TalRussell

why would we expect the cruise ships to re stock their grocery's here?

They get the food from the same place we do.

We need to be thankful they come at all! It's because of tourists that we even survive at all.

Are you on drugs?

we would have nothing to eat if it were not for the foreign companies who bring the tourists.

It's our lousy work ethic, attitude, government, and just shitty people in general that cause us the problems we have.

Go ahead and blame everyone else.
You , like so many, fail to reason honestly, and will never accept responsibility. Keep doing as we're doing and then we can cry when we go broke and can't feed ourselves or our children.

It's not really a blame game.

It's just simple government operations- take a small problem, make it into a crisis and then you can turn it into a huge payday for you and your friends

That landfill could easily be run for less than 100k per month, google tender results for the operation similar size (800/1400 ton per day) landfill operations in the USA. They seem to be in the 60 to 80 k per month range. So add a bit for our inefficiency and "remote" location.

Note the usual tipping fee's range, and can be as high as 100 plus per ton of garbage (depending on the nature of the materials).

Our tipping fee's should easily cover the operational costs. While some might argue that raising tipping fee's to world standards would increase dumping in the bush. It really shouldn't , and the people pay in either case, via tax dollars, or tipping, so why not do the right thing.

Our government will make this into a project costing 100's of millions. What a joke!

Green initiatives are kinda BS, so lets not bother. If we want to minimize the recyclables in the dump, lets pass some laws that state goods must be made to last, or they can't be imported. A fridge used to last 20 years easy, now it's 5 if your lucky. Same with tvs, furniture and almost everything else. This is the route of the problem. Lets solve it at the source!

Spending hundreds of millions to clean up this problem via recycling is ludicrous... And simply put most of the mess is due to "made for the dump" products, and therefore it's really us paying for the actions of worthless manufacturers who make worthless junk....

Hey Bogart
I agree with your free speach, and everyone has it too.

But this doesnt automatically mean your views are great, or right, or good for the Bahamas.

given our crime rate, poor attitudes, poor service etc, I can't say that I blame them.

If we had a good product for a fair buck, and it was a nice experience , they wouldn't be inclined to do what they are doing. They are in the cruise business, once you get on their ship your meals are all covered, everything is generally paid for. When they set up an Island, the food facilities are all an additional expense that they don't need.
Notice they give most all the entertainment to the Bahamians- They make their money on ticket sales, not islands. They are doing what is necessary to provide sufficient activity and adventure to keep their customers. Something we , are clearly failing miserably at!

Seems you are having a hissy fit. Note that you are very protectionist when it comes to how "Bahamians " are treated; I wonder how you feel about Bahamians borrowing money and agreeing to pay it back , and not doing so. Nobody has held a gun to someone's head and made them take a mortgage.
You sign up for it, and take the banks money, you better pay it back, or they're coming for their stuff, and rightfully so.
Get a grip life, if idiots didn't borrow more than they can afford, they would be able to make their payments! Perhaps there are too many idiots who spend money on multiple mistresses and mag wheels for their cars, instead of putting aside savings for a rainy day.
People who held views like your's Bogart, are the problem in this country.

It's not really that difficult to understand once you know where the original money comes from.
Banks are in effect "licensed issuers of currency". All new money is created out of debt, i.e. the banks "write" mortgage money into existence. They don't actually loan you money that is on deposit. So when you go to a bank for a mortgage (100k for example), the bank creates this new money, essentially out of thin air.
Noteworthy, it is only the original loan balance that is created in the process, and since the borrower must pay back the original balance plus interest, this creates a rather large problem for the system.
Essentially when the money is paid back, it is "deleted" from the system or "destroyed'.
The problem lies in the fact that the interest portion of the loan must be paid, and this takes money out of circulation. Anyone who thinks about it will realize that without the continual expansion of debt, currency would quickly become of short supply.
Its not an accounting issue, this is the basis of the fiat currency system. It's essentially one big Ponzi scheme in which the central banks, commercial banks and the government collude.
The results are felt by everyone, but understood by few. Basically the debt cycle needs to continually expand to prevent currency shortage, this leads to ever increasing money supply which is not backed by anything, and ends with the devaluation of currency over time, this devaluation is passed off and explained to people as inflation.
We all know that for the most part inflation can't really exist. After all, all goods and are cheaper to make now then ever before. Think of automation (less labour and faster production), increasing mining efficiency of natural resources (mining takes less people, and is done on a much larger scale due to modern better equipment. Nothing is more expensive to make today than in the past. But with so many dollars "written" into existence, money is just not worth what it used to be.
All governments participating in the game (all countries currencies are fiat, ie. not back by gold), and if in general all countries expand their money supply at the same rate, the relative exchange rates remain the same.
Have some fun and look what it cost to buy something 50 years ago and compare it to todays price using a gold standard. Ie. how many ounces of gold did it take to buy a car in 1950, and how many it takes today, you will notice it's essentially the same. Try it with shoes, go back a 100 years if you like, the historic prices can be found online.
The banks don't really lose anything , since they didn't lend their money.
Look up any banks balance sheet, notice their "assets" exceed their "liabilities" . Did you know that a loan on the books of a bank is an asset, and your deposit is a liability. How can they have more "assets" than "liabilities", other than by using a fiat scam. A bank can't lend what it doesn't have , right?

So Bran, who says he wants to lead this nation, thinks the people should begin a class action suit against the nation.

I think there are better possible solutions. But why would a potential leader want to burden the nation with a lawsuit which quite obviously wont reach the courts until we have a need leader, which he potentially could be.

There is no hope for this nation as long as the choices for leaders remain unchanged.

They're turning this into a big fiasco.

Operating a landfill is not rocket science.

Landfills are simple to operate, with 10s of 1000s or examples around the world.

We have the all the necessary people and equipment on Island (less the compactor; unless we can get the government's compactor back from "a known contractors yard), and we have people with the knowledge that is required.

Follow the money people

Makes me wonder is these fires were lit to gain the public support for another fat cat contract........?

Hey Birdie, yes the USA is bad, likely the worst offender on many basis. Yet this has no bearing on what the report says. Clearly the people who wrote the report are not out their shooting black men in the streets.

We have serious problems here, and anyone who tries to deflect from these problems just makes matters worse.

You maybe should get a transfusion in hopes of getting that PLP blood out of your system so you can begin to think clearly on issues.