Onbviously the tender specifications for the Grand Bahama Airport project were not well written if the bids ranged from $50 million to $150 million. And we all know what "PPP" means when uttered by an elected official like Chester the Jester: "picking peoples pockets".

> “It ultimately goes to the concept of value for money,” he {Bowe} told Tribune Business. “Bahamians don’t have a difficulty paying more taxes if they feel expenditure is being done in an efficient manner and provides valuable services. Realistically, we need to increase taxes, but the difficulty is if we increase taxes are governments going to be prudent in the use of those increased taxes or will they go on a spending spree with the new revenue?"

It seems neither Bowe nor Wilson appreciate that a regressive tax regime in a nation with an exceptionally high poverty rate combined with a grossly over-bloated and unproductive civil workforce is incapable of generating the additional tax revenues they are both dreaming of. There is simply no water to be had from a stone.

This means government is about to find that it must do the most politically unacceptable of all things, i.e., introduce a new progressive tax regime that targets the wealthy politically-connected establishment who are now the only ones left who can afford to pay significantly more taxes. Get ready to pony up Wilson and Bowe!

Bone-head Wilson is hell-bent on squeezing the remaining life out of what little is left of our nation's private sector tax-base. And that's the same tax-base he is seeking to milk more taxes and fees from in order fund 500 new hirees for his burgeoning empire. This idiot is not only provoking tax evasion, he's promoting it! Talk about stupidity. LMAO

davis is a bald faced liar.

And the Canadian banking cartel have already told both John Rolle and Roly-Poly Davis in no uncertain terms that if the government should attempt to pass legislation requiring them to invest more of their banking reserves in debt instuments of any kind issued by the government, they will indeed pack up their bags and leave The Bahamas.

Puppet Davis, much like Minnis and Christie before him, is really nothing more than a Straw PM who must now do whatever he is told to do by the foreign puppeteers who are pulling all of his strings. Straw Davis is no longer answerable to those who elected him. That's what happens to the corrupt leaders of bankrupt small nations like The Bahamas.

The problem for most of us is, the darker you are the more difficult it is to get into the U.S.

The 'wet-foot, dry-foot' policy for 'lighter' Cubans, but not for the darker people in our region of the world pretty much sums up all there is to say about the U.S. government's policy of different strokes for different folks.

And in case you haven't noticed on T.V, the vast majority of illegal immigrants pouring across the U.S. - Mexico border and being flown and bused all over the U.S. are much lighter complected than most of us Bahamians.

Every landowner in Phase III of The Lyford Cay Community will be suing every entity and person associated with this project if it proceeds. And Dunce David Dingman and his business partner Allyson Maynard-Gibson a/k/a Wicked Witch of The West will be the primary defendants in the many legal actions.

Poor Keenan Johnson at Town Planning doesn't know it yet, but he will be Maynard-Gibson's sacrificial lamb when the real shiit begins to hit the fan. LOL

Don't forget for a moment that the Alexiou Family has a controlling ownership stake in The Nassau Guardian. You can't even begin to imagine the kind of editorialising that must going on there; much of it under the guise of being independent news. LOL

You're probably right. Higher-end of U.N. estimates is 120,000 which is equal to about 25% of the current total population of The Bahamas.

And they need new and higher taxes after new and higher taxes, and new and higher fees after new and higher fees, to feed their insatiable appetite for corruption and self-enrichment, and to keep their power over the mass of poor Bahamians they have created.

More bluntly put, they continually need to take more from us in the same way strung out drug addicts continually need their next 'fix'.