The public procurement bill now being tabled in parliament is different from the original draft .

There is little or no debate in the bahamian parliament. Many MPs don't study the legislation, they merely read speeches So they are unable to make any sensible recommendations on the legislation before them.. Also the parliament is lop-sided, where many MPS are in the executive, the cabinet. So when a bill has the support of the of the cabinet, it is automatically passed. Also bahamians are quite intolerant of dissenting views. So any back-bencher who dissents regularly will be in trouble with the cabinet. Ask what happen to the PLP back-benchers who oppose those bills in 1976 and 1977.

That is why the ' Let's Read Bahamas' program was developed in the nineties under the late Zelma Dean. It was developed to combat the low level of literacy among Bahamians.

There was also a reading program in the eighties. However these things have not been sustained. Bahamians love to row and throw blame. They don't understand why many programs were developed under the Ministry of Education.

Ouch. I mashed your corn.

Persons way more educated than me have said those comments. Persons with graduate degrees have said what I have said previously. To paraphrase a bahamian PHD living aboard, Bahamians live in your own little world.

Both major parties are deeply flawed in this country. They are extremely conservative and backward when it comes to modern governance. In fact they are merely reflections of this country, hypocritical, backward and self -righteous.

Neither party has a vision for a modern Bahamas. Both are right of center in their ideology. In fact ,they don't have any political philosophy. Only cults of personalities, petty hatreds, race, class and gender differences. That is why by in large, so many persons are so disillusioned by politics here in the Bahamas.

Politics in the Bahamas has always been what Jamaican prime minister, the late Michael Manley said of politics there. It is merely political factions attempting to control and distribute the scarce resources of the state to their supporters.

You don't know what you are talking about. Political parties should not have to list the potential board members and corporation chairmen.

Bahamians just simply talk and write stupidness.. Bahamians need to learn systems of governance. A real system of local government would do this.

The Bahamas is a deal country. Dr.Elwood Donaldson said that on a local talk show. I now understand what he meant.

So sad and tragic. May they rest in peace.

The public procurement bill being presented in parliament now was drafted over a decade ago. According to the leader of the DNA, Mrs.Komolafe. There are other draft bills in the attorney general's office.

What you see happening in this country by both major parties, is simply a cynical game being played.

Corrrection. George Washington serve two terms as president and retired to his estate Mount Vernon in Virginia.

What you see here is a clash between competing visions of tourism. Somebody told me that this was going to happen some time ago.