@ThisIsOurs condider adding 6 to 7 million startup from brick and mortar if Bank of the Bahamas starts shop in Long Island as the DPM suggests. Which has them already challenged to meet dividends.
Or, to invite existing profitable Commonwealth Bank or others to open shop in Long Island with consession. Perhaps tax reddemabable credits to offset licence can also be looked on for numbers of agricultural loans granted, new startups, numbers of jobs created in new loans per business, sheep farms businesses started eycetc. The Central Bank already collects data for published reviews.

@sheep.......when you say fathers need to model behaviour for their boys and their girls does this also include outside children.....majority of babies are born to single mothers....

@ hrysippus couldnt agree wid you more.
....but merchants have to bring on goods some hav exclusives etc, , shippers have to be paid, truckers have to buy gas to transport, some roi are good some margonal, govt needs all the stamp duty which then goes to pay salaries and support ...agencies etcetcetc
......on the Doctors prescribing....well das one whole nodder story cause some carry a limited amount of drugs in dere office, mabye some samples from the wholesaler and the patient gets medication.....some even own dere own pharmacy ...plus on da odder side you hav Pharmacists wid dere own separate busines depending on the doctor....then on da odder side you hav people talkingan sellin on the radio medecine....so who bin lookin out for the small man all dis while??
......on the price of fish being high its obbious you yinna does pull up in your medcedes, bmws, lexus to buy fish, ......just go to the fish house.

excellent
Regretanly all the cheap foods happennto be da affordable items.
NOW we will all be waiting as to how the NIB managed to invest in a Liquor company, Commonwealth Brewery, is there a member gets to sit on the Boatd of Directors?.....just like investments in the Bank of the Bahamas. even causing NIB to lose money from drop in share prices from 5+ to less than a dollar now...who is responsible for beong employed to do dis?....peoples money being put in dese tings an no one accountanle..not too healthy
Just google nib bahamas and pull up lasr teport 2016?and go through it.

The failure of many of our students to learnMaths and English skills was highlighted by the foreign
RoyalBank head.......factually, realistically the banks all hire whomsoever has the skills to fit the few vacancies thst arise from time to time from an ample supply of Bahamians from both the private and public schools, COB banking abib, acib banking graduates and with banking, finance, accounting having many students both here and in many financial crntres sbroad.

Now politically, socially educationnally etc on many of the Bahamian public school students having d grades the causes are many, including, impoverished homes, single mothers, different broughtupsuies, lack of family planning, lack of christian teaching etc with a combination of these and others with exceptions for success also in each. Before throwing more and more money, a thorough analysis of the low grades be done. Teachers are called upon to teach maths and english but should aldo be able to teach children. Govts have given free education to anyone from any where on the planet who can enroll in a govt classroom, govt have allowed hugh class sizes, gpvts have edication budgets pf spme 300 million plus imay be wrong but for some 50000 students thays like some 6000 per year or more than provate schools who not only pay taxes for public schools but also their own private fees.....

It has always been known that with VAT that the majority who are poor or middle class will carry a heavier burden than the fewer wealthy.
Perhaps it is also time that he looks at personal income tax coupled with credits etc. Should be esy to implement as we already pay NIB a tax.

If the insutors are to partly to blame then the govt should be also liable for their ownauditor general mr bastian who pointed out that funds were missing from the road traffic audit etc and so far it seems that noone who may have fraudently bought their licence ever been caight. What was legally sold minus what wasnt legally sold should be simple subtraction and there should be names.. When illegal migrants have been caught and deported inthe past did anyone ever investigate if and how they got thrir drivers licence?..

Classic case of private sector meeting public sector....private sector to run with greater efficiencies, economies of scale, synergies, teamworking etc...versus public sector .....political advocation, disrupting employees who may be on other side.....time spent on other matters rather than carrying out job functions.....disrupting team working by political posturing loss of full concentration on reaching work goals.....more work load on others ....more mistakes....etc AND in thf public sector procedures,....verbal warning after incident is raised with union reptesentation to investigate...next written notice with union representation and investigation.....next dismissal with union representation, possible plitical representation, lawyers, labour board.....more investigations....laboir board tribunal. Appeal etcetc...versus
Private sector..workers would not in first place break code of condict......business continues making profits and pay increases..

Sell it
Sell portion, all, have protective, security clauses etc and fire all those in charge of action or inaction leading to this failure.
Again its the poor who can least afford it an are the majority who av to pay while those responsible still collect a salary.

When Bahamians complaoned on usury on 000 plus increase in bank fees the governor did not want draconian measures to be taken and let the market forces correct......banks created billion dollar bad debts and govt and banks blamed the loan customers though the banks wrote the loans....now there is liquidity depressing savings interest.....he should be mindful that huge loan interest rates will also decrease.... and now he wants to jumpin the market and meddle with liquidity is funny if he believes in the same market fotces to correst the usury bank fees on the Bahamians....mind you he isnt complaining on the increase in statutory interest free money ....let the market correst itself...the banks compete and offer lower interest rate loans if they want to reduce liquidity....stop the blatent biased meddling in the market ..in support of the banks ..why in the world would the central bank want Bahamians to pay higher loan interest rates??..and drive prices up when there is so much forced unemployment, lower didposable income gone to efficient VAT, eetc.
.....Banks are adverse to lending to anyone 'other than those able to provide 100 percent collateral" ....duh..an you want to get rid of liquifity...duh