A medal well deserved Chris brown to retire with, Stephen Newbold to prove he is worthy to represent the Bahamas (242) and Demetrius and them with a bright future in sports

This country is set to record less than 100 murders this year and can very, very likely have less than 90 murders in 2016. While it may be a good idea to give police officers time off to compensate for extra hours worked, the powers that be must be extremely careful not to offset the balance and chemistry that has led or is leading to the greatest reduction in crime, at least murder and gang warfare, in a decade. So it may be necessary to stagger the time offs for officers over a period of time and to provide more essential officers with a combination of pay and time off. Now that the back of violent crime appears to have been broken,the most crucial element there not be or appear to be be a slackening off of police presence, police action, or public perception that the environment is safe and criminals will be prosecuted. Don't allow the country to slip back into being crime ridden by trying to appease a particular section of the force and/or trying to avoid compensating those officers who need to be compensated. The courts are doing their part and ensuring that persons convicted of murder get hefty sentences and for many convicted of murder, their 40 plus year sentence is just like a sentence of life in prison. This is starting to hit home with the young thugs especially.

In the main time notice how all the major banks in the country are silently and smoothly moving the country towards a cashless society. These banks are converting their clients bank cards to debit cards for most customers and are offering credit cards to customers with higher net worth. One major bank is offering Merchant Debit Cards to its business customers, 'so they no longer have to balance a check book or worry if they have enough money on their account to cover a check,' since their balance will always readily be available to them. And don't miss the decline on interest rates to almost negative rates. One major bank is paying $9.00, yes nine dollars per quarter on a $100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Dollars fixed deposit. Imagine that and imagine what happens when or if the banks start charging interest to keep large deposits.

So you don't think if they rented generators to ease the load shedding in New Providence, they coulda' rent at least one additional generator for Harbor Island. Do you know that in three years Britain will be experiencing the same power shortages that we have here in new providence? The politicians are aware of the problem but many favor building nuclear plants to remedy the problem. The problem though is it will take 10 years minimum to construct these nuclear plants and hundreds of millions of dollars. So what does Britain do in the 7 years during the time the the power shortages start and the time the nuclear plants are completed. Here in the Bahamas the power shortfall can be easily fixed. BPL can embark on a project to solarize every street light in the Bahamas starting in New Providence. On 75-80% of the days these lights can generate enough electricity to power the streetlight all night and feed power back to the grid. So not only are you now reducing the load on the grid by removing the street lights but you are also increasing the capacity of the grid. Then you can move to providing solar power to buildings like schools and post offices and other government and public offices that operate during the daytime (9-5), with minimal backup for unusual circumstances.

If you google "failed and incomplete Chinese projects" you will see that Bah Mar is only a small fry among the many failed or stalled projects in China and around the world in which the chinese was involved in: A replica of the city of London, a city copying the city of New York, a theme park that copies Disney World, An airport costing over $60 million that nowhas less than 5 flights a day because people refuse to use it, a city designed and built for a million residents but after years in existence has less than 20,000 residents, because persons did not move in as expected, many of the largest malls in China are unoccupied and fallin into decay, and the list goes on and on. And there are projects in Africa, South America, Austrailia..virtually all around the world, where the Chinese were involved with financing and/or labor and as many of the projects came to near completion, they came to a standstill. And the Chinese did little or nothing to revive these projects. In fact those that got restarted and got completed got done because the governments in the countries in which the projects were located put pressure on the Chinese, or found additional financing or got other contractors to complete the projects. The Bahamas government need to take a page out of these countries book and get tough on the Chinese before they make the Bahamas a failed state

This is obviously a house cleaning exercise where sandals is attempting to get rid of the 'troublemakers' and other persons they feel do not fit in to their business model. These are lean economic times and all businesses are finding themselves in difficult economic times. Many local businesses are experiencing sales declines by as much as 40%. And overhead including taxes have escalated. But Sandals, by their own admission, is expected to have a better than average Fall/Winter Season. This is a two sided coin where it is always unfortunate when any worker loses their job, but also business owners who take great risks have to do what they feel is in the best interest of the company to ensure the company continues to survive.

So what about the armies of Chinese construction workers, doing two and three shifts while Bahamian construction workers sitting idle..such hyprocrisy..(yea it spell wrong) so you get the point. And even more about to be hired...where is our national pride..let me guess..at the (Chinese) national stadium wat aint hardly ever used?

There are two major factors that contribute to situations like this when it is not due to an economic downturn. First governments labor laws that require so much more compensation and benefits to a worker who has been on a job for more than five year. It is economically more feasible for the employer to terminate the worker and rehire them or hire new workers rather than to have to shell out those benefits sometime in the future. Second, the hotel/tourism industry, like many others has become youth orientated. Meaning a hotel property would somewhere along the line be willing to sacrifice a long term, hard working and dedicated worker for a younger, less skilled and unproven worker. It is unfortunate but it is reality and all the hotel properties find ways of doing it. And the labor pool in this country allows for it. But the danger is that more and more persons in their forties and fifties will find themselves unemployed and ,unemployable, There is no job security and it is obvious the even the union or government can't help them. Is it fair for companies tobrob workersbof their young and most productive years, then dump them in the middle of the ocean without a lifeline? This problem not only exists here but is worldwide. How do you protect the older worker.?

> Many of these items are incredibly valuable personal goods and family heirlooms which are irreplaceable So why did they not put proper measures in place to secure the peoples things like a time delay safe?

Just when i finally get my generator working..