean something else... Sam knew... while the leak of the financial statement was done by someone he most likely pissed off, he wasnt surprised by the info, this didnt just happen...

Either we're extremely dumb or someone say *leave them people alone*. Because while the public may not have been aware of all the oddities behind FTX's operations, *someone*s somewhere in some govt agencies had to know. There are just too many *what was that again*s

So was the DARE act eh?

Ministry of Finance is appearing to be extremely lazy. Halkitis talks here about comparing a charter in the Mediterranean to one on The Bahamas. Is the Mediterranean really our competition? Or is it Bermuda and the Caribbean. And this completely sloppy statement about we did a check, what he mean? Someone did a google search?how about, *here's our report with the data we used along with our analysis and conclusions, our predictive models says that while there will be initial hesitation we expect patronage to increase within...*

It is easy to do because it has basis in truth. Foreign criminals for decades have had free reign as long as they "contributed" to the ruling party, at the party level or personally to select individuals. Nygard just gone but I see the carnival back. I wonder how much they pay off this year.

I hear this argument about *who those reprobates is to fix their mouth to talk about us?* And I gave it some thought coming to the conclusion that it doesnt matter in the least how *trogloditish* or *reprobatish* they are, the question for us is, "Who are we"? Are we satisfied to compare ourselves against tax evading Delaware, money laundering Belgium, mafia ridden Las Vegas and say *we doing good cuz we not as bad as them*, or do we instead, march on to glory our bright banners waving high, seeing how the world marks the manner of our bearing as we strive for a common loftier goal? We have problemos, muchas grandes problemos in this country, least of which is corruption in high places. Maybe if we acknowledged that accepting payment for awarding contracts is wickedness and corruption and rampant in The Bahamas, maybe if we tarred and feathered the guilty we could have nice things, like paved roads