What cause and effect are they looking at? And what hole in the national debt is being plugged?
You and Davis must be have the same pie in the sky dream

Only people who like to go into debt spend more if VAT is reduce. Smart people learn to save that extra and build wealth.

What Davis is proposing is only going to hurt the poor and wipe out more of the middle class. IF you think reducing VAT to 10% (for one year) and zero out all the others items will help the majority of people, you are dreaming.

I thought you said we should not judge people by outward appearance?

As you said that is the United States. We can't compare apples with oranges.

Unfortunately that is not the case in the Bahamas. The government retires you at 63 in some instances and 65 in others. Oh, that is unless you can be past the retirement age and never done anything, but yet be seating in the seat to run a country.

Furthermore, when it comes to leadership, past performance is a guarantee of future performance. A person who has no past track record to show is very telling on the type of "leader" they will be when given a position.

The irony in all of this is that the government does this across the board, retiring people at 65. Yet, the prime minister of the country is beyond the retirement. Think we need to extend the retirement age to PMs as well, starting with the present one..

Agree anyone better than Brave. But the FNM needs to avoid the mistake in choosing MInnis because no one else.

Then have to choose the right one for the job. As tribanon said, and I agree, Thompson is just Minnis puppet, and that is not what is needed if the country will move forward.

Pintard I believe is a better option than the 2 presently vying. He has the ability I believe to do something that has not really been done before in our politics, and that is to work across party lines and unite our country for the better.

> Mr Thompson, a former minister of
> state for finance, has the backing of
> former Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis
> and many other Minnis allies, The
> Tribune understands.

Without any other reason, just that statement right there is enough to let the FNM know that Thompson is not the right choice. But beyond that, I'm sorry, but Thompson does not inspire confidence for people to follow him. Both he and Lewis need on sit on the sideline on this one right now.

Just my viewpoint.

But who knows may surprise me if he gets it. At least don't have over the hill 70+ year old people putting their hat in the ring to lead. Don't need anymore of them, as in the next 5 years, our current PM with his old ideas will have driven our country deeper and we desperately need youthful leadership with a willingness to buck the status quo.

Davis talks about unifying the country. Yet, Mitchell, mind you in a global pandemic traveling to Rome already, talks about getting party supporters straight.

So much for the unity talk. Clearly we see who running this government.

I also agree with Moore, follow the constitution . However, where was Moore's voice over the past 6 years when Minnis ignored the FNM constitution and never held a convention? Don't just talk of following the constitution when it is convenient.