The corrupt and now bankrupt Crystal/Genting group based in Hong Kong that owns the “arrested” ships is known to be affiliated with certain senior members of the Chinese Communist Party. Like all the other cruise ship enterprises, it is well known to abusively treat its onboard crew as slave labour.

> Last month Super Value’s principal Rupert Roberts warned Bahamian shoppers to brace for the possibility that increased food prices may be here to stay, warning: “I don’t believe in what goes up must come down.”

Rupert Robert's way of saying he has no intention of passing on to his food store customers any future decreases in food costs his food wholesale and retail businesses may come to enjoy. In other words, his food stores aggressively mark up prices for increasing food costs but never mark down prices whenever food costs may decrease. With Roberts it's only ever a one way street of higher food prices and higher profits for him, no matter what!

Is Bowleg seriously planning on our financially strapped country borrowing from international lenders in order to support sending two enormous teams of athletes abroad in a few weeks time, one to Jamaica and the other to Barbados?!

But he's at least willing to readily acknowledge the worthlessness of the greedy ruby red lip-sticked pig whom corrupt Minnis had saddled us taxpayers with.

The IDB has always represented the interests of itself and its foreign stakeholders. It has never represented the interests of the Bahamian people and has been instrumental over the years in working hand in hand with our corrupt government officials to mire our small nation in unsustainable national debt. The foreign lending vultures are now hovering overhead, sensing that they will soon have the opportunity to pick what remains of our carcass clean with sky high interest rates.

This standing committee resolution put forward by Halkitis may be nothing more than a shameful effort to plant the seed for an unconstitutional mechanism by which budgeted and actual costs for the operating of parliament, presumably including the salaries, benefits and allowances of members of parliament and senators, would no longer be subject to debate on the floor of the house of assembly.

The Tribune took down my post suggesting that all bills for this cruise ship fiasco be sent to Michael Maura and his friends. I think they were upset about my protesting that the Bahamas should have never allowed itself to become the Liberia of the Caribbean by flagging so many of these monstrous, filthy, pathogen laden and polluting cruise ships that are literally destroying our marine environment.

Besides, the ruthlessly greedy "all-for-me" business model of the owners and operators of these behemoth disgusting floating hotels virtually assures cruise ship visitors will never have much left in their pockets to contribute to our economy. Successive corrupt political officials pandering to these corrupt cruise line enterprises is the very reason why our downtown Nassau and downtown Freeport areas became such ghastly looking grave yards long before the pandemic.

If our government, the BNT, etc. truly cared about our marine environment, all of these cruise ships would have long ago been declared persona non grata in our territorial waters.

Only Constipated Halkitis would try defend the indefensible corruption behind this baseball stadium.

And few QCs are greedier than Harvey Tynes. LOL