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becks says...

I seem to remember this fish and shrimp farming was tried in Nassau…the shrimp were good. And I think somewhere in the Berrys also back in the 70s or 80s maybe?

On Ex-Bacardi plant in ship repair potential

Posted 22 February 2022, 5:04 p.m. Suggest removal

becks says...

And yet here you are advocating exactly what you oppose, that "Your mother should have dismembered you limb by limb and then sucked your remains out of her womb with a vacuum cleaner". Your hypocrisy is stunningly obvious.

On Cabinet discussing abortion legal change

Posted 17 February 2022, 11:43 a.m. Suggest removal

becks says...

I question some of these statistics. First off, between an almost completely dysfunctional postal system and the fact the Real Property Tax online portal has been buggy for years and is now completely broken it is no surprise that large numbers of residential and business properties are in arrears. As for foreigners being the largest group of residential accounts in arrears, I find that hard to believe, especially those in the family islands. Of course if you can’t even receive your tax-bill or pay for it from your home country because the online system and postal systems are non-functional whose fault is that.

On Commercial properties: 70% behind on taxes

Posted 11 February 2022, 10:57 a.m. Suggest removal

becks says...

Considering the very numerous times I've either heard people going on about the inability to register or pay online and the huge number of times over the past 6-7 years that I have spent hours helping people to register their properties and setup accounts at the RPT online portal it would be a good start if Inland Revenue would get the RPT online website and payment pages back up and actually usable. They have been problematic and fully down for most of the past two years. Pretty hard to pay your taxes when the system keeps giving error codes. The other problem is the whole process to setup an account and get registered into the system is very opaque. Then lets talk about the fact that when changes or updates are made there are no warnings that they are or have been made plus no instructions on how to implement said changes.

becks says...

Rubbish….Florida at the moment has the 14th highest per capita case rate of all US states. Case rates fluctuate week to week and that lowest rate for Florida was for 1 very specific week.

On More travel limits considered

Posted 2 December 2021, 3:10 p.m. Suggest removal

becks says...

This man is not only tone-deaf but he is clueless about how the average person in this country has to operate. And he is also intentionally ignoring how sketchy and unreliable our internet, digital/cellular and electrical infrastructure is. Anybody remember when the whole cell/digital system went completely down throughout the whole country for almost 24 hrs??

becks says...

Pretty sure that Europe,Canada and the US have not approved the Chinese vaccine…so good luck trying to go to any of those countries if that is what you get vaccinated with.

On Pfizer’s vaccine here by August

Posted 14 July 2021, 10:55 a.m. Suggest removal

becks says...

Yes the article from Israel shows that efficacy of Pfizer in preventing infection has dropped....but more importantly from the same article..."At the same time, protection against hospitalization and serious illness remained strong. From May 2 to June 5, the efficacy rate in preventing hospitalization was 98.2%, compared with 93% from June 6 to July 3. A similar decline in the rate was recorded for the vaccine’s efficiency in preventing serious illness among people who had been inoculated."

On Four more women die from COVID

Posted 5 July 2021, 2:32 p.m. Suggest removal

becks says...

Oh? And yet people keep building rain water cisterns

becks says...

Never ever trust these companies. They only serve their own self-interest.

On Home port ‘our chance to now shine’

Posted 29 April 2021, 10:20 a.m. Suggest removal