**People at NGO's do not work for free**. Stop being ridiculous.

A portion of the funds they take in is designed to go to administrative fees. The only difference between them and a regular business is they the salaries should not be be mega mogul salaries and any money they raise should go to support shortfalls in reasonable administrative fees or charity work there's no piling up of profits for personal or investor benefit.

Seems like it. It's hard to believe the sports minister could get a law passed in parliament to establish a new junkanoo authority all by himself. It's also very easy to guess who gave the way forward faulty advice. It's more difficult to determine exactly what the rationale was at the registrar general's office

Post appeals court ruling, I guess theyll leave the sports minister to sink on the boat by himself

Ok, some environmentalist you approve of

When will BPL reveal the plan for the Bahamas in full and in writing with details and timelines? All we're getting are fancy videos and announcements of stunning profits

This is criminal

"***hope** that something happens soon. When the powers that be see that the island is speaking out, maybe they will move a little faster*"

Doesnt sound so:
"*Every time, they send us old ones from somewhere else, fix them up and ship them down here. That is not fair*"

Same old boss

Exactly. That's why fraud is so prevalent in humanitarian efforts. Nobody has time to say let's stop everything and investigate, nor should they, lives are at risk The key things are to have a culture of procedures and protocols in place before you start to at least minimize the risk. The organized crime will likely be uncovered and prosecuted after. Take really good notice at the two audits that cited "*no controls*", that's a very very heavy finding.

I found it almost comical how fast Hubert Minnis moved to establish an authority to "*redirect*" the billions in humanitarian aid that was flagged to flow in to make it mandated to pass through the govt. Then we had an explosion of persons talking about creating "*non-profits*"....with no controls, just "I want help, give me money". The draw of and thirst for money. The donors saw it too and fled

On this one I dont have enough info, but I noted the balance. I calculated 30,000 annual salaries for 113 people, I believe that's a much higher salary than will be paid to pen attendants and cleaners, but I give that, I came up with 3.39 million.

That's it. That's the only thing we get out of this what will likely explode into billions of dollars.
1. All the produce is for export
2. 1500 acres are being granted to them. Is the land exclusively for the enterprise or will they start selling parcels for 2nd homes? Dont know. Dont know if the Port will continue to hold ownership or not
3. They will cut the island to allow seawater to flow in. This is where I want to hear from environmentalists,
4. They hype up how this will be good for us because ~"Bahamas" will be on the packaging. I find that a dubious "good thing" for the economy
5.What is the real value of harvested stone crab? I get that it's not a food source "typically" eaten by Bahamians **today**, but is our ignorance blinding us. I confess to being ignorant about this. Are we selling crown jewels for pennies? Dont know

In the end Chester Cooper will sell it off gladly as he's done with all the cays to the cruise ships and call it something like the "*new model for the blue economy*"

"*This is the second audit to clear food programme officials of misusing public funds. A report by Kershala Albury, president of ATI Company Ltd, had previously identified “**18 categories of major deficiencies,**” mainly relating to procedures, processes, and internal controls, but found no evidence of financial misconduct.*"

"*The latest report flagged similar concerns with internal controls and noted duplication of efforts between the food distribution programme and the Department of Social Services, including cases where recipients received benefits from both programmes.*"

"*However, it found the initiative largely met it goal*"

Of course it met its goals. That is not absolution. Its known world wide that fraud accompanies large scale humanitarian efforts. Why? Because the malfeasance can hide among the massive "***good***" being done

Have we sold off our first born child for 4m total in annual salary? While cutting up the island to allow seawater better inflow... I'll wait to hear from Joe Darville and Sam Duncombe

"*produce native Bahamian stone crabs for export purposes onl*"

This means they see really high prices on the intl market. I cant think of a single natural resource that we've sold off internationally because "*the other people pay higher prices*" that's been good for us in the end. This includes speeding up the process to sell land to foreigners, cruise ships devouring cays and the export of conch. None.

1500 acres?

"*They did make a complaint that somebody was charging them to park in that lot.*"

**Taxi drivers shouldnt be allowed to park in that same pictured location they so angry about being charged for**". For as long as I can remember, it was a pedestrian walkway, it was never ever a parking spot for anybody. **They literally have to drive up and over a sidewalk to park**. It's also in a very weird location, on a curve for people to be pulling in and out recklessly. But **breaking the same law they're now asking to defend them in their lawlessness**, they just started this weird practice of doing what they want. They serve into and out of that spot in a very unsafe manner.

Surprised the police havent put a stop to it sooner. I have no idea why we appointed a new commissioner. *Same as the old boss*