There is nothing to prevent the Groups from doing their own international promotion.
The point is that they should have been doing it from July last year.
The groups in Trinidad promote themselves on their own websites. Just Google Trinidad Carnival and often you get one of the groups, like the Tribe before anything else.
Get with it and stop waiting to be spoon fed like a bunch of babies.
Wow, I guess we will have plenty of Bahamians available for lots of banking jobs when the bank pulls out.
The Director of Labour must be one of our grade "D-" students who was given a government job and has now climbed up the ranks of the civil service. What an ignorant clown.
"Meanwhile, in Jamaica, Chinese workers completed **a $720 million four-lane highway** connecting the north and south sections of the island - the **single biggest Chinese investment in the Caribbean.**
**According to Jamaican reports, as a return for the investment, Chinese companies were granted the right to build three luxury hotels on land granted along the road **and manage the roadway’s toll pass."****
Seems like they are getting some of that investment back in the roadway toll pass alone.
If people want to eat foods that make them sick that is there right as long as they pay the bill for thier ill health later on.
They will show up at the PMH with high blood pressure, heart attack, cancer, diabetes 2. Obesity is the number two or three cause of cancer in many countries.
Fast food is the leading cause of obesity in many countries and, as we have been reported to be the sixth fattest country in the world, it would seem that fast food is playing its part here.
Other countries are introducing taxes because their national health programs can't keep up with all the cost of the sickness caused by obesity.
So yes, tax the fast food 10% or 20% extra and put it into the National Health system.
Economist says...
There is nothing to prevent the Groups from doing their own international promotion.
The point is that they should have been doing it from July last year.
The groups in Trinidad promote themselves on their own websites. Just Google Trinidad Carnival and often you get one of the groups, like the Tribe before anything else.
Get with it and stop waiting to be spoon fed like a bunch of babies.
On Carnival: The show goes on – May 4
Posted 13 April 2018, 3:39 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
What the PLP can take from the above comments is that they are even more unpopular than the current government.
On Mitchell: ‘People are fed up with their hypocrisy’
Posted 13 April 2018, 3:34 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
Did you try to get into there international system and get transferred to another country? If you don't do that then you will not get ahead.
On Canadian bank's work permit bid rejected
Posted 11 April 2018, 8:34 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
Mexico already put tariffs up against The Bahamas. It put a stop to the doubling of the size of a business and the employment of nearly 100 Bahamians.
This could not have happened if The Bahamas was a member of WTO
On Private sector urged to seize WTO consultation
Posted 11 April 2018, 1:13 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
Wow, I guess we will have plenty of Bahamians available for lots of banking jobs when the bank pulls out.
The Director of Labour must be one of our grade "D-" students who was given a government job and has now climbed up the ranks of the civil service. What an ignorant clown.
On Canadian bank's work permit bid rejected
Posted 10 April 2018, 8:55 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
"Meanwhile, in Jamaica, Chinese workers completed **a $720 million four-lane highway** connecting the north and south sections of the island - the **single biggest Chinese investment in the Caribbean.**
**According to Jamaican reports, as a return for the investment, Chinese companies were granted the right to build three luxury hotels on land granted along the road **and manage the roadway’s toll pass."****
Seems like they are getting some of that investment back in the roadway toll pass alone.
On China: our help is a ‘win win’
Posted 10 April 2018, 2:29 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
If the court does not make the decision, as to who is illegal, who does? The proposal does not appear to follow the Rule of Law.
Are we going to give the Minister the same powers to declare persons as criminals and send them straight to Fox Hill without a court hearing?
On AG seeks to reinforce powers for deportation
Posted 10 April 2018, 2:25 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
The point is that if you want to eat fast food, be my guest,. Just don't ask me to pay for your hospital and doctors bills.
Pay an extra 10% or 20% on your fast food bill so that you have already made a contribution to the ill health caused by your fast food habits.
You pay high tax on cigarettes so why not pay some tax on fast food, neither is good for your health.
On Franchise operators slam 'fast food tax'
Posted 10 April 2018, 2:20 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
I agree with a Fast Food Tax.
If people want to eat foods that make them sick that is there right as long as they pay the bill for thier ill health later on.
They will show up at the PMH with high blood pressure, heart attack, cancer, diabetes 2. Obesity is the number two or three cause of cancer in many countries.
Fast food is the leading cause of obesity in many countries and, as we have been reported to be the sixth fattest country in the world, it would seem that fast food is playing its part here.
Other countries are introducing taxes because their national health programs can't keep up with all the cost of the sickness caused by obesity.
So yes, tax the fast food 10% or 20% extra and put it into the National Health system.
On Franchise operators slam 'fast food tax'
Posted 9 April 2018, 4:42 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
NEMA is a total shambles. They need to employ some people who are trained for this, not a bunch of political cronies.
On Conch-rete not what it's cracked up to be
Posted 5 April 2018, 9:07 p.m. Suggest removal