What a travesty of justice in our country where these shady politicians always get taken care of by their party when they knowingly were getting kickbacks on housing contracts. WOW!.

Like @KapunkleUp said, the average person gets the run around but the friends, family and lovers get taken care of. Welcome to the same old new day!

So Massa is coming to visit and we having strict following of protocols by the slaves? WOW! Unbelievable in the 21st century our political leaders still wearing the shackles of slavery mentally.

Very interesting he did not say they are not going to raise VAT. Just they not going to raise it to 15 percent. Maybe 12? 14? 18? 20? Typical politician. So that when it raises to anything other than 15 he can only said it was never going to 15.

I will grant you the voter turnout there was less, so you will not get an argument rom me on that.

I still will contend however, that us trying to say we independent and still hols on to the coat tails of colonialism is passe. You will never grow unless you make a decision to start walking on your own.

> “Our city centre is no longer a hub
> for merchant ports. And it is no
> longer the epicentre of retail
> commerce it once was. But the fact
> remains that there is money to be made
> downtown for artists and artisans, for
> those directly in the tourism
> business, for existing property owners
> and many, many others.

Who is Cooper trying to sell this dream to? People have left Bay Street and are not coming back. And money to be made fro who? The tourists who come off the ships are not buying as they spend their money onboard.

It is said in music that a bad singer standing next to a good singer can bring the good singer down. Seems like standing next to Davis and Mitchell is bringing him down in his thinking.

If the people of Barbados would not support her republic, how then do they vote her in with a landslide, winning all the seats in her party? That there is a referendum by the people that they were for her and for the republic. Otherwise, they would have voted her out in a landslide, you think?

Why do we still want to be independent but yet still hold on to the coattails of colonialism and Massa ruling over us?

> Mr Cooper said the growth of downtown
> pales in comparison to the number of
> cruise ship passengers increasingly
> coming to the Port of Nassau and it
> fails to reflect the considerable
> investments being made in the
> vicinity, including the $300m American
> Embassy on Shirley Street, the $100m
> plus Central Bank building that will
> soon be constructed and a new Cabinet
> building that will be built before the
> end of this term.

How many people are coming downtown on a daily basis to do activity with any of these buildings Copper is hyping? Cooper really lacks the creative thinking I thought he had.

If you are so interested in the welfare of people in Port Lucaya, then why do you need to show up with people in tow to take photographs? Only another photo op. They really clueless if they did not know Freeport in trouble.

And encouraging more Cruise ships to visit Freeport is not the issue, as after people come once there is no reason to come again, as there is nothin in Freeport to do. Industry is what is keeping GB afloat, so why not seek to push to attract more companies in that sector, by first getting the power company to reduce electricity rates, and not just making statements that you don't support rate increases and don't do anything when the rate increases?

And they charge you a fee when purchased or imported that is supposed to handle that.

Exactly. So the so called consultation is a joke!