The app is a disaster. It took me 90 minutes to do my last entry. I totally understand the benefit from the customs side but it has been at the expense of the customer experience.

The minimum age of employment should be generally 16 years old. This is the age at which young people can leave compulsory education and legally start working full-time. However, there could be some exceptions and restrictions to this general rule:

- Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to work in any capacity, except for certain types of work such as TV, film, and theater performances, where they require a performance license.
- Children aged 13 to 14 may work in limited circumstances, such as packing bags or working in certain types of shops, but there are restrictions on the number of hours they can work and the type of work they can do.
- Children aged 15 to 16 may work part-time in most types of jobs, but there are still restrictions on the number of hours they can work and the type of work they can do.

In some cases, children may be allowed to work at a younger age if they have a special license or permit from their local authority. However, these permits are only issued in exceptional circumstances, such as for child actors or for children who are employed by their parents in certain types of family businesses.

There's a great piece on John Oliver's Last Week Tonight about this and I agree that we should ditch the royal family its outdated and irrelevant.

If you want an EV then this is the only practical solution in the country at the moment. The more you drive the more you save. A gas bill might be $50 a week for a typical consumer, realistically the equivalent in electricity costs is closer to $15. So that represents a saving of $35 a week or about $1800 a year. So depending on the price difference between a gas and electric car the purchase based on savings may or may not be justified. I'm an EV owner and there's some saving in the service costs so that might add a further $300 a year saving in servicing. But this misses the point in my experience the fact is that electric cars perform differently to gas cars in a good way. As for which brand people prefer time will tell but since there's only one option in the country it is what it is. The other dealers seem to be 'sleeping at the wheel' so I can't blame them for seizing the opportunity.

This is a disgrace - slack is back

It's most unfortunate that our people can't see past the veneer of these 'do gooders' that now want to become philanthropic with their ill gotten gains.

And furthermore the politicians that were complicit in legalizing the numbers houses instead of shutting them down and having a national lottery are just as bad.

At least a national lottery would provide the treasury with more revenue and help fund cash starved but essential projects (e.g. hospital expansion).

Agreed

I don't believe I could vote for somebody who has a multimillion dollar fortune and only earns $38,500 a year. By my calculation that's a 0.07% return on investment (and that's assuming his earnings are 100% from his fortune) which is significantly less than what the worst retail bank will pay in interest. How could we the people trust somebody who makes such a miserable return on investments? I would have no faith that he could put our tax dollars to the most efficient use.

Whichever way you look at this, it lacks credibility.

I'm a political atheist and base my judgments on performance not party.

This administration has presided over 2 black swan events back to back. No administration would have had an easy time but it is my view that this one has done a respectable job - of course in retrospect some different decisions may have been made but that will always be the case.

I just hope our people remember the failed promises of the past and vote based on facts not feelings.

Sands is right.

Vacation rentals are well and good and its providing some competition for hotels but they should be subject to a license with a fee and, by all means, provide exemptions for expenses legitimately incurred in the development of the rental properties.

But owners aren't going to want to do that unless they have properly invested in a suitable property. Using a random house in a residential community for vacation rentals should be discouraged as they are a nuisance and security risk.

As for taxing the cruise lines, that's counter to the government initiatives to bring the tourists here to buy our chinese made crap on Bay Street. But I'm going to work on the premise that govt has computed the economic benefits of cruise ship passengers and that the current model must be beneficial.

But vacation rentals are a) damaging to hotels, b) a nuisance when situated in residential communities and c) provide less economic benefit to the country than the hotels that employ our workforce.

Did I mention they pose a nuisance???

They're a nuisance!!

I'm not from the hotel industry but I sympathise with the situation.

And vacation rentals are a nuisance :)