Yes; this seems to be the case.🤦🏽‍♂️

The innocent suffering from guilty pleasures of the rich🤨

They need to fix this because this is a new10% tax, combined with existing tariffs that Bahamians will endure because very little enters the Bahamas except through the currently dysfunctional system of our much larger neighbour.

Jet ski operators have had this problem for quite some time (decades). Clearly efforts to clean it up have not been successful or have lapsed(?).

In any event it begs for further and ongoing scrutiny if they are going to be allowed continued operation.

Congratulations Dr. Minnis. As a member of the opposition you are courageously doing your job! Keep is going until the sun shines on this and other activities of our government.

Hint, the LNG contract also smells a bit ‘fishy’ since few benefit while many more could have. We have now come to accept that the political connected primarily benefit from these investments (aka the Port Deal), however under that FMN administration, at least ‘the people’ were offered shares and the government got a significant share…the PLP administrations seem to do this a bit differently…please stop stealing from us🥴

No disrespect to Mr. Pindling or any future Bahamian hero, however we don’t need another holiday in this country 🤦🏽‍♂️

Pileit, you are so right! The level of legal double-speak in this ruling is so confusing that it reeks of corporate privilege…The final ruling (and payout) of the “Privy Council” will determine their legitimacy. That fact that this lady’s property was damaged and devalued is unquestioned. An unfavourable ruling will do damage to us all🤨

No.

The response to “eliminate VAT” whenever a crisis mounts shows a complete misunderstanding of how VAT is supposed to work.

Instead of eliminating VAT in the hope of aiding ’needy families’, (or with the intent of scoring political points) government should identify them and provide financial assistance for whatever is required (usually food products and basic essentials). A government should issue those identified a ‘credit card’ approved only to purchase those essential items from local providers. The idea was somewhat utilised when VAT was initiated and has now seemed to have fallen away.

Additionally if government continue to insist on having a “bread basket” list of foodstuff, it should consist of a mix of healthy food items, rich in vegetables and fruits, some of which can be sourced locally, including the seafood and other healthy ‘meats’. That way “local farmers and producers” can benefit.

Yes: Good for the government.
No: bad for ‘the people’; government employees who are forced to bank at a single institution. How can they negotiate more favourable loan deals?. Not all banks are non-Bahamian, Fidelity is not a “foreign bank”.

The attitude “let dat rest” means we accept this type of behaviour without consequences. Not a intelligent way to run anything, especially a country 🤦🏽‍♂️

I’m in Agreement with issues raised in this article.

Another pressing concern is our need to know the results of investigations as to how BOB got themselves into financial difficulties in the first place? And, if as alleged, political ‘friends of government officials’ were in defaul, whatever happened to resolved these arrears?

A focus on “Wellness” would and should be a noble effort on behalf of our major private healthcare institution. However this is as much a bandaid as it is a smoke screen to cover up Doctors Hospital’s excessive charges.

People attend healthcare and especially ‘hospitals’ when they are already ’ill’ so we need an affordable privately managed healthcare institution to fill the gap between PMH and South Florida healthcare, which Doctors is surely NOT! In fact their prices have lead a flight to Florida and many other regional healthcare providers probably stifling growth in this sector.

If Doctors want to be helpful, and indeed relevant, they should cut their flagship prices and probably cut back on their multiple ‘experiments’ throughout New Providence and the country.

Fix your house before you attempt managing your neighbour's affairs.