Pot, legal or decriminalized in most of the G20, is still being pursued as a "crime" by our illustrious polices forces. With all the challenges in our country these days, don't these guys have anything better to do than chase plants being moved across imaginary lines?

He keeps ranting about "$40mm houses", what are there, like 2 of those? Any idea how much VAT and duty is paid to build a $40mm house????

People built their homes and invested in the Bahamas based on certain representations by the government, such as the $60,000 RPT cap. If the government feels they can break this deal AFTER money has been spent buying land and building homes they are going to alienate the very people that are propping up the Bahamian economy, and yes, these people will leave and go to more friendly jurisdictions like T&C and Cayman.

Why not collect the hundreds of millions in RPT arrears out there before threatening to increase the rate on people that ARE actually paying their RPT on an annual basis?

Hard to imagine a more poorly thought out and badly conceived idea. This will destroy downtown Nassau, ruin the delicate environment of that part of PI and infest the Bahamas with cheap, infected boorish tourists that we could do without. Not to mention the gangs of out of control jet ski thugs will have a field day beating, raping and selling illegal drugs to unsuspecting cruise ship tourists. Should be entertaining to watch what a train wreck this will undoubtedly be

Hard to imagine a more poorly thought out and badly conceived idea. This will destroy downtown Nassau, ruin the delicate environment of that part of PI and infest the Bahamas with cheap, infected boorish tourists that we could do without. Not to mention the gangs of out of control jet ski thugs will have a field day beating, raping and selling illegal drugs to unsuspecting cruise ship tourists. Should be entertaining to watch what a train wreck this will undoubtedly be

Only in the Bahamas could the calculated destruction of a once pristine island paradise be described as "beautiful"

This unneeded and poorly thought out development will put further strain on an island whose infrastructure can't handle existing capacity at the best of times.

I've seen the development, it's disgusting and has made an unforgiveable mess of that part of Harbour Island.

Shame on the government, the developer and all involved in this horrific mess

We mandate helmets, seatbelts, regulate weapons, ban dangerous drugs, why wouldn't we mandate vaccines? Only an idiot wouldn't get a vaccine in the face of a worldwide pandemic that has killed >3 million people. Take a look at what's happening in India today:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir…

The damage that has been done to our society by the prosecution, persecution, jailing, fingerprinting, beating, fining of our youth because they may have imbibed in this "dangerous drug" is stupid, shortsighted and incalcualable.

Legalize the damned thing, I'd rather deal with a stoner than a drunk

Decades of the Bahamas abusing visitors, jailing and deporting tourists for having $1 more than $10,000 between a party of 5 or having a tiny amount of Marijuana on them and yet allowing jetski rapist thugs to run wild on the beaches of the major resorts is really going to impact and speed the destruction of the tourism sector in my country Covid or no Covid.

Punishing tourists and foreign investors for daring to come to the Bahamas while allowing this kind of abuse to continue to happen will only make matters worse

Hello government officials. There are other options for tourists and residents, taxing and abusing these people are NOT going to make them want to come here to visit and to settle, it will only drive them away which will result in LOWER tax revenues, which will result in more debt that can't be repaid

I read this idiotic article a few times trying to discern what the "silver lining to debt" might be. Other than a helpful explanation that a deficit is "the difference when more is being spent than received" I didn't see any other useful information.

Decades of the Bahamas abusing visitors, jailing and deporting tourists for having $1 more than $10,000 between a party of 5 or having a tiny amount of Marijuana on them and yet allowing jetski rapist thugs to run wild on the beaches of the major resorts is really going to impact and speed the destruction of the tourism sector in my country Covid or no Covid.

There is no silver lining to debt. Debt needs to be repaid and until fundamental attitudes change in this country things are only going to get worse. The Covid crisis is forcing to the above issues to the top.

Hello government officials. There are other options for tourists and residents, taxing and abusing these people are NOT going to make them want to come here to visit and to settle, it will only drive them away which will result in LOWER tax revenues, which will result in more debt that can't be repaid

where's his little stick that these fat clowns carry around with them when they do dey walkarounds? And why do dey uniforms nevah fit? fat gut always sticking out

Busy keeping the streets of Nassau safe from small amounts of evil marrywanna, got to love it