As a country, we need to study, seriously and act upon the "self-hate" and defeatist assumption we have for each other, or when "it's a Bahamian" is mentioned or anything to move our country forward, it becomes a thing dejected; something is very wrong with this behaviour. The top aquaculture producing countries (Vietnam, Thailand and China) have the much more devastating annual typhoons, and they pack up, batter down and have survived each year, bounce back and carry on; why not do the same for the Bahamas?
Why are we losing these opportunities? Why is the stagnation in our growth - from 1967 to now, the number of game houses and the striping company is the extent of the black Bahamian Industrial Growth.
Would you please ask yourself who long can we survive on a $21,000
The Bahamas Exports $1.316 billion (2017 est.), but Imports $9.097 billion (2017 est.) seafood products included.
Fisheries is an over 200 Billion Dollar Industry, and The Bahamas has one thing that our nearest next competitor don't have - our proximity to the world largest seafood market @ 133 Billion Dollars; In 2016, U.S. fisheries supported 1.7 million jobs and contributed $212 billion in sales.
The size of a project that employs 10 - 20,000 persons is the size intended to run that industry and should not be an object of anyone subjective opinion. A BahaMah, Kerzner or Sandles are not told that they should downsize because that industry needs 5,000 employees (to clean, greet, feed, entertain and manage and provide safety for its guess) or asked to split the work into phases and prove each phase before expanding.
One commercial size aquaculture site that is providing a complete culture cycle “from the egg to the plate” and its many areas of expertise (hatchery, nursery, grow-out, feeding, cleaning, testing, monitoring, harvesting, sizing, gutting, washing, checking, packing, boxing, labelling, order fulfilment, cold storage, processing, shipping logistics - administration, security and management) will consider 20,000 employees small in comparison to the market demand.
The three critical advantages the Bahamas have over the nearest competitor in the seafood industry are:
Proximity Proximity Proximity
Not to mention the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), Sustainability and Food Safety. Environmental challenges in the gulf and fishing restrictions everywhere else make the Bahamas ideal for this development.
The global demand is for fresh (Fresh, Never Frozen) seafood, which the Bahamas (and the Caribbean) can fulfil, ideally.
When the IDB is telling The Bahamas (it must implement several policy reforms to develop its “blue economy”), it’s not referring to “Split the work into phases and prove each phase before expanding”.
The question to ask this administration “why not give full support to build this industry” or who are the politicians are protecting, or is it the dark face of our nemesis; the “White Guy” who must come into building the industry because Bahamians are still victims of the culture of the ugly grudge of self-hate that has marginalised us to where we are now.
"Aquaculture and ocean-related biotechnology have not been properly exploited" is only the tip of the "poor attitude mountain" this administration and its managers have Re: industrial aquaculture development in the Bahamas and, in fact, any development by Bahamians, as it were.
I recently had to abandon my discussion with this Administration because of its lack of vision, disrespect and the careless attitude I encountered, presenting what could become a major challenge to the industry leaders in the multi-billion dollar global export seafood industry. And what I can only conclude as a petty grudge or just a simple hatred for things Bahamian.
Globally the Blue Economy has an annual value of at least $2.5 trillion each year from the combination of fishing and aquaculture, shipping, tourism, and other activities. But the vision this Government have of Bahamians in this regard is what was said to me "Bite-Size" that you must start small and that you are too big-eyed for having the big vision of creating an industry that can easily employ 10 - 20,000 Bahamians in the Modern Aquaculture and Marine related industry.
Lately, I have learnt that millions of dollars are made available for Bahamians, as recently noted by our Ambassador Maria O’Brien The Bahamas will gain access to the $100 million Climate Services and Related Applications Programme, which supports development in agriculture and food security, health, water, disaster risk reduction and energy and is a key part of building the country’s ability to reduce the impact of the climate crisis and increasingly powerful hurricanes.
O’Brien said: “There are many programs available for Bahamians from EU-funded organizations, and with a skilled team of technical officers who can perform at a high level in Brussels, we can do even more for the country.
Ambassador Maria O’Brien and her staff are doing an excellent job of bringing forward solutions that have been available to Bahamians for years, which eases the frustration of the private sector who may not qualify for funding assistants in areas like aquaculture from traditional financial institutions.
But the sad reality for Bahamians seeking to develop industry in small island nations like The Bahamas; where assistance from funding countries and institutions become available to politically motivated administrations. The funding received is nothing more than campaign money for the sitting political party, whose view is to get maximum coverage from a few dollars while ignoring the more sustainable and more viable option of developing industry and employment - over party agenda, personal legacy and misguided ambition.
To this end, I support the IDB position that “upon compliance with a set of policy reforms” that promote sustainable investment in The Bahamas’ marine industries and “strengthen the legal and institutional framework” for promoting an ocean-based economy. Describing the arrangement as a “policy-based guarantee”,
And there I was thinking that my PTI Project was the only Bahamian created industry that this administration trashed and its leadership accused of fronting by Mr Bethel. Then laughed at after being invited to make a presentation before the Cabinet of The Bahamas.
My PTI (Vehicle Safety Inspection) Project would create 300 new jobs for Bahamians and save lives; and provide the Road Traffic Department with 12 service locations throughout the Bahamas, at no cost to the Bahamian People.
PTi in the Bahamas would ensure that the motoring public follow internationally accepted guidelines for safe driving. An example of how PTi saves lives: An industrial-sized vehicle would never be allowed to operate on public streets without the universally agreed necessary reflective apparatus or parked in a motoring lane without clear and advanced "Danger Approaching" warning signs.
The country will continue to waddle in its own selfish, short-sighted and bloody belief that Bahamians cannot provide a better solution to control some of this deadly and scary mess that is now a common way of life in the daily lives of Bahamian Families. But the powers that we have entrusted our safety are quick to celebrate many multi-million dollar contracts with foreign companies while disrespecting and insulting a Bahamian effort to contribute, even when a proven international solution was offered to this government in a comprehensive proposal at a minimal capital cost to the country.
Unlicensed and stolen vehicles play a major role in the free and undetected movement of this carnage. Plate swapping, recycling and fakes are the tools in many of these brazen acts of criminal activity. The lack of proper vehicle registration linked to an Automated License Plate Recognition System (LPRS) that is Pole and Vehicle Mounted. It plays into the game of "find me if you can" that have our frustrated Police Force in a never-ending tailspin running after a "ghost vehicle" (used in the commission of deadly crimes) that doesn't exist - but freely travels our streets and neighbourhoods, as it were.
The story on the "Indian Oxford-AstraZenenca Vaccine" Donated to Barbados, Dominica and Share to other Caribbean Islands is starkly different from what is reported by India and our Caribbean Neighbours then what is being told in the Bahamas to Bahamians.
This uncertainty also fuels the narrative that all politicians are nothing but nasty, arrogant, dirty liars who don't have the people's best interest at heart but will spool out untruths to appease the moment while actually don't know and deceive us all.
After 7 Years of presentations, emails (that went unanswered), meetings that had no conclusion, a Cabinet meeting that was a clown show and an embarrassment; design, consultancy fees, travel and salaries that total over three million dollars. Our company had to close the book on our projects (that would cost the government no capital expense) while the Bahamian People are lied to and have to stand out in the yard for service at a government department that feeds a greedy few who careless about the effects of their corrupt and criminal enterprise because Ministers and officials turn a blind eye on "the ride" that is played on the Bahamian People ...in both administrations.
IslandWarrior says...
As a country, we need to study, seriously and act upon the "self-hate" and defeatist assumption we have for each other, or when "it's a Bahamian" is mentioned or anything to move our country forward, it becomes a thing dejected; something is very wrong with this behaviour. The top aquaculture producing countries (Vietnam, Thailand and China) have the much more devastating annual typhoons, and they pack up, batter down and have survived each year, bounce back and carry on; why not do the same for the Bahamas?
Why are we losing these opportunities? Why is the stagnation in our growth - from 1967 to now, the number of game houses and the striping company is the extent of the black Bahamian Industrial Growth.
Would you please ask yourself who long can we survive on a $21,000
The Bahamas Exports $1.316 billion (2017 est.), but Imports $9.097 billion (2017 est.) seafood products included.
Fisheries is an over 200 Billion Dollar Industry, and The Bahamas has one thing that our nearest next competitor don't have - our proximity to the world largest seafood market @ 133 Billion Dollars; In 2016, U.S. fisheries supported 1.7 million jobs and contributed $212 billion in sales.
https://www.fishwatch.gov/sustainable-s…
"I just don't get it."
On Policy reforms need for $200m IDB guarantee
Posted 23 July 2021, 5:22 p.m. Suggest removal
IslandWarrior says...
Failure by the Attorney General’s Office, again! and this would be failure number what? It sounds like someone should be fired for incompetence.
On AG loses $1.63m freeze over Mafia-linked Italian
Posted 22 July 2021, 3:03 p.m. Suggest removal
IslandWarrior says...
The size of a project that employs 10 - 20,000 persons is the size intended to run that industry and should not be an object of anyone subjective opinion. A BahaMah, Kerzner or Sandles are not told that they should downsize because that industry needs 5,000 employees (to clean, greet, feed, entertain and manage and provide safety for its guess) or asked to split the work into phases and prove each phase before expanding.
One commercial size aquaculture site that is providing a complete culture cycle “from the egg to the plate” and its many areas of expertise (hatchery, nursery, grow-out, feeding, cleaning, testing, monitoring, harvesting, sizing, gutting, washing, checking, packing, boxing, labelling, order fulfilment, cold storage, processing, shipping logistics - administration, security and management) will consider 20,000 employees small in comparison to the market demand.
The three critical advantages the Bahamas have over the nearest competitor in the seafood industry are:
Proximity
Proximity
Proximity
Not to mention the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), Sustainability and Food Safety. Environmental challenges in the gulf and fishing restrictions everywhere else make the Bahamas ideal for this development.
The global demand is for fresh (Fresh, Never Frozen) seafood, which the Bahamas (and the Caribbean) can fulfil, ideally.
When the IDB is telling The Bahamas (it must implement several policy reforms to develop its “blue economy”), it’s not referring to “Split the work into phases and prove each phase before expanding”.
The question to ask this administration “why not give full support to build this industry” or who are the politicians are protecting, or is it the dark face of our nemesis; the “White Guy” who must come into building the industry because Bahamians are still victims of the culture of the ugly grudge of self-hate that has marginalised us to where we are now.
On Policy reforms need for $200m IDB guarantee
Posted 21 July 2021, 10:47 p.m. Suggest removal
IslandWarrior says...
"Aquaculture and ocean-related biotechnology have not been properly exploited" is only the tip of the "poor attitude mountain" this administration and its managers have Re: industrial aquaculture development in the Bahamas and, in fact, any development by Bahamians, as it were.
I recently had to abandon my discussion with this Administration because of its lack of vision, disrespect and the careless attitude I encountered, presenting what could become a major challenge to the industry leaders in the multi-billion dollar global export seafood industry. And what I can only conclude as a petty grudge or just a simple hatred for things Bahamian.
Globally the Blue Economy has an annual value of at least $2.5 trillion each year from the combination of fishing and aquaculture, shipping, tourism, and other activities. But the vision this Government have of Bahamians in this regard is what was said to me "Bite-Size" that you must start small and that you are too big-eyed for having the big vision of creating an industry that can easily employ 10 - 20,000 Bahamians in the Modern Aquaculture and Marine related industry.
Lately, I have learnt that millions of dollars are made available for Bahamians, as recently noted by our Ambassador Maria O’Brien The Bahamas will gain access to the $100 million Climate Services and Related Applications Programme, which supports development in agriculture and food security, health, water, disaster risk reduction and energy and is a key part of building the country’s ability to reduce the impact of the climate crisis and increasingly powerful hurricanes.
O’Brien said: “There are many programs available for Bahamians from EU-funded organizations, and with a skilled team of technical officers who can perform at a high level in Brussels, we can do even more for the country.
Ambassador Maria O’Brien and her staff are doing an excellent job of bringing forward solutions that have been available to Bahamians for years, which eases the frustration of the private sector who may not qualify for funding assistants in areas like aquaculture from traditional financial institutions.
But the sad reality for Bahamians seeking to develop industry in small island nations like The Bahamas; where assistance from funding countries and institutions become available to politically motivated administrations. The funding received is nothing more than campaign money for the sitting political party, whose view is to get maximum coverage from a few dollars while ignoring the more sustainable and more viable option of developing industry and employment - over party agenda, personal legacy and misguided ambition.
To this end, I support the IDB position that “upon compliance with a set of policy reforms” that promote sustainable investment in The Bahamas’ marine industries and “strengthen the legal and institutional framework” for promoting an ocean-based economy. Describing the arrangement as a “policy-based guarantee”,
On Policy reforms need for $200m IDB guarantee
Posted 21 July 2021, 3:26 p.m. Suggest removal
IslandWarrior says...
And there I was thinking that my PTI Project was the only Bahamian created industry that this administration trashed and its leadership accused of fronting by Mr Bethel. Then laughed at after being invited to make a presentation before the Cabinet of The Bahamas.
My PTI (Vehicle Safety Inspection) Project would create 300 new jobs for Bahamians and save lives; and provide the Road Traffic Department with 12 service locations throughout the Bahamas, at no cost to the Bahamian People.
PTi in the Bahamas would ensure that the motoring public follow internationally accepted guidelines for safe driving. An example of how PTi saves lives: An industrial-sized vehicle would never be allowed to operate on public streets without the universally agreed necessary reflective apparatus or parked in a motoring lane without clear and advanced "Danger Approaching" warning signs.
On INSIGHT: Why hasn’t this project which could transform our country been put on the fast track Dr Minnis planned?
Posted 21 July 2021, 11:13 a.m. Suggest removal
IslandWarrior says...
The country will continue to waddle in its own selfish, short-sighted and bloody belief that Bahamians cannot provide a better solution to control some of this deadly and scary mess that is now a common way of life in the daily lives of Bahamian Families. But the powers that we have entrusted our safety are quick to celebrate many multi-million dollar contracts with foreign companies while disrespecting and insulting a Bahamian effort to contribute, even when a proven international solution was offered to this government in a comprehensive proposal at a minimal capital cost to the country.
Unlicensed and stolen vehicles play a major role in the free and undetected movement of this carnage. Plate swapping, recycling and fakes are the tools in many of these brazen acts of criminal activity. The lack of proper vehicle registration linked to an Automated License Plate Recognition System (LPRS) that is Pole and Vehicle Mounted. It plays into the game of "find me if you can" that have our frustrated Police Force in a never-ending tailspin running after a "ghost vehicle" (used in the commission of deadly crimes) that doesn't exist - but freely travels our streets and neighbourhoods, as it were.
On BLOODY NIGHT: 10-year-old boy dies, two more kids shot and another man killed
Posted 12 March 2021, 10:06 a.m. Suggest removal
IslandWarrior says...
http://tribune242.com/users/photos/2021…
On Infrastructure Fund’s public offering plan
Posted 8 March 2021, 7:03 p.m. Suggest removal
IslandWarrior says...
The story on the "Indian Oxford-AstraZenenca Vaccine" Donated to Barbados, Dominica and Share to other Caribbean Islands is starkly different from what is reported by India and our Caribbean Neighbours then what is being told in the Bahamas to Bahamians.
On ROLLOUT WILL TAKE MONTHS: First vaccines arrive this Wednesday but all doses not here till end of May
Posted 8 March 2021, 8:20 a.m. Suggest removal
IslandWarrior says...
This uncertainty also fuels the narrative that all politicians are nothing but nasty, arrogant, dirty liars who don't have the people's best interest at heart but will spool out untruths to appease the moment while actually don't know and deceive us all.
On Wells ‘not disappointed’ that first doses of vaccine have not arrived
Posted 3 March 2021, 9:34 a.m. Suggest removal
IslandWarrior says...
After 7 Years of presentations, emails (that went unanswered), meetings that had no conclusion, a Cabinet meeting that was a clown show and an embarrassment; design, consultancy fees, travel and salaries that total over three million dollars. Our company had to close the book on our projects (that would cost the government no capital expense) while the Bahamian People are lied to and have to stand out in the yard for service at a government department that feeds a greedy few who careless about the effects of their corrupt and criminal enterprise because Ministers and officials turn a blind eye on "the ride" that is played on the Bahamian People ...in both administrations.
On Bahamas ‘inconsistent’ in anti-corruption battle
Posted 6 February 2021, 5:55 p.m. Suggest removal