One of those schools is NGM Major in Buckley consistently one of the most outstanding public schools in this country. There is a serious problem that the govt needs to address immediately. There are students there on a government assistance meal program, where they are provided with lunch paid for by the government. Well the govt is now late in paying the food vendor and they are no longer providing the meals. The school has now taken upon themselves to cook a meal for those children each day. This is ridiculous and shameful, the govt needs to see that this is corrected immediately! How can students study when they are hungry? Please see to it that these vendors are paid and our children provided for.
#Commissioner Greenslade said if police are able to arrest some prolific offenders, he believes there will be “no murder report this evening, none tomorrow and none in the weeks and months ahead”.
I have been saying this for a long time. The vast majority of serious crime is at the hands of maybe 100-200 prolific offenders. We need to get serious. The commissioner needs on his desk the names of the 100 most wanted profiled thugs in this country and be relentless in taking them off the streets. If the will was there this could be done in a week! Everyday one is incarcerated strike his name off the list. If the courts release them have surveillance on them 24/7 and lock them up for even jaywalking. Make their lives living hell. This country is so small there is no where to hide, the police know who these thugs are, why do we sit like helpless victims.
And our laws need to be stiffened, some of our judges pass sentences that are far too lenient. If you commit a felony, especially so if you are a prolific offender you are incarcerated for decades not months. Judges that continue to put these thugs on the streets need to be weeded out and removed from the courts.
NHI is such an absolute farce it is hard to put into words. We can not provide the most basic level of care at our government clinics. This is my experience with Simms clinic in Long Island I went there for back pain, beautiful facilities, competent doctor but no supplies or drugs. The doctor asked the nurse one after the other for four different drugs not one of them available. These were all basic, cheap generic drugs. I laughed and asked the doctor about it and he said we order the drugs and they come late or usually not at all. They ended up giving me panadol for my pain. What a joke. They felt so embarassed I was not even charged for the visit.
My wife needed a simple test done, we wait two hours to see the doctor she orders the test, only to be told it is not available. The doctor tells us to buy it locally on the island and come back to her, we drive 30 minutes to a mini mart grocery store and buy the test for $3.09. Why the hell can this frigging clinic not have this test? Absolutely pathetic.
Eleuthera has no doctor, at all on an island 110 miles long. Let that sink in.
Another family island is staffed by a close friend, they bemoaned the lack of drugs, especially an injectable pain medication used constantly. They have it now intermittently because a second home resident who is a doctor flies in to the island to supply the clinic. And we have the the absolute gall to talk crap about NHI. Please supply these damn clinics with the most basic drugs and then move on from there.
Hard to believe because Tal for the most part is a very confused individual, but depending how far you go back he is basically correct. The bahamas birth rate has declined 50% from 1965 (29.87) to 2015 (15.04), so it has taken 50 years not 40. In 1975 the birth rate was 25.92 per thousand.
It is best to leave race out of this discussion completely. It is inflammatory and diverts from the central issue. The better way to state the problem of unwanted and uncared for children is that the poor and uneducated have many more children than any other segment of society. High school dropouts have a higher number of children on average than high school graduates, who are higher than the college educated etc, right on up to graduate degrees. So as with so many intractable problems in this country it comes down to improving our educational system. This will take a long time and requires a sea change in our Bahamian way of thinking.
In the short run govt can make quick meaningful changes. Most importantly is to increase the consequences for these deadbeat fathers who refused to support their children. Laws need to be amended to increase the child support deadbeat fathers must pay. It must have teeth and be enforced. Have a court established exclusively to deal will this problem, have it open 24/7. Wages and assets of these deadbeats must be garnished and then perhaps these men will think twice about wanton procreation. At the very least children will benefit from increased material support that they deserve and will not suffer as they are now.
Mr. Cartwright is 100% correct on the devasting impact web shops have had on the Long Island community. It is slowly destroying the economic and social fabric of this island. They are far more devasting than hurricane Joaquin ever was. When you have a single web shop company with multiple outlets generating several hundred dollars profit per month and exporting this off Island it is no wonder businesses are suffering and closing. There is no circulation of money, like a giant funnel sucking resources from the most vulnerable and needy to the rich and greedy.
On the social side you have spouses with gambling addictions, gambling away grocery money, money to pay electrical bills etc, and it is easy to see the impact this has on family life, an increase in domestic violence and abuse, children suffer etc. It has lead too to an increased demand on social services as monies that should have been used for basic necessities are lost.
It appears however, that these web shops are an unavoidable evil as many Bahamians especially the uneducated and poor are hopelessly drawn to the lie of quick easy money. This is why these web shops should be taxed to within an inch of their life, certainly much more than they are now, so that these resources can be used to fund the increased demand on social services. Ideally, they should be nationalized so that the state derives the maximum benefit, as it is the state that is now paying for all of the social ills these webshops invariably cause.
This is so unfair and untransparent. It is pandering to the select, privileged few. Why give them extra time? If this offering was open to all Bahamians, as it should have been, then the shares would have been oversubscribed in the first few days. It is just more evidence of the corruption in this country. The wealth is for a few, a club, and you and I and almost all Bahamians are not in it. Say what you like but Hubert Ingraham empowered the masses by mandating that shares in cable Bahamas, the Port, Commonwealth Brewery be offered to EVERY single Bahamian. Mr. Bowe, this govt and this select club of investors disgust me. They have every intention of later offering shares to all Bahamians, of course at a much inflated price. How these people sleep at night is beyond me, they are crooked and corrupt. We desperately need change in this country.
The new BISX website is an unmitigated disaster, and a complete embarrassment. It does not work. At least the old, boring website worked, the new one is an exercise in nothing but aggravation and futility. Trying to use this website is a quick path to the deepest depths of hell. It is far more frightening than anything Dante could have imagined in his divine comedy! Someone really should be fired.
Another problem is the chronically late posting of financial statements. It really hinders this market, I am a relatively active retail investor and it is so aggravating, most times it is better to go to the company website and they have their statements posted weeks and sometimes months before BISX. Mr. Holland Grant who posts or tries to post these statements really needs to be fired, it is so unacceptable. Please fix this damn website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for the illiquidity, why not simply let shares trade in a wider bandwidth, say 20% rather than the current 10%. Yes, there will be more volatility but shares would be more liquid. As the recent experience with BOB shares have shown if you increase the bandwidth, prices will fall and shares will trade.
DonAnthony says...
One of those schools is NGM Major in Buckley consistently one of the most outstanding public schools in this country. There is a serious problem that the govt needs to address immediately. There are students there on a government assistance meal program, where they are provided with lunch paid for by the government. Well the govt is now late in paying the food vendor and they are no longer providing the meals. The school has now taken upon themselves to cook a meal for those children each day. This is ridiculous and shameful, the govt needs to see that this is corrected immediately! How can students study when they are hungry? Please see to it that these vendors are paid and our children provided for.
On FNM candidate says new airport 'critical' for Long Island
Posted 14 February 2017, 4:41 p.m. Suggest removal
DonAnthony says...
#Commissioner Greenslade said if police are able to arrest some prolific offenders, he believes there will be “no murder report this evening, none tomorrow and none in the weeks and months ahead”.
I have been saying this for a long time. The vast majority of serious crime is at the hands of maybe 100-200 prolific offenders. We need to get serious. The commissioner needs on his desk the names of the 100 most wanted profiled thugs in this country and be relentless in taking them off the streets. If the will was there this could be done in a week! Everyday one is incarcerated strike his name off the list. If the courts release them have surveillance on them 24/7 and lock them up for even jaywalking. Make their lives living hell. This country is so small there is no where to hide, the police know who these thugs are, why do we sit like helpless victims.
And our laws need to be stiffened, some of our judges pass sentences that are far too lenient. If you commit a felony, especially so if you are a prolific offender you are incarcerated for decades not months. Judges that continue to put these thugs on the streets need to be weeded out and removed from the courts.
On ‘Surrender or become a target’
Posted 19 January 2017, 11:25 a.m. Suggest removal
DonAnthony says...
NHI is such an absolute farce it is hard to put into words. We can not provide the most basic level of care at our government clinics. This is my experience with Simms clinic in Long Island I went there for back pain, beautiful facilities, competent doctor but no supplies or drugs. The doctor asked the nurse one after the other for four different drugs not one of them available. These were all basic, cheap generic drugs. I laughed and asked the doctor about it and he said we order the drugs and they come late or usually not at all. They ended up giving me panadol for my pain. What a joke. They felt so embarassed I was not even charged for the visit.
My wife needed a simple test done, we wait two hours to see the doctor she orders the test, only to be told it is not available. The doctor tells us to buy it locally on the island and come back to her, we drive 30 minutes to a mini mart grocery store and buy the test for $3.09. Why the hell can this frigging clinic not have this test? Absolutely pathetic.
Eleuthera has no doctor, at all on an island 110 miles long. Let that sink in.
Another family island is staffed by a close friend, they bemoaned the lack of drugs, especially an injectable pain medication used constantly. They have it now intermittently because a second home resident who is a doctor flies in to the island to supply the clinic. And we have the the absolute gall to talk crap about NHI. Please supply these damn clinics with the most basic drugs and then move on from there.
On NHI ‘waiting lines’ if costs exceeded $400m
Posted 18 January 2017, 3:32 p.m. Suggest removal
DonAnthony says...
Relax everyone, take a deep breath, nothing to worry about. The good commissioner said crime is down 26%. It appears no one believes him.
On Police to step up patrols to keep public safe
Posted 17 January 2017, 2:01 p.m. Suggest removal
DonAnthony says...
Hard to believe because Tal for the most part is a very confused individual, but depending how far you go back he is basically correct. The bahamas birth rate has declined 50% from 1965 (29.87) to 2015 (15.04), so it has taken 50 years not 40. In 1975 the birth rate was 25.92 per thousand.
http://www.indexmundi.com/facts/the-bah…
On 'Black people breed too much' says Anglican Archdeacon
Posted 11 January 2017, 3:35 p.m. Suggest removal
DonAnthony says...
It is best to leave race out of this discussion completely. It is inflammatory and diverts from the central issue. The better way to state the problem of unwanted and uncared for children is that the poor and uneducated have many more children than any other segment of society. High school dropouts have a higher number of children on average than high school graduates, who are higher than the college educated etc, right on up to graduate degrees. So as with so many intractable problems in this country it comes down to improving our educational system. This will take a long time and requires a sea change in our Bahamian way of thinking.
In the short run govt can make quick meaningful changes. Most importantly is to increase the consequences for these deadbeat fathers who refused to support their children. Laws need to be amended to increase the child support deadbeat fathers must pay. It must have teeth and be enforced. Have a court established exclusively to deal will this problem, have it open 24/7. Wages and assets of these deadbeats must be garnished and then perhaps these men will think twice about wanton procreation. At the very least children will benefit from increased material support that they deserve and will not suffer as they are now.
On 'Black people breed too much' says Anglican Archdeacon
Posted 11 January 2017, 11:39 a.m. Suggest removal
DonAnthony says...
Mr. Cartwright is 100% correct on the devasting impact web shops have had on the Long Island community. It is slowly destroying the economic and social fabric of this island. They are far more devasting than hurricane Joaquin ever was. When you have a single web shop company with multiple outlets generating several hundred dollars profit per month and exporting this off Island it is no wonder businesses are suffering and closing. There is no circulation of money, like a giant funnel sucking resources from the most vulnerable and needy to the rich and greedy.
On the social side you have spouses with gambling addictions, gambling away grocery money, money to pay electrical bills etc, and it is easy to see the impact this has on family life, an increase in domestic violence and abuse, children suffer etc. It has lead too to an increased demand on social services as monies that should have been used for basic necessities are lost.
It appears however, that these web shops are an unavoidable evil as many Bahamians especially the uneducated and poor are hopelessly drawn to the lie of quick easy money. This is why these web shops should be taxed to within an inch of their life, certainly much more than they are now, so that these resources can be used to fund the increased demand on social services. Ideally, they should be nationalized so that the state derives the maximum benefit, as it is the state that is now paying for all of the social ills these webshops invariably cause.
On Super Value owner: Web shops ‘took 30% from us’ over Xmas
Posted 6 January 2017, 3:43 p.m. Suggest removal
DonAnthony says...
This is so unfair and untransparent. It is pandering to the select, privileged few. Why give them extra time? If this offering was open to all Bahamians, as it should have been, then the shares would have been oversubscribed in the first few days. It is just more evidence of the corruption in this country. The wealth is for a few, a club, and you and I and almost all Bahamians are not in it. Say what you like but Hubert Ingraham empowered the masses by mandating that shares in cable Bahamas, the Port, Commonwealth Brewery be offered to EVERY single Bahamian. Mr. Bowe, this govt and this select club of investors disgust me. They have every intention of later offering shares to all Bahamians, of course at a much inflated price. How these people sleep at night is beyond me, they are crooked and corrupt. We desperately need change in this country.
On ‘Put money where mouth is’ on $70m mobile offering
Posted 15 December 2016, 4:37 p.m. Suggest removal
DonAnthony says...
BISX does not need to be shuttered, it just needs to be fixed. Fix the website, fix the financial reporting, fix the illiquidity.
On RICHARD COULSON: How BISX falls short
Posted 5 December 2016, 8:16 p.m. Suggest removal
DonAnthony says...
The new BISX website is an unmitigated disaster, and a complete embarrassment. It does not work. At least the old, boring website worked, the new one is an exercise in nothing but aggravation and futility. Trying to use this website is a quick path to the deepest depths of hell. It is far more frightening than anything Dante could have imagined in his divine comedy! Someone really should be fired.
Another problem is the chronically late posting of financial statements. It really hinders this market, I am a relatively active retail investor and it is so aggravating, most times it is better to go to the company website and they have their statements posted weeks and sometimes months before BISX. Mr. Holland Grant who posts or tries to post these statements really needs to be fired, it is so unacceptable. Please fix this damn website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for the illiquidity, why not simply let shares trade in a wider bandwidth, say 20% rather than the current 10%. Yes, there will be more volatility but shares would be more liquid. As the recent experience with BOB shares have shown if you increase the bandwidth, prices will fall and shares will trade.
On RICHARD COULSON: How BISX falls short
Posted 5 December 2016, 6:20 p.m. Suggest removal