Talk To Me With Gabby - October 16 2026

[00:00:00] Speaker A: This is Guardian Radio, your station for [00:00:02] Speaker B: up to the minute news and intelligent, [00:00:05] Speaker A: interactive and engaging conversations. [00:00:08] Speaker B: 96.9 FM. [00:00:12] Speaker C: The views and opinions of the hosts and guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the [00:00:18] Speaker A: management and staff of Guardian Radio. [00:00:22] Speaker B: Talk to me, talk to me, [00:00:26] Speaker A: talk [00:00:26] Speaker B: to me, talk to me. [00:00:39] Speaker C: Where will we go [00:00:42] Speaker B: when the quarantine thing done and everybody touch proud. 96.9 FM Guardian talk to me with Gabby. It's another Friday afternoon. You already know what time it is. Time for us to wind down the week, wrap it up, tie it in a bow, let some things go, dread some things up and get ready for the weekend and everything that's to come. Good afternoon, Bahamas, and those of you listening from all around the world, I have to send a special shout out to Howard, he over there in Tampa, shout out to him and I have to send this shout out at the top of the show because I saw something very interesting and I said, boy, one thing with we Bahamians, we just be doing big things. And this thing came across my phone and it said this who we is A funny, honest and unfiltered guide to Bahamian culture by Howard R. Johnson. And it is coming out soon and it's going to be on Kendall and obviously there's going to be a launch in his hometown, Elutra, and in Nassau. So I have to let my guests in studio say good afternoon to y' all and see how excited. I don't know if he saw it and if he is excited about this and seeing what this book has to offer, as I am, because I'm like, I love when I see my Bahamian people just doing well and doing things and sharing our culture globally, internationally, wherever they go. I love when I see it. So I'm excited for this and I will be looking out for this. So congratulations to Howard Johnson on this and you know, his expression of bohemian culture that he'll be sharing all around the world, especially in his hometown, Eleutheroso. I'm sure Eleutherans will be celebrating this launch with him. So I also want to say good afternoon to the G Squad. Hi to y'. [00:03:29] Speaker C: All. [00:03:29] Speaker B: Y' all already know y' all are top, top tier fans and G Squad, I have to let y' all know something. I have merch for y', all, like, but that's only for the top people. I have all sorts of merch for y' all that I'm going to be excited, excited to be sharing, giving away with y' all and then for y' all who ain't really the top top people, but you know y' all won't be a part of it. Y' all could probably buy something. But of course for the top fans, you know, we could have some, some merch and stuff to give away for those of you that watch on the live stream, you know, you can see this is a beautiful I don't you see this just top, just top of the line. This is a stainless steel wine goblet. Do you where you find these things? [00:04:12] Speaker C: I, I Good afternoon everybody. It's always a pleasure to find that Gabby. Always a pleasure. Especially on a day when you're talking about my, my friend, my friend and brother's book which I, I already have my pre ordered e copy in hand. [00:04:27] Speaker B: You already pre ordered a thing I didn't tell me. [00:04:30] Speaker C: Yes, yes. [00:04:31] Speaker B: You didn't even send me. [00:04:32] Speaker C: That's how you get it, Gabby. I make sure you got the drop. I made sure you got the drop. But but yes, I encourage it's, it's an awesome read. I encourage Bahamians to, to go out and support it. It's a, it's a, it's a good culmination of, of who we are this who we are as a people in a very comedic way and, and in a way that we could digest it. [00:04:56] Speaker B: Yes. [00:04:57] Speaker C: And so yeah but as for, as for the merch gap, definitely I'm really. [00:05:02] Speaker B: You see you got that nice. [00:05:05] Speaker C: Gabby. I could be honest with you. [00:05:06] Speaker A: A nice. [00:05:07] Speaker C: I could carry my cup with me, right? [00:05:08] Speaker B: Yeah, you could carry a cup with [00:05:09] Speaker C: you because I, I just gonna let you know I can take my cup personal and then But I had something [00:05:14] Speaker B: else better for you. [00:05:16] Speaker C: No, I mean I, I'll take that too because as a Bahamian, I'll take that. [00:05:19] Speaker B: You could take everything. [00:05:20] Speaker C: No see but I, I, I, I want everything especially if it's for me. [00:05:24] Speaker B: But you have to get out one to your wife. Then what this cup one something you have to give to her because you [00:05:28] Speaker C: can't according to what the next thing is. But I want the cup because in the mornings when I'm tuned in to to Dwight. [00:05:34] Speaker B: Right? [00:05:34] Speaker C: I won't my. Talk to me Gabby Monk in the mornings when I'm tuned in and so there's some people tuned in right now actually I promoted a lot. I want people to not just listen to Guardian radio but watch what happens here in the studio. You want. They want to like how you get how they get to see you, see you or see us right now. Ms. Teresa Davis, the mother of my good friend Stephen Davis. She's tuned in, I must say. Gabby. [00:06:04] Speaker B: Evening, love. [00:06:05] Speaker C: Hold on, Gabby, hold on. I want you to know how important your show is. And the reason I say that is because I, I, I skipped Ms. Davis crab soup to be here. [00:06:16] Speaker B: What? [00:06:16] Speaker C: It's either Ms. Davis crab soup or here. [00:06:19] Speaker B: You should have come late and bring me some of the crab soup. What wrong with you? [00:06:23] Speaker C: I wanted to. Gabby, what wrong with you? I wanted to. Listen to me. For all of those of us who know Ms. Davis, Stefan's mom. Those who she's, she's retired from Bahamas. Yeah. Ms. Davis cooked the best crab soup on this side. [00:06:38] Speaker B: I about to send him back out the studio because how dare he come in here to talk about the crab soup that he didn't come with. [00:06:46] Speaker C: And then when she, when I got that call round but 12, they said Mandela ready? I said, mother sick. And this weather hit right on the, on a Friday with the soup. Look here, it's all about Ms. Davis crab soup. If you're looking for the best crab soup on this side of heaven, please find Ms. Teresa Davis. And, and, and, and, but now is [00:07:05] Speaker B: this crab soup for sale? Because you can't be promoting a personal partner. [00:07:10] Speaker C: No, she does crab Soup for sale. Ms. Davis. Well, she told me last night, she said I, I don't do crab soup every week, man. They'll say, but I do a soup. But I know us as Bayman's. We love a good soup. [00:07:21] Speaker B: And you know this wetter bin. [00:07:26] Speaker C: So when I leave, once I leave the studio, I'm headed straight to Ms. Davis to get my two crab soup for me and the wife. [00:07:32] Speaker B: And now see, and now I know my husband and Harris. [00:07:35] Speaker C: Hold on, hold on. So, so here's it's problems, right? Ms. Davis, I know you're all tuned in. I can need you to put two more aside. [00:07:41] Speaker B: Okay? [00:07:42] Speaker C: I need you to put two more aside. Text me if you want to. [00:07:45] Speaker B: Okay. [00:07:45] Speaker C: For Gabby and her husband. Because I just, I can't do Gabby like that. Listen to me, Gabby, this is some of the best crab soup. [00:07:52] Speaker B: I could be the judge of that. Cuz next Friday I gotta come and tell these people. If you live up to all this moat you didn't fill us up with and now if other people. [00:08:01] Speaker C: I was conflicted. I really was conflicted. When I, when I got the call, I was like, hold on, Mom. I, I, I on my way for my craft soup. I can't a show. And I was like, I can't be late because that's Gabby And Gabby can say, mandel, you, you know, you come in here late, but at the same time, I didn't want to risk leaving my crab. So Dandelion, Mandel, you would have gotten a pass. [00:08:20] Speaker B: How dare you not know that there is a path for good crab soup? [00:08:24] Speaker C: I didn't know that Gabby else has come in, has come in. We've been booked solid, mate. Trust me. [00:08:29] Speaker B: We might add the itis, though, man. [00:08:31] Speaker C: Look, yeah, but trust me, that crab soup, I think. But next, next week, next week, next [00:08:36] Speaker B: week, we could definitely have some feedback on this delicious crab soup. Shout out to all the bohemians that, you know, just doing their thing in the kitchen, the vendors, you know, just cooking, just sharing our culture in whatever way it is. Whether you're writing a book, whether you're chefing up something, you're creating content for other people to digest. You even see we have Scottish persons all around. People all around the world now are engaging in bohemian culture and it's becoming highly marketable for others who are non Bahamians, who are even deciding that this is a hidden gem that the world needs to see. So shout out to the Bahamians, though, who keep us on the map. [00:09:22] Speaker C: I've long said that anywhere you go in the world where once a person becomes knowledgeable about the Bahamas, and when I say knowledge becomes knowledgeable, a lot of times I'll travel and ask people, are you familiar with the Bahamas? Like, no. Or some say, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:09:39] Speaker B: And then they say wagwan. [00:09:42] Speaker C: But. But for those that either know or don't know, the minute people become aware of who we are, what we are, culture, they want to experience it in some kind of way. And so I've long said that once something says made in the Bahamas or from the Bahamas, people want to engage with it in some kind of way, in some real kind of way. People want to experience who we are. [00:10:03] Speaker B: And Mandela, with that being said, I think I'm going to put together and bring on some, some, some of our Orange economy persons to the show to really talk about what it is they're doing in their industries and their fields to help promote the Bahamas. And a lot of them go unnoticed. You know, they don't get the recognition that they deserve. So we celebrated National Heroes Day. We celebrated National Heroes Day on Monday. So shout out to all the heroes and everyone that was honored. I was told that there was over, what, 400 plus honorees. That's a lot. [00:10:39] Speaker A: Wow. [00:10:39] Speaker B: Yeah, there were a lot of honorees. Shout out to Mr. Lincoln Deal Sr. Who was one of the honorees doing great things and all of the other honorees. [00:10:54] Speaker C: I must shut up. Mr. Darren Tynegrass. He has been someone that silently former youth director. I met him the first time that I met Darren. He was the director of you that I had signed up for a youth leadership training and he facilitated one of the segments of it. And when I met this young man, I was like, wow, we need more people like, like more young men who can exemplify what it is to be a professional and be. And be strong at what you do. And from that time to now, I've really been motivated and inspired by Darren. I just wrote him a nice message on Facebook. [00:11:35] Speaker B: Was he on it? [00:11:36] Speaker C: Yes, he was on. [00:11:36] Speaker B: Okay. I saw him in a picture, but I didn't see him on earth. [00:11:40] Speaker C: And I think a lot of times we even. One of the inspirations behind him for me is to see a young man at the. At the top of his professional arenas doing his thing and being on it. I think a lot of times we try to make young people feel like you got to wait your turn and no, I've always seen Darren like break that glass ceiling to say no, we deserve to have a voice now. And this is our voice now, now. And so I thank him for being our hero for a generation of young people to, to inspire that. That we can do great things now from wherever we are. And all the other persons that. That that would have received Honoree, you said Mr. Lincoln Deal Senior. [00:12:23] Speaker B: A lot of older, A lot of the older persons who receive nominees who, who built. Who lit the pathway, who built the foundation, who for a lot of us to stand on and who continue to pour into the young people of this nation, not holding them back, not stifling them. Especially considering the headline that I just read about national insurance looking at extending the retirement age of 67. But we could talk about what's in the headlines when we get back. [00:12:58] Speaker C: Mandel, we trying to give the old people more time. [00:13:02] Speaker B: Don't say it like that. It sounds a little ageist, but I think after working 40 plus years, 40 hours a week for 40% of your salary, you don't think at 65 you want to go home. [00:13:15] Speaker C: I think that came up because I've heard that it's an attempt to still help some of our elderly people that still find themselves paying mortgage and still need to work per se. Yeah, let's create something unique for that. But to put the retirement age at 60. I think 67 is the proposed age or something like that. Or is that what has been decided already. [00:13:37] Speaker B: It hasn't been quite decided. [00:13:39] Speaker C: Okay. I ain't trying to work hard to like 65, me personally. So to move it from, to move the goal post from 65 to 7 to 67, you trying to tell me whatever little thing National Insurance got for me, I still didn't get it till two years later? Now I even ain't trying. I know I won't be around here. [00:13:59] Speaker B: It's due to mismanagement, really a lot of mismanagement of what we had. Why aren't we working on our ROIs so that we can actually see, you [00:14:11] Speaker C: know, I have some residuals, a conversation I had with the gentleman that wrote the book, Howard Johnson, because he works on. He does socioeconomic work in Florida with a youth literacy organization. And I remember asking him and having a conversation with him about the way the 401k and other accounts related to retirement are set up in the US In a general way to see nothing, not no special something you putting together, just generally where as it relates to your retirement, any way you work, they're able to reinvest their retirement and make decisions with it. And I was like, wow, I wish we had something similar like that here in our country. When as it relates to pension and retirement, where you can invest in whether it's business or whether you want to choose to invest some of your retirement funds, your pension into any other entity that you're going to get a return on. And so it's a lot of things out there. Voices just moving the age to 67. [00:15:20] Speaker B: Well, Mandel, I want to dive into that and a lot more of the headlines as well as get to your phone calls and texts so that you can be a part of today's conversation. Because a lot has happened this week and even today's headlines are very, very interesting. We have a lot to talk about on. Talk to me with Gabby on this tgif. We'll be right back. Where will we go when the quarantine thing done and everybody touch. [00:16:10] Speaker C: You Try to rest. Approve it the best for all your printing needs. [00:16:15] Speaker B: There ain't no one better, no. [00:16:17] Speaker C: For posters and banners, magazines and flyers, for window decals, reading cards and newsletters. No job too big and there's no job too small. You name it, we can print it. [00:16:30] Speaker A: Just give us a call. 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It definitely wasn't a fueled filled Friday because my current was off last night and I don't know how my husband asleep so sound when the power go up because the air does immediately evaporate out the room for me. I don't care how cool it is and some of that white noise when the white noise of the fan goes [00:19:10] Speaker C: off and Gabby it's just too much going on. [00:19:14] Speaker B: The silence is be too loud. [00:19:15] Speaker C: It's too much. Morning before last Gabby when I say morning before last I I, I'm just really catching myself. I tried to catch a couple hours today to catch up on what I lost so morning before last plug in the iron. This is around but 8 o' clock in the morning and I saw the light flick you know like when like when it GR cut off and it don't cut off well on now Gabby. So we used to seeing that happen in my area and so I was like oh man. But when I check stock, the TV was still on. Oh no, one or two the other lights, what was obvious was off. So I was like, oh, so you had half power. So then like I said, I got half power during a check stock, it was only quarter power because on my way leaving the house thinking I got half power and you know, just, just configure itself out or whatever the case is, one mind say before you leave out the house, check the fridge. And when I opened the fridge, the fridge was dark. So I say with motorbike, good thing I checked the fridge before. [00:20:17] Speaker B: I hope you turn off all the breakers. [00:20:19] Speaker C: No, no, how you could turn off all the breakers if I just come from Minagu and got shot in my freezer, I can't turn off all the breakers and I can't throw my shot away. So what I had to do was I said boy, man, hold on, hold on. I got the fridge and I got one little chest freezer. So I say, I say you know what boy, good thing you care because you would have been, you would have all hell would have break loose if I didn't come over, meet my fish in my freezer that then tore out and spoil and what's not. So now I say, you know what? Call, call, call the electrician right away. I say call the electrician. The electrician came eventually and found out that there was a power surge that literally almost blowed a meter box out of the wall. [00:21:01] Speaker B: And you wanted to leave the plug. [00:21:03] Speaker C: Yeah, the, the quarter of the house on. So I, I hook up one, I, I went to the wash house, gallon drop cord and hook up one cord in the room where the light was still on. And then I get one surge protected to plug into that drop cord. And then I plugged the fridge and the freezer in that and, and that's how I keep my, my fish in my freezer because I get no power to like the following. I, I was without power for 24 hours. [00:21:30] Speaker B: You was living on a brain. [00:21:32] Speaker C: When I called BPL, it was 4:50 and the lady said to me, say sir, all, all, all of us. And she said, you know what I mean when I say us, right? I say what you mean? She said well us behemoth, the, the us who work for BPL, all of us get off at 5 o'. [00:21:50] Speaker B: Clock. [00:21:50] Speaker C: And I, anybody who I could call, who I could call to help you, they get off at five o' clock too. [00:21:56] Speaker B: And I was like, they know more over time. [00:21:59] Speaker C: So I've long been saying like the state of our infrastructure as it relates to and all of that. See, this is what I was. And this is what they were trying to say to me indirectly, like, so we don't have a time. So when you're. If your power go out after five Buddy Bush crack man gone, that come. When they come back to work the next day, that's when they can deal with that. And I'm like, is this really what we're experiencing? [00:22:26] Speaker B: It's not summer anymore, though. And this is my thing. We're well into October, mid October. The temperatures have dropped. [00:22:35] Speaker C: That's the good thing. [00:22:36] Speaker B: Tremendously so. I even felt the coolness in the air during the. [00:22:40] Speaker C: I killed a mattress in the front room and I open up them. You know, the front room got the bigger windows, right? So I open up them when in the front room and I lay down there and I said, I gotta survive. All the sweat was running down behind the back of my ears. And then Gabby and some of them almost over. So I could imagine couple of weeks ago how people was dealing with this. [00:23:01] Speaker B: Y', all, we gotta be patient with people now. See, I start giving people just which [00:23:05] Speaker C: one we gotta do? We gotta progress or be patient. Which one we gotta do. [00:23:09] Speaker B: Be in progress is for patience. Ah, cheers. You need the patience of job. You need the patience of job, darling. [00:23:17] Speaker C: But okay. And then we have an all this problem with power and infrastructure, right? Then here we are now having to. I see that they're purchasing look like the government is taking responsibility for the power plant Grand Bahama. And we can't seem to get power right from Inagua straight up the chain Islands. Especially in Cat island because I forget Gabby experience over there. Drake and Scrape. [00:23:38] Speaker B: Hold on, hold on. The vacant straight the regatta. The power here never was working. [00:23:46] Speaker C: But here we are taking on another power plant in Grand Bahama. [00:23:50] Speaker B: And yesterday are we sure we could run none? [00:23:52] Speaker C: Day before yesterday, I happened across the parliamentary channel where they were debating this particular bill about this borrowing. And the prime minister is saying to the leader of the opposition and the member for central Grand Bahama that people in Grand Bahama, based on the government's intervention, are already paying lower light bills. Now, I don't live in Grand Bahama. If they power don't cut off as much as us in the rest of the Bahamas, hats off to them. And if they getting lower light bills already, like the PM said, hats off to them. But for those of us who living in the rest of the Bahamas, who paying exuberant light bills and ain't getting no better service Getting worser and worse and worser. I can't fathom or understand why my government taking on another power plant on another island. Now if things better in Grand Bahama based on power, I may even consider going that way because this rough here it rough. [00:24:59] Speaker B: I give it a while. Let me get to some of your text messages. [00:25:02] Speaker C: Mind you, the amount of businesses complaining people can't keep keep their place open because of power. [00:25:08] Speaker B: This texter says. Good afternoon Gabby. Tgif I have been waiting all week for Friday. We are still catching Helen Illutra with the power outages. Illutra, how y' all is listening to the show? I'm just curious because if y' all ain't never got no power which means the Internet service provider is probably also unreliable because they also fault that when they have disruptions it's due to frequent power outages. [00:25:39] Speaker C: Gabby, I gotta find an opportunity to pay special tribute to Spocky. Yesterday I heard someone said that Spocky needs to be famous for the rest of his life. Have you heard that voice note yet with Spocky talking about bpl? [00:25:53] Speaker B: Of course man. [00:25:54] Speaker C: Look at every single time the power go out. [00:25:57] Speaker B: Say you need to fire the janitor. Now I fire everybody. Even the cookie. Say everybody who down there. I'm sorry to the hard working BPL people but that's what Spocky say. God rest is doing spaghetti say the Jonathan, Jonathan, y' all gotta start over. But this text says so Bec never had both shift work. Not all jobs are 9 to 5. They just trying to make people uncomfortable enough that they will say might as well let them have overtime. This coming in from the tax line. That's. That's true. You know why I think there are people that work overnight. [00:26:40] Speaker C: There was an accord injunction I believe on the president of the BPL union matter where I think they were attempting to dismiss him or fire him or something. And I believe there was some court injunction on that matter. Like with the amount of things that going on at bpl you can't tell me me the light bill paying customer that some of this stuff was going on with them and their union and their employees and Bahamas great and this and that. The next thing in what affecting the level of the quality of service that we the customers are experiencing. And there is. I mean the rebate would be. But he ain't baiting us good enough. Now I talking about there seems to be no no compensation. Man. Look at the meter box that had to be replaced on the house was. I see about 400 and something dollars like. Come on. Where do you get it from? Left, right and center. [00:27:44] Speaker B: I want to invite you guys to chime in. The numbers to call today are going to be 323-623-2325-431632-54259. Anywhere from the family of islands, if you got power. 2423-00-5720. And of course, the text line powered by BTC 422-4796. And you can also what stop us on 815- TT. [00:28:12] Speaker C: Gabby, you could imagine you live in Illucha, right? You running your laundromat now. You know, whatever load. If you live in a Lutheran running a laundromat, whatever. Whoever got a load of clothes to wash it there. You need that little bit of business. But the power off, you're better than. [00:28:27] Speaker B: They probably didn't figure out generator by now. Let me find out what the callers have to say. Call her live and talk to me with Gabby. [00:28:32] Speaker A: Hello, Gabby. Hi. Well, listen, I don't know why am I living in this generation of talkers? And don't take that in any bad way. I'll explain to you. We are dealing with people who call into your show and not particularly your show because I find that your show as a young person is still more informative than a lot of these other talk shows who are still singing for their supper. And that's what I like about you. I listen. Right. [00:29:07] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:29:07] Speaker A: But I want to give you guys a reality check. [00:29:11] Speaker B: You have someone in your country. I ain't calling no names. [00:29:17] Speaker A: Who voted and in our parliament as the prime minister of our country. But he goes on the world stage and said he's going to stick with the Haitian people. He said he is going to take care of them. Okay. But nobody seems to think it's worth enough for us to go down to [00:29:45] Speaker B: the House of Parliament and pull this man out of our sovereign country and send him where he wants to serve. Oh, Jesus. Okay, see, this ain't no time for [00:29:55] Speaker A: us to be trying to talk like we're not calling any names because this man works for us. [00:30:05] Speaker B: He's supposed to take care of the Bahamian people. You bring people in here already have problems with their health issues. And you tying up our hospital, you tying up everything in our country to take care of your people who is not entitled to to be in our country. And people are still talking about it. Gabby? Yes, ma'? Am. Are you still there? I am here with you. Let me tell you something here. These people in our country Own our economy. Everything you touch in this country belongs to the people who don't deserve to have it. We have parents in this country who dead and gone and built their little two room house and they take it away from them. Cause the Inland Revenue say they owe real property tax. Jesus. And you selling it to people for [00:31:06] Speaker A: little or nothing and say you building [00:31:09] Speaker B: up economy on progress. [00:31:13] Speaker A: Isn't there exemption and nobody has the [00:31:16] Speaker B: fortitude to speak the truth. And you expect to see something different in our country when everybody is kissing their butt to not upset them. Everything this man is doing to the Bahamian people is that he's telling you broad and blank that he don't like us. [00:31:44] Speaker A: So if you don't like us, pack your stuff and go flipping back to Haiti where the hell you are. [00:31:50] Speaker B: Oh Lord. Thank you. Thank you so much, Carla. Thank you, thank you. Thank you so much for your call. I could hear the frustration, the passion, the tiredness, the angriness, everything in that call. That's why I didn't even want to. I try to. When my callers get at that point, I listen to them, I let them vent. I try not to cut them off or cut them short. Mandela, because I think we've reached the point of frustration. I'm going to take this next call, but I want to set the stage for you. I was playing that song, I had Chris playing that to come into the show. Where will we go when the quarantine thing done and everybody touch root, [00:32:40] Speaker A: go [00:32:40] Speaker B: back into your memory bank. It is 2020, early 2020 and we are now in the COVID 19 pandemic. I want you to just hold that in your mind as I go to this next caller. Caller, you're live on Talk to me with Gabby. Caller, you there? We lost that caller, but we're in 2020 just entering a global now pandemic. Prior to that and even during that, construction was booming. Blocks a dollar something during the global pandemic, gas at an all time low. Right here in Nassau. You could have gotten gas for $3 and some cents. During a pandemic. Thousands of people home. New systems and strategies had to be developed. You can no longer be in the office because you need people six feet apart. So not only were people working from home, children were schooling at home. Electricity was being consumed because you could not go outside by 9pm it was said that you needed to be on the inside of your house unless you were an essential worker. Imagine that construction booming blocks were about a dollar something. Gas at three dollars and some cents. Global pandemic persons consuming electricity, everyone who but seldom you could remember the electricity going out at the rates it is going out now with all of the investments we were speaking about making to the grid. That's only one part of it now coming out of this thing. When we were said that the economy is on an up and up, we're hearing that there are hopes for the retirement age to rise sooner rather than later to 67 which means even if you're not choosing to work that long because persons actually can choose to continue to work and contribute past the age of 65 to national endurance. But what you are telling Bohemians now is you want to mandate that the 40 hours, 40 plus years for 40% of your salary was not enough. We need you to do more. In today's newspapers as well we see that government is considering, I want to, I want to quote it correctly. Is it in the Guardian or is it in the Tribune? They're considering options, they're mulling over options to reduce gas prices while the taxicab unions, the bus drivers, everybody is saying we gotta go up because we can't live like this. Our Caribbean counterparts, many governments that neighbor us have put in measurements, temporary remedies to cap the fuel charges its citizens have to pay. Amid the crisis in the world we understand everything that's going on. [00:36:59] Speaker C: We've been paying for that since the hedge was moved. We've been paying for that and it [00:37:04] Speaker B: isn't just start when this war happened because if we go back we've been steadily seeing the increase of electricity costs [00:37:16] Speaker C: coming out of the pandemic based on fuel surcharge. [00:37:24] Speaker B: And so I understand when Nicola says we have a lot of talking going on and a lot of people who just ain't feeling it. And that's why last week and until I'd loved to wait till the light hour would have called me. But that's why last week when we talked about it and I said to Antoine I said listen you could talk about these imf, idb, H I B C K L M N O P [00:37:55] Speaker C: reports standards and pause but still the poor still feeling it. [00:37:59] Speaker B: But he who feels it knows it. And this is the reality that people are living. I heard Ca say in a report he was reading that 12% and we don't. I, I wish I could find a number of behemoths in New Providence are living below the poverty line. [00:38:21] Speaker C: And it ain't just, it ain't just the poor people. You know, you know, you know what it, the, the, the, the wealthy, those who Got it. Complaining about how tough things is because if you got 10, if you got $10, all it's saying is you only could afford a loaf of bread. You still need sausage and cheese to go with it. So everybody complaining, just a pork. Everybody is complaining. [00:38:43] Speaker B: And this is what I've said on the show multiple times, Mandel, that middle class earners, I said let's put aside because people want to say, oh, there are opportunities, this thing, next stuff for the poor people, all this stuff, upscale this thing, the next thing. Yeah, we hear you, we hear all that. But what about the people that are skilled, that have went to school five, six, seven, eight years to get a degree, so they've upskilled themselves, they've even gotten several degrees, they've gotten certifications, they've done the work to get the salaries and they are finding themselves underemployed because we, I believe it was the minister and I stand to be corrected of labor. That said, there are still challenges with underemployment. Is it that or persons who find themselves, they may even be qualified, but they cannot necessarily get the jobs that they're qualified for because people aren't prepared to pay. [00:39:47] Speaker C: Not only, not only that, Gabby, as our government talks about a surplus, I'm trying to, it's not settling well with a lot of, with a lot of persons because people are trying to determine how did you get to a surplus? When all of the other aspects of our economic structure seem to be strained as it relates to, as simple as information on reporting, as it relates to government spending. But the reality of it is beyond that, based on the cost of doing business and operations here in the country has increased dramatically. But the cost of fuel, the cost of power, when it ain't the cost of power, it's the lack thereof of power to make a profit has all impacted the cost of living in our country. But yet we have a government that taunts a surplus. So there is a clear disconnect. And like you say, people are tired of the talk because you're hearing about the surplus, but you're not, you're not feeling it nowhere. [00:41:03] Speaker B: I won't feel it. [00:41:04] Speaker C: Thank you. You ain't feeling it nowhere. [00:41:07] Speaker B: And you don't want necessarily by tangibly touching necessarily a government contractual opportunity. You want to feel it by saying, when I go to the food store, if I have this $50 in my pocket, which was a day's pay for many, that I could at least purchase the bare minimum the necessities that I need, thank you. To survive. [00:41:31] Speaker C: Thank you like someone asked us, I heard on a recent talk show, the question was asked, have you really benefited or felt a benefit from the decrease in VAT on unprepared food items? And the reality of it is if it costs me $5 more now to get to the food store, you really think I feeling what come off of that? [00:41:53] Speaker B: No. [00:41:55] Speaker C: So. So like make it make sense to us, man. But don't just, don't just tell us these things for smoke and mirrors. And then at the end of the day, the plight of us as a people hasn't changed other than the cost of living for us to survive has increased. [00:42:12] Speaker B: Carla, welcome to the conversation. You're live on Talk to Me with Gabby. [00:42:16] Speaker A: Good afternoon, Gabby. How are you? [00:42:17] Speaker B: I'm great. How are you? [00:42:18] Speaker A: All right. And the young man who's claimed that he's a Matthew down in our book, [00:42:22] Speaker B: what's that say you claim you from Matthew down in. [00:42:25] Speaker C: I always tell people but don't start that kind of conversation. [00:42:30] Speaker A: My mother hometown. Like I said, I'm back down in a cast. But then I'm gonna let this young man come back to town without bringing my hush hush. All right, but just call this year interesting conversation. But Gabby, if I put something to you, you think you'd believe me just a little? It don't have to be 100%. [00:42:50] Speaker B: I have to hear what you put to me. [00:42:53] Speaker A: Would you believe that there are or there is a percentage of people in this community or in the Bahamas that are not feeling the concerns you and young man are talking about? Would you believe that better than that. [00:43:10] Speaker C: I just said that to Gabby. Then we went to the break. [00:43:12] Speaker A: So now we establish that. Would you agree or disagree that the percentage of people that are feeling what's happening right now are the ones that have necessarily and this is not to one particular government or party, are the ones who continuously show up to the poll? To the poll? [00:43:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:43:34] Speaker C: Yep, yep. Come on. Call you going somewhere? Are you going somewhere? [00:43:39] Speaker A: I think the young man is. Is on to what I'm. What I'm trying to say. So there is a percentage of poisons who do not feel the pinch because they are the persons who are feeling the pinch have been uninitiated. That's as much as I'll put right as to how to handle the finances and where to put their money in a time like this. Right. So some money is being made. But if people pay attention to what's happening around them as opposed to what's happening to them, they would realize what's happening but the same investments that the national insurance makes with the money that you send each month or bi weekly are the same opportunities available for any single individual to do the same for themselves. I'll hang up and listen. [00:44:28] Speaker B: Thank you. Thank you so much for that. But what I wanted to say, and if you listen and follow the show, because I always try to also educate, I try to use real life as an opportunity to also educate. We go through school for 12 years, Mandel, and at no point have I ever received in my 12 years of public school education a course on financial literacy. [00:44:53] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:44:56] Speaker B: And being born to parents who were not illiterate, but also not as financially literate. [00:45:08] Speaker C: Come on, come on. [00:45:10] Speaker B: Where else would I have obtained such information to know? Now, when I as. As a child, I do childish things. As an adult, I put a child aside my childish ways and I seek knowledge and information. So I've done that. However, we have to acknowledge the fact that we live amongst people. On the show we talked about before, you spend 12 years of streaming children, the top children go in this class, the bottom children, and you in streams. You in streams for math, in English, some schools you're. You're in stream straight through from homeroom, you're in streams. We spend time separating people. So I was in the scream. I was always in the top screen. I was in 7A1 when I went to Afladley. When I was at CR Walker, I was in 12C, 10C, 11C, 12C. We start at C, R, W, A, L, K. That's how they streamed us. So I was always in the top scream at afadley. It was a one, a two, F1, F2, same thing. I was in a one. So the scream told them that I had the ability to, based on the placement exam, obtain. I had some basic knowledge of some things. But what it also told them, when they decided to put me away from these other students who were in lower screens, they needed additional help and resources. But in the stream of life of living in the Bahamas, when we get out of those environments, we're all living here together. So while you spent all those years separating us, now I have to come and live amongst the people that couldn't read, write and understand basic arithmetic. And that was socially promoted through the system because you couldn't afford to hold them back. And they too have a right and the same rights as someone in the top screen. So as we go to the news, Mandel, what does that say about the social system that is the classroom that we have created and the school we celebrating the king coming? Are we gonna tell the king this colonial style of learning has to change. [00:47:54] Speaker C: I continue to say that I believe that the social decay that we are experiencing or this degradation of our society, our values that we're seeing erode right before our eyes. Eyes. I don't see leaders that are intentional to address it. [00:48:16] Speaker B: Now, an AI in answer because you put AI AI only as smart as the person using the calculator. [00:48:23] Speaker C: We we keep saying you put in [00:48:25] Speaker B: the wrong figures to get the wrong result. [00:48:26] Speaker C: We look like we didn't pass that place even where we were saying it's a spiritual problem and the church and what's not. It looks like we're really at a place now where everybody is hoping that the government, whether they're red, yellow, black, black or white, does something. But realistically, I don't see anybody even within our government or political parties or anything that are focused on the social plight of our people. But God could dump billions in the Bahamas if socially we don't change. Boy, trust me. [00:49:02] Speaker B: We're going to take a brick break and head to news and we'll be back to continue the conversation on Talk to Me with Gabby. [00:49:26] Speaker C: If you want more food for less money, you gotta go to BK Nassau where value is king. [00:49:31] Speaker A: Start your morning with a sausage and cheese croissant for just $3. [00:49:35] Speaker C: And when lunchtime rolls around, the King's [00:49:38] Speaker A: got you covered with King deals for only $5. [00:49:40] Speaker C: Including that. [00:49:41] Speaker A: That's more food, more flavor and more value. So whenever your hunger hits, Burger King Nassau has got your back with a [00:49:48] Speaker C: three dollar sausage and cheese croissant and five dollar King deals more food for [00:49:52] Speaker A: less money only at Burger King Nassau. [00:49:56] Speaker C: Always on the go. [00:49:57] Speaker B: Miss the show. 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Anywhere from our beautiful family of islands. 2423-00-5720. And of course the text is who I have always love and appreciate. 4224796. Speaking of Texas, let me get some more of your text messages in. This text says, hey Gabby, where have you been for the past four days? I've been right here with y', all going through it with no electricity. [00:52:15] Speaker C: Just miss you through the week. [00:52:16] Speaker B: I know, I know, I know. I just have to build up, you know, you know, that anticipation. So when we climax that Friday, you're locked and loaded. You already know the protocol. This text has said miss how you mismanage what you don't have. You not paying attention. You are not paying attention because we've had it for a very long time. If you understand as somebody who has actually worked for the National Insurance Board. So I'm not saying this from what I think telling you this from what I know, there has been a lot of mismanagement from successive administrations. Successive administrations. Instead of just targeting the, the, the poor man. And when I say the poor man, the, the, the single business owner that only got one employee in the company, he may be the, the sole proprietorship though he only there trying to make sure everything's straight. You have big businesses and organizations and companies that have been allowed [00:53:32] Speaker A: to go [00:53:33] Speaker B: without paying contributions for workers even after collecting them. Have we not remembered the fallout during COVID How many persons that went to claim could not receive benefits due to some big well known companies having not paid contributions to the National Insurance Board and we know they're in operation. And then we knocking on the little man door every day saying you need to pay your contribution, you need to pay your contributions. But we know these people employing 200, 300, 400 people and we ain't going after them for what we owe. [00:54:15] Speaker C: See. Yeah, I always tell people we need to understand the complexities of the problems that we have and how they persist in us, our country because there's no one avenue to just eliminate or to resolve some of the issues that we have in country. But we have to become serious and say by look here, we've been dealing with the same issue for decades. At some point we need. [00:54:38] Speaker B: Raising the age of 67 doesn't solve the fundamental issue. It's not going to solve the problem because given somebody who can manage money, more money ain't gonna make them manage it. No, it ain't. And people are opting to retire and stop working sooner because after working like a slave for almost all your life, you trying to tell me when I finally feel like I reaching the finish line, I gotta work for just two more years. Caller would say you I try to find the nurse. Call it alive. [00:55:22] Speaker A: Hi, Good day, Gabby. [00:55:23] Speaker B: Good day, how are you? I'm fine. [00:55:26] Speaker A: I just called in to agree with the previous caller. Not the gentleman, but the lady who called in couple callers before what she [00:55:36] Speaker B: is saying I could resignate with totally. We have a prime minister in office that I feel as a Bahamian that do not care for the Bahamian people. It's like his agenda is to other nations and not particularly just the Haitians, but the Chinese, the Africans. Everybody could come in this country and [00:55:59] Speaker A: make a good living. But the Bahamian people who build and [00:56:04] Speaker B: contribute to this country is struggling. And I have a problem with that as a Bahamian and most sound thinking. [00:56:12] Speaker A: Bahamian should also have a problem with that. [00:56:16] Speaker B: Other nations could set up shop everywhere and sell 24 hours a day, every day. They're not hounded to show a business license. [00:56:27] Speaker A: The minute a Bahamian set up to try and make a living for them [00:56:30] Speaker B: and their children, they are hounded. It's like something spiritually went wrong in this country and the Bahamian people need to open up their eyes and wake up. How can Bahamian people survive with a little bit of money they're making? They are oppressed, they are depressed. [00:56:50] Speaker A: So what they do when they get [00:56:52] Speaker B: off from work, they go to the [00:56:53] Speaker A: liquor store to try feel better when they don't get drunk and start to feel a little bit better because that's what alcohol does. They don't have the mind to go home to cook. [00:57:04] Speaker B: They go next door to the Chinese restaurant, buy the bad food and eat, eat it. Then they become sick. So now they have to go to the hospital where it's overwhelmed because a hospital that was built from in the 60s, that was built to accommodate Bahamian people now have to take on other nations. So we cannot accommodate them. So the people are dying. [00:57:30] Speaker A: And I think that is the agenda. [00:57:33] Speaker B: Thank you. Thank you so much for your contribution, caller. So a lot of, a lot of, a lot of feelings. A lot. You think they're gonna take, she mentioned the hospital. You think they're going to take the king to the hospital? [00:57:49] Speaker C: Because. I was run. [00:57:57] Speaker B: You think take a Tour the King through the hospital. [00:58:01] Speaker C: So listen to me. It don't make no sense. It don't make sense. It don't make no sense. The king come here if he ain't getting by any place. Now if we ain't getting the King by any place, we trying to cover up something. [00:58:14] Speaker B: Yep. You don't pave all the road going to the honey place. Well, I feel like it'll be a smooth ride up the hill. [00:58:19] Speaker C: You know how Facebook is saying what are you thinking today? What are your thoughts for the day? As that's what your Facebook start is supposed to be, There's a little blank message in it that says what are you thinking? What are your thoughts for the day? So this morning for me, I, I was trying to figure out if the King passing through the corner where C. Walker is because that road ain't paved yet and I need to pave. So I, I, I, I posted this morning is the King passing through Seattle [00:58:43] Speaker B: Walker under this flood? Because they also and Government House right there too. [00:58:46] Speaker C: They just put up all them nice flag and thing right there. They can pave that road too, man. [00:58:51] Speaker B: Come on. Side note for the environmentalists, they uprooted and over. I think that Tree was over 100 years old that was there by C.R. walker. And when they uprooted it about a year or so ago, right on the corner, that tree was there. Oh yeah, I was in Seattle Walker and before I was there, that big tree, its roots held so much water that when they finally cut and got up and uproot the tree, I don't know if it may have been causing some infrastructural problems, so they had to get rid of it. But its roots held so much water the corner was flooded. And since and that corner is School Lane has been known to flood, flood tremendously. The flooding has gotten worse because there has been no sort of drainage rectification put in there. You didn't take up the one natural drainage, which is the tree. That big old tree used to suck up water. So even if the corner flood for a little bit by the time as you see, you give it about 30 minutes, that trees absorbed a lot of that water for the school children to be able to pass. [00:59:59] Speaker C: Now you think somebody in, in ministry works and then you take. [01:00:03] Speaker B: They don't even think about these things. [01:00:04] Speaker C: Do you think they figured that out [01:00:06] Speaker B: now you think they got an environmental certificate? [01:00:08] Speaker C: Because now they just from GR walking that. Come on man. [01:00:12] Speaker B: You think they got an environmental certificate to cut that tree down? Because if you want Build a shed in the back of your yard. You may have to get one of them. [01:00:18] Speaker C: If. If that was one of our silk cotton trees. I believe that they have to. There's a. There's a. There's a protocol where you have to plant three. Three trees or so before you actually take up that tree and so forth. [01:00:30] Speaker B: Mandel, Call her live or talk to me with Gabby. [01:00:37] Speaker C: Just hold the king into the corner so we can get it paved. [01:00:40] Speaker B: Call are you there? We lost that color. [01:00:43] Speaker C: And then Gabby also. I rather ride on paved roads that are flooded than ride on roads would aim pave like. Oh Jesus, keep me near the cross. Gabby. There's a corner off of Market street. The last corner on the right hand side of Market Street. Before you get to Robinson Road. That one way would come from. From. From Blue Hill Road cross the market. Oh my God. But some boys from the works please [01:01:13] Speaker B: hear a humble cry. And then it is flood that be before you get to second street. Before you get by. When you drop through there Singing Bishop Church before you turn on to there. [01:01:23] Speaker C: Yes, yes, you. When you drop inside them you end up Andrus elutra exuma and hold on [01:01:33] Speaker B: it is be flooded. So you can't. And it don't even matter if you ride the middle of the road. [01:01:36] Speaker C: Well, look at. My wife was holding on to the ceiling in the car the other day. And when the car dropped I say [01:01:42] Speaker B: Jesus, can we get a little bit of action? A little bit of filling any type of asphalt you could drop in there. But that road, I just avoid that at all costs. I rather go all the way down past Yellow at the primary, come all the way around. But matter of fact all them corners in the Grove is ridiculous. [01:02:01] Speaker C: Every single one I talking about from Town Center Mall when you park. When you reach by Shelley on Blue Hill Road by. By the Grove station. Every corner to your right. Every single one as far as. As. As almost don't pass national Insurance. Every single one of them flood torment. They flood tremendously. [01:02:24] Speaker B: You think White Daddy listening? That's what he's saying. White Daddy. You a know White Daddy is who's been through it. [01:02:33] Speaker C: I know you. [01:02:34] Speaker B: You ain't. [01:02:35] Speaker C: No, no, no. [01:02:35] Speaker B: Lord Mandel, you got to keep up man. If anybody is listening from White Daddy Ministry. The Lord in the Grove. [01:02:44] Speaker C: That's my man who say all kind of road getting paid. [01:02:47] Speaker B: Come on man. [01:02:48] Speaker C: No, but Clay. Honest to God. Mr. Sweden. Mr. Sweden. Minister wakes up as you pave the road. [01:02:54] Speaker B: Give the groove some TLC. [01:02:56] Speaker C: Especially in the Grove. A Member of Parliament, Mr. Michael Alquidas. I tired seeing the little churn them roll up their school walking in the water. Come on Ma, we got to be sensible. We could send some of this water back to people homes as a servants and all with the right drainage system. [01:03:16] Speaker B: Man, call her your life and talk to me with Gabby. [01:03:19] Speaker A: Hey. Gracious you Gabby. [01:03:21] Speaker B: Good, how are you? [01:03:23] Speaker A: Okay, two points I want to make great. One, with the age and retirement age rate. I think the government might have done that because internationally realized the United States they also raised the retirement age. I think it's like from 65 to 67 or something like that because they said that people tend to now be working longer. I'm blessed if you realize it right. These 70 year olds, Gabby, they like 70 year olds back in the day, you know, 70s and new 40, that's okay. [01:03:55] Speaker B: But it should be optional. It should be optional. We should, should we now? Because what you're going to have is people staying longer which means you have young persons graduating. Where's going to be the opportunity for them? You are now freezing up your pipeline even further. When are you going to move from a position of working to advising to guiding? There are numerous other roles for these persons to move toward. You got grandchildren, Go, go guide them, mentor them, teach them. Help your children be the village that you were intended to be. [01:04:37] Speaker C: But you just take two years from them that they now got to be spending. They're gonna have to. Instead of spending two years with the grandchildren, they have to work for two more years. But listen to what the government. [01:04:47] Speaker A: Like I said, like I said now I think that might have been the reason. No, I'm doing it. [01:04:54] Speaker C: No, listen to their reason. [01:04:56] Speaker A: Implement the three to four day work week also. [01:04:58] Speaker C: No, listen to their reason. Caller, let's not guess, let's listen to what the government has said. The government is considering raising the national retirement age to 67 as part of efforts to strengthen the long term sustainability of the National Insurance Board I. E. The National Insurance Fund with the labor of public service people noting that the retirees who return to work while collecting pensions are placing additional pressure on the fund. [01:05:32] Speaker B: But what happened to the people who in China trying to work, [01:05:39] Speaker C: I mean there's plenty of people collecting national insurance [01:05:42] Speaker B: and things they've entitled to that that is what for the time the primary gold was so that workers during the time they were unable to work. I think we're forgetting why the fund was established in the first place. [01:05:57] Speaker C: I named Mandel, I named Gawain Bo who's financially astute to understand that all I know is a little regular black bohemian is now you telling me instead of getting my pension and 65 I wait till 67 and don't. [01:06:13] Speaker A: That's basically what they said. [01:06:14] Speaker C: I mean that's my comprehension. Now if I wrong someone from the National Insurance Board come and explain the stuff what's being proposed. Because you're telling me that instead of getting at 65 I can get at 67. On top of that I worked two extra years to get it at 67 too. [01:06:31] Speaker A: Okay, but let me explain to you something right this way we go wrong. You realize NIB rate is, was not designed to be a retirement plan. We you re utilize that. But that was never the general purpose or design of. [01:06:49] Speaker C: Right there. That same part right there. That's it. If I'm not mistaken, the original intent for National Insurance was to be a safety social net. [01:07:00] Speaker B: It's Social Security for the times. It is the times for workers who have contributed. So firstly that's the first thing it was. The, the additional social benefits were additives. [01:07:15] Speaker C: What happened to all those? [01:07:16] Speaker B: It was for workers. So retirement is the time when you're not working. Sickness, maternity, all of those things are contingencies that cause you not to be able to work. So while that the retirement that they give you was never meant to fully sustain your lifestyle. [01:07:37] Speaker A: Ah, right. [01:07:39] Speaker B: So people getting it and choosing to continue to work is no one's problem. It's no one else's problem. [01:07:47] Speaker C: I really don't agree with this because [01:07:49] Speaker B: again if you have properly invested, properly managed our monies and you already say okay, people ain't having enough children this thing and the next thing I think we need to really have a study done and look closer into the real issues of the crash of the fund. And I think it will reveal to us a little bit more than just people not having children. What happened to the loans that were not paid back. [01:08:24] Speaker A: That naive not to know the general public. That is over borrowing. If you have a well, right? If you take out too much of the well that's going in the well, the well will go dry. That's like common sense. So it's from overboarding. So we borrow so much. I shouldn't say, yeah we the government because we borrowing this woman too. We borrow so much money from nib right now is time to pay back [01:08:46] Speaker B: pay and I be back from the surplus you got and let us who want go into yonder with whatever money we didn't put in there at age 65 and you're already taking it at a Reduced rate. If you take it at 60, that's, [01:08:59] Speaker C: that's, that's a moment right there with the young people taking it at 60 [01:09:03] Speaker B: because they do not wish to be slaves for the rest of their days. They want to enjoy whatever time they have with their family and they want to enjoy whatever time they got with their grandchildren and whatever time they got some level of health to live life. Man, this notion of us working till we burn up, break up and, and, and just can't do no more. We gotta do away with. [01:09:28] Speaker C: I can need my National Insurance to put gas in my cars. If we think if we can continue on this trajectory I can need a [01:09:34] Speaker B: little thing that'll work for me. [01:09:37] Speaker A: Gabby, you better come with different retirement plan cuz guess what your retirement plan is. [01:09:41] Speaker B: You need to start planning for your retirement now while you are working and have strength. [01:09:46] Speaker A: Gabby, I'm good. Good dialogue. [01:09:50] Speaker B: Thank you. Thank you so much, Carla. Listen, I gotta get to these texters too because I know they could deal with me. But let me take another caller. Call your live and talk to me with Gabby call. Are you there? Okay, let's get to some of these texts Mandel, before these texters have my head. [01:10:07] Speaker C: But Gabby, I see this your friend when I say your friend like you, you've always kind of gave sort of credence to her, her contribution. Minister Pia Glover, the Minister for National Insurance. I think she is somebody you should. We'd love to hear from. [01:10:25] Speaker B: We. I, I think so too. [01:10:26] Speaker C: We would love to hear from there. [01:10:30] Speaker B: I've definitely opened the show up to Minister Global. I will reach out once again to see when her availability is to sit with us and talk about some of these proposed plans for the National Insurance Board. And is it actually out for public consultation to see if that's something that the wider public and even the wider persons who are close to the age of 65 have been waited all that time only to be told you better stay on that job for another two years because you ain't getting nothing or you have to get something at a reduced rate if you take it at 65. [01:11:07] Speaker C: I think more effort ought to be placed into policies or initiatives that we can promote at an earlier for. At an earlier age to help sustain the fund at National Insurance in terms of how we as, as younger bohemians can go about our retirement. That helps to alleviate some of the load that that's on the fund currently. [01:11:31] Speaker B: Even so, this text says. Hey Gabby, hold on. What day at BPL need overtime? For what stupid power company has essential workers working 9 to 5 tell me. Oh, that's good for you. Luther. This is coming in from the text line. They say the infus are VR. This Texas says good day and big shout out to the older persons, especially all of our teachers who continue to mold our young people to do their work in this Bahamas. Gabby, this time if retirement age goes to 67, these people could bet the people will abandon the elderly, especially this wicked person who I will not call their name or title. This person says hi Gabby, suppose I tell you that raising the retirement age is a suggestion by the people in RUN who run things at NIB because more funds and contributions given out than receiving because people are having fewer children and the scheme keeps going. [01:12:38] Speaker C: I mean based on the cost of living, we got to be having fewer children. [01:12:43] Speaker B: And this is what I talk about. [01:12:45] Speaker C: Bohemians are having fewer children. And I want to say there are. There are other nationalities among us that are having children in the space us also. [01:12:56] Speaker B: This person says Mandel Gabby, regard the opposition leader in the House of Assembly during these debates. When he speaks it truly makes me sick when he gives Brave Davis these side compliments about Brave being some affable person. [01:13:15] Speaker C: I've been trying to. [01:13:16] Speaker B: I ain't even finished reading that text because I got to be trying to figure that out. This next text says and yet we still have the banging on the desk. This text says Gabby, when it comes to relief and action for the bohemian people, the government has been reviewing, investigating, considering checking into deliberating, consulting, etc. Etc. No action that coming in from the text like that text though I think they want to something. [01:13:50] Speaker C: We just got 200,000 eggs the other day. I think you know, that's a considerate. That's a considerably progressive action amount out of the 14 million proposed eggs that we supposed to eventually get. [01:14:04] Speaker A: No, you. [01:14:05] Speaker B: You got it wrong man. It was $14 million. Was the project or something like that? No, was budgeted. Would you talk how much eggs we [01:14:12] Speaker C: were supposed to get project if I'm not mistaken, you can Google it as budgeted to the tune of. [01:14:16] Speaker B: But you use it Google it too. Why everybody telling me to Google it these days? [01:14:19] Speaker C: The prime minister said you could Google it then everybody should just start googling. But don't get, don't get flustered about what people Google when you tell us Google. [01:14:29] Speaker B: Because what I find on Google because I googled the other day, I Google Google the. The progress tracker this week I was looking at it and I was like boy oh boy, this is a. This I need a whole show to talk about this progress, you should progress tracker. [01:14:46] Speaker C: You should ask Google. [01:14:47] Speaker B: I need to find out from Google if these things still in progress or as the Texas say deliberated consideration undertaking on the way in the pipeline. [01:14:58] Speaker C: And this is any administration's problem, whether you're the F and mp, the COI or anybody. You must understand that life in itself has become so efficient and accountable now that you can measure almost any and everything. So to be able to stand on a soapbox and say oh yeah, yeah, we dealing with that on Monday and this and that, like, like dude, come on, we didn't have a couple Mondays with you, man. We know what the rest of the week look like. [01:15:25] Speaker B: This Texas says good afternoon. Gabby. I am adamantly against raising the retirement age. Do they realize the physical conditions of many folks in their late 60s to cause them to work until almost 70? It's a strategy that allows NIB to save money. Don't matter how much money you put in the caucus if they are misusing it. [01:15:49] Speaker C: Yes, yes. Think about the amount of monies that have gone out of NIB under the guise of. Of billing this project and alone here. What? And we have had little to no forensic accounting on understanding nib's money. [01:16:08] Speaker B: So let's take a quick call before we have to go to a break call. Are you live? [01:16:12] Speaker A: Yes. Good afternoon to Kabi and Mandel. [01:16:15] Speaker B: Good afternoon. [01:16:16] Speaker A: Yeah, this one of the unwanted person on the G squad. Hey Mandel. [01:16:21] Speaker C: Yes, sir. [01:16:21] Speaker A: I always like your contributions, but. Hey Gabs. Hey, I. I could try rent a card from a crowd from France, man. You remember they took a chance and tried to up the pension in France. Remember that, man? Yeah, it was hell. But what happens is the geniuses have sat down around and they know that by the time a lot of people reach 67, they would be in heaven. But can they add on. Can I add on that text who was talking about it? Can I add on subjecting, neglecting, deflecting, rejecting. Jobs. I could go on and on, right? Mandel, the text, don't I. I like how they say. But I always said beating on the desk and they're still in a mess and they're still running in his contest. But the thing is with me, you heard the question earlier, right? Jobs. What's that next to text? The line you said earlier that 52 had died. I don't know, lied. But they tried to put a curse on me. But the Almighty. The Almighty ain't ready for me yet. But when he do, I'll be. I'll really. I'LL really need. If tomorrow I was leaving for Zion, I wouldn't stay a minute more because these ways of life judge your children facing it wouldn't. I wouldn't hesitate, trust me. But as it relates to this upping the, the age, the retirement, right. You know, I make my contributions here. I try to do, you know, I mean, but the thing is, it's disheartening because it's all money. It's all, it's all match. But the thing is, remember now, retirement, there's no such thing as retirement. You know, that's something that I think the auto industry invented for rich people who say, but you. Because you could never have enough money. But I am 62 and I never really was even contemplating because people I know, friends in the 60s, early 60s like me, they say, and they put in for the retirement, please, I'm not eager for retirement, but I'm just paying in case my children are not 18 and I die. You understand what I'm saying? Yes. [01:18:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:18:08] Speaker A: There's nothing to do with me. But they're always sitting and contemplating how they can always take money from us. I don't really want any, but BBL because for I, I had light bill for almost 700 for, for July and August. All right, and, and the little house and the house in the grove. So these people, I don't know what they're doing. If they don't borrow some money from the public, they got access. But have a good day. [01:18:27] Speaker B: Thank you so much. 52. Listen, we gotta run to a quick break, pay homage sponsors and be back to continue the conversation. Call us, you can hold the line, but we'll definitely get to all your calls and text messages. This is Talk to Me with Gabby and we got Mandel in studio and we just going through the headlines today. We'll be right back. [01:18:55] Speaker A: Every time, God. [01:18:56] Speaker B: For the journey, the earnings are just for the plus and gratitude is a must. [01:19:15] Speaker C: And coming on to the field, a brand new addition to the Popeyes playbook. [01:19:22] Speaker A: Introducing Popeye's Cheese Bites. Crispy on the outside, cheesy on the inside, and ready to make some noise on game day. Popeye's cheese bites. Just $3.95. Change the play. 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In the midst, in the midst of it all, they say, hold on, we need you. Yes, you faithful behemoth. [01:23:27] Speaker C: That's the spirit that I get behind the thing. We need you, the elderly, to sustain this. Just give us two more years of your time. [01:23:36] Speaker B: I I, I But what does that [01:23:37] Speaker C: say to the youth comfortable with that? I I, I don't I I, I that I'm not. Maybe again I'm I'm [01:23:45] Speaker B: 67. [01:23:46] Speaker C: I'm a financial guru. I. I finance ain't my thing. But from a. From being. Being someone who's concerned about people, I [01:23:53] Speaker B: don't like that approach me personally in advisory roles. Yes. In. There are certain industries in education. I can see it in. In educational roles. So by industry when you go down the line. But to have that as a sweeping. Gabby, you want somebody be a cashier till he's 67. [01:24:14] Speaker C: You remember recently about. About a year ago, the same, this exact same time a year ago, what were we doing as a country? Trying to get the teachers paid. You remember that and I remember the protesters that. That that were had. [01:24:29] Speaker B: If you can't get the money, ring the bell. [01:24:31] Speaker C: There you go there. That's what we was doing last year the same time that's what we were doing. And I remember this elderly lady during the protest one day down there standing up at the barricades and she said I come out here because of my daughter. And I said what you mean by because of your daughter? Because my daughters teach now saying the little pension I getting ain't nothing. And so I come to advocate because they really should give the teachers more. My heart melt that day to see an elderly mother out there fighting for the future for her daughter who's now an educator. So imagine telling them you getting it at 67 instead of 65. What, that ain't enough? [01:25:14] Speaker B: Carla, welcome to the conversation on Talk to Me with Gabby. [01:25:18] Speaker A: Hey Gabby. Hi. My name. How y' all doing today? Awesome. Awesome. Listen Gabby think you are on it when you reference I need to see some more facts when it comes to this. Why? Because there's no way a young man like me either go make three and four and five more children shoot up the place. And you telling me that's a reasonable solution to sustain the fund. Spending the money any which way they feel sustain the fund. And so I think we in a time now where the government need to start providing proof and facts of these numbers. I they call us like the one of your texts. They deliberate and consulting and doing all these things right. No, show me the figures or the numbers or the facts behind how you were able to come up with this decision. Show us how you your government brought back the most retirees and you admitting the fact that they clogging up the system and then yet you trying to tell us we need you to wait two more years because they want all the PSS people to clog up and then you. You doing this we in youth month now. So Those young people, they are so talented, they're so. They were vigorous and they were so, you know, expressive. And also assembly today, speaking on behalf of Vision 2040 and how they think they have a future, but there it is. Now you saying you trying to extend the elderly in the workforce, which to me blocks the future generation of those to come and go. [01:26:48] Speaker C: I mean, adds to the clog we already have. [01:26:50] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. We already have a call and the minister on record saying that these people, the majority or part of it is because they are blocking up the system and collecting pension. So what are we telling our young people now in the House of Assembly as we speak today? Oh, your future is bright and the country is yours. However, we still need the elderly to continue to work. You have but five PS's who over the age of 70. Imagine that God promised us trees going down. So when we continue to do or make these decisions, when the reality of it is we just don't prioritize our money and spending and that is why we in this position and so does Behemoth wake up and realize, listen, man, the government could fluff and talk and do all of this, but they just do what they want to do with the money and we just got to revive. We can't just take their pretty words. We got to stand up and understand what they saying don't make sense because I know we in this. [01:27:47] Speaker B: Thank you so much. Thank you so much for your contribution. And the caller reminded me because someone was sharing something via WhatsApp on the list of Permanent Secretaries and their ages. Do you know that we have 29 ministries now due to what the Cabinet posts are, and we have more than 29 permanent secretaries, many of them over that same age of 65. So you are telling me there isn't a capable person of promoting to Under Secretary TPS all of these things so that they can eventually. Now, as this Permanent Secretary is moving out of the way to retire, we have to constantly bring back people and say these are the only people who know how to run our government ministries. [01:28:47] Speaker C: I just recently said to someone, I said, if that's the case, that ain't working. [01:28:52] Speaker B: By the way, might I add, we're [01:28:55] Speaker C: going to continue on this thing, on this, in this fashion or manner. We might as well formalize it then. Why can't we create the Institute or the Department of Government Resources or something where if you retire and you still have some knowledge or some work inside you left, you can go there and deposit whatever knowledge you have there where younger people can learn it from you or you just get rid of it before you go into retirement. But the point that I'm making is if we are going to continue, continue to say, oh, we got to bring back these retirees because we need them. And what's not, why aren't we creating avenues where there's training for whatever. For whatever, for whatever the skill set is that they have for that knowledge to be passed on to other generations. Why are we operating where we have to depend on them? Bring them back for 10, 15 years, still paying them these big. [01:29:54] Speaker B: And they still never trained anyone. [01:29:56] Speaker C: Exactly, exactly. [01:29:57] Speaker A: So. [01:29:57] Speaker B: So never train the people who they said they came back to train. [01:30:01] Speaker C: And it's demoralizing young people in the system. [01:30:04] Speaker B: Happy Youth month by the way to all of the young persons as well as it's also cancer month. We also had mental health awareness. It's so much things compounded in October. So as we speak, I think their youth parliamentarians are in there. I'm not certain what their resolution is that they're debating, but my God, looking at this in the front pages of the newspaper, I would have loved to hear what they had to say about the retirement age being raised to 67. Call her. You're live. Gabby, go ahead. [01:30:36] Speaker A: Good afternoon. [01:30:37] Speaker B: Good afternoon. [01:30:37] Speaker A: Just the whole story from. Suppose this supposing the age retirement was when you born and growing up it was 67. Would it make a difference? You want to make a difference? Man put things in place and man have the right to change things. Some people will like it and some wouldn't like it because there are many people maybe will like it because sometimes they still able to work, still have the knowledge to teach, still have the knowledge to do things. And when you cut them off and say, listen here, at the age of 65, you going home and then you still got to call them back. So that is where sometime people say, why are you doing this to me? I still is able you put this limit on me, but I have, I could go more than what you say, you see. So we have to now think more out of the box and let people explode and stuff like that. When a person cannot make it, then it's up to them to say, well, I can retire or stuff like that. And stuff like they always, I know they're going to be on the proper period of time. [01:31:58] Speaker B: There you go, Dangle. Go home. Call her Dangle. They will. The undertaker will have to come to the job site to take some of these people, including in our parliament out of there. [01:32:13] Speaker A: 85, you have people waking up to 85. They still could make it. [01:32:19] Speaker B: They still could function circumstantial. But to have it as a sweeping standard, standard where we have so many ineffective, inefficient persons. Because guess what? If the God Lord take you home today, who will fill those shoes? And life still gotta go on. [01:32:43] Speaker A: Life still go, whatever, whenever God have your number for you to go. No man can stop that. Okay, so you're telling put the retirement age on you at 65 now, man, see that they get it. Listen here. We have to make some changes. So take it to the change. It's the same thing what man do, man put monthly payment on you. So, man, if they want to change it, they could change it. Sometimes we live in the world that we could change things. [01:33:13] Speaker B: Yes. And we can also resist it. Thank you so much for your contribution, caller. We can resist it. [01:33:19] Speaker C: I hear the caller and it seems as if the spirit behind what the caller is saying is that people still could work. People still could work. And I understand that. But the point that we are trying to make is that should be based on people's choice. I should, you should not mandate people to still have to work an additional two years. And if that is the case, ask we the people how we feel about it then. Because me personally, I 65 yet, but I think I will wait till 67 for my national church because I know if I, I don't know how long y' all gonna let these, these blackouts persist. I don't know if I won't be around here this long. Okay, so give me my little thing as early as you could get that to me and, and, and, and let me come out your way. [01:34:06] Speaker B: Mandela's Texas says good day. In my opinion, this increase in the retirement age is designed to ensure that hardworking behemoths die before they can benefit from their contributions. This next text says. Good evening, Gabby. So when are we gonna change the name of Prince Charles Drive to King Charles Drive? That ain't at the top of my priority list. I know, I, we could change the name too. [01:34:33] Speaker C: I just had to find. I had to ask you just now if King, if Prince Charles drive name after Prince Charles or King Charles? [01:34:40] Speaker B: You forget the queen lived for but a million years. She celebrated like a 70th of June Jubilee. [01:34:48] Speaker C: So how Prince Charles get named after Prince Charles? [01:34:50] Speaker B: Because he was a prince then. [01:34:52] Speaker C: I mean, so they just name it after him like game a whole, you know, Prince Charles long, you know, they just gave him a whole Prince Charles for what? [01:34:59] Speaker B: I don't know. Ask the people that was around I wasn't here. [01:35:02] Speaker C: If you come in the engine Prince Charles or something like that. I mean I just trying to find out the significance of Prince Charles being named after Prince Charles. [01:35:09] Speaker B: Ask for people that have all the information on the ground. [01:35:14] Speaker C: I can't. That's something. That's something I'd really like to our ministry of culture or somebody to tell us why Prince Charles name after him. [01:35:23] Speaker B: This text says thank you Gabby. Raising the retirement won't change the problem. If they take the king to the hospital he will only be shown the new look to the front by the critical care block. I hope the power go out when the king here too. You think they ain't got generated where the king. Where the king could be man back up standby everything automatic. He ain't even gonna know the light dip to experience blackout. [01:35:49] Speaker C: But that is no but have you. Have you witnessed this this whole king the journey that he's making through the Caribbean and I saw. I think they were in Grenada or someplace where the young lady in introduction and she said they're paving all the roads for you. And he just laughed like really like I could care less. [01:36:07] Speaker B: But any road you know this texter says serious talk. They need to take him to the staircase and PMH just to let him lay in one hospital bed to meet them. To meet Lil Ratty by. By tricky nickname. What y' all are wild. He the road is Ponciana Bahama Palm Palm Tree Sand Cado Avenue. While all of them are out. All of them while at it cloud the shanty town behind Edmund Mox park in the Grove. Well what happened? I thought they said it was getting rid of the time. Let me take these last callers because we running out of time and calling you live and talk to me with Gabby on this Friday. [01:36:51] Speaker C: Gabby, you need to see what they've done the millions that was invested in Edmond Moxie park behind national. Remember that beautiful country Controversy. Not controversy. The. The. The site behind national Insurance. [01:37:06] Speaker A: The. [01:37:06] Speaker B: The pond. [01:37:07] Speaker C: The pond where they invested that millions into the landscape in the back there for what's the word? I trying to get the right pronunciation. Let's con not controversy man. [01:37:17] Speaker A: Call it alive before you go conservative assignment on the situation with the consultancies. Right? They hire consultancies because it's cheaper to hire consultant and you get the experience for cheap price. The hire someone to actually do the job where you have to train them. [01:37:34] Speaker C: Yeah, I've heard that. [01:37:35] Speaker A: Yeah, that's also right. It could be worse. They can hire foreign consultant what consultant? They pay in cheaper prices than the [01:37:42] Speaker C: people who work no pension for these consultants. What are you talking about? [01:37:47] Speaker B: When. When these concern most of these consultancy contracts have built in gratuities at the end of two years that they paying them lump sum payments. They're making far more more than public servants. Y' all better wake up and smell the room. [01:38:05] Speaker C: Yeah, it's still more good experience. [01:38:08] Speaker B: Thank. Thank you so much for your contribution, caller. That's. That's still more money. The money. [01:38:13] Speaker C: It ain't about the more money. [01:38:15] Speaker B: Insurance benefits [01:38:19] Speaker C: money. It ain't about more money. [01:38:21] Speaker B: Call her. Tell my on d pay these people a pension, please. You're. You're lying. [01:38:28] Speaker A: All them millions of dollars invest in the barn. That was for them to have one big shanty town in the back there. That's what in the back there right now. [01:38:36] Speaker B: I didn't even know that. I gotta go. [01:38:37] Speaker C: Look Gabby millions on this thing about [01:38:41] Speaker A: the increase of the retirement age. If the government number stop taking nib money and buying and investing in a bunch of nonsense we would have our money. It's like they want you to die before you get your money. This is the reason why they allowed all this garbage in this country to feed you all kind of garbage make you sick. Open your die. Too many callers upset by joint design. Stop taking niv money and doing what they feed. All they want to do is build that back up. And then when you look party in the backyard 75 because they bust the money up on a bunch of nonsense again. Be responsible with the behemoth people. Money man. Stop spending this money nearly how you feel expended to put it in your friend's pocket. [01:39:35] Speaker B: Thank you so much. Carla, let me take the last call for the show because we didn't almost out of time and I want to read some of your text messages before we get out of the studio. So caller, you are the last caller for the show. You got your radio on caller. [01:39:51] Speaker A: Hi. [01:39:51] Speaker B: There you go. [01:39:52] Speaker A: Afternoon. [01:39:53] Speaker B: Good afternoon. [01:39:53] Speaker C: Afternoon. [01:39:55] Speaker A: I want to enjoy your show. Really wonderful show you're having today. [01:39:57] Speaker B: Thank you. [01:39:58] Speaker A: Prince Charles Drive Mandala asked about. [01:40:00] Speaker C: Yes, yes, tell me. [01:40:01] Speaker A: Yes, Prince Charles. You know, being a son of the Queen Elizabeth back in the colonial days, everything was just about what they were recognized as. Princess Margaret Hospital named after the queen's sister, Queen Elizabeth Sports center named after the queen. John F. Kennedy Drive named after all these people visited the ad and so was Prince Charles in his young days. They named and ordered the honor when they visited the island of Nassau. So that one's for you, Mandel. [01:40:34] Speaker B: Thank you so much. [01:40:35] Speaker A: I'm not natural though. But just for that fell before. Okay, thank you. [01:40:40] Speaker C: Thank you so much. [01:40:41] Speaker B: I appreciate the call. Where you listening from? [01:40:44] Speaker A: Thank you. [01:40:44] Speaker B: Grandmama, Grandma, Grandma in the house. I hope your power stays reliable. [01:40:49] Speaker C: Let me get a little bit of history today. [01:40:51] Speaker A: We've been so fortunate. We don't have so hold on. [01:40:54] Speaker C: Caller before you leave. [01:40:55] Speaker A: Caller before you leave. [01:40:59] Speaker C: Before you leave. So much before you leave. Caller before you leave. If you can hear me, can you hear me? [01:41:04] Speaker A: Yes, I can hear you. [01:41:05] Speaker C: Okay, so one the prime minister recently said that the persons in Grand Bahama are experiencing lower light bills as a result of the current moves that the government has making. Have you. Are you a customer? A recipient of that? And has that been the experience in Grand Bahama? [01:41:26] Speaker A: I don't see it really. For me it's a fair standard. A price, you know, that I pay all the time. I don't see it. It's all worse. Jessica has been announced for guanometer streak since Monday. They said denied nothing since. So anything that he says when I see it, I believe it. [01:41:46] Speaker B: Wow, thank you so much. Thank you so much. Let me get these last set of text messages. This says some of us are old enough to remember the Queen Grove and the Anglican areas were basically ponds. They need specialized civil engineering to alleviate the chronic flooding. [01:42:05] Speaker C: Let's get it done. I tired of the churn walking to school and coming from school in the conditions that they have to man like this is common sense. [01:42:14] Speaker B: This texter says, gabby, I retired last year. I put in for a retirement claim to nib 12 months ago and can't seem to get it. 12 months. This is coming in from the text line. [01:42:27] Speaker C: Well, they definitely will wait till next time. [01:42:29] Speaker B: They talking about 67. Some of us trying to get us at 60. We aim one way till no 65 and tell them go that way about 67 child. Listen, Gabby, they're hoping we die before age 67. Everybody is saying people in for this. Y' all better go over that way with that. Matter of fact, Mandel, I forgot to mention I heard that government workers have been getting bi weekly pays. Persons got paid today. Oh, it's Friday and the boys got paid. Oh, but I didn't hear anything else from the union leaders in terms of this rollout. Log on to the portal are gonna work. [01:43:11] Speaker C: That means things good. [01:43:13] Speaker B: It's Friday happy hour this mid weekend [01:43:16] Speaker C: you wait for government and you get paid. [01:43:18] Speaker B: Well, y' all better put your rent money aside because we already talk with financial literacy. I have somebody come here and tell you all. When you just get paid bi weekly, how you gotta budget and put half rent this week, half of the rent that week. Cause he ain't getting that lump sum no more. It's still the same salary, baby. [01:43:34] Speaker C: Either way. Gabby. It's Friday and the boys got big. [01:43:39] Speaker B: That has been the show. It's 4pm they say it's 4pm and talking heads with Naughty and Mary Jane is up next. So stick and stay for the news. And after that, Talking Heads, me and Mandel are out of here. Have a good afternoon. [01:43:58] Speaker C: Bahamas I got for my crab soup. Yummy. [01:44:00] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.