Over the years, I have learned that talking to the Bahamas Government balances many different competing voices and biases. Culturally, for Bahamians, we hate to see each other succeed. We teardown but do not help each other up, we think the worse but will never give a word of encouragement, we kill the dreams of our brother while polishing the dreams of others, it is our own faces we must see when we ask the question how did we get like this. Yes, we are the ones staring back at ourselves, asking others how we got like this. Why do we kill the dreams of our brothers?

The culture of politics in the Bahamas is a simple mixture of short news coverages (fake smiles and deceitful handshakes, cheap T-shirts and hollow promises). While sitting politicians and those seeking an opportunity to ride themselves to wealth and opportunity, the Bahamian People continue to fall deeper into poverty.

A "go" at politics in the Bahamas is complicity to maintaining an outdated public service system where patronage continues to be served by "yes men and yes women", fuelling a petty, spiteful but destructive practice of economic bias and a racist (self-hating) machinery that is determined to further the oppression of the Bahamian People.

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The 50 Year Battle For Economic Growth In The Bahamas ...By Bahamians. The policies and structure of the past system of oppression have not dismantled the oppressive economic and ugly political structures of the past that divided Bahamians into (have and have nots) to the pleasure of a few.
The secrecy of our government is still the nemesis in the darkroom of political corruption that enriches some. The politics of state victimization and petty disregard of anything Bahamian is still the old enemy of The Common Good.
As a result, the people lose faith in our democracy while others sit quietly waiting to celebrate our failures and collapse.
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"Some Say Paranoid, and I Say Victim" The Bahamian Political Tragedy and A System In Need of Change.

"The faces may have changed, but the policies and structure of the past system of oppression have not dismantled the oppressive economic and ugly political structures of the past that divided Bahamians into (have and have nots). The secrecy of how we are governed is still the nemesis in the darkroom of political corruption. The politics of state victimization and petty disregard of anything Bahamian is still the old enemy of The Common Good. As a result, the people are losing faith in our democracy."

With Out An Official Response From The Minnis Administration, And After Months of Uncertainty and Much Frustration. BASIC, However, Understands That The Proposal To Update The Vehicle Inspection Services in The Bahamas Would Not Be Accepted.

As A Result, The Team At BASIC and Our International Partners, Sadly and Regrettably, Have To Announce Our Effort In The Bahamas Is Officially Abandoned.

To The 100s Of Bahamians Who Submitted Their Employment Information, We Appreciate Your Effort and Interest In Wanting to Be a Part Of This Cost Saving and Life-Saving Improvement Safety Effort in The Bahamas; for Bahamians.

Again, We Are Thankful For Your Support.

BASIC

There is nothing in the rules and procedures that cover today's modern motor vehicles for safety efficiency. The vehicle safety testing that follows the International Road Safety Testing Standards (that the Bahamas is a signatory) for safety efficiency are non-existing; even the manual vehicle stopping distance test is null void and failed to be carried out. There are still existing "headlamp" (and not headlights) testing, a wall-mounted plywood piece on the wall installed in 1954. Furthermore, the ONLY reference to safety in your rules and procedures is "Reflector" there was the addition of the word roadworthiness, and there in itself, is a contradiction by definition and current operation. ...so many of us are keepers of Petty Grudges riding down on the backs of Bahamians, stagnating progress or are accomplices to some other selfish if not duplicitous agenda.

A properly functioning brake or turning signal serves no one's interest but the lives saved when these simple safety instruments function properly and are maintained, as they should. A 45 - 55 dollar annual safety check of these motor machinery "would be minimal" in comparison to the now high rate of medical care.

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.

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"I just don't get it."