Excuses, excuses, excuses. If you’re trying to sell a product that nobody wants to buy, you should not be in business. If you can’t pay such a small amount of rent, you should not be in business. Period. All this whimpering and whining, this simpering vicitimization, is pathetic.
Side note: The last time I visited the Straw Market, maybe 12-13 years ago, I paused at one stall to look at some items, and when I didn’t buy, the owner started heaping loud, nasty insults on me. I never went back. So pardon my lack of sympathy.
Face it: There remains a solid segment of Bahamian society who refuse to pay for anything unless they can eat it, wear it or sleep on it. Same reason why people don’t pay the electric bill: “‘Lectric? Wha’ ‘lectric?”
Prediction: $500K will be stolen outright. The other $700K will go to contracts to political friends who will provide $200K worth of equipment that will not coordinate with the existing equipment, and the lights will continue to go out 3 times a week.
My experience is on Eleuthera. DHL and FedEx attempted to deliver there some years back, but the system collapsed. Boxes would arrive at the airport and the contractor who was supposed to deliver them failed to do so. The packages just sat in a big box in the airport lobby and people just came and grabbed their box.
The service finally ended, do not know if it has been revived. One alternative was to have your package shipped to a customs broker, who would collect it for you — and charge a fee. You had to go to their offices to get it, it was not delivered to you.
As for the postal service, we quit using it entirely some 15 years ago when we were receiving Christmas cards in May, and magazines I’d ordered never got to me at all.
I read the other day that Amazon delivers to homes in small villages in the Himalayas. Takes 5-7 days. My wife asked, “If they can deliver to the Himalayas, why can’t they deliver in the Bahamas?” I replied, “Good question. Simple answer ... because it’s the Bahamas.”
Clamshell says...
Excuses, excuses, excuses. If you’re trying to sell a product that nobody wants to buy, you should not be in business. If you can’t pay such a small amount of rent, you should not be in business. Period. All this whimpering and whining, this simpering vicitimization, is pathetic.
Side note: The last time I visited the Straw Market, maybe 12-13 years ago, I paused at one stall to look at some items, and when I didn’t buy, the owner started heaping loud, nasty insults on me. I never went back. So pardon my lack of sympathy.
On Straw vendors give their views on evictions
Posted 19 July 2018, 11:56 a.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
Face it: There remains a solid segment of Bahamian society who refuse to pay for anything unless they can eat it, wear it or sleep on it. Same reason why people don’t pay the electric bill: “‘Lectric? Wha’ ‘lectric?”
On Evictions over Straw Market debts
Posted 17 July 2018, 12:09 p.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
If ya eat raw seafood that is served from a slop bucket, ya gonna get sick sooner or later.
On Ten cases of conch poisoning confirmed
Posted 16 July 2018, 2:43 p.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
I think North America has a breadbasket. It’s called the Midwest. It is 10,000 times larger than Andros, and it has electricity.
On Andros 'can be breadbasket of the region'
Posted 13 July 2018, 5:47 p.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
Prediction: $500K will be stolen outright. The other $700K will go to contracts to political friends who will provide $200K worth of equipment that will not coordinate with the existing equipment, and the lights will continue to go out 3 times a week.
On $1.2m to be spent on upgrade for BPL Clifton Pier substation
Posted 13 July 2018, 9:22 a.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
Yes. They do.
On Bahamasair outsource saves money without losing jobs
Posted 6 July 2018, 1:57 p.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
They didn’tveven save the $200K, as the 9 employees are still on the payroll. SMH
On Bahamasair outsource saves money without losing jobs
Posted 6 July 2018, 1:56 p.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
My experience is on Eleuthera. DHL and FedEx attempted to deliver there some years back, but the system collapsed. Boxes would arrive at the airport and the contractor who was supposed to deliver them failed to do so. The packages just sat in a big box in the airport lobby and people just came and grabbed their box.
The service finally ended, do not know if it has been revived. One alternative was to have your package shipped to a customs broker, who would collect it for you — and charge a fee. You had to go to their offices to get it, it was not delivered to you.
As for the postal service, we quit using it entirely some 15 years ago when we were receiving Christmas cards in May, and magazines I’d ordered never got to me at all.
On Post Office collapse 'killing our economy'
Posted 6 July 2018, 8:34 a.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
I read the other day that Amazon delivers to homes in small villages in the Himalayas. Takes 5-7 days. My wife asked, “If they can deliver to the Himalayas, why can’t they deliver in the Bahamas?” I replied, “Good question. Simple answer ... because it’s the Bahamas.”
On Post Office collapse 'killing our economy'
Posted 5 July 2018, 6:54 p.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
Hear, hear! Well said.
On Post Office collapse 'killing our economy'
Posted 5 July 2018, 5:28 p.m. Suggest removal