A few years ago (15 to be exact) my client was approached by a representative of the orange one who was trying to purchase property in the Cable Beach area to build a Trump Tower. So he obviously thinks about Bahamas more than we think about him. Anyway, who cares what he thinks?

Wait, isn't this the dude caught cheating his own taxes??? Now suddenly he has the nerve to be 'congratulating' anyone for fiscal responsibility. Funny how when it comes to firing poor people it is called fiscal responsibility, but when it comes to the rich cheating their taxes it hardly makes the news.Disgusting!

Spare us the nonsensical insults and just go give NHI to those hogs in the insurance industry, as you always intended to do anyway.

Hey moron, did you ever think the reason people "don't like to pay" is because you keep piling too much on the poorest sectors of society to pay? Do you not realize that in the rest of the world the rich and better off pay more and the poor pay less, through progressive taxes? I am a land attorney and daily see foreign owned houses and whole islands in the Exumas that are being advertised at 30 and 40 million dollars for sale, but paying Real Property Tax (if they bother to pay at all) based on a valuation of $1,000,000 and under. Do you take and sell them for taxes?? of course not. You prefer take more from the payroll of the poor, then call them delinquent for not paying. You lying, incompetent crew then present this false narrative to the nation that we 'cannot afford' better because of those no-good average Bahamians.

You need to drive through any other developing city capital, including in our region. Then you will see why anyone from any of those countries would do anything to move here. Thanks to our post independence governments, the Bahamas is a success. Is it enough? Hell NO! But that is a very different proposition from the many idiots (and UBP vestiges) who claim we should be reversing course. We need to stay the course. Introduce NHI as a logical evolution of the social safety net introduced by NIB. Stop putting taxes on the poor and start a progressive income tax like every other sane country on earth. In other words closing the gap between rich and poor that is at the heart of every single one of our problems in this country - including your famous drive-through of Nassau. You normally make sense, Porcupine, but do not buy into this privatization/dump the state bollocks. We need to invest in our people and we can EASILY afford to do it. The PLP was not perfect, but theirs was the right direction. This crew will place us in reverse.

I am sorry to say this Mr. Strachan, but you and your colleagues in the media are fully responsible for the horrible situation that this country finds itself in. You manufactured a baseless and biased (and frankly warped) version of reality in which the PLP was so corrupt and sself-serving that anything was better. You did so without so much as a scintilla of evidence and even ignored that the FNM is the only party to have been found in a court of law (on irrefutable evidence) to be involved in a massive act of corruption (BEC) that cost the taxpayer. You ignored the massive positive achievements of the PLP - the University of the Bahamas, expansion of the Defence Force, doubling scholarships, doubling the conviction rate via Swift Justice. You simply invented your own version of reality, replete with newspaper outer covers with Christie as a vampire (appealing to pure animal stupidity over reason). You did this because you were controlled (like the media generally) by people who want to take us back to pre 1967, like the owners of the Guardian, who have a corrupt, vested interest against NHI, which of clear nobody declares or reports on. My father was for 10 years an FNM Minister and I admire many of Ingraham's achievements. But Ingraham remember was a PLP, albeit a reform one. I fear that you and your colleagues in media have set this country back a generation with this corrupt, incompetent and clueless bunch that you have saddled us with and now claim to be "disappointed" after all the evidence of what they were and promised to be. Remember Bobo and Toggie?? Selling Baha Mar??

When the PLP returns, it is incumbent upon them (on the behalf of all Bahamians) to seriously reform the police force in order to undo the massive damage the FNM has done in politicising the organization. I would not be so eager to "jail them" unlike the thugs on the FNM bandwagon. I just would want to save the country from their patterns of maladministration.

They already tried the "lock them up" tactic, remember. It led them to bribing people with huge, unapproved contracts and corrupting the police force into coordinating the witness statements of admitted fraudsters. Or were you dozing?

If you sat out verbal and written communication for the rest of your days, you would only be adding to the sum total of human knowledge.

The only time the FNM was clean was when it was under the leadership of a PLP (Hubert Ingraham) who had to fire and constantly discipline his colleagues to keep them in line. He has served in cabinet in both parties and ask him which one he thinks has a more pronounced pattern of corruption.