jusscoolin 10 years, 1 month ago on DNA protests the 'death of democracy'
DNA protests the 'death of democracy'
Guess he'll fit right in since we already have alot of cartoon characters in government.
Bahamianpride 9 years, 5 months ago on Police chief: All crime down except murder
Police chief: All crime down except murder
Zachary you're wrong, when I grew up in Nassau the most important forms of authority was parents, family, neigbors, teachers, religious leaders, etc. I could remember a time when adults would check u for being out of line as a child. That changed with American ghetto culture socialization and the drug culture in conjuction with bad selfish economic decisions by our leaders who did not protect the future of the country. Serious investments in education and family planning were not made. Many of the politicians & influential families only cared about getting rich. Fast forward 2015 u now have a infestation of criminals. Zachary when police have to be constantly present or constantly involved we have reach a point where we have failed. Now we're asking them to fix 2 generations of screw ups. Good luck with that... I tell my family members if u don't want to be turned in don't be a criminal around me, the solution starts with us, not the police.
Well_mudda_take_sic 9 years, 4 months ago on PM: Govt won’t take sides
PM: Govt won’t take sides
As I have said time and time again, the rightful legacy and epitaph of Perry Christie can only most deservedly be: "No single Bahamian has ever caused, nor will ever cause, more harm to the Bahamas than Perry G. Christie."
Well_mudda_take_sic 9 years ago on Gov’t targets $246m BEC reform ‘windfall’
Gov’t targets $246m BEC reform ‘windfall’
There will be no windfall period! And Philip Davis is an outright liar. The legislation proposed will add another charge to all of our light bills for the interest charges and principal repayments that will need to be paid to the investors in the Rate Reduction Bonds. The very name of the bonds (i.e. Rate Reduction) is laughable! All of this smoke and mirrors financial engineering has only one objective: To make Bahamians think their light bills will be lower when in fact the opposite will be true, especially when oil prices move up again, which is inevitable. Anyone who believes for a moment this financial engineering will resolve the fundamental problems that have resulted in BEC's huge recurring annual operating losses and mammoth debt is delusional to say the least. The unfunded overly generous pension liabilities of BEC need to cancelled outright, the entire Bahamian mismanagement team needs to be sacked (replaced by foreigners under very tight contracts), all of the union leaders need to be removed from the payroll and Franky Wilson aka Snake should have no role whatever in supplying fuel of kind to BEC. That's what it's gonna take as a minimum to restore profitability to BEC or whatever they want to call our monopoly power supplier.
newcitizen 8 years, 12 months ago on NHI opponents ‘morons, money grubbing asses’
NHI opponents ‘morons, money grubbing asses’
Tal, the money was wasted by useless officials who don't know what they are doing and never will, but your solution is to give them more money.
Do you believe any of what you type here or are you just being contrary every chance you get?
JohnDoe 8 years, 12 months ago on NHI opponents ‘morons, money grubbing asses’
NHI opponents ‘morons, money grubbing asses’
It is certainly not helpful and some may say unprofessional when a consultant begins using dehumanizing rhetoric to describe the "stakeholders" of a project she has been leading. Indeed, in my view, it probably says more about her than the stakeholders. If she is as intelligent, as it appears she believes, and the NHI scheme "is all that" as she also appears to believe, then it would seem a small issue to eviscerate the small minded questions from these "morons" with reasoned and compelling arguments supporting the strength and efficacy of her NHI scheme. The fact is that serious questions have been put forward about this proposed NHI scheme and they deserve serious answers not name calling. Granted some of the answers are political but answers are needed all the same. In my view the stakeholders and all of us should be concerned about this NHI scheme which is scheduled to be implemented in a few months but no one can explain how much it will costs, how it will be funded and by whom nor what it would look like. Further, the analysis and projections, in my view are inherently faulty and shallow. They underestimated the trade-offs and the free rider, moral hazard and systemic corruption factors already inherent in the fabric of our society. It also pays little attention to the supply side dynamics and infrastructural factors once we have exploded the demand for medical services as it is intended to do and if you ask five people which economic or societal problem this NHI scheme is intended to solve you would get five different answers. Maybe healthcare is a fundamental human right, but let's have a real debate about exactly what that means, what societal or economic problem we are trying to solve, how much will it costs, how will it be funded and who is going to pay for it, what are the trade-offs and consequences for society of using scarce resources for healthcare instead of some other societal issue and most importantly how will the design of the health care program influence the incentives for stakeholders and beneficiaries to behave in this or that way.
The_Oracle 8 years, 11 months ago on Davis: NHI to absorb job fallout
Davis: NHI to absorb job fallout
Listen, blaming red shirts or Yellow bellies is the first distraction: They are both made up of Bahamians who either are a) stupid, b) arrogant c) crooked d) greedy e) all of the above, who have made repeated wrong decisions over the last 40+ years which have landed us right where we are. (And we deserve it, cause we all danced in the streets with one or the other) All the while destroying the structures of Government left to us by The British Empire. For better or worse it is what we had, and we have replaced it with nepotism, tribalism, persecution, pilfering, (land, treasury, other peoples property and destroying personal initiative) and we like shooting messengers. We hire foreign consultants ad nauseam and ignore their findings, twist reports beyond recognition and present the latest folly as sent from above. The foreign consultants go away paid in full so they are happy and could care less how you use their reports. Did I mention kickbacks? I am led to believe the latest is tied into the ATR-600 aircraft recently purchased for Bahamasair. Who got that refund? Ministry of tourism advertising kickbacks? The extraordinary cost per Sq Ft the government pays to build anything including outhouses! for once and for all, it is the un-ethical, thieving lying Bahamian people we elect that is the #1 problem, and the crooked civil servants that go along with them like fries with the KFC! And until that calibre of people is drastically improved, it is going to get worse and worse! Because there is less and less to steal. Less foreigners to nickel, dime, and rip off and a smaller Bahamian working middle class.
B_I_D___ 8 years, 11 months ago on Davis: NHI to absorb job fallout
Davis: NHI to absorb job fallout
Read between the lines...the NHI is now the new government employment agency...they don't have BEC or BTC any more...NHI will end up with every dead beat unemployable persons who are guaranteed a PLP vote.
Well_mudda_take_sic 8 years, 11 months ago on Loftus Roker: Time for Christie to go
Loftus Roker: Time for Christie to go
Many moons ago Roker blindly and stupidly followed Pindling's wishes and expelled most of the highly qualified foreign teachers from our country when he was Minister of Immigration; he did this in one fell swoop, leaving an enormous vacuum of teaching positions in our public education system to be filled by unqualified Bahamian teachers. Our public education system has never recovered from his stupidity way back then and he now has the audacity to ask where are the well-educated and qualified Bahamians with sufficient political acumen to lead our country today. This man Roker is repugnant to say the least. He has caused our country untold harm for generation after generation of Bahamian students that followed his tenure as Minister of Immigration. This man is one disgusting dinosaur that should have been hanging his head in shame all of these years while witnessing our country spiraling down the proverbial toilet!
Tarzan 8 years, 9 months ago on WAS PM MISLED ON BAHA MAR? Chinese builder knew it was likely to miss deadline
WAS PM MISLED ON BAHA MAR? Chinese builder knew it was likely to miss deadline
For the tenth time, there is only one explanation for the government's refusal to permit the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to handle this matter in a workout, as requested by the developer, which would have seen all Bahamian subcontractors paid 100%; all the work necessary for completion performed by Bahamian contractors using Bahamian labor; the resort opened in a few months; and, all the Bahamians promised resort employment, long ago fully employed. That one reason is that if a U.S. Court was permitted by the Bahamian government to take jurisdiction of this matter, all the corrupt dealings between the Chinese entities and certain well connected persons in the Bahamian political class would have been fully exposed, with lawsuits to follow. That is the whole sordid story.
Economist 8 years, 8 months ago on More Chinese workers than Bahamians at The Pointe
More Chinese workers than Bahamians at The Pointe
Where is the Great Minister responsible for Immigration?
Why is Shame Gibson not protecting Bahamian jobs?
Why the silence?
Let any Bahamian construction company try to bring in a work crew which is 60% Chinese.
After all the rhetoric about looking out for Bahamians, how is all this possible?
How could the PLP Government agree to this travesty?
asiseeit 8 years, 8 months ago on More Chinese workers than Bahamians at The Pointe
More Chinese workers than Bahamians at The Pointe
"“I think it is being built by the Chinese for Bahamians,” Mr Pindling said". No Mr. Pindling, the Chinese are building the point for the Chinese. they own it, they run it, they are building it, they will profit from it, and Bahamians will still be begging for a shitty job cleaning rooms. How does that equate to building it for Bahamians? Just another PLP telling LIE'S!
John 8 years, 8 months ago on CCA pursued new work while Baha Mar ‘failed’
CCA pursued new work while Baha Mar ‘failed’
One of the biggest mistakes Zakis made was to sign a contract where it was written in black and white that he could not terminate the contractor on the project for any reason. China Construction and China Bank are essentially one and the same as they are owned by the Chinese government. So the window of opportunity for collusion was wide open. The government was Wrong for allowing so many Chinese workers skilled, unskilled and semi-skilled to come in the country and work on the project while Bahamians sit idle and couldnt even sing fot their
John 8 years, 8 months ago on CCA pursued new work while Baha Mar ‘failed’
CCA pursued new work while Baha Mar ‘failed’
Supper. So Bah Mar was built with Chinese money, Chinese labor, chinrse marerials. Now can you see why they are so nochalant about the property opening? The lion's share of the $2,3 billion already reverted back to the Chinese economy while very little of it flowed through the Bahamas. Even worse is the Bahamas has over a $billion in assets sitting idle in the project
GrassRoot 8 years, 8 months ago on 500 work permits for The Pointe
500 work permits for The Pointe
he makes it sound like it was the 13th commandment that 40 % of the jobs go to Bahamians. How about 80%?
Well_mudda_take_sic 6 years, 8 months ago on Government 'handcuffed' by unused leases
Government 'handcuffed' by unused leases
Repost: All cabinet ministers in the Minnis-led FNM government are just as crooked as the last Christie-led PLP government if they choose to honour rather than refute the validity of all crooked deals and contracts born out of glaring corruption that were wrongfully entered into by the former government, to the detriment of the Bahamian people. The current cabinet has unescapable collective responsibility for which we, the Bahamian people, will rightfully hold each and every one of them fully accountable!
Well_mudda_take_sic 6 years, 8 months ago on Leslie Miller plaza lease among 'handcuff' deals
Leslie Miller plaza lease among 'handcuff' deals
All cabinet ministers in the Minnis-led FNM government are just as crooked as the last Christie-led PLP government if they choose to honour rather than refute the validity of all crooked deals and contracts born out of glaring corruption that were wrongfully entered into by the former government, to the detriment of the Bahamian people. The current cabinet has unescapable collective responsibility for which we, the Bahamian people, will rightfully hold each and every one of them fully accountable!
ThisIsOurs 7 years, 10 months ago on Doctors to drop NHI pay moan ‘within three years’
Doctors to drop NHI pay moan ‘within three years’
Dr Price, just like the New Zealand VAT consultants, has forgotten to put in his model, manipulation by cabinet ministers and MPs, massive theft, corruption, inefficiencies, crumbling infrastructure that will take 10 times estimated cost to complete, 5 times the number of contractors and zero accountability. If they adjusted their models to the realities in theBahamas I'm almost certain the conclusions would be vastly different
John 7 years, 9 months ago on PLP CONVENTION LIVE: Night two
PLP CONVENTION LIVE: Night two
Last night Christie try to work Voodoo to 'fix' the unemployment numbers and #jobceation, But Michael Halkitis said the unemployment number was at 21,000 when the PLP came to power. Christie says the PLP created 32,000 jobs. The Department of Statistics says unemployment is still at 11.5% or 24,000 persons unemployed. So even when you add the 24,000 or so students that came out of school and deduct the 15,000 or so persons that retired or otherwise left the work force, the PLP created more jobs than there were unemployed people. So tell us then.why is the unemployment figure still at 24,000. . Then Michael Halkitis come back and tries to give account for the near $1 billon in VAT money. But most of the items he listed, like re-fleeting BahamasAir, new ships for the defence force, NHI funding etc, was suppose to come from the regular revenue of the government, like customs duties, business licence fees, property taxes car licences etc., and so he hd the whole convention chanting "das where zinnia VAT money gone" And it gone alright. Gone like the wind. . . And the biggest clown of the evening had to be Alfred Gray. That man and the truth are so much strangers. One cannot even double pay the truth to keep friends with Gray. He claims that no other political party came up with original plans and projects to benefit the Bahamian people, while in the same breath, laying claim to two of the biggest projects that was started under the previous government. Hopefully Christie dem can tell the Bahamian people why more murders have happened under Perry Christie ad prime minister than any other prime minister, and why more murders have happened under than the PLP than was recorder under the government of all the other political parties in the Bahamas combined.
Honestman 10 years, 1 month ago on DNA protests the 'death of democracy'
DNA protests the 'death of democracy'
The people are desperate for a political savior. Frankly, if Mickey Mouse formed a new party to contest the next election, he would have a decent chance of winning!