This report is simply stating what has been known by certain persons in this country. The Bahamas has had problems with it's education system for decades. The Bahamas has had unsatisfactory results from it's education system for years. There are problems in this system from primary to tertiary level of education.
The IDB did a report years ago stating that many young men on the island of New Providence were not graduating from high school.A relative of mine told me what a prominent person told him.The Bahamian secondary school system is inferior and behind both the Barbadian and St.Lucian secondary school system.
Add to that ,there is a huge brain drain from this country. A young person told a PLP politician this at a meeting at St.Thomas university in Florida.The Bahamas is not an attractive country to return, to live and work .I know a lady who's son went to university in Canada.She told me ,he has not returned to the Bahamas.Since he graduated about eight years, he has lived and work in Canada.
Congratulations to Shaunae and her husband Maicel.The child will be an Estonian citizen at birth.The citizenship laws relating to Bahamian women who have foreign spouses should have been changed decades ago.
@ This is Ours. This current political system is the Westminister system,which we got from the British. It is the same system they are currently using in the United Kingdom.
The main modes of taxation in this country are consumption based, customs duties and vat The burden of taxation in this country falls disproportionately on the backs of the people who are least able to pay. That is what a person who has a bit of understanding of economics told me. The Bahamas has a major political management and governance problems. However this system has to change so people pay taxes based on their ability to pay.It is simply common sense and sound economic principles
A bahamian living aboard made this comment about the press in the bahamas. You have stenographers and not reporters in the Bahamas.That comment was made on an online forum. A next comment was here in the Bahamas,you have mainly newsreaders and they were not good at that. There is little investigative or analytical journalism in the Bahamas.
I no longer watch or listen to ZNS for news. ZNS is mainly a propaganda tool for the party in power.. Many journalists pass through various newsrooms to more lucrative positions. This PLP government has hired numerous journalists as part of their public relations machine.
I cringe at some of the comments of a certain radio host. i say to myself, this man could not have been a member of parliament in this country
The press in the Bahamas seems to have lost the script. They by in large don't play their role in this society.
@ This is Ours.Some one explained it to me. It is called behavioral economics. It is when governments use taxes to moderate certain behaviours. The FNM did it also. That is why sugar was not vat free under the FNM government.They also planned to put certain fruits, nuts and vegetables as bread basket items. They had some good ideas which were not properly executed.
As for the government scrounging around for taxes. There is widespread tax evasion and avoidance in this country. There is a low level of compliance in paying certain existing taxes on the books. That is why under both FNM and PLP governments,there exists a revenue enhancement unit.
@Sheeprunner 12. That is not so. A mobilization was paid to a well -known construction company to work on the Arthur's Town airport before the 2017 election. When the government changed, the incoming FNM government did not proceed with the project.
Now the PLP came back to power,they are simply proceeding with their projects. Both parties are playing ping pong with the Bahamian people.The media here in the Bahamas don't ask questions and pretend to know nothing.
Bermuda is only 2i square miles. Bermuda is not and independent country. It is an overseas territory of Great Britain. Bermuda has it's own challenges despite it's high GDP.Cape Haitien airport is open in the north of Haiti. There were flights to it from LPIA this week.
BONEFISH says...
This report is simply stating what has been known by certain persons in this country. The Bahamas has had problems with it's education system for decades. The Bahamas has had unsatisfactory results from it's education system for years. There are problems in this system from primary to tertiary level of education.
The IDB did a report years ago stating that many young men on the island of New Providence were not graduating from high school.A relative of mine told me what a prominent person told him.The Bahamian secondary school system is inferior and behind both the Barbadian and St.Lucian secondary school system.
Add to that ,there is a huge brain drain from this country. A young person told a PLP politician this at a meeting at St.Thomas university in Florida.The Bahamas is not an attractive country to return, to live and work .I know a lady who's son went to university in Canada.She told me ,he has not returned to the Bahamas.Since he graduated about eight years, he has lived and work in Canada.
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BONEFISH says...
Congratulations to Shaunae and her husband Maicel.The child will be an Estonian citizen at birth.The citizenship laws relating to Bahamian women who have foreign spouses should have been changed decades ago.
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BONEFISH says...
@ This is Ours. This current political system is the Westminister system,which we got from the British. It is the same system they are currently using in the United Kingdom.
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BONEFISH says...
@ This is Ours.The financial secretary doe not have that power.You don't know what you are talking about
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BONEFISH says...
The main modes of taxation in this country are consumption based, customs duties and vat The burden of taxation in this country falls disproportionately on the backs of the people who are least able to pay. That is what a person who has a bit of understanding of economics told me. The Bahamas has a major political management and governance problems. However this system has to change so people pay taxes based on their ability to pay.It is simply common sense and sound economic principles
On Stop ‘squeezing blood from stone’ on taxation
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BONEFISH says...
A bahamian living aboard made this comment about the press in the bahamas. You have stenographers and not reporters in the Bahamas.That comment was made on an online forum. A next comment was here in the Bahamas,you have mainly newsreaders and they were not good at that. There is little investigative or analytical journalism in the Bahamas.
I no longer watch or listen to ZNS for news. ZNS is mainly a propaganda tool for the party in power.. Many journalists pass through various newsrooms to more lucrative positions. This PLP government has hired numerous journalists as part of their public relations machine.
I cringe at some of the comments of a certain radio host. i say to myself, this man could not have been a member of parliament in this country
The press in the Bahamas seems to have lost the script. They by in large don't play their role in this society.
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BONEFISH says...
Childish finger pointing. This act is getting tiresome. The problems with the PMH was there long before the Minnis administration.
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BONEFISH says...
@ This is Ours.Some one explained it to me. It is called behavioral economics. It is when governments use taxes to moderate certain behaviours. The FNM did it also. That is why sugar was not vat free under the FNM government.They also planned to put certain fruits, nuts and vegetables as bread basket items. They had some good ideas which were not properly executed.
As for the government scrounging around for taxes. There is widespread tax evasion and avoidance in this country. There is a low level of compliance in paying certain existing taxes on the books. That is why under both FNM and PLP governments,there exists a revenue enhancement unit.
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BONEFISH says...
@Sheeprunner 12. That is not so. A mobilization was paid to a well -known construction company to work on the Arthur's Town airport before the 2017 election. When the government changed, the incoming FNM government did not proceed with the project.
Now the PLP came back to power,they are simply proceeding with their projects. Both parties are playing ping pong with the Bahamian people.The media here in the Bahamas don't ask questions and pretend to know nothing.
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BONEFISH says...
Bermuda is only 2i square miles. Bermuda is not and independent country. It is an overseas territory of Great Britain. Bermuda has it's own challenges despite it's high GDP.Cape Haitien airport is open in the north of Haiti. There were flights to it from LPIA this week.
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