rory 11 years ago on Miller: I'll fire union leader if strike action is taken
Miller: I'll fire union leader if strike action is taken
Brilliant job Mr Miller - tell him like it is, plain and simple and to the point. :)
Does Green realize what happens to sick people that are at home on machines to keep them alive, and then the power goes off?? That's why I would consider his threats terrorism acts. People can die when the power goes off, especially the sick and elderly.
Emac 10 years, 12 months ago on VIDEO: '30 dead' after Haitian sloop runs aground
VIDEO: '30 dead' after Haitian sloop runs aground
Anyone can quote verses from the bible. This does not resolve problems: As a matter of fact it is the religious factors in the Bahamas that have this nation so backward. The fact of the matter is that people are fed up by being overlooked in their own country, while illegals can come in and get the red carpet treatment. Do you realize that there are prominent companies that only hire Haitians to work? Most of which are illegal? The ones who are legal do not have a permit for the company that they work for. Therefore, the average Bahamian youngster does not have a chance to find a job because both the PLP and the FNM have failed to put Bahamians first. We cry about young Bahamian men being lazy and a menace to society: Who wouldn’t be a menace to a society that rejects its people before giving them a fair shake of getting piece of the pie. So stop saying that Bahamians are prejudice because they object to the bullshit that has been going on for years. I guarantee you- If this farce continues you’re gonna see a civil revolution, mark my word. Then you will begin to see the ugly side of a people who have been silent on the many things that have been squeezing them out their own country for so long.
john33xyz 10 years, 12 months ago on Minister expresses sadness after 30 die in Haitian sloop tragedy
Minister expresses sadness after 30 die in Haitian sloop tragedy
WHY do Haitians who run out of fuel or for other reasons "wind up" in the Exuma cays or other southern Bahama islands GET FREE TRANSPORT to our capitol city?
We need a processing station in one of our southernmost islands (like on a cay off Ragged Island or something) - where these people are held, processed, and returned WITHOUT setting foot in Nassau.
It is simply stupid to AID in the bringing of illegals to our capitol.
The should also be HELD at the processing station until their relatives back in Haiti wire a $25 processing fee to our Treasury. That's a lot of money in Haiti. It won't help us much, but it may act as a deterrent. We need a place that can hold 5000 persons and keep them in the most basic of conditions while they wait.
Doesn't anybody realize that we are at WAR with Haiti? They have massed an invasion force which is invading and destroying us - while we sit around like idiots.
croberts6969 10 years, 12 months ago on Operation Potcake cancelled after local vet opposition
Operation Potcake cancelled after local vet opposition
The VMBA must be run by PLP's.
banker 10 years, 11 months ago on Overwhelming support for Operation Potcake
Overwhelming support for Operation Potcake
Must you? One can disagree without being personally nasty.
banker 10 years, 11 months ago on Bahamas 'can't survive with 1.8-2.5% growth'
Bahamas 'can't survive with 1.8-2.5% growth'
Moree is right. The quickest way to growth of the GDP is economic diversification, but unfortunately, this government hasn't a clue or the gumption to do it.
rosiepi 10 years, 11 months ago on Local vets say Operation Potcake row result of a ‘misunderstanding’
Local vets say Operation Potcake row result of a ‘misunderstanding’
For God's sake! Whose testicles are we talking about here- animals or local vets? If the VMBA wants to "hijack" Op Potcake fine, go ahead- just get it done; for free, w/ the volume agreed upon and and leave your ruddy egos at the surgery door.
TalRussell 10 years, 11 months ago on Operation Potcake programme back on
Operation Potcake programme back on
Comrades can't you hear the happy barking sounds ringing out over our tiny Nassau Town. All Pot cakes know they've been saved when the foreigner vets with big hearts come to their rescue. Funny how it would take an strikingly handsome Pot cake in a cage to get this government to act on anything, with speed. Tribune please tell your loyal readers much more about your front page featured Pot cake. Like his/her name and please tell us was adopted out to a loving home? Personally, I 'd like name your featured Pot cake, "Royal Bahamalander."
Amen!
bcitizen 10 years, 11 months ago on Gov't taps markets over US$300m bond
Gov't taps markets over US$300m bond
This really says allot about how far down the rabbit hole this country has dug itself. We are just about begging people to lend us money. With the loan payments like this one being pulled out of foreign reserves that are already at sketchy levels. If we do not find a way to start growing more of our own food and cutting down on our imports this is all just unsustainable. Tourism dollar inflows are depressed and then there will be VAT increasing costs for them to come but, VAT is needed to pay back all these loans we are facing. It really is a rock and a hard place we are in.
ThisIsOurs 10 years, 11 months ago on Operation Potcake programme back on
Operation Potcake programme back on
Aaahh...Rory you're back in fine form, but I'm not sure if the comment is about the posters, the local vets or the potcakes...
banker 10 years, 11 months ago on Christie fails to address international trip cost
Christie fails to address international trip cost
I agree that ALL of the discourse is good. It proves that God gave even dummies the vote, and that is the market that the PLP pander to. They know it. The unwashed masses don't. Fred Mitchell published that Bahamians are too stupid for discourse, so you just push the rules on them. For the segment of the population that he deals with, it is true. Enlightenment is a rare thing among Bahamians.
Between the religious beliefs pushed on the Bahamian populace (and Christianity was used as an argument for slavery -- "Slaves, obey your masters"), and the BS that Ping and the PLP were for the Black people, this poor country doesn't have a chance. Too many brain-washed people incapable of critical thinking for themselves.
Honestman 10 years, 11 months ago on Seven shot - one dead - at Rupert Dean Lane party
Seven shot - one dead - at Rupert Dean Lane party
If you want to stay alive in The Bahamas young people, watch the company you keep. Remove yourself from those persons and situations that may put your lives at risk. Put all of your energy into educating yourselves and in doing so you will come to realize that there is a better way of living. Refuse to vote for those politicians and governments that have failed you. You deserve better than this.
banker 10 years, 11 months ago on Mitchell: I am criticised because of my support for gay rights
Mitchell: I am criticised because of my support for gay rights
Freddie is like Nelson Mandela -- give me a break. However he could polish up his tarnished image considerably if he came out of the closet. That would tend to leave a more positive legacy than the one that he is leaving now. He must surely realise by now that he will never achieve his dream of being Prime Minister. So if he starts telling the truth and assumes more of the characteristics of a statesman that he wants to be, then his legacy is still salvageable. Nothing but a dose of humility can cure his air of superiority (which incidentally is validated by the horrendous amount of stupid, ignorant Bahamians all with a vote). Redemption is available for us all, is it not?
banker 10 years, 10 months ago on Private sector urged: Avoid 'self-fulfilling prophecy' of recession
Private sector urged: Avoid 'self-fulfilling prophecy' of recession
He's lying about the competitive tax advantage with Barbados. You can get a business licence, bank account, work permits and corporation quicker and cheaper in Barbados without going through the wringer of the Bahamian civil service. They have one stop shopping for all of that. On top it all, there is a definite tax advantage. Once the corporate tax of about 4% is paid, profits can be repatriated to Canada tax free. AND, they have a much cleaner more efficient banking system that clears international cheques in a matter of hours (24-48), not days and weeks. And energy costs are lower and not prone to the island wide blackouts that the amateurs at BEC pull off.
Everyone else is eating our lunch. And on top of that, we are exporting tech jobs to Jamaica. The government sees incoming businesses as a source of revenue, and not as a job creator and economy builder. Hence, they cut steaks off the race horse, so to speak. Not one damn cabinet minister knows about businesses, except for the Bahamian kind where you have friends and colleagues to grease the wheels.
Quite simply the Bahamas cannot compete, and with the new economic zone, the Cayman Islands is attracting world-wide businesses that are clean, and knowledge-based which generates a lot of money and uplifts the population.
ThisIsOurs 10 years, 10 months ago on PM admits concern for his safety as he details crime crackdown
PM admits concern for his safety as he details crime crackdown
He added: “Go to every house in every constituency, begin with mine and I’m not talking about no random survey. Every house, tell me who’s blind, who’s deaf, who’s dumb, who’s not working, who’s smartest in class. I am not going to allow the country to compromise on this.”
With this strict mandate, do you think between the police and UR, they will be able to find at least one incriminating spinning wheel on the wall of a webshop?
Btw, is he asking for another census? Don't those people have to be trained and not your gossipy UR workers just getting up in neighborhood business?
And further why are we being asked to give up our most private details when the government won't even release the details of public information that we've paid for? Where's the 2nd NIB audit report? How much did it cost? How much did the trip to the Pope cost? Who was in the delegation? How much did the trip to Mandela's funeral cost, who was in the delegation? What is Fred Mitchell's traveling budget, how much does he spend per trip, how does he travel, how much does he expect to spend the rest of the year? And so much more...
banker 10 years, 10 months ago on PM: Economy poised for growth
PM: Economy poised for growth
Christie is now on the thin line between delusional & mental retardation. Increasing government revenues make economic growth - it slows it. The government taking money out of the economy is like cancer cells robbing body nutrients. This is true because of government corruption & the extra money winds up in the pockets of the kleptocrats.
But let's look where he expects economic growth. (1) energy reform. Now the entire island generates electricity with Bunker C Crude -- the worst possible fuel. Sustainable & renewable energy sources require huge capital investments up front. The government doesn't have the money with their $800 million drag on the economy. They can pass all of the energy reforms that they want, & nothing will happen. Privatisation in the energy field has the PLP cronies looking to do some bloodsucking at the public's expense.
(2) BTC shares -this is a crazy WTF moment. Telecommunications requires huge amounts of capital to keep current. The government doesn't have deep pockets. The 18 vice presidents under the old BTC including the huge internal corruption under the Leon Williams tenure ran where everyone was getting kickbacks. Maybe that's the way that the PLP prefer to do business. They are not governing, they are racketeering.
(3) Modernised Casino Legislation. They can't even solve the webshop issues. That is the big thing sitting right under their noses that they cannot see. It is utter hypocrisy. Florida benefits $50 million from Bahamians gambling there, & the web shop owners probably benefit the same.
(3) The Agriculture and Marine Institute -another sinecure for cronies that will produce nothing. The only way that these institutes work, is if they invest in actual farms and aquaculture. Another Urban Renewal. Urban Renewal was suppose to fight crime. Mother Pratt is going around saying that if they kept UR 1.0 instead of UR 2.0, then they would have solved the crime problem. Another user of Biblical Crack Cocaine.
(4) National Training Agency. They are training bed makers, souvenir makers and other low value occupations. We need knowledge workers, but the education system is so screwed that we have two to three generations of functionally illiterate, non-trainable young people with no life skills. The ex MP of Bamboo Town who bought out the distillery has the right idea for an IT school, but the former drug runner doesn't realise that you need a cadre of well educated people to attend IT schools if they want to compete.
What the PM doesn't realise, is the size of the task ahead, just to get back to zero. We need $2 billion for new water pipes. NP needs new electrical infrastructure to prevent brown outs. It needs public transportation. It needs desperately a revamping of the education system if we are to survive as a nation. And this donkey dunghead of a prime minister who is cognitively impaired tells lies. He should stick to Junkanoo shuffling.
B_I_D___ 10 years, 10 months ago on Top bank executive detained at immigration road block
Top bank executive detained at immigration road block
The silly thing about it is this...not really a black or white issue, just a common sense issue on behalf of the officers. You have a 'top banker'...you pull him over, he does not DENY that he is working, doesn't claim to be a visitor, he tells you he is the director in charge of UBS. Chances are he was driving a car owned and registered to UBS. You know where he works, they have a massive building and complex right next to East Villa near Waterloo. This man is not a threat that needs to be detained and possibly deported for being an illegal. Send him on his way, alert head office, have them send an immigration officer to his offices at a predetermined time to give him time to get his paperwork out of the safe or safe deposit box which is likely where a Swiss minded individual would keep important documents and document him. Or tell him he needs to report to Hawkins Hill with his papers and meet this specific individual...otherwise we will be forced to visit your offices. It's the shady characters out there that you can tell without much difficulty that they are illegal, are they in a big fancy vehicle dressed for work, then tell you, no, I'm just visiting...with a briefcase on the passenger seat.
So many other ways this could have been handled, but because the immigration officers were power tripping, it ended up like it did and might just be the final nail in the coffin that drives UBS out of this country...they have already been pairing down their operations significantly and I believe there were in fact talks of them closing the Nassau branches in the past couple years. There are better ways to go about it is all I am trying to say, having the gestapo stop you at roadblocks with a massive chip on their shoulder and something to prove, is not the right way to go about it.
bonnieval 10 years, 10 months ago on VIDEO: Police Staff Association chairman at court
VIDEO: Police Staff Association chairman at court
What appears to be happening her is exactly the point I was making the other day, about our people. We are willing to do anything! If he is guilty as charged, then he should not have been in that position, because this kind of action should have been known long ago. So, someone was covering up something. If he is not guilty, and this is all a set up, then those who have set it up should not be in the positions they are in. It seems that we are so willing to do wrong, and think there would be no consequences.
This is at the root of what is wrong with our country, and the criminals see it, and then decide, well if they can do it and get away with it, then why can't we?
For things to change, we must first be willing to acknowledge that there is something very wrong! If he has been an officer of the law in the position he is in, for so many years and there was no known complaint against him in this regard, before now, then shouldn't we question, why now? Is it because he is speaking out? I don't know all the facts in the case, but something seems very fishy to me.
I see in the news that we are focusing on getting rid of all the illegals in our country, because they are the problem. I dare say, they are a direct result of our willingness to nurture a culture of criminality and lawlessness, from the Judiciary, including those involved in politics, straight down to the little drug peddler on the street. Yet we expect this "Christian Nation" to reap the benefits of Peace, in its communities. It's not going to happen, until we are willing to admit what is wrong, and then change.
We will continue to put a Band-aid on something that has a deadly wound.The programs that we are implementing will only address the effects, they will not and cannot fix the cause. And, we will continue to turn a blind eye to the wrong we do. We want to appear to be doing something about crime in our country so that people will continue to vote, and hope, something will change.
Just thought I'd give my two cents.
Honestman 10 years, 10 months ago on Mitchell backs immigration officers in row
Mitchell backs immigration officers in row
Fred Mitchell appears to be a law unto himself within the cabinet. It comes as no surprise whatsoever to learn that he sees nothing wrong with the way this week's incident was handled. As usual, he is playing to the gallery and is at odds with his own cabinet colleague Ryan Pinder. Whilst all Bahamians want to see the scourge of illegal immigration dealt with, the country needs to have a minister in charge of Immigration who understands the danger to the country's reputation if potential foreign investors perceive that country is hostile to foreigners. Unfortunately, this week's incident has fueled that negative perception. What is the point of Mitchell spending all this time in Panama and the Far East trying to entice businessmen to invest their funds in The Bahamas when his Immigration Department sends out the hostile message that foreign executives might be roughed up and sent to detention if they don't carry around proof of status at all times? Wake up Bahamas, foreign investors have plenty of choices. - no one needs to come here.
As to the incident in question, no doubt the banking executive could have handled the situation better, however, the over-reaction by the officers was damaging to the country's reputation. For this, I blame Fred Mitchell whose anti foreign rhetoric since the election has set the tone for his officers believing that they should show who's in charge at all times! That is a third world mentality and needs to stop. This country is 40 years old but is behaving like an adolescent!
Emac 11 years, 4 months ago on UPDATES: Government complex destroyed by fire
UPDATES: Government complex destroyed by fire
Lolol. So funny, but yet so true!