Another leader in the business community in dere echelon lala land. Should have been aware of the worst economic, national criss country been going through the last 8 months and even before that people struggling, business people complaining. All he needin to be doing last 8 months to do is .....take about 50 walkin steps from the Chamber of Commerce Office lookf eft an right ....before crossing Shirley St. an cross the street an go to the Tribune newspaper .....with $1 dollar an buy newspaper an read an collect infornation what going on. Plenty brave hero warriors, writers, reporters front line have been going all over the nation writing reporting on situations current, projected etc from IDB, IDB and many others published in daily newspapers.

Mr. Beckles Chamber of Commerce as forefront of Private Sector businesses needs to get off from waiting on Govt. He needs apart from spending $1 dollar to buy newspapers he needs to be conducting surveys, consulting with others to be on forefront stead depending on govt.

In addition to the Manager micro managing making life harassing and miserable to employees should also include....that employees operating from home needs to be ....compensated for renting their home for office business, employees needs to be compensated for supplies ordinarily supplied to use at work pencils, computer, coffee, water, etc, employee needs to be paid for Cable, internet phone rental usage, electricity billing, air conditioning usage, how does insurance work related injury from working from home, unsuitability for small square footage home with number young chillrens, grandma fussing, now having employee use as office etcetc.

Other challenges is the employer having to have employees working at home apart from being micro managed with countless phone calls on family phone now business phone is the new and increased financial costs incurred to family home budget AND the effects of rest of family life being affected by family member carrying on business in family home and the family life as family life altered by micro managers insensitivities.

."......as part of the Central Bank's strategy to boost the savings rate."

Gov previous position Implementing known Regressive Tax onto people affecting majority of majority at the bottom...then Gov an second time Regressive tax imposed,.....crowds of people customers protesting to Central Bank as Regulator of Bank's allowing exhorbitant bank fee some $16 dollars to cash their own bank cheque by people no account there,... ....Central Bank itself transferring some $100 million dollars from bank accounts to Central Bank cause in 7 or so years they could not find the savings accounts money owners wid Know your Customer records etc,...nation is in top 10 most expensive countries to live in,..govt people decades committed by Salary Deductions almost their whole paycheck gone gone...minimum wage $210 week is not livable wage....Dorian survivors 2 Islands suffering to find money to rebuild years to rebuild,....people 1 in 4 depending on food charity....$1M million govt dollars a week to give to charities etc an provide food to people.....an now knowing dis the worstest times till near future majority jobless trying to find jobs again, paying up rent, bank loans, cant afford to buy land or house,...BEC, aint have no savings etc........sooooooo after decades and now worstest times where this belief that Central Bank and nation Chief Advisor happens to know people have money to save.????

For starters they Central Bank should advise Govt to try to have people first being in better economic position to have money...!!!!!...Plus.they shouldda done know it being Bahamians better ...rather than IDB knowing it better than Central Bank.

Good perserverance as a pressure group expressing peaceful democratic freedoms with armed police present.

Mr. Bowe who have good acumen knowledge than most on computers, politics and business ought to know that blaming bureaucratic obstacles is like fully knowing to blame the computer, its usually people at certain levels who make it difficult with bureaucratic output...not the computer or system.

These bureaucrats?, some appointed to political positions have paper qualifications an never run business, some repeatedly have run litany of blatant wrongs still in system, some with areas where forensic audit never comes out, some forensic audits come out questioaable finanvial practices etc noone accountable, some with position published in newspaprrs wrongs never held accountable, seem to go contra to Govt policies to desperately create new businesses to impress voters. Business people have complained frustrations, blatant egregious wrongs from previous govt all the way now. Many business difficulties, many failed businesses, many businesses never got traction. Kudos to coming forward Mr. Bowe.

Fully feel your pain. The Bahamas made up of many populated islands and with lesser amount of political Member of Parliament representatives and Legislators together on several islands, versus the majority of one single island New Providence, having more Members of Parliament at a mathematical advantage duties, combined with Westminister system, keeping majority to toe the line in line to vote, and head of party being PM and leader living of same island with political governing majority of MP's. Its the existing legal political system which has been in place for numbers of alternating political parties holding power many times before till now.

Political Party Finance man calling for more insight on country fiances.....weeeellll mudda tek sic. He mussey still gat milk round his mout cause he dont know his Party created and added the phrase ' I don't recall' when his party asked questions. Finance Cooper ought to recall inquiry into BoB ought to remember nation asked in Referendum on Webshop gambling and majority democratically voters lined up and voted NO and his colleagues and 20 some others in Parliament after knowing changed the position of peoples resentatives on other side and the Referendum voters.

Very sad. In such a very sad and alarming story of a young woman having a baby and unexpectedl6 passed away and father of the baby and the father of the young mother was seems not interviewed by writer or journalist or comments cited in the story. These continuous stories always only have anguished mothers interviewed by writers journalists and gains public sympathy and almost never mentions any father and baby father being interviewed and or even mentioned too anguished to comment. All children in this country have mothers and fathers who biologically making them and responsibilities. Totally interviewing and comments only referring to mothers and not referring to fathers by writers journalists is unfair.

Sooooooooo ...after spending some $30 million dollars to clean up large tracts, acres of land, can the owners show up with claims of ownership of the cleared acres of land and gain it back???? Who are the private owner(s) after one year later being identified or alleged of these large tracts and acres of land where bulk or massive amounts debris.... the $30 million dollars spent on...????

....and more debris...and in the continued building of more illegal highly irregular, woefully poor construction of 'houses' along with large clusters of such 'houses', it is expected that these 'houses' and clusters of illegal construction will again fall apart, collasping on inhabitants in high winds. Collasping 'homes' in same high winds as flying debris is also danger to other legally approved with established safety standards in homes and structures..extra debris bombarding them...and even more debris.