How do you keep a country dumb and and allow mismanagement of public funds? You ensure that you never allow a Freedom of Information Act to be properly enacted.

Who the heck is she? Where was her voice all this years on any matter of significance in The Bahamas? Where was she in giving action? She is just a typical politician.

This country is going to the dogs. By the time of the election, who will want to be in The Bahamas, the way this New Day government is just taxing the hell out of people.

You would think these brain dead politicians would first start with paying what the government owes NIB from raiding it for their slush projects that give no return.

“You must understand some children are academic, some children learn with their hands. The difference does not make one better than the other. It makes each person an individual.”

So if that is the point, why not change the curriculum and the teaching styles? Typical to tinker with change that just dumb down the education system rather than may serious systemic change that revolutionizes education in this country.

Some valid points made.

Only they already sold the airport, so how do you revert to them controlling that?

> “We’re splitting hairs here,” he said.
> “I think if I tell you 99.9 per cent
> Bahamian people are concerned, I
> believe, I’m concerned about tax rises
> on me, alright? So if you raised the
> departure tax on cruise ships, I don’t
> think you’ll get an argument from
> anybody because if you survey 100
> Bahamians –– 99 per cent will tell you
> we don’t get enough from them anyhow.
> They’re polluting our waters. They’re
> making a lot of money, and we don’t
> get anything. So I don’t think you’ll
> get an argument. So who, you know, if
> someone wants to split hairs on that,
> they’re welcome to it.”

So the so called Economics Minister says that raising taxes on cruise ship passengers gts more from the cruise ships? Wow! Is he really that shallow. That tax is getting more from the passenger, nto the cruise ships, because all the cruise lines do is charge that tax to the passenger.

How about really taxing the cruise line? How about not giving away Paradise Island crown land to RCI? How about really taxing cruise lines and not passengers?

So since you so educated why not answer it. Engage the issue. We have a government saying no new tax, yet at the same time saying they having a whole new steam of revenue. It means it is a new tax. Yet, what is there new that is being giving to the people?

So typical of the intelligent ignorant among us who will avoid dialogue by slinging mud.

Like you, I don't even read or listen the words from this man, as he is only clueless.

If you increase a fee, isn't that a new tax?

The government cannot do anything for Freeport. The government cannot even take care of West End and East End.

IF the government seeks to nationalize the GBPA, that will only put the nail in the coffin of Freeport.