happyfly...let not forget $0 for schools, parks, roads, electricity, water, airport upgrades, cultural centers, hospitals, housing for the staff, affordable lots for Bahamians to create a sustainable community....or nothing at all to enhance the quality of life for Bahamians.

These are essentially jobs made for the migrant working class at the bottom of the food chain and the elite foreigners and overseas corporate offices where all the profits are skimmed off the top leaving little for anything else.

Exuma is being sucked dry ... move along now, nothing more to see hear ... nothing here for the locals. The political and legal class in Nassau wins along with its foreign investors.

What is the sense of the Tribune publishing one side of the economic story and then in another story feature crime which is created by ppl living hopeless lives.

Yes, we definitely should have a commission of inquiry but only after we complete the 2019 Dorian missing persons list for Abaco.

Is my interpretation of this correct? JDL receives the package and charges a fee of 20 cents/lbs to replicate the weight and dimensions of every single air freight parcel arriving in Nassau. And if freight forwarding companies don’t pay them they will detain third party shipments and revoke a business license?

… I say replicate because the freight forwarder performs this procedure at their receiving facilities in Florida

… one additional and unnecessary step and sweetheart deal increasing inflation in the Bahamas

… it look like a “new day” and “fresh breeze” for some but it’s the same old hot day and stink wind for we

Look like to only ting left for we is to stay black, poor, ignorant and crime.

Pike and da Snake dem gonna run through Island Grid's $130m capital raise quick quick.

... between da PLP Duty, Vat and Vat on Duty, UBP Arawak Port monopoly cost, da Snake gas, shrinkage, BEC, BPL and Pike management fees, shrinkage, incompetence we better pray ain no hurricane come.

... i count about a dozen ppl tryin to fix dis pole.

SunOil will soon have a monopoly in gasoline retail. As it has a monopoly in oil imports, electrical generation and the electrical grill.

Get ready for even higher electrical bills and gas prices. It will be gradual but certain.

Those who can afford to go solar need to start now. Including electrical cars plugged into your solar panels.

Unfortunately solar systems are costly and the monopolist and their facilitators know this.

The government should be audited to the same standard they are forcing business with gross turnover above $5m.

Best practices mandates accrual accounting. Has done for centuries.

“…. expatriate workers will lead electrical upgrades"....

speaks volumes of how dumbed down we Bahamians have become.

we can’t even do electricity anymore

and reverse osmosis water plants run by foreigners are not working in some family islands.

the entire infrastructure, light, water, cable, schools, airports, banking, taxing, crime has failed.

"People should know when they are conquered." Quintus. "Would you, Quintus? Would I?" Maximus.

From the movie Gladiator.

I feel sorry for this reporter. Any business license, national insurance, national health, town planning permits, Vat returns, drivers licenses, import customs duties, government contracts, real property taxes, bank accounts gonna get mess right up.

This is what the negro means by “I will walk out here and wait for you".

Y’all need to shut and pay ya taxes because we all touchable by dis set of ppl. You need to be foreign to get any crumbs in dis country.