…and is not likely to be repeated by the PLP Government, according to Dr. Bernard Nottage, Government Leader in the House of Assembly and Minister of National Security. He speculated that it will be replaced with a "statement".

The implication is this process is a lot of work and in about three months time they'll have to "be dealing with the actual new budget."

Well blow me down. Here's a "leader" of our country suggesting that accountability is not important. People that hold the sacred trust of the citizens and taxpayers of this country don't feel we deserve anything more than a public relations exercise.

I repeat. Well blow me down. This is one of the same "leaders" that pass laws at every opportunity in an attempt to make the private sector accountable, yet they do not hold themselves to at least the same level of transparency.

If you think it's a joke, see the laws listed at the Securities Commission of The Bahamas to keep publicly traded companies in check here…

Quarterly statements, annual statements, shareholder meetings etc. And the list goes on. Yet, all we're entitled to is a PR rant because accountability with numbers is too much work?

As a private citizen we choose to invest our funds in a publicly traded corporation and we are inundated with information.

As a taxpayer, the government takes money from us involuntarily and a mid-year budget is too much to ask?

Should we be surprised?