What Mr. Scavella failed to mention is that most people importing the cheap Japanese cars are not his customers anyway. Most of them are first time car owners who see the Japanese cars as a way to own a vehicle without involving the bank and without having to owe anyone. Others are persons with bad credit or limited funds. The Japanese car is a bargain and their fuel efficiency makes them even more affordable. In other words if it were not for the Japanese cars many people who own them will not have a car. They will not be going onto and car lot in Nassau where cars cost upwards of $20,000.00. In fact their next option would be to bring a car in from the US even if it is damaged and has to be repaired. New cars sold in Nassau is just plain and simple the last option for many because of the price. This is no fault of the car dealers and if they can convince the government to lower duties on new vehicles that may help. But remember the country is still in recession if not a depression and majority of people are struggling to make ends meet.

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Not only garbage, but cruise ships also leave their sewerage here and at most ports they visit. Some 'neutralized' water is dumped into the ocean but the raw sewerage is left here. So they load up on their supplies in their home port but leave their garbage and sewerage behind.

Many residents are still 'hurricane battered'. They have not recovered from the October 2016 hurricane and some still suffering from Joaquin. However that is no reason to sacrifice life or safety. Even if it means seeking out a hurricane shelter should another storm approach. But you still need to make minimum preparations with food supplies and basic essentials.

And sadly another young man was shot dead in The Kemp Road area, increasing the murder count even more.

At one point, here or there, government will have to impose a ban on used tires. While they may be affordable and help consumers through hard times, the useful life of these tires are very short and they continue to fill up the landfill because there is no useful life for them. It is doubful that tires are even retreaded any more after failures of retreaded tires led to very serious and fatal accidents in the US. Then there is the concern about out-dated, contaminated and otherwise discarded food stuffs making their way back into the food supply chain. At one point Bahamians were assured that any discarded canned good, frozen meats or other packaged foods were immediately destroyed once it arrives at the landfill. But with the change in management who is to say that discarded foodstuffs do not make their way back to someones kitchen table or dinner plate. And one time it was alleged that persons who sold breakfast and lunch from vehicles were purchasing some of their food supplies from dump scavengers. Even some that sold school lunches. This is what led to a crack down at the dump.

I agree with you on all points. The truth is Bahamians go abroad to indulge in many things tourists come here to avoid. Fresh and natural foods for example and clean and unpolluted air for the most part. But (US) marketeers have used their skills to convince us that their products are better so we dump our own fresh and natural produce for processed and artificial foods. Then spend most of the rest of our lives paying doctor bills.

Do you know any part of the US of any country where BPL operates that the power supply is unreliable or that the capacity is lacking or that the cost of power is as costly as it is here? One of the greatest benefits to any company is when the market is demanding more of its product than it is currently supplying. That gives room for growth and allows for greater economies of scale or efficiency. You should have known these (BPL) people were jokers and clowns when they came here demanding the government make solar power illegal when half New Providence was still in darkness. This new generation of Bahamians ain't gonna stand for the Bull$hit! Either you do what you were hired to do and you do it well and you do it quickly or you carry your a$$! Why is the country that is right next door to America one of the most expensive countries in the world to live in, especially for its citizens? This gonna get fixed in this same generation. No more invisible masters! One of the greatest economic periods in the history of the Bahamas came when Sir Lynden Pindling told Brian Ross of NBC news, You expect my small little country to do what your great, big country, with all of its resources, army, navy, air force cannot do?' And he had the Bahamianization policy (immovable properties act) in place. Unlike today where everything is being sold off to the first bidder. Foreigners who don't pay their fair share of taxes. Stop it!

'Control their food supply and control their energy supply and you have control over them.' Isn't that is what is happening in the Bahamas right now? Where does most of our food come from? Remember when tinned and tonnes of Bahamian produce was dumped into the sea or otherwise discarded in favor of imported, mostly junk food? Food that make you sick, angry and non productive? So much so that basically everyone has stopped farming. Then what is this BEC /BPL fiasco? Two years in and the US management company is yet to say how they plan to reduce the cost of electricity. How they plan to increase capacity and how they intend to make the supply more reliable. That's because it is their intention to make your a$$ sweat. There is nothing at BEC that needs to be fixed that cannot be fixed. There is nothing at BPL that's needs to be done that cannot be done. And it can be done with no additional cost to the consumer. By replacing one of their generators at Clifton BPL can save enough on fuel to finance that generator over a period of 3-5 years. By continually replacing generators every two years it can completely renovate its New Providence plant and supply cleaner less costly electricity and increase its capacity. And It can replace and upgrade the smaller and less costly plants on the Family Islands simultaneously. Do you know any part of the US of any country where BPL operates that the peer supply is unreliable that the capacity is lacking or that the cost of power is as costly as it is here? You should have known these people were jokers and clowns when they came here demanding the government make solar power illegal when half New Providence was still in darkness. This new generation of Bahamians ain't gonna stand for the Bull$hit! Either you do what you were hired to do and you do it well and you do it quickly or you carry your a$$! Why is the country what right next door to America one of the most expensive countries in the world to live in, especially for its citizens? This gonna get fixed in this same generation. No more invisible masters!

Promote inter-island commerce, promote inter-island travel, encourage and support small businesses and small hotels on the family islands. Give people reasons to stay on the family islands and not crowd to New Providence and Grand Bahama. Do you know one single event on a Family Island that involves travel of persons from New Providence, other islands and foreign destinations can inject up to $1 million into that family in one short weekend? But Family Islanders must have more to offer when hundreds of people flock on their island. Just like much of the tourist dollar reverts back to The US, most of a dollar spent on a family island returns to Nassau.

Sometimes you have to tell the international world politely to kiss ya a$$ and just do you Bahamas. When Hubert Ingraham did all that to try appease them with offshore banking regulations see what we ended up with? So take a day on the beach, build our farming and fishing industries and don't pay too much mind to them regulators. Their agenda is already written for the most part.