Chile go get what the kiddie carnival got. Seems that how the country operates now. They want normalize corruption

Its amazing how many people seek to justify corrupt practices as "*that's just the way it works*". George Smith told us after all *why does it matter how you make your money?*. How can someone say, "*when you in power is your turn and when I in power is my turn*" and call that a legitimate business practice. No business operates like that. **Its a shakedown**. I wonder if the US Justice Department interviewed or investigated this operator what they'd find. They might just put that Israeli financial investigator on the case.

I just watched an episode on Netflix where two colleagues were discussing the entry of product to a society. One said to the other, when it comes in the leader charges a "tax". The other said where I come from we call that a shakedown.

That's my take on it, the company gets to operate but they have to pay a "tax" to whoever is in charge. Exactly the practice the US Embassy listed in their report, charging US companies to do business.

There have been **too many* discussions within the past week of corrupt practices that "*nobody sees anything wrong with that*", "*it been going on for decades after all*", "*This real life not a fairy tale*".

This is why we dont grow, we sell opportunity to the highest bidder not the most talented

Interesting to see the people supporting the practice

Is the sideways V the gang symbol of the Bahamas? and I mean that kindly. Everybody does it in pics, is it a reference to "242"? Im not sure I see other countries using it. So I say lets copyright it as our gang symbol.

I dont know if "briught in" stands up in light of the fact that they had no work permits and no authorization to operate from health. What Bahamian seeking to operate a business franchise in 2021 wouldnt ensure those things were done?

What I think the PLP affiliation did was put a big *the rules dont apply here* stamp on the operation. All would have gone as normal if questions hadnt been asked

On the surface this seems like a silly issue. But a dumb botched burglary brought down the Nixon presidency and an accounting anomaly brought down Al Capone.

Didnt the US Embassy put out a report about people complaining about being shaken down to operate? Didnt one of the NGO'S complain about it too? I wonder what a 20 year investigation of this operation, even a 10 year one, would find

"captive" is right. 99% immediately cash out

"* than that, the system used with the visa helped to spot fraudulent tests.*"

Really? don't believe everything the people selling you a fancy gadget say. It seems like the last administration was just mesmerized by bells and whistles, never examining if what was being sold was the best way, an efficient way or a scalable way. Remember hubbcat?

Ask them to detail **how** they verified 5000 requests per day? The "how" is important, it has to answer tge question did this person receive a negative test result from an authorized centre. The only entity who can give that answer is the centre. Ask them "if" they vet *all* requests. Im thinking its literally impossible to do "today".

"*reason, he warns, is that the data from the visa was an important tool in contact tracing*"

Really? These justifications for this system keep jumping around. Everyone who boards a plane buys a ticket. Everyone with a ticket must present their COVID test to a ticket agent. Every plane must have a manifest that lists every person boarded with confirmed negative test and that manifest is handed to Bahamian authorities no? Is there nobody who can think systematically? How did Think Simple get this contract? Its extremely baffling. Didn't someone at DIT say "we have that data"?

No doubt someone will read the comment and announce a great idea to streamline

This system was solely in place to get marketing data for Tourism and to collect fees for the two companies involved.

yes

lol. "*this man head good*"