This is one time I cannot agree with your position on religion or banks. To seek to refer to religious beliefs as subjective is exactly what post modernism wants us to fall into the trap of. It leads to relativism where we each believe what we want and we all right. However, in this life there are some things that are right and some wrong. That view will ultimately be settled at the end of the world and whet you believe will tell the tale of your eternal destiny.
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In reference to the bank, institutions have the right to set their policies. If we don't like it we do business elsewhere. Because I do not like a policy does not give me the right to call it stupid, if you use your logic from the religion argument. Nor does it give me right to ignore it, if you use your religion argument again. It just disturbs me people who want to ignore policies to do their own thing I guess they why we have criminals now ignoring the law of the land to do their own thing.

Shows we still have people who are service oriented in the Bahamas. A breath of fresh air

Parents always told me that if you have a pack of dogs and throw a rock, the ones that make noise are the ones that got hurt. @duppyVAT you are correct. It is saddening to see so called senior politicians rather than being open minded and seeking to correct the situation, try to discredit and shoot the auditor. Anyone with a bit of common sense realise auditors are trained to look for issues. They only paint a picture of what you give to them. However, we have a culture that has arisen with this "new generation of leaders" touted by our Prime Minister, that reports are only correct if it makes the politicians look good. Otherwise, people who are trained in these areas are idiots. How often have they argued agains the Department of Statistics report? What about he NIB audit? Public Hospitals authority? Need I go on. We have created a terrible culture that is not interested as Martin King said "in speaking truth to power."

Amazing how we are taking education out to the hands of the masses. An educated population benefits a country more. However, if you can keep the masses uneducated, then you can keep them in slavery (don't need chains on your hands and feet to be a slave. You just have to have it in your mind.) Just to our south, Trinidad offers free college education to all Trinidadians (from Bachelors to Doctorate). When will the Bahamas come up to speed. We pay money to the university of the West Indies, and only select Bahamians can get in. Yet, persons in our southern neighbours get their education free. wake up people!!!! We are being left behind fast.

A wonderful lady with a kind heart and a keen understanding of what needs to be done to get our education system on track. Huge loos for the education system.

We have the most dumbest, uneducated set of union leaders in this country. If this so called leader of the airline union would just read works need she would be aware that envoy airlines is downsizing all across the United states. Reason being they are short on pilots and American Airlines is taking planes from them and giving to other subsidiaries. In fact, envoy will soon stop flying to the Bahamas. Why these union leaders try and make something out of nothing is beyond me.

Yeah, the government has increased revenue but screwing us with VAT, while not reducing their expenditure.

I agree. This makes not sense. The government just wants to take over a private entity. IF this is so, then the mobile industry is not competition. It is a monopoly as the government won both entities. That is a serious conflict of interest. You are sitting on two boards. How can you make decisions in the best interest of either company. This smacks of corruption.

Sadly, Fred Smith is making noise after he has gotten is money from being the lawyer for one of these same two families. It is amazing he never started making noise until he was no longer the lawyer for one of the families.

Truth. Government can't run nothing properly.

Unfortunately VAT does not solve the problem. If you don't change the habit of being wasteful, as all the entities government owns reveals, you will continue to waste even the VAT money that you collect to solve what lousy is the problem.