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Not me.
i come here to read birdie.

mine was the other way around. i had high bill in september, so they overestimated in october, i paid, the november bill is one of the lowest i ever paid.

his daughter is not an elderly pensioner, neither is he.

let him go to bob and borrow the 200 dollars, what is 200 dollars when you owe millions?

lol
the meter maid does not collect payment.

his daughter must really be impoverished that she does not have data on the phone to make the payment online.

in the absence of legislation, the pension funds are for the retiremenet of the bosses.

that is why refuse to participate.

i quit a job because they made a pension fund mandatory. the ones who stayed lost all their contribution when the company closed.

> Crowdfunding involves financing a
> project or business venture by raising
> small amounts of money from a large
> number of people, typically via the
> Internet. It pools money from friends,
> family and investors.

the PLP beat you to it dude. Except the called it VAT.

Crowdfunding involves financing a project or business venture by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people, ,<typically via the Internet>. It pools money FOR friends, family and investors.

the americans do not declare because they do not want to pay taxes, which is high on unearned income.

I believe the casinos notify whomever so customs gets them..

if you are traveling with more than 10,000 you declare the purpose, some people carry more to buy cars or pay medical bills.

> c) How much produce has actually been
> produced and shipped to the islands,
> and why isn’t the price of BAMSI
> bananas cheaper in the stores than the
> imports?

Because the profitability of Bamsi rests on the premise that the prices chrged will be the same as the imports.

There was a time when it was cheaper to buy hot peppers from the produce exchange, a 1lb bag for 4 or 5 dollars, where they sell a pound at the food store for 12 dollars.

This is no longer the case with Bamsi. I did not buy peppers from them this year. I ordered online from mexico, paid a small fortune to the courier and still beat bamsi.

Now their papayas do not ripen, and form little stones in it. The foodstore sells them sliced and the customers see the stones and do not buy. The produce exchange sells them whole and, when I decided to buy one to try, they told me they did not write a receipt for one papaya. I created a raucus until I left with one papaya. Was not worth it, never ripened.
But i digress, their profit projections are based on the prices you see at the food store.
No more middleman, the gvt wants all the profits to themselves.

On paper, the offer is an annual residency card without the right to work when you get a house. This card can be revoked.

At the moment it is not a million, it is one half of that.

That is not to say that more generous offers are not or have not been made. (remember Ana Nicole?)

> Think of it this way: BEC, Water and
> Sewerage, National Insurance, the
> Hospital, Police, Ministry of Works,
> the public schools etc are all
> providing services to these foreign
> permanent residents and the government
> is loosing $1 billion dollars a year
> through increased debt providing these
> services, then these new residents are
> actually being subsidized by the
> government and we are loosing more
> money than is coming in.

However, since the average foreigners who buy homes here do pay their bills. It is the big foreign investors, now even including the "Chinese" from Bahamar and the select politicians who do not pay their bills.