Your comments are always racist or anti-Bahamian if only in their undertone.

Just like the country’s dependence on fossil fuel, the Bahamas must start to wean itself off PMH. A site must be identified for a new hospital and government can make it a 10-15 year project to ‘build out’ a new hospital starting with most essential services. And as it decrease the load dependence on PMH it can demolish sections of it and do a rebuild. The end result will be two relatively new hospital facilities.

Obviously the short time that passed between the new government winning the elections and these charges being brought indicates that due diligence may not have been done. And so the case is falling apart or being picked to shreds by the defense. And then the fallout of the government fails to get convictions simply because they were ill prepared.

Obviously the person who advised that he remove the grounds know that the rest of the reclamation will wash away without them. Government should have given Nygard the option purchase the disputed property at prime price plus a 50 percent surcharge as a penalty. It would be a great tragedy and injustice to continue to dismantle the shamans allow Nygard to get away with stealing prime crown land.

@hypissonus: so you knew exactly what your intentions were when you quoted (or misquoted) the ‘article’. Your attack on me does not make you any more credible or your intentions any more better. You are constantly spewing out resist remarks or degrading Bahamians. So one must wonder about you. Always. Your name says it all.

so is the young man who was said to be shot dead in Abaco, and his body taken by his assailant real or fake news? Its burning up on social media and was mentioned in a tabloid, but the mainstream medis seems to have nothing on it.

@hrysippus: your remarks boarders on racism. But in fact people can be conditioned learn as they can also be conditioned not to learn. And when one mentioned slavery and the fact that during that 400 year period, Black people (slaves) were punished and even put to death for learning to read. And many went through their lives pretending to be dumb. Then there is a school in a family island where every child learns to play a musical instrument before they graduate. And part of the graduation experience is performing in the school band. Meaning if students are put in an environment where they have to learn and under the right conditions, then they will learn. And a study of the US school system showed that monies were not given to schools based on need, but how affluent the areas in which they were located. So whilst the inner city schools were crum and lacking basic equipment, some rural schools could leave the lights and a/c on 24/7. And of course these school got better exam results. They also attracted the better teachers and faculty. And another part of the poor exam results is students determine if they want to take the exams, not the school. At one time a student had to take mick exams and get good grades in order to take the BGCSE.

Hope they investigate for arson.

When you look at Family Island exam results separately, you will notice that there is a better performance on the exams. Part of the problem, in New Providence especially, is ‘noise’ that interferes with the learning process. Even starting with the home, many students don’t even gat proper meals. Some live in an environment with no light or running water. Then they have to deal with situations in their community, with drugs, with gang violence and yes even with murder. Some losing school mates or even class mates and yes even family members to murder or other tragedy. And then still students are also exposed to the day to Day problems that adults face: the politics, the city dump burning, the power outages, the traffic congestion. and all the negative publicity given to Bahamians. The Minister of Education has suggested separation of boys and girls in classrooms. But that may be a non issue or at least not a big issue. But what government may need to consider is creating boarding schools for some students who are preparing to sit these exams. They enter the school two years prior to sitting the exams and leave after taking them. They can eithther go home every weekend, one weekend a month or at the end of each term. But something has to be done to arrest the deteriorating exam results. It may even be an idea to create these boarding schools on some family islands. Then they can also spur economic activity for those islands. The least that needs to be done is to sit on your hands and just complain.

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school just opened on monday, and already this boy (our teachers used to say they are the only adult in the classroom), so this *boy* is trying to take control of the class early by verbally abusing the teacher in front of the class. Juggling for control. A total "dis" that has to be checked! In most Bahamian homes that would not only result in a cut hip, but that boy would not be allowed back into that house until he sincerely apologized to the person he assaulted. Sincerely apologize. And he would only be let back in the home on the condition that he understood if it happened again, he would be kicked out permanently. When you make your bed hard, you lay down hard..in the streets ma boy. And sometimes is the parents that need cut skin too cause they don't have no discipline.