At the time that Leon was fired, the internal corruption was discovered by an outside source. The chair of BTC had to recuse himself from the board deliberations to fire Leon because of the possible appearance of conflict of interest at the time. So the Reverend Patrick Adderley (who is a distant cousin of mine), who was a board member assumed the chair when they met to deliberate over the evidence. They didn't take long, and if one examines the board meeting minutes, they all voted to fire Leon because of hanky panky in the procurement process at BTC. That's the furthest I'll go, but everything that I state is checkable. The corruption in BTC was horrendous.

There was sweethearting going on at the same time, and the main sweetheart who held a high position at BTC was complicit in the corruption.

Oh sweet Jesus, now that we are tapped out at the Royal Bank, we are going to be funded by CIBC.

So Mr. Crisco Butt, why did you spread lies about Nottage during the PLP campaign when he opposed you -- calling him an abortionist (because of his medical specialty) and calling his wife a whore (because she was an entertainer). Let's here you speak out of your other face. The pain of that smear campaign drove him out of the PLP, but then he showed his true colours as a vomit swimmer, just like you.

I concur with you. I would urge anyone to look into why Leon Williams was fired in the first place. The BTC board received overwhelming evidence of his "funny business" -- especially as you mention in the purchasing cycle -- there are BTC emails floating around select places on the internet with this evidence.

Here's what wrong with Bahamian nation-building -- a parable.

Once upon a time, a werry good time, monkey chew tobacco and spit white lime. There was a room full of gussie maes. They were hungry. A man comes along and feeds them all of the tainted peas 'n rice that they could eat. They chow down with an unseen fervour. Like white on rice if you will.

Pretty soon their bovine-like innards start working over the tainted peas 'n rice. It produces a noxious internal gas, that exits their lower ends with the sound of a precocious chile tryin' to play a tuba but only getting bass noises. Eventually the air in the room is blue with stinky fumes. The gussie maes carry on smartly, chowing down more tainted peas 'n rice. Eventually nobody notices the fumes that in other places would be considered terror gas attacks and crimes against humanity. Erryone in the room accepts the putrid smell and doesn't notice. The smell is a health hazard.

Along comes a doctor and yells "Danger folks. We gats to air out the room! We gats to trow out da peas 'n rice". The peoples yell "Yes --- preach it Doc!" but gussie maes start a hollerin' an' cryin' and say it was da finest peas 'n rice I ever had, and nuttin' wrong wid da air in dis place. And there was wailing an gnashing of teeth of the gussie maes, but they were taken to Sandilands, because they were incapable of changing their minds and seeing the healthy good.

And from dis day to dat, old people's back be bent so. Bunday.

Do you deny that Ping made millions from drug-running by taking payments from Ledher for his transshipments from Norman's Cay which is a known fact, as delineated in the Kerry Commission reports? Cannot you acknowledge, like the rest of the world has, that it is destructive criminal behaviour and one of the morally contemptible crimes, since it destroyed a country????

Do you deny that the Pindling government was a criminal racket who enriched themselves at the expense of ALL Bahamians?

Is your moral compass so skewed that you cannot see how the Swindling criminality has become so pervasive in our society and that it was not present before the government-sanctioned drug running?

Why do stand up for sub-human criminals who sold our patrimony?

The idea that Marge Swindling is the GG is an abomination and should offend the sensibilities of any decent human people.

You Tal, are utterly devoid of decency, truthfulness and patriotism, and you are part of the problem as to why the Bahamas is like it is. The Bahamas will not advance until people like you and birdie's bodies are moldering in the grave and the PLP criminality is taught as it is in Bahamian history books. Marge Swindling deserves contempt and is a pox on our country, especially when contrasted to the purity and dignity of Dame Ivy Dumont -- real grace and beauty from the Bahamian soul.

As a Bahamian patriot, I need to take a shower after reading your slimey excrement.

That's because we een old as dirt. And what you call meanness, is proper disgust at the worst possible behaviour of human beings who rape and stole from the country, and then put on fine airs pretending righteousness. The hypocrisy is galling. Your soul is black with PLP lies, just like Marge Swindling the scandalous GG and wife/facilitator of the greatest Bahamian traitor ever in our entire history.

This is the organisation that once had Owen Bethel on their board.

You are full of bovine excrement and a child of a lesser God. Have you no capacity for the purity of unvarnished truth? If you had the cognitive capacity, you would realise how much that woman and her husband have criminally raped this country and set it back for generations on the development scale. You make me sick and disgusted.

I takes rice wid my fire engine, not grits.