The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

Please help me with this, where do Bahamians get 400 million dollars to gamble with in the webshops? Is this money coming from tourism? Or foreign investors? Or is this money already in the country? If it is already here, then government has already got their cut.

Another thing is, I don’t understand, if the webshops are operating with machines, why do they need to hire thousands of people, when most people can gamble from their homes, their cars, their church and work. If Bahamian people are spending that much on gambling, when this becomes legal, more people will gamble than are doing so now, because they respect the law.

Don’t get me wrong on this, I think that if Bahamians want to gamble that badly, then government should find a legal way for them to do so, but I don’t think by putting a web shop on every corner is the way to go.

The only government in the world that will legalise gambling to its poor people that depends 80 per cent on outside investments, would be a black government. No other race of people would think this way. Even my sometimes favourite country, the great USA until recently, hid gambling in a dessert, away from her citizens that may be tempted to waste their hard earned money foolishly. Leave it to soul brother and he will put a shop on every corner and keep his own people poor so they can come to him and beg him for something to eat, turn on my electric and give me one government job.

Now you tell me who loves you. Brooks said: “Fools rush in, where wise men never, never go.” Please call the doctor, these people are sick.

My opinion, yes make gambling legal, I think Bahamians have a right to this entertainment as others are enjoying it in this country. Make it so he can own a casino, but he would have to qualify just like everyone else, whatever those qualifications are. He should have all the perks and all the advantages, as the foreign investors enjoy. Being Bahamian doesn’t get you anything more than any other Bahamian.

Remember now, that only one group of people has concession for gambling in this part of the world.

If Bahamians have special privileges that go with their license the foreign investors will not be happy. Legal or illegal gambling will attract foreign undesirables if not controlled by them.

So, Mr Government, be careful where you put your foot. These boys know you long time. They think you are just a bunch of hicks that will do anything for money.

Don’t forget how Motown Records got out of black folks hands, or who made the big bucks off “funky Nassau”, “Who let the dogs out”, BTC and soon to be BEC.

Please Bahamians, make your government stop the madness before we become like Jamaica or Haiti. They didn’t think it could happen neither. They also refused to pay the piper and went hog wild with other people’s money thinking nobody can make them pay, “cause this is we country”, they also got in with questionable people and replaced their world-wide accepted white Jamaican prime minister, with a radical black racist government, whose first big mistake, in their present downfall, is to turn down a breakfast invitation from the former US president, everything was downhill from there.

Our downhill had started when we threw an important world-class banker in a bus filled with sweaty workers and then in a detention centre not fit for human occupation and most Bahamians didn’t see anything wrong with that.

We are going to be the ones to suffer as these people have enough money to live on the golf course on Paradise Island for the rest of their lives, while we are sloshing around in outside toilet sewer over the hill when it rains.

BOBNEVIL

Nassau,

March 8, 2014.