Agree its a complete shift and I suspect you had political decision vs. a technical one and the latter lost. Actually i'd say it began when when they reduced the food rates to 5%. Halkitis and co were loudly against differing rates but that is gone.

you asked the question, got the answer i'm not sure what else anyone can do for you.
Information is out there to read, unless you think there is a massive conspiracy that every employee in the MOF or CBB or treasury or any agency hat lends the govt money is a part of.

Bahamasair is a loss making airline, WsC is a loss making corporation, many govt workers are on noncontributory pensions, PHA has millions in uncollected billings.

Where do you think the money comes from to to cover these costs? Part is from taxes the rest is borrowed. The largest % of govt revenue is VAT. I'm not sure what else to tell you.

Read the national budget actual expenditures. VAT is used the same way ever other dollar of govt revenue is. by law revenue by the treasurer is consolidated and paid out.
read articles 128 to 135 of the constitution.

It goes out in govt expenditure. the actual budget expenditures are grouped by the MOF and you can read them in the budget or from the CBB's analysis.

i.e. a bulk of it is govt salaries (teachers, nurses, police, doctors, fire, public sector workers), govt pensions, subsidies of SOEs (water, bahamas air, PHA), social services and other non-NIB welfare. then there rent etc. capital works blah blah blah.

VAT currently covers about 30-40% of that spending (about 1.4b of 3.3b give or take).

this will happen:
the usual parties will say there is nothng to see here and then they will come out and give them all body cams later

then something will go down in an interrogation room. they will say nothing to see here and then they will enventually record interrogations.

all of these departments act the same everywhere in the world. they go in self preservation mode until the powers over them (be it judiiciary or the govt) forces them to. its like the stuff last year....this doesnt refflect on the force...except we have to make all of these changes lol

this is all performative.

kudos to the tourist

I think you are referring to breadbasket items. I understand this is for all groceries or no?

Sure its based on it system wise, but it wasnt intended to mirror it numbers wise or ratio wise. As when the orignal parliament here was established, the colony was instructed by the same British to have 24 members representing a handful of people in 1729. The British didnt see fit then to have a smaller parliament.

So yes, while we have a lower amount per MP, at least an independent Bahamas today has a parilament that is far less overstaffed than when when the British ruled who put the system in place. The population has exploded by many thousands of times and the house has grown 2x. If we also follow the British our senate (comparing to their House of Lords) would be larger than the house and have no limit beyond the PM's whims.

Now I do think we can adapt, for example, fix terms act amonst others and I am not at all against a smaller parliament. Not down to 3 members though.

people have thier car insured just long enough to get it licnesed
or
they simply drive without a licensed vehicle
or
they drive out of policy

Let me save the govt money:

We need school buses. I don't need the IDB to tell me what obvious.

Anyway i call BS on their methods

You survey 4 public schools but somehow claim "Parents with children in public schools reported higher average exhaustion (3.0 on a five-point scale) than those in private schools (2.7)".

How can you determine this if you only surveyed those picking up public school kids.

its amazing to me that they need to have the IDB do this. Anyone wiht 2 eyes can drive any roads in the Bahamas and see this.

Let me do this for some bus money instead:
Get proper school busing
regulate bus drivers
make roads safe with signage and lighting
enforce traffic laws
have a proper road safety and education program.
build proper sidewalks and lanes

Done.

an even more expensive when much of the top reasons people are in the hospital can be mitigated. from clean water, to healthy diets, preventative care, more exercise etc.