he has provided assistance. He's brought it to the attention of the authority. I dont know if you tried to raise things with the government before but its a near waste of time. You call, you email, you whatsapp and no one responds. If they do respond they dont action.

the only way they listen is by blasting them on the news it seems.

Not a lot but some do.

In government schools I've had several English and Candian teachers. Same with UB. I've not had from the US.

They cite weather, change of pace etc. Income tax helps a little but most who go dont for the money since its net a pay cut. I do know they live fairly modestly so its not a lot and its not for everyone.

So I just read the rent control act

>10. (1) The rent lawfully chargeable in respect of a
dwelling-house shall be such percentage, not exceeding
twenty per centum per annum, of its assessed, determined
or declared value as may be prescribed by order of the
Minister

it also goes on to say that this only applies to a subset of homes

>4. A dwelling-house shall not be protected under
this Act if it is established that its assessed, determined or
declared value, whichever is appropriate and effective,
exceeds seventy-five thousand dollars

so it seems like the current act only applies if the building is valued up to 75,000 and based on the text its annual

Further the an updated order was released reducing it to 15% https://moea.gov.bs/wp-content/uploads/… in 2023.

So based on this a house worth 75,000 can be rented for $937.5 assuming 15% or 1250 assuming 20%. But a house dwelling over the 75,000 there is no cap.

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What does 20% mean. 20% of the value annually? monthly?

If a property is valued at 300,000 20% is 60,000. So the landlord can charge up to 60k annually? If so that would be up to 5k a month.A property valued at 100,000 at 20k is 1,666 per month.

Are there houses valued at 300,000 where someone is getting that much in rent?

How does this law apply to efficiencies that are at attached to a property?

The Bahamas keeps making this mistake.

In 2008 it was claimed that the Bahamas's economy could be decoupled from the US/Global factors. Of course the financial crises proved otherwise.

in 2020 - It was claimed that the Bahamas would benefit from the COVID (at the time) epidemic. Of course this proved to not be the case.

Last month it was claimed that we'd benefit from travel uncertainties. Now its the reason for the decline we have.

Anyone taking off their blinders could see how bad these statements were at the time, no hindsight needed.

The Bahamian crowd is also on the loudest. Great showing so far all around.

I thought I was the only one who noticed this.
So there is a figure and its automatically climate change.
Based on what study?

The key we should teach is recycling.

Many anti-plastic persons were against the fact that they ended up in the ocean and dont decompose.. Lots dont know that many of the alternatives chosen while they deconpose they use more energy overall since many plastic bags were re-used previously.

For example, people call grocery bags 'single use' when many studies showed that lots of them were recycled more than thier paper alternatives. In fact you dont need a study to show this many homes would store these for future use around the house.

One study was looking at poorer persons in the US. What happened in places that swapped was energy use went up overall int the supply chain as poor familes stopped using plastic bags for thier trash and swtiched to heavy conventional garbage bags.

Both use plastic except the garbage bags used more plastic,, and more energy to transport. So the key we should teach is recycling! Recycle whatever you use.

The govt should really look into enforcing emissions for jitneys.