you clearly have not been dealing with immigration. I have personally seen them lose one persons application 3 times, screwed up another, tried to trick another into making a further application which would have been out of time thus disenfranchising them and so on.

"Carnival Cruise Line executives have told Tribune Business none of their ships were involved in causing damage to the seabed while at anchor off the Berry Islands."

**We don't believe you!**

Absolutely correct. We have a very inefficient and lazy civil service. Look at the article on the citizen application, for example.

Customs, Works, Health (big money waster, about 125 million a year)

Clean up the waste and then we can discuss tax.

This is standard procedure for Immigration. Number One for them is that they can't find your application.
They take great joy in making people suffer.
Their Directors probably actively encourage this type of opressive operation. It must give them a power kick..
Time to take them to court.
Sadly, no one will be repremanded which means that the Prime Minister probably approves this as well. He must know, like everyone else, that this is a daily occurance.

First sentence says it all. "If", that's correct, "if".

No sense in wasting time until the order is complete and the docks are on the way.

We need to focus on encouraging the high end cruiselines and discourage the garbage Carnival cruises. Carnival's passengers never have spent any money in any event. What money they have Carnival sucks up on the ship.

Bay Street once had high end shops and nice restaurants until the cheap cruise line passenger masses scared off the money spending hotel tourists.

Bermuda has been much more selective when it comes to cruise lines. We could learn something from Bermuda.

My bad!

The drilling took place. Where are the pictures of all the polution that the oil opponents were screaming about?

Seems that BPC's drilling method has been proved to be safe after all.

People often suggest that the business should train the incoming employee (i.e. math and english). This is rediculous.

Firstly, businesses are not schools and should not be expected to be such.

Secondly, the businesses pay tax to the government, part of which is supposed to go the education system so that students learn math and english.

Thirdly, parents must take their share of the blame as they are clearly not taking their responsiblities seriously. Raising children is not easy and they require a considerable amount of parenting, including being forced to finish home work and having to review subjects, with their parents, before exams to insure that they know enough to pass the exam.

Universitie with a greater diversity in the faculty are rated higher. You don't think that Harvard, Yale, Oxford etc could not find people in thier own country?

If UB is to become anything it needs to deversify its faculty.

The Bahamas is becoming a nation of xenaphobics.