... yet the gov't has no trouble finding the money for the Prime Minister to travel on important "fact-finding" missions to Las Vegas and New York City!
You are correct ... Bahamian media do not ask questions or look things up. They are too busy playing with their cell phones. They are not reporters, they are stenographers -- but in fact their grammar is worse than most stenographers'.
I sat through court one morning on Eleuthera when four local men were charged with possessing small amounts of marijuana. None were sentenced to jail. They paid a fine or spent a couple of days picking up trash by the highway.
" ... with a 3.5 per cent hike in the annual poverty line since the last recorded study in 2001, from $2,863 to $4,247."
3.5% hike? Can anybody on this newspaper do simple math? That's more like a 50% hike. Please put away your cell phone and pay attention to what you're doing.
In the U.S. You cannot get bail if you are charged with murder. Period. But the government must offer the accused a trial within a reasonable time frame. The Bahamas must reform in one direction or the other. Some of these killers are on bail for 4-5 years with no trial date set. It's like a license to kill.
Well said, Tal. This bureaucrat clearly was upset that somebody was expecting her to stop shopping for cosmetics online long enough to actually do her job. Imagine the nerve!
In the Bahamas, the bureaucratic phrase "We're looking into it" translates roughly to, "Call us back in two years, by which time we will have lost your paperwork. Meantime, go pound sand."
You're right ... the story -- thin as it is -- concerns the man's death. It is hopelessly redundant, at best, to repeatedly refer to him as "the late ..." This newspaper's reporters and editors have not the tiniest clue what they're doing.
Clamshell says...
A wanna-be rapper attending a community college in Florida ain't creatin' much of a brain drain. It's not like he's gonna cure cancer or sumpthin'.
On THE BRAIN DRAIN: College and university educated Bahamians choosing to move abroad
Posted 28 October 2014, 2 p.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
Zing!!
On Hamilton: 'Don't like the PLP? Leave!'
Posted 8 October 2014, 5:10 p.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
... yet the gov't has no trouble finding the money for the Prime Minister to travel on important "fact-finding" missions to Las Vegas and New York City!
Situation: Hopeless.
On No funds to repair broken traffic lights
Posted 7 October 2014, 2:46 p.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
You are correct ... Bahamian media do not ask questions or look things up. They are too busy playing with their cell phones. They are not reporters, they are stenographers -- but in fact their grammar is worse than most stenographers'.
On Court must now consider the safety of victims
Posted 19 September 2014, 10:05 a.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
So what are therir demands? Was the newspaper reporter too lazy or too stupid to ask? Or too busy on Facebook with their cell phone?
On VIDEO: Customs and Immigration officers, nurses in strike action
Posted 10 September 2014, 2:21 p.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
I sat through court one morning on Eleuthera when four local men were charged with possessing small amounts of marijuana. None were sentenced to jail. They paid a fine or spent a couple of days picking up trash by the highway.
On Americans spared jail but fined for possession of marijuana
Posted 9 September 2014, 2:56 p.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
" ... with a 3.5 per cent hike in the annual poverty line since the last recorded study in 2001, from $2,863 to $4,247."
3.5% hike? Can anybody on this newspaper do simple math? That's more like a 50% hike. Please put away your cell phone and pay attention to what you're doing.
On 'Increase minimum wage before VAT'
Posted 8 September 2014, 9:46 p.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
In the U.S. You cannot get bail if you are charged with murder. Period. But the government must offer the accused a trial within a reasonable time frame. The Bahamas must reform in one direction or the other. Some of these killers are on bail for 4-5 years with no trial date set. It's like a license to kill.
On PM: It's kill or be killed
Posted 4 September 2014, 2:30 p.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
Well said, Tal. This bureaucrat clearly was upset that somebody was expecting her to stop shopping for cosmetics online long enough to actually do her job. Imagine the nerve!
In the Bahamas, the bureaucratic phrase "We're looking into it" translates roughly to, "Call us back in two years, by which time we will have lost your paperwork. Meantime, go pound sand."
On Residents petition MP over 'nuisance' food stall
Posted 1 September 2014, 5:30 p.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
You're right ... the story -- thin as it is -- concerns the man's death. It is hopelessly redundant, at best, to repeatedly refer to him as "the late ..." This newspaper's reporters and editors have not the tiniest clue what they're doing.
On Soccer icon, administrator Sam Haven dies in Florida
Posted 30 August 2014, 11:03 a.m. Suggest removal