Changed? It never even started.

You would think this "meet me outside" so called financial secretary would know this and be transparent with people, rather than trying to spin this.

Holiday season hindered public schools? What holiday season is going on now?

The whole duty and vat thing is a government scam to rip off its own people.

You hit the nail on the head. We don't like competition and fail to realize the world is global. Next, you will hear the unions start crying about what Amazon is doing.

Something is still missing in this story. If your family is present on the trip, how come they let her go to the airport alone? Furthermore, who let's there teen daughter go around the world with some strangers?

That what makes the PM statement ridiculous and clueless. The islands are not developed so people will move. And the PM has done nothing to change that happening. It shows he is a part of the problem.

You hit it on the head. That is what troubled me reading the article.

The thing these dudes do not recognize, is that businesses will find a way now to pass that on to Bahamian who buy from them.

Don't know why governments believe that just because they tax a business not Bahamian owned that it will not affect Bahamians.

IT appears you did not read the article.

The incident was not about a fare, but about a drop off location.

And it appears there was a point for them to be dropped off, but they wanted to change the location.

However, there can be more to the story. So we should hold judgment until we get all the facts.