No real or "startling" surprise here when you consider that excessive poverty is well known to breed criminal violence of the worst possible kind in just about any society.

Must be a slow news days.

Many of the more senior immigration officials are well known to be extremely corrupt.

She was a certifiable nut case while a student at QC and has since gotten much, much worse. Just ask any QC alum who is about her age and still knows something about her today.

Pintard was in the last completely lawless government so he should know all about the lawlessness that has been going on for many years involving government's subsidizing of BPL. LOL

LMAO. Pintard is definitely not a smart investor. He wants the small man on the street to be able to invest in the kryptonite foreign currency denominated bonds issued by our government that bondholders abroad are now wishing they never purchased given the deeply discounted prices of these bonds in the international debt markets.

Hell, even our local financial institutions (domestic commercial banks, local insurance companies, etc.) have been telling our government they have no ability from a risk standpoint to increase their holdings of Bahamian dollar denominated government bonds.

> The IDB is providing the bulk of the necessary financing through two loans, worth a combined $60m, with the EU grant taking the available funding pool to more than $65m.

LMAO. This loan, like so many other loans from the IDB, has Communist Red China written all over it.

True to form, the IDB continues to push its milk laden lending 'tit' up against the hard sucking lips of our corrupt politicians notwithstanding that our nation is for all intents and purposes bankrupt.

Our debt to GDP ratio shows that we long ago passed the point of no return by taking on unsustainable debt, i.e., debt we will never ever be able to repay. So we should be asking ourselves: What do the stakeholders in the World Bank, IDB and IMF plan on taking away from us when all the debts come due for repayment and we cannot pony up?

Exactly what will they be expecting us to give them at fire-sale prices in lieu of hard foreign currency loan repayments? Will they want large scale commercial fishing rights in our territorial waters? Perhaps they will want gratis air and sea passage rights throughout all of our airspace and territorial seas?

Maybe they will take an island or two, or three or four, for their own exclusive use as airforce and naval bases? They might even insist on the right to stage nuclear missles and other weapons on certain of our islands? Perhaps they will demand the right to barge huge piles of waste and refuse to newly established landfills on our southern most islands?

And of course they will want us to open up our economy to any and everything they want and also allow their own people (accountants, lawyers, doctors, engineers, contractors, realtors, etc.) to freely enter and depart our country whenever they wish to do so.

LMAO

Davis and his type have been laughing at all of us for decades now......and they still are because they know it's you and me and others like us who will suffer the most, not them.

It's the civil unrest and violence to come that our corrupt and elitist political ruling class fear the most. And the U.S. is sticking around to make sure the right Papa Doc gets anointed dictator to protect their interests and rule over us given our very close geographic proximity to Florida.

The U.S. now sees The Bahamas as a bankrupt satellite state of Haiti whose people must be controlled by being kept impoverished and subdued to protect U.S. national security interests. Much like Cuba. This is why the U.S. government is building a huge fortified U.S. embassy on New Providence and intends to beef up the patrolling of our seas by not only the U.S. Coast Guard, but also the U.S. Navy.

Yes fellow Bahamians, we can thank cruel Davis and his corrupt, incompetent and most greedy kind for the terribly bleak future that lies ahead for the vast majority of us Bahamians who are unable to flee what was once our paradise of a country.

He and his type have been laughing at all of us for decades......and they still are because they know it's you and others like you who will suffer the most, not them.