There is a shortage of affordable housing through out this country. I remembered when I was shown the staff dormitories in Exuma. The original developers of Emerald Bay built those to house their staff. One of my relatives as well as my neighbour told me how expensive it was to rent in Great Exuma during the construction of Emerald Bay and Grand Isle Resorts.
I hope and pray this project is sensibly managed. I hope that is not a slush fund to reward PLP cronies and supporters with taxpayers' money.
This situation goes to several issues that are side-stepped by the media and political administrations here in the Bahamas. 1. The level of poverty in this country. 2. The large amount of persons who do not have any insurance on their homes or have inadequate insurance coverage on their homes. 3. The high cost of construction materials.That makes construction and renovation of homes in this country very expensive. 4. The shortage of affordable housing in this country.
This issue has plagued several political administrations. It is going to take a very comprehensive plan to deal with it,
At the same time ,can Dr.Minnis give the rationale for his administration abandonment of the Clarence A. Bain building project? The Building was imploded and monies was borrowed from the IDB to replace it. Some of the loan proceeds went to the National Training Agency. Dr.Minnis is merely the flip side of Phillip Davis. Only his rabid supporters can not see that.
The Bahamas system of government is a monarchy. King Charles is the head of state. Bahamians by in large are too politically immature to have a serious discussion on moving this country to be a republic. This is the stated observation of a foreigner.
The Ministry of Works does very little maintenance on this island. Replacing road signs, painting road markings, cleaning drains and minor road patching. They can not be bothered to do these trivial things.
Correction, Marlon Johnson is not a former financial secretary.He is merely acting while the financial secretary was sent on leave by the FNM government. That was an act of victimization. This is how this country functions.
On to the main topic.The Bahamas has serious issues with literacy, numeracy and education in general.There is a high level of male underachievement in education. That is seen in the enrolment and graduation levels at tertiary institutions in this country. The College of the Bahamas at the time did a study of girls and boys school perfomance.They concluded that the sexes were even at primary but boys fell behind and stayed when they reach puberty.There is also a belief in this country you do not really need a good education to make a living here. This is partly due to the tourism industry we have. There is also a report done by the IDB in 2006. They said about forty percent of the males do not graduate from the public school system. They were looking at the link between education achievement and the crime rate.
There are bright spots out there.There are parents and civil groups who are concerned about this. There are quite a number of programs out there.It is to the parents and guardians to enroll the children in these programs.
There is no town-planning in this country except in Freeport. Town planning through their actions or non-actions have destroyed or made communities worse on this island. A white bahamian as well as a black bahamian told me this.
Law reform commissioner was around from the days of the late Sir Lynden Pindling. He appointed one during the eighties. Hubert Ingraham appointed one also. The law reform commissioner is a very important job.
The Bahamian parliament is way behind in it's performance.There were many archaic laws on the books. Hubert Ingraham said that when he was prime minister.He said there were many laws on the books that don't make sense in the modern Bahamas. The parliamentary system needs to be reformed and real local government introduced. Most parliamentarians are just local government officials here in the Bahamas and are not legislators.
A pebble in an ocean of debt. The Bahamas needs several years of economic growth and budget surpluses to make a dent in it's large debt..This is nothing to talk about or celebrate.
BONEFISH says...
There is a shortage of affordable housing through out this country. I remembered when I was shown the staff dormitories in Exuma. The original developers of Emerald Bay built those to house their staff. One of my relatives as well as my neighbour told me how expensive it was to rent in Great Exuma during the construction of Emerald Bay and Grand Isle Resorts.
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BONEFISH says...
I hope and pray this project is sensibly managed. I hope that is not a slush fund to reward PLP cronies and supporters with taxpayers' money.
This situation goes to several issues that are side-stepped by the media and political administrations here in the Bahamas.
1. The level of poverty in this country.
2. The large amount of persons who do not have any insurance on their homes or have inadequate insurance coverage on their homes.
3. The high cost of construction materials.That makes construction and renovation of homes in this country very expensive.
4. The shortage of affordable housing in this country.
This issue has plagued several political administrations. It is going to take a very comprehensive plan to deal with it,
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BONEFISH says...
At the same time ,can Dr.Minnis give the rationale for his administration abandonment of the Clarence A. Bain building project? The Building was imploded and monies was borrowed from the IDB to replace it. Some of the loan proceeds went to the National Training Agency. Dr.Minnis is merely the flip side of Phillip Davis. Only his rabid supporters can not see that.
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BONEFISH says...
The Bahamas system of government is a monarchy. King Charles is the head of state. Bahamians by in large are too politically immature to have a serious discussion on moving this country to be a republic. This is the stated observation of a foreigner.
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BONEFISH says...
The Ministry of Works does very little maintenance on this island. Replacing road signs, painting road markings, cleaning drains and minor road patching. They can not be bothered to do these trivial things.
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BONEFISH says...
Correction, Marlon Johnson is not a former financial secretary.He is merely acting while the financial secretary was sent on leave by the FNM government. That was an act of victimization.
This is how this country functions.
On to the main topic.The Bahamas has serious issues with literacy, numeracy and education in general.There is a high level of male underachievement in education. That is seen in the enrolment and graduation levels at tertiary institutions in this country. The College of the Bahamas at the time did a study of girls and boys school perfomance.They concluded that the sexes were even at primary but boys fell behind and stayed when they reach puberty.There is also a belief in this country you do not really need a good education to make a living here. This is partly due to the tourism industry we have. There is also a report done by the IDB in 2006. They said about forty percent of the males do not graduate from the public school system. They were looking at the link between education achievement and the crime rate.
There are bright spots out there.There are parents and civil groups who are concerned about this. There are quite a number of programs out there.It is to the parents and guardians to enroll the children in these programs.
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BONEFISH says...
There is no town-planning in this country except in Freeport. Town planning through their actions or non-actions have destroyed or made communities worse on this island. A white bahamian as well as a black bahamian told me this.
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BONEFISH says...
He is simply a self -serving individual. He is in it for the money,power and perks.
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BONEFISH says...
Law reform commissioner was around from the days of the late Sir Lynden Pindling. He appointed one during the eighties. Hubert Ingraham appointed one also. The law reform commissioner is a very important job.
The Bahamian parliament is way behind in it's performance.There were many archaic laws on the books. Hubert Ingraham said that when he was prime minister.He said there were many laws on the books that don't make sense in the modern Bahamas. The parliamentary system needs to be reformed and real local government introduced. Most parliamentarians are just local government officials here in the Bahamas and are not legislators.
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BONEFISH says...
A pebble in an ocean of debt. The Bahamas needs several years of economic growth and budget surpluses to make a dent in it's large debt..This is nothing to talk about or celebrate.
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