This is what's gonna happen with the next 4.5 percent vat. More government hires. Shrink the government and we won't need more taxes!

I wonder how much of the 4 million increase to social services budget will be used to hire more government workers rather than actually go to helping people? These bloated government offices need to be downsized. No new committies. Noo new agencies. Stop the government payroll pig! People falling over each other in these places with no accountability or responsibility for what goes on.

Exactly when the plp first gained power the Bahamas should have explored for more than just 1 term how it would manage with full internal self control rather than just jumping straight to independence. It might have not worked and then still could have then gone full independent but, we never really had a transition.

When the government talks about ease of doing business what they mean is "ease of the government doing business" they want the private sector to do all their work for them from collecting taxes to have to do and present every government document over and over again to every agency so they do not have to go through the trouble of looking something up. It's just all so ridiculous.

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.