This is noise about nothing. NO ONE is against a license or paying for it. The biggest contention in all of this is the ease of aquiring the license. Why would l want to spend days chasing down the administrator and waste my fishing time trying to pay the license? Or let's just say l came to visit the Bahamas for beaches and sun and l realize while l am here that l would like to go fly fishing my last two days at random. Guess what that cannot happen because no time to get the license. So who looses money but the guides? There can be no spur of the moment decision to go fly fishing and hire a guide last min under this legislation. It is absolutely ridiculous that this simple aspect of it cannot be fixed.
All very valid points. If they had a referendum on this I doubt it would get support from 5% of the population. We can only hope trump destroys it somehow before we join it.
Apparently the legislation makes it illegal for two Bahamians to be in a boat without a guide. So a Bahamian father can't take say his son flats fishing without hiring a guide? Or I can't go fishing with my brother without a guide. This legislation while maybe having good intentions for conservation is seriously flawed and needs some adjustments.
Just imagine someone pays thousands of dollars to come to the Bahamas for a week and spends half of it chasing the administrator for a fishing license. Just shameful. I would go somewhere else too if l was them. Why can't customs sell these on the airport or something? Or pay online and print it out? All this talk about WTO and modernising, going digital, online banking, and ease of doing business and you have crap like this going on.
These people must be on drugs. We pay 195 min a year to register a car. 20 dollars a year for a driver's license. 65% duty on a car plus 7.5%vat and a environmental levy and a 1 %proc fee. We also currently pay about a dollar on a gallon of fuel in tax. WTF are they smoking? We must pay again for uninsured driver's? What are the police and road traffic doing with the money we pay mow? Get off your ass, catch and fine the uninsured and use that money to fund uninsured driver's insurance. Don't charge me again for following the rules. F!?k the ass!ho*$s who think this is a good idea.
I said a few days ago before this article when l saw the agreement to go LNG. That Mr. Miller wanted to do this in the early 2000s and if people would have listened the Bahamas would be way ahead of the game now. Mr. Miller might have his faults but on this he was 120 percent correct.
Lazy business people? What have our successive lazy governments done over the last 17 years to help the private sector? Lower rankings in ease of doing business. No reforms that deal with energy costs. Poor utilities and basic infrastructure. Little to no reforms for accessing foreign capital. No reforms for the likes of our horrendous business tax on turnover and the list goes on. No change in the government worker mentality of come back tomorrow, I busy, leaving at 2 to pick up children from school, come up with any excuse not to do anything attitude. Don't lay all this at the private sector who struggle to survive with ever increasing tax compliance obligations and ever increasing government bureaucracy.
What have our successive lazy governments done over the last 17 years to help the private sector? Lower rankings in ease of doing business. No reforms that deal with energy costs. Poor utilities and basic infrastructure. Little to no reforms for accessing foreign capital. No reforms for the likes of our horrendous business tax on turnover and the list goes on. No change in the government worker mentality of come back tomorrow, I busy, leaving at 2 to pick up children from school, come up with any excuse not to do anything attitude. Don't lay all this at the private sector who struggle to survive with ever increasing tax compliance obligations and ever increasing government bureaucracy.
Pie in the sky. Name one small developing country that has come put on top after joining WTO? Funny how the attorneys have had their own lobby to prevent foreign competition, but everyone else should just suck it up.
bcitizen says...
This is noise about nothing. NO ONE is against a license or paying for it. The biggest contention in all of this is the ease of aquiring the license. Why would l want to spend days chasing down the administrator and waste my fishing time trying to pay the license? Or let's just say l came to visit the Bahamas for beaches and sun and l realize while l am here that l would like to go fly fishing my last two days at random. Guess what that cannot happen because no time to get the license. So who looses money but the guides? There can be no spur of the moment decision to go fly fishing and hire a guide last min under this legislation. It is absolutely ridiculous that this simple aspect of it cannot be fixed.
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bcitizen says...
All very valid points. If they had a referendum on this I doubt it would get support from 5% of the population. We can only hope trump destroys it somehow before we join it.
On 'Slap in the face' to let WTO drive our key reforms
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bcitizen says...
Apparently the legislation makes it illegal for two Bahamians to be in a boat without a guide. So a Bahamian father can't take say his son flats fishing without hiring a guide? Or I can't go fishing with my brother without a guide. This legislation while maybe having good intentions for conservation is seriously flawed and needs some adjustments.
On Flats fishing confusion 'destroying our industry'
Posted 26 April 2018, 9:42 p.m. Suggest removal
bcitizen says...
Just imagine someone pays thousands of dollars to come to the Bahamas for a week and spends half of it chasing the administrator for a fishing license. Just shameful. I would go somewhere else too if l was them. Why can't customs sell these on the airport or something? Or pay online and print it out? All this talk about WTO and modernising, going digital, online banking, and ease of doing business and you have crap like this going on.
On Flats fishing confusion 'destroying our industry'
Posted 25 April 2018, 3:59 p.m. Suggest removal
bcitizen says...
These people must be on drugs. We pay 195 min a year to register a car. 20 dollars a year for a driver's license. 65% duty on a car plus 7.5%vat and a environmental levy and a 1 %proc fee. We also currently pay about a dollar on a gallon of fuel in tax. WTF are they smoking? We must pay again for uninsured driver's? What are the police and road traffic doing with the money we pay mow? Get off your ass, catch and fine the uninsured and use that money to fund uninsured driver's insurance. Don't charge me again for following the rules. F!?k the ass!ho*$s who think this is a good idea.
On Illegal drivers spark tax plan
Posted 17 April 2018, 9:40 p.m. Suggest removal
bcitizen says...
I said a few days ago before this article when l saw the agreement to go LNG. That Mr. Miller wanted to do this in the early 2000s and if people would have listened the Bahamas would be way ahead of the game now. Mr. Miller might have his faults but on this he was 120 percent correct.
On Miller: 'Where are LNG critics now?'
Posted 17 April 2018, 9:27 p.m. Suggest removal
bcitizen says...
Lazy business people? What have our successive lazy governments done over the last 17 years to help the private sector? Lower rankings in ease of doing business. No reforms that deal with energy costs. Poor utilities and basic infrastructure. Little to no reforms for accessing foreign capital. No reforms for the likes of our horrendous business tax on turnover and the list goes on. No change in the government worker mentality of come back tomorrow, I busy, leaving at 2 to pick up children from school, come up with any excuse not to do anything attitude. Don't lay all this at the private sector who struggle to survive with ever increasing tax compliance obligations and ever increasing government bureaucracy.
On Manufacturer survival needs tariffs post-WTO
Posted 17 April 2018, 9:21 p.m. Suggest removal
bcitizen says...
What have our successive lazy governments done over the last 17 years to help the private sector? Lower rankings in ease of doing business. No reforms that deal with energy costs. Poor utilities and basic infrastructure. Little to no reforms for accessing foreign capital. No reforms for the likes of our horrendous business tax on turnover and the list goes on. No change in the government worker mentality of come back tomorrow, I busy, leaving at 2 to pick up children from school, come up with any excuse not to do anything attitude. Don't lay all this at the private sector who struggle to survive with ever increasing tax compliance obligations and ever increasing government bureaucracy.
On Union chief slams 'travesty' of WTO meeting exclusion
Posted 17 April 2018, 9:03 p.m. Suggest removal
bcitizen says...
Can anyone name a small developing country that the WTO has been good for?
On Manufacturer survival needs tariffs post-WTO
Posted 17 April 2018, 7:38 p.m. Suggest removal
bcitizen says...
Pie in the sky. Name one small developing country that has come put on top after joining WTO? Funny how the attorneys have had their own lobby to prevent foreign competition, but everyone else should just suck it up.
On WTO set to drag Bahamas 'from 19th to 21st century'
Posted 11 April 2018, 5:06 p.m. Suggest removal