I also agree with Amanda's post except the "Stop blaming the town council, stop blaming the government" bit....if charitable donations need to be monitored and audited then what about our millions in taxes?

Last year this island almost ground to a halt during the rainy season because of our disintegrating roads and a group of VERY worried businesspeople got together and secured government funding to pave the road from Distributers to BWS. And that was the same government everyone was saying is broke.

Look, there IS money, paying taxes and expecting NOTHING back will get you just that, NOTHING. We have a community responsibility to jointly expect more from our own money. We play into government's hands when we just say "Keep our money, we don't expect any of it to come back to the island."