strange....after all dese years Over the HILL communities struggling.........from ...since...Headquarters....Grants town....Bain Town...homes without normal piped in city water....outside latrines.. or toilets ....feet away from well water.....an banks looking to donate...after hundred plus years......thank God for donation....!!!......
strange too.......if bank is doing business with govt....numbers of projects..now or in pupeline......financing gubbermint projrcts....could this direct donation be looked at as conflict of interest....jus a query....would be nice if other bank(s)....too.... jumps... in an 2x that donation...an another 3x dat donation.....

Travel budget........all da politociams....seems no matter which side.....quite puzzling seems to think that these things must be at the minimums....like bare essentials....on da contrary yinna has to dress to impress....da way yinna expects da other side to travel is like on biplane....toting yinna luggage.....news flash...,!!!!!!! Banker an an crew will tells ya that gojng abroad looking like third world visitors many times is a negative and defeats the purpose of being treated as level players....making successfull negotiations......all deses trips going way back decades travelling on third class tickets dpnt cut it...and can actually harm negate funds spent to achieve ssucvessful outcomes....like throwing money down da drain......small travel butget appearance...negatine mission outcomes....AS MUCH as I be hesitant to suggest....these missions abroad yall needs to have the state jet...or lease a decent jet ...dassault 5x...bombardier...c.global..cessna citation.......while being frugal and unbending cheap may look good....the other negotiating side looks at all these tings....wid da big boys ya have to dress to impress...otherwise ya only looked on as a third world banana republic....if ya still dont believe go to the airport an watches how an inbestor is treated coming in on regular airline an watches how other is treated landing on his Cessna Citation or 650 true...??..

time by now ...people should be advising the advisors to the advisors......that stead of all dis going back an forth to ...king leopold ii ..... he descemdants...gramd ..palaces...dat we the bahamians should be inviting them.......to the beautiful sunny shores to do this negotiating ting....an in the bargain...let them spemd their money on.shopping...and patronizong Bahamisn businesses while here......

"Financial Services To... 'Come Back Stronger'"......after... "some initial contraction".....perfectly plaisible...comes to tink bout it......BUT.... depemds how low you dropping first....years ago country had over 500 Financial Offshore entities....today 200...???....Country had commercial banks....chase...citi...gulf union...workers....barclays....bank of montreal....cibc...rbc...bns...commonwealth ...bank of the bahamas.........today......there is cibc/fcib....rbc....bns...commonwealth ....bank of the bahamas....latter bring govt majoroty owned operating i.competiting in private sector with remaining banks......PLUS we jus know Banking industry shrinks be $200,000,000,000....dats $200 billion plus workforce done conttacts by some...650 jobs....domestic banks asset base falls over 80%...So for it to contract some ...and ...come back stronger is.....(than the lowest point yet to be reached)...is quite possible...and even if rebound......current lack of investigations...no Financial Ombudsman as checkpoint to correct egregious wrongs...(if a customer is wronged like they needs to.....STILL have money and finds one lawyer who is willing to take dem on)..bank policies using indemnity insiramces...decades old lending ratios...lending close or full price...(equity financing)....is jus a matter of time before hurricane disaster...wiping out island ...bigger disaster....need critical analysis solutions.....not talk bout moving goal posts if hurricane climate change can take goal post one sweep...

Being banned for life from travelling on one cruise ship doesnt mean he cannot choose over half dozen others to come back........had the reckless act gone badly the Bahamas would havd to spend millions in marketing to overcome the negatives from the disaster.....some punishment should be there to now deter an prevent copycats....

banks have always been the experts.....having all the customers financial history......and have produced ....customers banking references ....to foreign embassies.....large foreign bussinesses being recipients from customer to enable multimillion dollar transactions.....and quite commonly......Customers bank references used by customers between local financial institutions.....noone has better records then the bank itself.....!!!!!.....With annual auditing by accounting firms....whose salaries are paid by the bank as employer...banking practices are reviewed..different from uk......it is therefore that most banks have within past few years.....changed their application forms....loan procedures......and and have had accountants....pushing for ....separate... independent bearing liability credit bureau........and indicating its the IMF..total outside non Bahamian local participant....pushing..,!!.....given the massive mortgage loan failure...crippling economy.....crippling businesses in Bahamas.....peculiar there has never been investigations published into banking practices....!!.,.,to simply bkame the customer in a two party bank loan contract customer bring the less financial educated party ie hence credit bureau.....is peculiar...!!!....given recent spate of bankers involved in financial crimes now being revealed.......investigationg are needed...and does indeed put the new Agency at a sticky wicket...P.S. Good point Happyfly...

here it is ...expert talking bout ....3rd para....."separating the sheep from the goats".....dis is bahamian people we talking about.....bahamians who for various reasons have fallen on hard times....businesses closing...laying off staff....5,400 have no electricity.......families who depend on the public stand pipe for water....20% of the population 80,000 ??needs meals.....country overrun with illegals an precious money diverted to stopping illegals stead of creating Bahamian jobs...4,000 mortgage defaults...govt itself buying HOTEL in Freeport to save jobs....plenty mortgage defaults in Freeport...dese are real ruff times contributed to by politicians....mismanaging billions of Newly tax induced to better people....dollars....projects costing 2 - 3 times more tham should..central bank report 50% struggling..jus prior to 4.5% VAT hike...corruption....even banks change loan forms after all dese defaults....dese are bahamians who changing govts erry 5 years.....an only gets largest national debt in history.........not sheep an goats.....what ....a sad sad day....to see da expert refferring to bahamians as sheep....an....an....goats....many no jobs...sick waiting for dialysis machine time...laid off....crime act innocent breadwinners paying bills murdered......govt laid off workers...while govt buy hotel to save workers jobs...businesses laying off workers....nobody investigating predatory bank policies.....wrongdoings.,!!!!.,.....no Financial Ombudsman....these are people ....not sheep an goats...!!!!

the gubbermint experts does have a point in stretching out the legslization.....while bout 12 US states done legalizes it.....gubbermint experts needs to be stenching on legalization because.....1. Plenty police will likely be out of work...driving cars to smell da smoke and go knocking on doors...2. Police will not be needed round many places to smell da smoke an find da culprit....3....Fewer police to do writing up locking up...4. Courts will have more time some staff might have to be let go ....5..Prison bus might be empty fewer trips so fewer convoy people some get let go....6. Fox Hill prison likely be half empty so staff gets laid off some cooks sent home....7. ..legalizing weed likely cause havoc in finding too few remaining cronies...family friends that aint already have gubbermint jobs to fill new set up bureaucracy to handle legal weed adminisyration.....8....Legalizing weed has to be stretched out to give....family friends cronies....time to create paperwork to create monopoly for a few..to benefit..likely surveys...analyses...discussions on da price of tea in China...string theory.....quantumwhatnots.....calculus...gapseed...Biblical quotations....9....longer it stretcjes out ensures continuous employment to some....10....legalizing weed too soon would prevent the experts from finding a way to turn the industry into a money losing entity ...continuously dependent on ....subventions....where some politician who is not an expert can get to budget for pore people taxes to bail it out....11...delays necessary to sort out select Crown lands for farming....

thank you anonymous doner.....helping out to provide food for pore people...orphans....animals......tings getting worser now come to hear people mentioning publictly.? article above....almost 20% of the population goes hungry....sad..sad...but somehow latest GDP per capita....is like $31,000.....!!!!!...fer sure it aint dat 20% population whichinin goes hungry...Thanks anomymous doner...!!!!

in all fairness.....da currency is backed by Millions an millions of US currency and under provisions to maintain parity wid us dollar 1 for 1....months an months worth for business to operate....an to ensure there is eeven law that US must be turned over to banks......whichinin meaning technically ...none of the going to cashiers in grocery store to change up currency...or shipping out widout permission undeclared excess 10k.....all that stuff rnsures stability....business confidence.....to encourage FDI.....do on...