web shops face a "wipe out" from tax increases of up to 355 percent, as the sector accused the government of deliberately seeking to "cripple" it. Hooray, go for it, government.

Lickstoomuch is an ex policeman so he will always defend other policemen. This is what policwmen do best.

Tennyson Wells? really? The Korean Longline fisherman?

And just like that The State has a blood sample of every citizen and resident of this country. Does the State own our DNA, Does it have the right to examine it to determine what diseases we are likely to get, whether the man we think is our daddy is really our daddy, our projected life span, our inherited proclivity to engage in unlawful behaviour? You will soon be able to find out a lot about a person by examining their DNA from a blood sample. George Orwell's 1984 is beginning at chapter 1.
Or perhaps I am wrong and all our elected and appointed government leaders and workers are honest honourable people and always will be. By the way, are you interested in buying the Paradise Island bridge because I know a man who knows a man....................

Sounds lick a***licker2 been drinking again. You just know this man never held a dirty hands job his whole life.

Agedone, the problem with this spy bill is that an elected politician gets to order who gets spied upon with no checks and balances. If it took a court order or judges agreement from an independent judiciary then it would become palatable. Can you imagine the damage politicians, such as the totally amoral ones we saw in power with the shuffling buffoon, could wreak if they had access to everyone's emails, phone conversation, internet browsing, and minute by minute location through phone location tracking?

Do you know even one Bahamian, . . . . ...
Who does not steal or cheat or lie, . . . . . .....
And now our lying cheating leaders, . . . . . ...
Have the right to spy, . . . . . .......
They will watch you in the bathroom, . . . . . ...
Listen to you in your bed, . . . . . ...
Your cell phone will be tapped, . . . . ...
And your emails will be read, . . . . ....
Dishonest government workers, . . . . . ......
Noting everything you do, . . . . . ..
This day they passed the spy bill, is a day we will all rue, . . . ......
Crooked politicians get corrupt from too much power, . . . . .......
Living high on public purse in sycophantic tower, ... . . ..............
Our country's now on the path to an autocratic state, . . . . .....
To set out on a saner path, it is now much too late, . . . . .......
These evil men have voted for a destructive plan for all, . . . .....
That will surely bite them on the grass when from ruling class they fall.

Armed thugs holding up HopeTown residents? That hasn't happened since before the pirates left. They will be better off if the police catch them cos if some of them Abaco boys catch them first then nobody going to ever see them again.........

Yes, Madhater, you are correct, if Bahamian grades are looked at in isolation to other countries grade curves. But, although I have no empirical data, I believe the grades earned by Bahamian students are near as can be correct and in line with first world standards of education. My belief is based on 8 close family members transmitting into foreign academic systems or from them. Mu belief is also bolstered by the grades obtained bt Bahamian students when the standard was administered by the Cambridge School of Education, called GCE's prior to Bahamianization.

D minus students deserve no more than D minus wages when they enter the work force. It costs parent(s) about $200,000 to feed, clothe and educate a child to 20 years of age. Dumb girls having babies at 15 or 16byears old condemn their children to life-long poverty, but let's blame the government, or the Whiteman, or foreigners owning hotels or businesses in this country. Sigh.......