The Central Bank is doing a great job allowing retail investors to convert Bahamian Currency to US dollars so they can get a return on the billions of dollars sitting in Canadian banks earning them nothing.

Bahamians retail investors I think are starting to do the math.

2 year fixed deposit at "you know who commercial bank" = 0.75%.

Saving account rate at US financial institutions = 4.5%.

US stock market up 20% this year with instant liquidity.

Bahamian stocks? Essentially illiquid. Can't buy or sell, you have to go on a waiting listing. Lol.

So do the math. 5% ICM premium, 1.5% stamp and 1.125% FX is a very reasonable price to pay to get a return on your money for your retirement.

Thanks PLP for helping us!

This is actually a great move by the government as it is only just as the government will now be taking property if you don't pay your real property tax.

Assets “confiscation” is easy.

What the IMF should be doing is ridding the country of all the monopolies strangling to small businesses man eg BEC, Water and Seeerage, Canadian Banks, Awarak Ports, GBPS, Ministry of Education, crime, inequality of women

Instead our debt is rated junk and all the government is doing everyday is threatening the business class

So lets do the "New Day" government math

In 2 years the national debt goes from $10 to 12.5 billion and accelerating at a rate of $1 billion a year.

Corporate Tax implementation proposed

Force insurance companies to "invest" 50% of their balance sheet with the "New Day" Government to visit the King and travel first class.

Freezing bank accounts of businesses without a functional court order or tax court so the average business many can appeal. Essentially closing down their business.

Threat of commencing confiscation of real property, again with no tax court so a person can put up a defence, if you don't pay within 7 months!

Ok, next steps as far as I can see. Once the tax grab on companies is completed and the debt is now $15 billion they

1. Implementation of personal income tax.

2. All Bahamians must put 50% of their bank deposits into government bonds.

Don't believe it? Take a look at the IMF Playbook ... study Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela and any other failed state that the IMF messed up.

....also Adam KC is FNM...they gonna loose just like the last election.

How does the saying go?

When rich fight wit rich God laugh. They all deserver each other. A bunch of spoiled unhappy brats.

May the richest man win! Plenty money gettin dish out.

I disagree. I thank God for Franky the Snake and the PLP to continue to sell gas through their monopolistic vertically integrated business model created over decades of acquisitions help us poor black Bahamians buy diesel.

Lets take a look at this

Shell/producer/Focol - Focol/Importer - Focol Truck/Distributor - Focol/Retailer... excellent the market is corned and we Bahamians are benefiting from having diesel today!

OK, lets now take a look at whats at play at BPL

Shell/Focol/Producer/Importer - Focol/Retailer to BPL - Focal/Electrical Generation (this is brilliant) because when BPL go on strike Focal will keep the lights on.

Sir Franky is a great PLP General and has helped the Country greatly. He needs to be made a National Hero for his help in the economy and keeping the lights on and the cars running.

Maxim, the Bahamas won’t do a disorderly default they will selectively default to keep the US$ tap open. They will continue to pay the US$ foreign debtors interest while do a 2.5% Bahamian dollar devaluation. Just a lill devalue , move a long now ain nuttin to see here.

IMF to keep us well supplied with US$’s while the monopolies extract and export US$ for thier offspring fortunate enough to be gone.

Hardly noticeable, no body move, no body get hurt too bad.

The societal divergence between rich and poor is too large and growing, we say we have economic freedom but taxes and a few monopolies have a grip on competition.

So build away at bigger and better prisons, police cars, more gated communities and private islands for the tourist.

Best of luck. The middle class is spending millions educating thier kids in western developed countries and telling them never to return.

The G7 love it because they get young, intelligent, educated immigrants … the best snd brightest young Bahamians plus their inheritances as thier societies age.

The Bahamas is left with an even more unequal society.

Agreed. Let’s see a Green Paper on Travel and Entertainment expenses.

If these ppl would put their offices in Grants Town and not London Town I am sure they would want to focus on education, housing, crime, food security, global warming and crime.

Versus how can we extract more money from the few that have any money left.

At $12.5 billion in debt, up $2 billion since the new administration started and an S&P rating one grade above default please pray no hurricanes hit Nassau this year.

It will be a catastrophe of Haitian proportions.