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bogart says...

the nassau guardian, 22 march, 2019.......Chester Robards article..see article on bahamas has the second largest inequality economic an social....between rich....an pore....difference .
article citing latin america economic outlook 2019.....!!!!!!!
recent data bahamas gets some 50 million from vat increase 2018/2019 revenue .........duh....duh.....duh........duh !!!!!!!
yep......We da VAT ....taxes ....regressive taxes....must be thanked for having more money extracted from thrown into the social misery....poverty...hungry...chillren...unemployment higher.....biggest revnue ...extracted....... vat..........and more increased pore ...be thankful ...for opportunities to empower we poreness...to greater opportunities.....!!!!!!!!!

bogart says...

yep.......ya has good understanding of da dynamics....inner city.....decay.......many homes usually had...or has....3 generations wrapped in insufficient income....poverty....Coupled with the depopulating of family islands.....abetted...facilitated by inept govt officials........decreasing business oppoptunities...opportunities ..families fled to start over with other families...some broken families....some incapacitated members has to taken care at homes...some disfunctional families....single mother number of kids different fathers neglect ....kids growing up with different fellas visiting abode...no food...no electricity....Success is getting brilliant children out brain drain....teachers...nurses...making good living conditions abroad.....Gaps fill with migrants....many illegal..Servants housekeepers gardiners 'good paying tenants'....exersperating ...kerpungling up ...I think you can go on fer a few pages.......BUT there is lack of joining the dots for easy solutions......but stead...it nots understanding..by salaried officials.....AND yes there are salaried officials who choose to just warm seats...one first ting is to survey census..who in dese inner city...!!!!

bogart says...

reality.... is elements......no respect......does not matter with police ....many cases reported of actually shooting at the police....dere car...even jus shooting police in car waiting in school area... ....
solutions for entire poverty stricken....areas...crime generating...tying up millions of dollars....lessening GNP....Solutions are easily achievible...easily attainable.....can be accomplished....no big time scientific rocket scientist !!!!!!!!!!........seems to better ...will put pressure on top cronies...crooks..cohorts as dey feast on more pieces of da pie......

On Bishops demand ‘war on guns’

Posted 25 March 2019, 5:27 p.m. Suggest removal

bogart says...

da bishops...ought to know it aint da ....guns shooting targeted people by itself.........most of tbe timefew bystanders.......dont pull da triggure by itself......!!!!!!!!!!.....its da people who pulling da trigger....
da churches.....failure to deal with ....the people.....teaching den the christian upbrining.....da commandments.....moral christian...religeous....broughtupsy......stead of strongarming dem of dere collection......millions of dollars in tax free concessions ...in return for bringong religeous broughtupsy....still looking fer results...!!!!!!!....
as as da churches being the expected force....separate but equal....failed to demand upliftment from da politicians........many cohoots right up in da front pews of the church....jonsering for crowm lands...getting dem to pay insurances from failed insurancd company....
to stop da weapons.....deal wif da people behind da guns.....gangs....abject grinding poverty......no religeous broughtupsy...injustice....lack of education....pore victimized....years after years...church gats cat gats dere tongue for decades yet churched mulpilied....more churchs...next to liquor stores..web shops...in pore areas......pore getting poorer rich getting richer, second biggest disparity evidenced in Caribbean........church needs more elbow grease.......not talk...yadda yadda....some even diabolital....prouncements.....cringes erry psycholotical...advisors.....no solutions...just downgrading grinding sufferings...

On Bishops demand ‘war on guns’

Posted 25 March 2019, 1:57 p.m. Suggest removal

bogart says...

critical part of the equation.....is that these investments....are part of da bahamian politicians........dey signs dese agreements....who on behalf of da people....we pore....struggling...needing good governance....needing benefits....getting worse from past corruption....the politicians agree to these deals....instead of cutting wastages....throwing into jail crooks cronies cohorts done ran country up on rocks......only air blaming the wronged...all knowing each other...in similar govt agencies boards....bailing out govt agencies...even one with priVate shareholders..!!!!!....and the easy way is to push the country into highest national debt....,!!.,.....and cut deals wid the easy loans...investments...despite....despite...desee experts should know financial ratios..gearing...debt servicing....long..short term...liguidity...and didnt give a damn leaving next ...present Administration unseen hidden disaster......leaving debts on pore ......now known persons accountable......instead of confronting friends...cohorts...cronies..even cohorts different party supporters but same professions........!!!!!!....

bogart says...

"Married to each other" ..US and China...as described Bran....good point....but as in da local...local situation.....its da Bahamas earning money off of the U S...tourists....but spending the money to da China to service dere easy easy loans.....????....isnt dat like "sweethearting"?

bogart says...

excellent bowers..!!!!!
in taking da ...foreign...loans...much care must consider......the basic is to survive an repay .....bases on basic total dervicing ratio ...conditions..the percentage based on ablilty to repay from your income/earnings...investigations into wastages into govt agencies..publicized...culprits excosed...transparencies...!!!...to your lenders ....likely continue giving you loans...is bad an...internationally downgrated......many included....Looking at a number of loans with different rates..time terms...amounts ..based on future conditions......which if income reduces unforseen...hurricane....climate change....and.....looking at the .....important...lender economic condition in the future......and their inability to....reschedule....pastpone payments.....affects borrowerys...financial international credibility....affecting other likely borrowers with tougher analysis....higher interest rates for increase risks.....loan being committed...affects the govtability to attend to citizens needs..m1..m2...m3....reserve on currency parity...lack of .improvements for pore..schools...roads....mismanagement of countrys finances funding ego centric...projects...huge chinics family islans...no economies of scale...no synergies....still investigations onto govt agencies...govt bank...stills transparencies.....who responsible....who charged..??....yes efforts by present govt to taclke corruption.....wastages....easily tempted be some elites...cohorts...cronies...as seems...is to not...not...not......borrow...an...borrow....an...borrow.....strangling sovereign nation.....into submission..affected....by da odder affected nations......squeezong to better citizens....same boat......an repay loans....wid haiti...more hardships to citizens...den more illegal immigration.here.......Dominican people hardships then more illegal poaching.....so on so forth.....
bahamian saying Grammie says be careful/mindful that yinna sleep in da bed how ya make bed up.. .good stephanie talk bowers....same like Grammie

bogart says...

????????? .....jus saw dis ....categorically....emphatically.....dis conversation never ...above...see da facts above....!!!!!!!! no such blog....!!!!!!!!....some suspicians of infiltration....creating untruths....das why crookery....curruption....fabrication.....boldly puts out..!!!!!

On ‘New post office - it’s months away’

Posted 20 March 2019, 9:07 p.m. Suggest removal

bogart says...

Oops..my uneducated....my always ignorance d grade education ...guilty misleading ..many errs......errors in compass errors... the famous meteoric stories of the Burmuda Triangle.....aspects of compass variations.....gb should know that the 1945 missing 5 US planes....route was east ..north of Bimini....turn north passing over middle GB....expected to tirn sw back....but ...navigation errors...misreadings....confused visual sightings east of Lil Abaco.....GB should this phenomenol story ...annually refreshed memory of Aviators....route over GB...to cherish Aviators...

bogart says...

da uneducated..........facing da 360..........ship upside down sunk....jus rolling it over 360 degrees ....roll it right back upside down sunk again....BUT...real estate people should employ land surveyor ..part of dere team ....