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moncurcool says...

If the International Bazaar could not survive without a hotel, and Port Lucaya Marketplace is struggling without one, how will this Afro-Caribbean Marketplace survive with no hotel there?

On $1m fee conflict resolved at Bazaar

Posted 19 June 2025, 10:28 a.m. Suggest removal

moncurcool says...

> THE Ministry of Education has paused
> its plan to recruit more than 70
> teachers from Cuba, redirecting
> efforts toward hiring educators from
> the United States, Canada, and locally
> retired professionals to fill upcoming
> vacancies.

This has to be a joke right? Who leaves the US or Canada with better living and pay accommodations to come to The Bahamas with is high cost of living and low pay? And that is where they are going to recruit. Wow!

moncurcool says...

Amazing how government could always find tax breaks for foreigners, but then always finding ways to tax the citizens.

moncurcool says...

Maybe if NIB is not used as the slush fund for the government and all these big contracts not be given to these directors, then we can see the fund not have this deficit.

moncurcool says...

Ditto.

People have to real lack intelligence to talk about wanting a leader like that.

moncurcool says...

What puzzles me is that the Minister don't want to call then D average, but yet she give statistics talks about how many got subjects with at least a D. So what gives.

moncurcool says...

26 in Cabinet and the other give ambassador or some other board director position.

So are there really even any back benchers to begin with?

moncurcool says...

Wow. This view from the PM speaks volumes. These dudes really do not believe in transparency.

2026 cannot come soon enough.

moncurcool says...

The fact that as unions they went and signed an MOU with a political party, what does he expect?

moncurcool says...

Is this serious? Only in The Bahamas, people can do nonsense like this.

And then talking about competition legislation so people can compare prices? Seriously? I can compare prices now. Why not require gas stations to post sings so I can see the prices posted?