Ok, let's not add $100 million now. Let's just borrow another $300 million in 6 months. By that time we would have forgotten about the $700 million loan.

Please add another $100 million to the loan to cover the secret Baha Mar deal. That should cover the $100 million the Chinese lent us to pay off the redundant employees and Bahamian contractors.

Reduced taxes on commercial washers and dryers, reduced taxes on aircraft part and reduced business license fee....all for the rich.

Anything for the poor? No University of the Bahamas free education. No Bain Town tax free zone. No VAT exemption on bread basket items. No nuttin for over the hill that just voted the PLP out.

Great points Sheeprunner12. But nothing will happen. Have you heard? The government is broke both financially and intellectually? The are just rehashing the same old PLP idea and then do nothing.

I agree 100%. I have been trying to get a D 8 Tractor to clear land for me to build a retirement house on Long Island. Unfortunately, can you believe there is only one D 8 on the island? That tractor can pick, choose and refuse who they want to work for and select the price they charge.

There has been complete silence from the FNM since coming to power. You can't even see the MP. The Deadman's Cay airport is a one room house and can't handle international airlift as it can't meet international standards.

But the FNM will forget about Long Island, like the PLP did, and the previous FNM administration before them.

Spoitier. You can't have solar or alternative energy sources in the Bahamas because there is no enabling legislation. Essential a protection of the energy import monopoly which finances the PLP and FNM.

D’Aguilar is talking absolute nonsense. The hotel is only 25% open, if that, being financed by the Bahamian people (via $27 million in budget transfers and vat, customs, casino tax and other exceptions). The hotel will never open fully, the hotel has no owner, the hotel only has last centuries products (rooms, beach and casino) - no entertainment or theme park and a very tainted brand.

Why doesn't this FNM get to work and stop talking. Why have they not disclosed the Baha Mar agreements made with the Chinese? What happened to Campaign finance reform? What happened to transparency in government? Where are the results of the forensic audits (or will these take forever and nothing is done with the reports as usual)? What happened to over the hill (poor area) tax breaks? The only tax break i see is on commercial washers and dryers. what happened to the removal of VAT on bread basket items? What happened to the removal of tuition at the University of the Bahamas?

Please FNM's just shut up, stop complaining and get to work. To me us seem just like the PLP all talk.

Yes, stop complaining about the PLP and fix NHI. I'm tired of hearing the FNM complain about the bills, the dump, NHI, NI, Baha Mar, the debt, etc. etc. Just shut up and get to work.

you have to be joking...you can't have world class data centers with unreliable, costly non renewable power with the slowest internet connections. Illiterate work force .

D'Aguilar is absolutely conflicted in both appearance and actuality and it reflects poorly on the FNM. Remember corruption and poor governance starts in small matters and overtime escalates into what we saw in the last years of the PLP "rule".

Why was the duty on commercial washing machines and dryers reduced so quickly when the residence of Bain Town can't get their inner city tax exemptions until "next year"? Why hasn't VAT been removed on bread basket items? Who benefits from duty reductions on commerical washers and dryers? Certain not the residence of over the hill. They are still being charged the same amount to do their laundry. While multi millionaires get richer and richer. Shame. Shame. Shame.

We should follow standard practices as seen in the US. Rex Tillerson, US Secretary of State who recused himself on issues related to Russian oil drilling because he was the former CEO of Exxon with deep ties to Russia.

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself of the Russian investigation of the Trump administration on the simple basis that he chatted with the Russian Ambassador during the campaign.

D'Agular was a former Director of Baha Mar and highly critical of the Chinese before the election. The former beneficial owner of Baha Mar, a foreigner, looms large as a key supporter of the FNM (appearing at the swearing in). Were there any foreign campaign monies flowing to the FNM from these sources? If so, how much? Where is the Campaign Finance Reform Act? Why doesn't the FNM disclose it campaign funding and provide complete details of where their funds came from. They will say because the PLP did not do it. When since did the PLP become a measuring rod for good governance. Shame. Shame. Shame.

You know what they will say? They will say they will do this next year....and next year will never come. Nothing will change. The FNM will become the new PLP if they don't change their ways right now.