@ Thisisours I like your entire point just the last name needed amending.

All startups, all small businesses some 73% startups, 25% small business some 3,500 registered at Centre employing large amounts etc. The mimimum wage announcement increased by Govt to its employees would have immediately put pressures and affected as many of the mom an pop stores have the lower wage level weekly paid employees (and plenty grumbling, suk teet)Thank goodness after announcement days ago now put on back burner. However still suk teet by those in govt not getting minimum salary increase amd those others who getting $1,400. cheque.

Tribune article. Thursday, September 15, 2016 titled "Bar Chief: Land Reform Thwarted by Society's Elite ". The then Bar Association in very candid points pointed out many points relating to this Act and the public etc. and said that he was "speaking for himself and not the Bar." Well today as he in an Executive position in Parliament we await his efforts.

....oops isnt it Frank Smith, not Frank Watson.

He has difficulties in backing up what he says in official capacities remember like Quieting Titles of land which still have notices going on.
He is only saying about illegals sheltering in Churches but we all know there will never have his authorities enter into any church to apprehend anyone and will blame the lawful people, for the outcome.
THE illegal trafficking for decades existed and grew by authorities not carrying out the law of illegal construction of shantytowns, not stopping heavy tinted church transportation vehicles, arresting employers hiring illegals, harbouring illegals, , catching boat captaing of illegal trafficking boats, arrest the Haitian Embassy officials instead of then going back to Haiti on the fake fraud marriages. or the one talking about Bahamian law and former judge had to publictly chastise him etc. ,having meetings in Haiti on illegal migration,etcetc And this time of the year the annual Junkanoo season where everybody rushing in Bay St and the illegal migrant sloops land at South Beach and at best some authorities manage to be running through in the bushes after them.

....Something is off after painstaking and huge efforts to laud new businesses over da hill etc, create hundreds and expand, grow small businesses very own high profile govt program and have entrepreneurs with done future plans and costing business and then to shock them into immediate or pending increasing govt employees raise in minimum wage likely to then thereafter roll over into their done business calculations.

@mudda. Those are good intentions to send back those Haitians who perished in Bahamas back to Haiti.

The deceased would be by Haiti authorities to better communicate with all their relatives in the handfull of villages they commonly come from with hundreds of their families to identify and give them funreals, rather than the have few persons in Bahamas who for months now to identify deceased have not come forward.

Having those bodies sent back to Haiti is better opportunity for decent Christian or other Religeous rites closure of deceased, families grief than having deceased bodies interred and marooned on some location in Bahamas.

He said he was on a BTC job and Immigration met him there doing his job on Friday. Question is was it a Haitian village under the Commonwealth of the Bahamas Supreme Court instructions not to be doing any construction activity etc and was it BTC aiding and abetting an illegal action? Also was the structures have legal verified Building Permits and is there a Bahamas of the Commonwealth Home Occupancy Certificate?

@sealice, some of the money gone in cost overruns by 2 to 3 times engineered caucus organized planned by best paid experts officials like 1.Clinic in Eleuthera having half a mountain graded down to built a clinic only left a hole in earth 2. Clinic planned designed spending for huge Cat Island Clinic later discovered not meeting synergies , efficiencies 3. Having experts do an agreement to use taxpayers money to buy Lucayan hotel and having taxpayers stuck paying off expenses of the seller like settling sellers employees entitlements. 4. Having cost overruns in having planned water treatment plant on Gladstone road 5. Experts buying old grocery building on Gladstone road later determined not proper for specific post office 6. Govt experts started off renovating Potters Cay some 3m winding up woth some 9m 7. Baseball stadiun park by Govt High school some double cost overruns and discovered lack important facilities. 8. Cost increased building by Batelco 9. Incompetance in regular repairs former Post Office leading to shutting down severly impairing national mail systen for nation 10. questionable funds used on defence boats involving some alleged bribery by another country 11. Massive national assets funds immobilzized by shutting down, stalling BahMar for extensive period 12. Nation funds utilized to assist persons in shantytownns after illegal homes destroyed when govt experts and millions of persons flying into Marsh Harbour know for decades before illegal building structures are boldly illegal and would be destroyed in strong winds .13. Error in funds paid to builder of seawall in Smiths point who then got fired and structure had to restart 14. Monies wasted in govt buildings not being renovated and officies to be relocated to rental buildings 15. Monies puored for years after years into education system without increased results. 16. Monies some 18 million PMH medical computer platform has defoficiencies 17. Monies paid with huge commission to import Govt Customs computers issued with challenges 18. Hundreds of millions of dollars poured into BoB by govt despite free market economy with other Financial instutions and companies being traded on Bahamian stock exchange .......anyone feel free to add more.....to wastages of millions of dollars by govt experts....so $1,400 bonus....

Are those Public Servants 1. who use govt vehicles off hours also to get a bonus $1,400.? 2.Those who refuse to answer phones? 3. Cannot find the files? 4. Busy arranging lunch time menu and not attending to publiv? 5. The Police who do not pull over the terrorist Jitney driving? 6. jitneys and motorists who do not get pulled over for clearly being in a racetrack? 7. Officials who are on the slow learming curve? 8.Govt officials who are still decades later unable to stop the small aircrafts pilots "hacking" illegally transporting passengers? 9. Public servants who unable to apprehend employers who hire illegal employees but can somehow apprehend tbousands of illegals and send them back on a free plane ride back to their countries? 10. Officers who can somehow after raids recover dozend of illegal cell phones in prison but didnt catch illegal stuff before? 11. Public servants unable to run the keep on broking down electricity system destroying public users applicances, etc ? 12. Public servants overstaffed and getting paid and others everyone knows carrying load for reasons not official public servants not getting paid bonus? 13. Public setvants who cannot keep reliable generators at ministries also not working when main electricity off incapacitating entire key functioning of govt department? 14. Public servants who allow hundreds of nurses shortages for system? 15. Public employees who cannot have to do building maintenance and repeatedly have mould in govt buildings have to shut down? 16.Public servants responsible for the defective Govt. Customs Computers delaying businesses? 17. Public setvants charging govt people but unable to find them guilty. 18. Seems the taxpauers can go through every govt ministry . .....anyone feel free to add to the the list of public servants getting bonus $$1,400. ....