It defies commonsense that investors would purchase 30 year Bahamas government bonds payable in Bahamian dollars. Quicker to just go buy a few hundred thousand Florida Lottery tickets.

This Royal visit is pretty much irrelevant to most every ordinary citizen. A little entertainment value perhaps. Thank goodness we have a decent Governor General again.

This PLP administration presently in power is just repeating a tactic taken from the corruption smeared Pindling government of the 1980's; blame the greedy merchants and pretend that the politicians are trying to rein in their greedy ways. It was total rubbish then and it is total rubbish now. Adam Smith's invisible hand dictates prices not our third world politicians.

Price control was brought in by the UBP government with good intentions. However it is is useless in keeping the overall price of groceries lower than the market dictates. If a wholesaler or grocery store can make less than it needs on rice or grits then they will have to make more on Mayonnaise and fresh vegetables.

LostManStanding. I agree with you about the extremely high murder and rape count. Was not Solomon lauded, was not a first born son to be killed as a divine sacrifice, and that was held up to be a wonderful test of faith. Were not adulterers to be stoned to death, and witches too? if Cain did not have children with his sister then where did his baby momma come from? I remember the song Vietnam sung by jimmy Cliff in 1968 or 69 being banned from the airwaves because it protested the abhorrent and unjustified war in Indo-China. I suspect you would have supported that ban if you were living in those days. So no, lets not start banning music and burning books. That is what fascists and religious zealots do.

Mr. Evans wants to ban a musical artist because the lyrics in his work concern sexual promiscuity; I wonder if the good gentleman has ever read the Old Testament and whether he thinks that it too should be banned? Adultery, incest, fornication, infanticide, sodomy, etc., etc..,

If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.

Fill Up the Grave, having reached his goal..... ... ...Had to sell to the Union a piece of his soul............ ... Now comes the time for the Unions to collect.... ... ... On the promises made to make sure he got elect.... .. .... .Give plenty money to that hotel lawyer... . .... ...The managers hopefully queuing in the foyer...... ..... .. . ...Did those Potters Cay vendors ever pay a cent in rent? ... .. .. .. A PLP Prime Minister like a gift from heaven sent.......The stalls that they burnt down to replaced all free of charge.............. ..The vendors and the crony's can continue living large.......Sigh.

Only those ignorant of how politicos spin announcements will take FIllUP's latest utterance as anything but a preamble to the introduction of new taxes. The only question here is will it increasing VAT TO 25%, Income Tax on everybody, or Property Tax on Out Island and undeveloped land.

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Phil Davis has this fiscal plan...............To tax the Bahamians as much as he can.............And also de-man the civil service................'cept you know what is said about that fish?...........That a fish will rot from the head on down...............No one gonna be fired who wearing the crown.........Or crony appointment or top of the heap.....................Instead those who get fired will those who are cheap...................Probably the ones who actually work..................The ones who get pay without out perk.................The perks demanded to just do your job...........The poor taxpayer always getin' rob...........An if you don't pay nothing gonna get done..........At your expense the bureaucrat have much so fun......Sigh....