6 dsys of survey takes 4 months to put together?

I always find confusing the statistic regarding "people who do not look for work because they feel there are no jobs" (Or is that just an excuse). Wouldn't that become a self-fulfilling prophecy? How will you ever know whether there are any jobs if you do not look? Just when you quit looking could be the very day that someone might have hired you. Don't give up or at least try to do some type of independent work in the meantime.

Our Department of Statistics is currently loaded with incompetent and unqualified individuals, from the top right on down. This is a vital department to the rest of government and the public at large. It must be well run and managed by qualified statisticians who are loyal to the completeness, accuracy and reliability of the statistical reports required to be produce on a regular basis or other special reports to be made available on request. Minnis and KP would be wise to make the important personnel changes needed in this department at the earliest possible time, even if it means engaging a couple of highly qualified foreign statisticians as an interim measure. The adage "garbage in, garbage out" applies to this department more than any other, with a great knock-on effect for all other government departments, agencies and corporations that use the vital statistical records generated, not to mention the private business sector.

Of course the unemployment rate dropped - just think of the many thousands of voters that the corrupt Christie-led PLP government put on the public payroll in the run up to the last general election! 'Vote buying' using the public payroll (a/k/a bribery or election fraud) was in full gear before the general election. Certain former PLP Ministers known to have been heavily engaged in this illegal practice during the six-month period ahead of the last general election should be held accountable and responsible for the abuse of their public office and the public trust. Taxpayers have already lost millions of dollars because of this criminal conduct on the part of certain former PLP Ministers and stand to lose millions more in the future as it will take time for the new government to 'undue' all of the costly job padding that was done throughout the civil service work force in an effort by the PLP to 'buy' the election using our tax dollars.

Yep, gotta undo the 'undue' where individuals were just added to the public payroll with absolutely no good reason for doing so from the standpoint of the public sector's actual workforce needs and the taxpayers' pocket book.

Maybe not. Hasn't everyone already fled Grand Bahama? Those 25% unemployed Grand Bahamians and now unemployed Nassuvians - but yet New Providence's rate went down. Something smells with these figures.

This appears to be a move in the right direction even though one must be mindful of the time the survey was done. Just weeks before a general election. But yes more people are working and as this trickles through the economy hopefully it will generate more business activity. RIP Rupert Roberts founder and President of Super Value.

Surprisingly there is a lot of construction activity on a number of the Family. I stands including Eleuthera, Exuma and The Abacos. A number of foreign investors are building rental units and retiring Bahamians are moving to the Family Islands to escape the hustle and bustle of New Providence.

Did you seriously post this picture instead of giving us a graph .......? What was it historically?

Most of the individuals currently working in our Dept of Statistics have a difficult enough time as it is with basic maths and you expect them to know something about using a graph to present data?! Come on, give 'em a break.