GilbertM 11 years, 8 months ago on Web shop gaming: US urges Bahamas to 'beef up' money laundering regime
Web shop gaming: US urges Bahamas to 'beef up' money laundering regime
Seriously?
In the US, New Jersey has just permitted Online Gambling, added to two states, including the US financial centre Delaware; where you can open a bank account with a pulse.
The US is not wrong to demand stricter money laundering rules in respect of Numbers in the Bahamas. However, the Bahamas has put itself in an invidious position: the Government ought to have been able say, "mind your own business" and what is good for the Goose, is necessary for the gander. But we have boxed ourselves in and therefore the US gets to occupy a curious position: It is a country where online gambling for citizens is legal and so a risk to money laundering, telling the Bahamas, where online gambling for citizens is illegal, that they risk higher incidences money laundering because of gambling.
Do you get it?
Its the Pot call ing the Kettle mingy!
It is a country where money laundering risk is at its highest, where financial institutions nearly destroyed the global financial system, telling a micro-state that its systems pose a risk. And we cannot answer because we boxed ourselves into a situation, in which a cultural practice (numbers)....running knowingly under our noises....has now been openly defeated as an illegal practice, yet it is not likely to cease.
This is how we become Esau!
Professor Gilbert NMO Morris
John 11 years, 8 months ago on Families of custody death victims demonstrate
Families of custody death victims demonstrate
One time ago police use to beat suspects for days and days when they wanted information. And back then,they didn't take these persons to the hospital for treatment after the severe beatings, but left them in the cell to 'get better'. Then they released them or beat them again and again if the needed more information. Today's generation cannot take that kind of punishment. They are afraid of pain and many of them have spent a good part of their lives smoking (weed and cigarettes and bedes) so it doesn't take much for them to sufforcate, once their air supply is cut off. Also there a number of persons on medication who get pick up by the p[olice. They are refused their meds and police in instances are not aware of their medical condition before they submit them to truma and beatings. Many times these persons are innocent and have to return to their families broken and in need of additional medical attention. Some never recover mentally. I know of a young man who is autistic. He looks normal to everyone else because he has learned to disquise his disease But when he gets upset or in a situation he cannot handle he just goes walking. Sometimes it is late at night and the police would pick him up (which is good for his own safety) but they lock him up try and put crimes on him and lock him up. He gets trumatized and doesn't understand why he cannot be free to walk in his own country. This is wrong.
smallbiz 11 years, 6 months ago on Open letter from Keod Smith
Open letter from Keod Smith
No wonder lawyers charge so much. It takes them 15 pages for something that can be summed up in a paragraph.
proudloudandfnm 11 years, 6 months ago on Open letter from Keod Smith
Open letter from Keod Smith
Keod can't be serious! Where did this man get his law degree? Disney world hey? I wanna know who this man thinks he is? Acting like he owns the area. I wanna see this man brought under control, thugs like him do not deserve to be in our government. How was this man ever an MP? We need standards in this country, too many criminals and thugs in our politics.
B_I_D___ 11 years, 6 months ago on Open letter from Keod Smith
Open letter from Keod Smith
I think we need to have an open letter to the Commissioner asking why Keod is currently not charged with criminal mischief for vandalizing Frank Smiths car and threatening his life. He's got it on video for crying out loud...and nothing gets done. I'm gonna get me one crowbar and walk down baystreet and just start smashing car windows at random...with no one in them, and I bet you I'd get in more trouble then Keod would when someone was in the vehicle and trying to get away from a group of thugs threatening his life. Ahhhh justice...ain't it grand? Must be nice have political allies on your side to muzzle the police.
TalRussell 11 years, 4 months ago on Nygard video prompts call for MPs’ resignation
Nygard video prompts call for MPs’ resignation
OK I'll wait for the red shirts "own" personal billionaire video to surface, before passing judgement. Regardless, no politician or civil servant should be up any person's rich ass? Didn't we have enough of "acting like a ass" exposure with the Anna Nicole Smith cabinet minister Tribune's picture? Guess not.
ThisIsOurs 11 years, 4 months ago on Nygard video prompts call for MPs’ resignation
Nygard video prompts call for MPs’ resignation
We cant be for sale....again....or are we just being resold?
Bahamianpride 11 years, 4 months ago on Nygard video prompts call for MPs’ resignation
Nygard video prompts call for MPs’ resignation
At this rate the Commonwealth of the Bahamas will be renamed The Islands of Nygard, he will then dress in his metrosexual attire and crown himself king
HarryWyckoff 11 years, 1 month ago on Griffin warns of poverty rise
Griffin warns of poverty rise
Now add 15% to every item of food that these families need to survive.
Throw in a dramatic rise in unemployment when business have to close to to massive rises in costs due to VAT and business license increases....
What Ms Griffin is seeing now is the calm before the storm....
My5Cents 11 years, 1 month ago on Griffin warns of poverty rise
Griffin warns of poverty rise
subsidize vasectomies heavily..these people need to stop having children they can't take care of..one or two by accident is okay but when you have 5 children and didn't have no job from the first one something wrong
tonymontana 11 years, 1 month ago on Griffin warns of poverty rise
Griffin warns of poverty rise
As a father of 1 with a degree in /engineering , this struggle is real , just the other day i was tempted to apply for unemployment which i believe is due me for my many contributions to the NIB system. Pride and pride alone stopped me at the door , thank you lord for a fishing line and some sustenance farming i have going on . things are tough out their and unless this thing turns around , some ( not me ) may have to turn to other means to make it right for their families , /these government guys have free gas , free car , and a meal allowance , why cant they give back or let some thing go . i would love to see every one in the government that get these perks give them up and have it sent to social service, ear marked just to feeding the poor , I say again the poor will only look in your bread window for oh so long then , then when the hunger pains set in beware the pang .
TalRussell 11 years, 1 month ago on Griffin warns of poverty rise
Griffin warns of poverty rise
Comrades believe me when I say to you that there's absolutely nothing bouncy or humorous when it comes to the drastic rise in the tens of thousands of families who have moved down over the past 5 years from the middle classes to join the ranks of the poor. I really don't care a damn, if you're a Hubert as PM or a PM Christie. When both of these PM's meet St. Peter at the gold-plated gateway to Heaven, what will they tell him when he asks each of them; "what did you do for the poor when you were Bahamaland's PM's?" It will do them no good to talk about how each of them had encouraged the Chinese to open Baha Mar, or to have allowed the nation's shipping capitalists to relocated to Arawak Cay, or attempts to turn the numbers rackets into legitimate web shops. Do you really think St. Peter is not go'in to ask both former PM's, about the roles they each played in licensing for the drilling for sludge oil in Bahamaland's waters?
SP 11 years, 1 month ago on Griffin warns of poverty rise
Griffin warns of poverty rise
Social Services Minister Melanie Griffin seems surprised of the fast growing reliance on government assistance.
This is a direct result of the Idiotic, dumb FNM policy of selling $40M in work permits to over 25,000 foreign blue collar workers.
Blue collar workers are the backbone of an economy base on the sheer volume of them, whose "spend trickles up" through an economy.
Remove indigenous blue collar workers or displace them with foreign workers that "do not spend locally" and the economy crumble from the bottom up, as we are now experiencing.
The double whammy that will very soon become undeniably evident, is these foreign blue collar workers not only do not spend in the local economy, they also repatriate most of their earning to home countries in U.S. currency, putting extreme pressure on foreign reserves.
No wonder the IMF, S&P and Moody’s' branded Hubert Ingraham as the "worse leader in the region".
rory 11 years, 1 month ago on Griffin warns of poverty rise
Griffin warns of poverty rise
1 child per family will fix that - ask the Chinese for their expertise :)
The_Oracle 11 years ago on Bran's brother shot dead
Bran's brother shot dead
Prayers and thoughts for the family, and every family who has lost through our willingness to kill. Our society does not foster Respect, Our Prime Ministers must demand it with outriders and speed through traffic. Yes, Nero fiddles, Marie Antoinette with "let them eat cake", when hearing the French people were starving, But are we ready for the Police state? This is the only thing which will correct and reverse the trend, and many innocent will get beaten, maimed, and killed in the name of the Bahamas. How honorable is that? That a Bahamian killed, or the Bahamas killed, does the difference concern the victim? An ounce of Prevention is worth a pound of cure, the cost will be heavy on us all.
proudloudandfnm 11 years ago on PM meets with Pope Francis
PM meets with Pope Francis
Why the hell is Fred and Ryan there? These idiots telling us we're broke and they making trips to meet with the pope? WTH? I can see the PM, ok that's a P.R. thing. But Ryan and Fred too? Why? Why are you wasting our money with crap like this?
ThisIsOurs 11 years ago on PM meets with Pope Francis
PM meets with Pope Francis
I thought they had some investment trip to Dubai planned...it's like they're doing their coming if age tour...travel the world to see all the interesting sights...
rory 11 years ago on PM meets with Pope Francis
PM meets with Pope Francis
Um what is the tax lawyer doing there??? lol.
haitianboy 12 years, 4 months ago on FNM hits out
FNM hits out
That’s why I for one was never one of those individuals who go about before, during and after elections advertising who my political affiliations are. I’m not foolish enough to do such a thing, on Election Day I simply go to the polls and mark my X for my candidate of choice. Look what’s happen to the woman who worked at ZNS, urban renewal workers and now this lady. This is nothing new; victimization has been going on under both political parties for as long as I can remember. It’s just the corrupt human nature to favor those who possess the same ideals and vision that they do and oppose the ones who don’t. Here in the Bahamas we cannot agree to disagree; we love those who love us and dislike those who don’t.