I noticed that ppl are not blogging as much as they were a couple of years ago. Years ago idiotic comments from politicians such as those above would have been severely criticized by at least a dozen comments. Now only 3?
I suspect everyone is disillusioned and feels that their comments are falling on deaf ears. Or maybe ppl just don't have any electricity or internet.
My 2 cents:
1. No planes are flying in or out of Nassau Airport. Check out flightaware.com and punch in NAS.
2. Yes, Mr. D'Agular, the world believes the Bahamas is devastated and they are not coming to Nassau either (at the moment). But did you ever consider that BPL is destroying our tourist product? Did you ever consider that ppl will not come to Nassau due to online comments about the electricity?
3. Mr. D'Agular is anyone taking a step back and questioning the viability of the Grand Lucayan Hotel due to the increasing impact of climate change on Grand Bahama? Scientist have stated that the warming oceans will create even greater "super hurricanes" with speeds of 200 mph and flooding approaching 50 feet.
4. Minnis, why rebuild Freeport or Grand Bahama when in another 20 years we will experience flooding and winds of biblical proportions? Why are we not relocating communities to higher ground or other islands rather than rebuilding in low lying areas...again and again?
"Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few." Ecclesiastes 5:2.
Turnquest booast and brags about all he has accomplished with the deficit. After punishing the ppl with 12% VAT and no light. God is upset.
VAT needs to be raised to 25% in order that government take their fancy overseas trips, ride around in their government cars and everyone gets a salary raise this year.
Well put Well_mudda, watch for the BEC Special Purpose Vehicle getting ready to raise $650 in US$ on Wall St. to hide all the BEC incompetence, pension liabilities, fraud and skimming.
The funds will be easily raised because no matter how much you tax Bahamians they pay their taxes.
"If we don't have the basic infrastructure in place, how can we talk about productivity?" Peter Turnquest.
This is the most sensible thing i have heard from this government of dummies.
They have finally that the country is dysfunctional and lacks reliable infrastructure including electrical power security, education, hurricane preparedness, medical care, proper governance, the ability to week out corruption etc. ect.
The extra money will help the government to pay for all the foreign trips the gussie mae cabinet has been taking around the world with their entire families and government employees.
Don't forget all those red plate cars you see driving all weekend to the food store and in church and at every funeral. Free gas at the government gas depo.
if they had invested hundreds of millions in diesel generators the lights would not be going off now.
they have wasted hundreds of millions on pensions, purchasing of diesel via straw men, maintaining generators from the 1960s, paying BEC overtime so a linesman can make over $100,000 a year and lots of fraud, slow moving meters, un authorized connections and evaporating power due to a aged and poorly constructed grid.
Simple. You build solar fields like our next door neighbor Florida Power and Light that have 18 fields, generating 1,200 megawatts of energy with 5 million solar panels.
Ohh nooo! Its to simple to go next door...can't get greased with them. Lets go to a corrupt fossil fuel European giant whose global warming technology is from the last century.
BPL solar strategy. Solarize Ragged Island where no one lives and allow Bahamians to forget about solar once they are able to stop the power cuts. The problem is that the electrical plant and grid are at the point of collapse.
Please pray with me that Dorian don't come this way. Its lights off for our 100 year old electrical grid.
Yes, as a public school teacher and part of the Bahamas Teachers Union I would like to have all school children be forced to buy all their school uniforms and school books from a company owned by the Teachers Union and the profits split between government and the union.
Also all text books must written by school teachers and sold to the children.
Also all food vendors at the schools must be owned by the Union and profits split with the government.
All computers must be sold to the children by the union.
Too much itemization, customs rates, Vat exceptions and customs categories used to compile worthless statistics on what is imported. Power outage also causes inputs to be lost and computers fried.
The problem is not the system but dysfunctional FNM and PLP leadership.
Pray tell we why the Finance Minister has to be so granularly involved the details of computer software?
Until the politician get out of the business of electrical power, water, telephone, road works, mail delivery, ports, airports education Bahamians will continue to punish with a poor quality of life.
observer2 says...
Hi Bloggers
I noticed that ppl are not blogging as much as they were a couple of years ago. Years ago idiotic comments from politicians such as those above would have been severely criticized by at least a dozen comments. Now only 3?
I suspect everyone is disillusioned and feels that their comments are falling on deaf ears. Or maybe ppl just don't have any electricity or internet.
My 2 cents:
1. No planes are flying in or out of Nassau Airport. Check out flightaware.com and punch in NAS.
2. Yes, Mr. D'Agular, the world believes the Bahamas is devastated and they are not coming to Nassau either (at the moment). But did you ever consider that BPL is destroying our tourist product? Did you ever consider that ppl will not come to Nassau due to online comments about the electricity?
3. Mr. D'Agular is anyone taking a step back and questioning the viability of the Grand Lucayan Hotel due to the increasing impact of climate change on Grand Bahama? Scientist have stated that the warming oceans will create even greater "super hurricanes" with speeds of 200 mph and flooding approaching 50 feet.
https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/…
4. Minnis, why rebuild Freeport or Grand Bahama when in another 20 years we will experience flooding and winds of biblical proportions? Why are we not relocating communities to higher ground or other islands rather than rebuilding in low lying areas...again and again?
On D'Aguilar fears blow to tourism from hurricane
Posted 3 September 2019, 8:20 a.m. Suggest removal
observer2 says...
"Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few." Ecclesiastes 5:2.
Turnquest booast and brags about all he has accomplished with the deficit. After punishing the ppl with 12% VAT and no light. God is upset.
On Turnquest proclaims lowest deficit level in a decade
Posted 2 September 2019, 1:32 p.m. Suggest removal
observer2 says...
VAT needs to be raised to 25% in order that government take their fancy overseas trips, ride around in their government cars and everyone gets a salary raise this year.
I wonder if the doctors gone back to work ?
On Storm projected to cost nation $8.1 billion
Posted 2 September 2019, 7:51 a.m. Suggest removal
observer2 says...
Well put Well_mudda, watch for the BEC Special Purpose Vehicle getting ready to raise $650 in US$ on Wall St. to hide all the BEC incompetence, pension liabilities, fraud and skimming.
The funds will be easily raised because no matter how much you tax Bahamians they pay their taxes.
On Turnquest proclaims lowest deficit level in a decade
Posted 30 August 2019, 5:50 p.m. Suggest removal
observer2 says...
"If we don't have the basic infrastructure in place, how can we talk about productivity?" Peter Turnquest.
This is the most sensible thing i have heard from this government of dummies.
They have finally that the country is dysfunctional and lacks reliable infrastructure including electrical power security, education, hurricane preparedness, medical care, proper governance, the ability to week out corruption etc. ect.
On 'BPL takes precedence over union demands'
Posted 30 August 2019, 9:44 a.m. Suggest removal
observer2 says...
We need to increase VAT from 12% to 15%.
The extra money will help the government to pay for all the foreign trips the gussie mae cabinet has been taking around the world with their entire families and government employees.
Don't forget all those red plate cars you see driving all weekend to the food store and in church and at every funeral. Free gas at the government gas depo.
On UPDATED: Hurricane Dorian could intensify into Category Four storm
Posted 29 August 2019, 1:35 p.m. Suggest removal
observer2 says...
if they had invested hundreds of millions in diesel generators the lights would not be going off now.
they have wasted hundreds of millions on pensions, purchasing of diesel via straw men, maintaining generators from the 1960s, paying BEC overtime so a linesman can make over $100,000 a year and lots of fraud, slow moving meters, un authorized connections and evaporating power due to a aged and poorly constructed grid.
On Solar - an absurd lost opportunity
Posted 27 August 2019, 12:07 p.m. Suggest removal
observer2 says...
Simple. You build solar fields like our next door neighbor Florida Power and Light that have 18 fields, generating 1,200 megawatts of energy with 5 million solar panels.
https://www.fpl.com/energy-my-way/solar…
Ohh nooo! Its to simple to go next door...can't get greased with them. Lets go to a corrupt fossil fuel European giant whose global warming technology is from the last century.
BPL solar strategy. Solarize Ragged Island where no one lives and allow Bahamians to forget about solar once they are able to stop the power cuts. The problem is that the electrical plant and grid are at the point of collapse.
Please pray with me that Dorian don't come this way. Its lights off for our 100 year old electrical grid.
On Solar - an absurd lost opportunity
Posted 27 August 2019, 10:27 a.m. Suggest removal
observer2 says...
Yes, as a public school teacher and part of the Bahamas Teachers Union I would like to have all school children be forced to buy all their school uniforms and school books from a company owned by the Teachers Union and the profits split between government and the union.
Also all text books must written by school teachers and sold to the children.
Also all food vendors at the schools must be owned by the Union and profits split with the government.
All computers must be sold to the children by the union.
On Strike wishlist: Doctors' demands include duty-free car and no property tax
Posted 26 August 2019, 9:09 a.m. Suggest removal
observer2 says...
Too much itemization, customs rates, Vat exceptions and customs categories used to compile worthless statistics on what is imported. Power outage also causes inputs to be lost and computers fried.
The problem is not the system but dysfunctional FNM and PLP leadership.
Pray tell we why the Finance Minister has to be so granularly involved the details of computer software?
Until the politician get out of the business of electrical power, water, telephone, road works, mail delivery, ports, airports education Bahamians will continue to punish with a poor quality of life.
On Business slams 500% Customs burden rise
Posted 10 August 2019, 1:54 p.m. Suggest removal