This elderly, wise, and honourable gentleman has nothing better to do than reflect on his youthful days (over 60 years ago) ............ This is a different society with different mores and different training for a different RBPF with a different type of leadership facing different political pressures and underlings who are susceptible to different forms of bribery.

Cannot compare the 1950s with the 2020s ................. Enjoy your blissful retirement, sir.

The PLP needs to prop up the Treasury to cover the gap that FTX vacated .......... the business sector is the easiest to tax or bully. VAT was a classic example, now this.

No one takes Brave or this PLP Govt serious anymore ........ Just PR & fluff.

Any 242 Government that continues to hang their hat on increasing cruise tourist arrivals and faux FDI "investments" as the way to develop this country is not to be taken seriously.

This is a "party" government .......... getting ready for 50th Independence celebrations.

Why judge Junkanoo?
Is there worthy prizes to compensate the millions spent on a show that revelers spend in time talent & money?

This grotesque waste of resources needs to be reeled in, just like how our politicians waste our Treasury monies.

He is too linked to Brave & the PLP, for all the wrong reasons. He's no Sir Michael Barnett or Brian Moree.

But, that's the season that we live in. The PM controls all 3 branches of Government, like a Third World dictator.

Larry Gibson cannot speak for the common man ............... he is RICH. What he should suggest is that the well-connected PEPs should take their hands out of NIB cookie jar. He says that 20% of the NIB fund goes to pay salaries and other benefits & perks. That is the biggest problem with NIB. The next big problem is that the politicians are using the NIB Fund as an IOU to cover shortfalls in other areas of Government and then calling it "investments". That has to stop and the NIB Board needs to recoup these billions of dollars lost over the decades.

If Larry Gibson wants to defer his NIB pension beyond the age of 60, that is fine with him. He sits in his ivory tower (like the politicians) and thinks that ALL Bahamians see things like he does. Most Bahamians are praying to see the age of 60, given the stress, crime, drudgery, and ill health that this dysfunctional 242 society presses down upon the average citizen.

We need the USA courts to come here and recover our NIB funds that have been pilfered since the 1970s .................. Billions (just like FTX)

This country is really been run like a tuckshop.

How can these politicians and their cronies fix their mouth to tell Bahamaians to pay more NIB when they have wasted the billions made over the past four decades and do not want to account for the "investments"?????

Increasing rates and the retirement age will not solve the mismanagement and pilferage at NIB.
Ingraham and the other PMs used NIB money to further their political leverage and increasing the "welfare state". It is time that the NIB largesse be cut back to save it for generations.

Our Government has the "victim" attitude that they use to deflect any attempt to make changes that within their control.
The PLP introduced VAT to get rid of customs. Six years later, customs is still crushing certain sectors. Where it has been removed, there is no obvious difference in prices.
The Govt is still hiking RTD taxes, environment taxes, bread basket taxes, departure taxes, fuel taxes, property taxes etc. So VAT has made no difference to their budget.
Just more cookies & gravy being given out to PEPs.

There's a lot in a name. When you call something "junk", what else to expect????

It was stupid of Fernander to say that he could hold total murders for 2022 under 100.

Anything that he says after that is hard to believe .............

The country and its law enforcement agencies and the courts are compromised and corrupt.

Face the facts. Fernander cannot fix that ........... he is part of the problem.