I bet this system wont be operational for 1 year. These idiots cannot maintain a simple backup diesel generator one of the most simple engines around.

Good luck with that the next time a hurricane hits and the power and internet is down for days or weeks and with a Dorian class storm for over a year in some places. For months after Dorian cold hard cash was king.

ROFL go mail yourself a letter in the mail and see how long it takes to get it if you ever get it. I wish all the services and online/digital options were available. I hate going into a brick and mortar bank and we should have long moved past this but, this unfortunately is not the case.

Like you said less banks will mean more people operating outside of the banking system and expansion of the informal economy. Thank you for agreeing with me by trying to be smart. Also are you paying my ticket to Nassau whenever I need a brick and mortar bank and have to miss a day off of work and trust me I hate going actually into these banks and avoid it like the plague if I can? Even if it is 3-4 times a year that you need a actual branch to go to that is a tremendous cost and expense for a person. You have no idea about my finances and banking needs as a long time customer of Scotia bank. When these banks can accept checks via photo from your phone, allow digital signatures, can actually mail your credit/debit cards to you, allow pinning outside of the branch, have smart ATMs that can actually deposit cash and all the other modern/digital things then maybe they can justify their reduction in physical branches. I wish all the infrastructure was in place to allow this but, it is not. If you think any reduction in infrastructure and services in a area is a good thing and will help the economy of that area you are a moron.

I guess I can digitally fly myself to Nassau (when not under lock down) to receive new credit cards, take out a loan, sign documents, and get my new checks. Are we trying to eliminate the informal/cash economy in this country or expand it?

Lucky for them they can raise prices to whatever is necessary to guarantee a minimum of 10% profit. If we all were not so lucky.

Took me over 7 months to get a new business license and bank account open. The government is in you way every step of the way to stop you from getting into business. Another business I have been working on for 11 months and still no license jumping through hoops, one piece of paper after the next, come back tomorrow, same old BS.. It is insane it is as if the government does not want people in business. No one knows how you get your bank account open to borrow money for a new business before you have a business license. This nonsense could be ended tomorrow if the PM or DPM want to stop it but government is to addicted to its paperwork, red tape, and creating more paperwork to giver more people a government job and a piece of paper to stamp.

Oh what it must be like to take other peoples money and give it to other people to sit home and not work. Private citizens who drive the economy, who have no job, no income, have to pay with what they do not have to the mostly useless public service and corporations who are sitting home collecting a paycheck with no fear of getting laid off for votes next election. The worst part is when the economy does try to get back up and running Mr. Civil servant will be there with his hand out and their useless forms & paperwork all while saying no, blocking, harassing, over regulating, and trying their damndest to stop the private people from getting the economy going.

According to them this is the most dire threat we have ever faced as a country, we have basically destroyed our economy based on these figures and these people can't even count to just over 1000 correctly? Who is responsible for this and will take the consequences? Seven, seven hundred thousand, seven seven million, seven seven hundred million thousand and it goes on and on.

Do worry we are still paying them. Covid 19 is the best thing ever happened for the government workers. They get to do less than they even normally do, sit home, and guess what you and me get to pay them!