God also gave us a brain to use not to whittle it away in poverty, crime and murder.

And when the Country goes bankrupt and thousands are out of work they can continue with their praise.

Pain is coming. The question is how bad will the pain be and for how long? Unless there is a change of those in government the pain is going to be much worse and last much longer.

Banker, I agree but there is a further problem. I am told that In order to use a foreign currency, say the US Dollar, the governments of the various Caribbean countries would have to exercise fiscal responsibility.

The Bahamas government, especially a PLP one, would never agree to that. Further more some sort of international security would have to be issued to deal with the national debt. Since we are now in the "junk bond" status range this could prove problematic.

BMW, you speak blasphemy. "Immigration" You have spoken of the unspeakable, God forbid.

You speak of what the educated know must happen to build this Country.

But we have so many unenlightened citizens who have been listening to the garbage spewed out by the politicians for the last 40 years. How do we turn such a morass around?

When and only when we open immigration to other educated persons will we see the country turn around and the return of our expatriate Bahamians.

Our expatriate Bahamians are not afraid of immigration, they know how to compete. They know what is required.

Our Country is totally un-competitive, even against Turks and Caicos, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, the DR and so on. Once we led them all.

We must open immigration to survive.

The reality is that we are a very, very small country and we are dealing with 20 countries much bigger than we are, and they are working together against us.

We made a decision in 1972 (voted for) to go independent. We knew that there would be a down side not being part of a much bigger country.

We knew that we could get pushed around. We knew that just because we were a sovereign nation did not mean that we could do as we liked without consequences.

This is one of those matters that we are required to look at rationally and see how best to minimize the impact of whatever we decide to do.

Either way there are going to be consequences.

This is what being independent is all about.

Come on Birdie, where are we when we need you comments on the learned judge.

The Bahamian Dollar is not an international currency. Therefore, all the OECD will do is refuse to transact anything for The Bahamas.

You may want to tell them to " ......" but that would be like deliberately driving at twice the speed limit when you see a police speed trap.

Birdie is correct that there are mean spirited people out there.

We can start with people who assist and supported CCA in its quest to rip Izmerllan off of several hundred million dollars just because they did not get the contracts that they wanted.

Mean spirited because they were happy to delay, by two years, Bahamians from getting jobs.

Yes Birdie, you are correct. Anyone who would support mean spirited persons like that must be mean spirited themselves.

I believe that Patricia Hermanns is Dr. Michael Darville's sister........emmmm.....and what position does she hold now????

Please come back and start your own political party. I would vote for you today if I could.

You are exactly what our Country needs more of.

On second thought, start the party on line with other Bahamian students who are abroad. Also enroll those Bahamians who are working in other parts of the world. That way you won't ave the local idiots that will try to undermine your success and the eventual success of the Country.