Sometimes you have to tell the international world politely to kiss ya a$$ and just do you Bahamas. When Hubert Ingraham did all that to try appease them with offshore banking regulations see what we ended up with? So take a day on the beach, build our farming and fishing industries and don't pay too much mind to them regulators. Their agenda is already written for the most part.

Yeah, great idea, John, let's try it....but let me emigrate to some other country first..
I do not want to go hungry when we have no foreign reserves left to pay for our imported food.
That should be in about 8 months time without international support.

In 2015, the Bahamas exported $1.87B and imported $8.67B, resulting in a negative trade balance of $6.8B.

Doubt the Bahamas can export their way out of this.

It the peoples time. Good for all of them. but while others are out of jobs. Foulkes and doc
have jobs.

'Control their food supply and control their energy supply and you have control over them.' Isn't that is what is happening in the Bahamas right now? Where does most of our food come from? Remember when tinned and tonnes of Bahamian produce was dumped into the sea or otherwise discarded in favor of imported, mostly junk food? Food that make you sick, angry and non productive? So much so that basically everyone has stopped farming. Then what is this BEC /BPL fiasco? Two years in and the US management company is yet to say how they plan to reduce the cost of electricity. How they plan to increase capacity and how they intend to make the supply more reliable. That's because it is their intention to make your a$$ sweat. There is nothing at BEC that needs to be fixed that cannot be fixed. There is nothing at BPL that's needs to be done that cannot be done. And it can be done with no additional cost to the consumer. By replacing one of their generators at Clifton BPL can save enough on fuel to finance that generator over a period of 3-5 years. By continually replacing generators every two years it can completely renovate its New Providence plant and supply cleaner less costly electricity and increase its capacity. And It can replace and upgrade the smaller and less costly plants on the Family Islands simultaneously. Do you know any part of the US of any country where BPL operates that the peer supply is unreliable that the capacity is lacking or that the cost of power is as costly as it is here? You should have known these people were jokers and clowns when they came here demanding the government make solar power illegal when half New Providence was still in darkness. This new generation of Bahamians ain't gonna stand for the Bull$hit! Either you do what you were hired to do and you do it well and you do it quickly or you carry your a$$! Why is the country what right next door to America one of the most expensive countries in the world to live in, especially for its citizens? This gonna get fixed in this same generation. No more invisible masters!

Do you know any part of the US of any country where BPL operates that the power supply is unreliable or that the capacity is lacking or that the cost of power is as costly as it is here? One of the greatest benefits to any company is when the market is demanding more of its product than it is currently supplying. That gives room for growth and allows for greater economies of scale or efficiency. You should have known these (BPL) people were jokers and clowns when they came here demanding the government make solar power illegal when half New Providence was still in darkness. This new generation of Bahamians ain't gonna stand for the Bull$hit! Either you do what you were hired to do and you do it well and you do it quickly or you carry your a$$! Why is the country that is right next door to America one of the most expensive countries in the world to live in, especially for its citizens? This gonna get fixed in this same generation. No more invisible masters! One of the greatest economic periods in the history of the Bahamas came when Sir Lynden Pindling told Brian Ross of NBC news, You expect my small little country to do what your great, big country, with all of its resources, army, navy, air force cannot do?' And he had the Bahamianization policy (immovable properties act) in place. Unlike today where everything is being sold off to the first bidder. Foreigners who don't pay their fair share of taxes. Stop it!

John, imagine if there was some kind of ambitious/radical solarization scheme in the works for the Bahamas! I for one like the plan that makes BEC/BPL redundant. It goes like this... Government offers some kind of rebate or subsidy on solar panels, every house that can afford it has it installed, the GRID is brought up to standard to accept grid tie in, demand on BPL is less, people have more money to spend on food and entertainment, economy starts moving, small businesses start hiring, BEC can retire the bunker C generators, they can also stop polluting the Earth at Clifton. #winning
Any idea why this can't happen?

We know the problems... Besides the lack of jobs the next thing killing the Commonwealth of The Bahamas is the high cost of living. Imported everything, a lack of 'Buy Bahamian" mentality and the idea that foreign is better is killing us. When we buy Bahamian made products we keep the money in the Bahamas. So much of the money that is made in the Bahamas is spent in Walmart or some online shop. We send our wealth out of the country and then wonder why our economy is stagnant. Buy local, eat what is produced and sourced here. Support Bahamian businesses; visit the local bakery and corner shop, go down Cowpen Road and buy from the farm stands. Buy Bahamian, it is a simple thing that every one of us can do.

I agree with you on all points. The truth is Bahamians go abroad to indulge in many things tourists come here to avoid. Fresh and natural foods for example and clean and unpolluted air for the most part. But (US) marketeers have used their skills to convince us that their products are better so we dump our own fresh and natural produce for processed and artificial foods. Then spend most of the rest of our lives paying doctor bills.