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bogart says...

@ThisisOur...erry body an their mama done talk bout VAT from the get go...that it catches we many pore at the bottom worser than the top.....One good thing is that Govt Roc wid Doc ....has stated that thrre will be no more VAT increases for now...which is a excellent news .....to we the pore.......but there is aleays the unpredictable and necessary handling of those future expenses of the nation ...for which other means of obtainng funds to .pay them...kudos to IDB....to tell then.....not to try raising money by fuel increases.....What dey needs to do is to sort out all the planets illegal chillren from coming to the Bahamas for free schooling....without being fully questioned by Immigraton an National Security as to whether Bahamian Constitutional Laws are thus being broken....!!!!!..an take money saved to pay to fix the airconditioning at PMH so Bahamians can have surgery...an pay Bahamian medical staff who aont get no pay increase for decade mow.....!!!?!

bogart says...

Bulk of fuel prices ...is taxes to govt....people in govt bureaucracy....erry ministry needs to be accountable for the continual big time wastage of taxes....in half baked projects....gross inefficiemcies....blatent ineptness....slackness...irresponsibilitoes...lack of duty of fiduciary care....noone accountable
noone fired...,!!!
..one govt gets elected an Minister tells them to go right an they shutup and goes right.........MEXT govt gets elected..an Minister says we goes sideways...an dey follows...NEXT. Minister comes long an says we goes upwards..dey does that.......and minister does not get reelected.....but ...same officials silll there.....there must be punishments...disincentives....discouragements....to these officials.....wid so much slackness....still collecting salaries.....an disrespectivefully.....forcing pore...bahamian..taxpayers....to ....bleed more money for their salaried...ineptness....only the Minister gets punished by not getting reelected.....but will be celebrated with a state funreal....an high accolades...when dey cross Jordon now....aint no lie bout dat......

bogart says...

@John....floating an IPO....give every Bahamian a share...on this hotel....??......actually ...that has already been done.....every Bahamian living....those just born....yet to be born....is a shareholder with the public money used to acquire the hotel....Now remains...to get return on investment....dividends...capital appreciation or profots from reselling.....and more importantly stability, jobs for GB...that be catalyst for more growth

On Buyers line up for Grand Lucayan

Posted 28 September 2018, 5:17 p.m. Suggest removal

bogart says...

@pundit.....I see your point on the sledge hammer....end results regardless....one must weigh plusses and minusses....that will reverberate in business community....elsewhere......may very turn out to cost us all more the money involved.....this has been a sitiation gotten totally out of hand for years and years.....and the inept...incompetant...irresponsible....accepting this mans favours....benefits....donations....lacking fortitude ....officials who let it reach so far should be held responsible......
The Nation should not suffer for the follies of a few that now manifests in this spectacle.....the other parties who did nothing..for years prior...stood watching...accepted....must be held accountable contributing to this.....

bogart says...

thank you...thank..you....thank ..you....idb....for doing the research an saying that ..........rich people,,,friends families, cronies, echelon, .beautiful people, ...big shots, muckamucks, some politicians............jus aint realise how tings real real dead bad wid thd pore ordinary bahamians...unemployed....unless dey hears it from others.....

bogart says...

Bey if da police wanted to do tings that dead bad...they woudda done been in there no time flat since yestetday....not that thick officer but dat other one wordda done hoist ......pull heself up ....over that gate no time flat.........way past now......now if that be one pore Bahamian over da hill........da magistrate done be sentencing him by now....

bogart says...

Why da pore taxpayer paying fer all the 4 hours waiting......??........simply jumps on da Police Boat .....an lands ups on da beach........an dey have the right to ne there up to high water mark....rights inside ..........dont dey........dont tell the taxpayrr da boat meeds fixing......puleese.......!!!

bogart says...

bout time somebody catch sense in realizing revisions way...way...way...past due.....dis continuous rebuilding hurricand..damaged....flooded...homes......on da same spot....plain dumb......waiting for next hurricane....doing the same ting over again......an...an....an...an...insurors...govt goes long with that...
Homes needs to be relocated....rezone areas.....create ..pathways for water.....contain waters in low areas to traps it froving strait through damaging other homes.....do like the Dutch in Holland how they manage to protect themselves when Europe gets incapacitated shut down by storms.....
What needs to be stopped immediately is the filling in of swamplands to create subdivisions......

On Some Building Code standards ineffective

Posted 28 September 2018, 11:18 a.m. Suggest removal

bogart says...

wid an .....annual $20 to $30 million taxpayer subsidy..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..yall have.... $45 million ......dollars uncollected.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well.......muudd...doooes......dred.....!!!!!!!!!
an.....an.....an.....an....people actually getting a salary......an....an....an.....board of directors........fire erry last one.....an bring back previous board...an fire erry ladt one too.....an even the previous set....if it begin wid them.......as a pore taxpayer scrappin catchin hell callin it good times..Thank you Mr. Gibson.....but you needs to be...........firing those who didnt do their jobs...especially when......an 2,500 employees done gets let go .....dey been working..but some say dey perceived to be plp supporters.....whichin aint equally fairplay..........when ongoing working salaried wofkers presently ....aint collect $45 million.. money big time an still collecting salary.....?????....
......pore people .........even those ...2,500 done fired by govt.......should not be losing three four....five...times...!!..
1..for people getting salaries to do their job an
Not getting the job done
2.pore people has to be...paying annual subsidy
3. and ......be charged by the govt to be paying increased vat taxes...on top a all dis......to continue to pay till ot gets under control
4. Those 2,500 done let go...have to pay increased VAT ....to keep those ....still employed.....an aint collects....$45 million outstanding...!L.,!
5. Those 2,500 who got let go...now struggling...cant pay their water bill ....now being chased after by those still employed...

bogart says...

Shouldnt Her Majestys Loyal Opposition.....be using erry means to celebrate....welcome...encourage..... and enlarge...... erry possible..... means to bring forth ......elicit...welcome....all avenues....to stop...deter...corruption....??.?.??......'stead of using all means to block...hinder...embarass...confuse...alleged
corrupt ..practices from seeing the light a day............and stop the pore taxpayers....from being hurt....,!!!