Nonsense. Sands is a narcissist, a misogynist and completely and utterly incompetent. I prefer neither but, if you are forcing me to choose, then I take Minnis. At least he will follow what the Symonettes/Holoweskos tell him - the ridiculous Sands thinks he researched and drafted the "book" himself.

The first thing you do is stop this nonsense and eliminate VAT - or atl least reduce it to a negligible amount (3%). Then you tax the wealth - I don't care what income you select as "wealthy", tax them. And, no, they will not leave the country and no, companies like the Tribune will not reduce staff because of new tax.

Disagree moncur, because: 1) The Bahamas is far from "one term" from being set on the right path; and more importantly, 2) if you find this wonderful on-term PM who fixes all of our problems, he - or she - will only be replaced by an incompetent buffon (see Obama/Trump), who erases all of the good gains.

Moncur, sadly, this is not rhetoric. Whoever wins in 2022 will have to raise taxes. Simple math.

And in both cases they would be correct.

That's not the point bahamianson, don't be silly. They have a contract, which cant be trained without consent. This is really not a difficult concept to understand, unless you are a public school graduate, I suppose.

This has nothing to do with entitlement. They have a contract - according to Woods. IF this is the case then one side cannot unilaterally change the contract, except with permission from the other side. Woods is entirely correct here. Has nothing to do with entitlement...geez, how obtuse.

Actually, Hoda, generally speaking, the public school teachers are - empirically- much more qualified than the private school. In short, the teachers in pubic school are better than private school...period. Of course, the private school offers much, much more advantages (better environment/latest technology/more committed parents, etc.).

Mudda, is that you. :-)

That's not what he said, TigerB. Stop playing politics.