I disagree. His statue should be removed. Let's also pass a law that no history should be taught about and no discussion should be made about anything whatsoever that occurred prior to 1973. The Americans can do the same and remove everything from their schools and society that either is or references anything prior to 1964.

Then there will be nothing to argue about - and life can be bliss. I do recall a phrase that says something or the other is bliss - but we can just ignore that too.

"And we should be prepared to go deeper than the figures history has taught us to like. The same historians made a hero out of Blackbeard, an English pirate who terrorized merchant ships in our waters."

Yes, let's go deeper. Let's pass a law that no history should be taught about and no discussion should be made about anything whatsoever that occurred prior to 1973. The Americans can do the same and remove everything from their schools and society that either is or references anything prior to 1964.

Then there will be nothing to argue about - and life can be bliss. I do recall a phrase that says something or the other is bliss - but we can just ignore that too.

And, after all of this, people will continue to buy "Made in China" products - because their "low cost". I hope not, because it seems like we're about to find out the real cost of all the prior items sold - added together and multiplied by a million.

Will people be able to put 2 and 2 together? I don't know. The BGCSE math results are so low, it is doubtful. Most will simply blame these bad times on the Corona virus, cause that's what the TV says.

It is quite believable that the outages mentioned were not caused by generation issues or even any other technical issue (like the suggested switch). These wires and transformers and switches are so used to being turned off periodically, that (like battery charging memory) they just turn themselves off from time to time - out of habit.

They have been created and groomed to this behavior over years and decades of cycling and brown outs and "ordinary" outages. It is now in their metallic DNA. It's a part of their metallic culture and heritage. After so many electrons pass thru a sub-station, it begins to lose count of them. It forgets how to even spell Avogadro, much less the value of his number, and simply throws a breaker, seeking relief.

It will likely take another generation for the Bahamas to solve these non-generational challenges.

"...You've got aviation and health and the private doctors trying to co-ordinate," Mr Myers told Tribune Business."

It was indeed a nightmare. A friend of mine told me of his experience when, during a boarding procedure a doctor's stethoscope got tangled up in the propeller. Luckily, as they are loosely hung around the neck, nobody was seriously injured; the doctor only making one revolution before being mercifully released.

The round metal diaphragm of the stethoscope was ripped off and flung by the propeller quite a distance, hitting and causing a minor crack on the window of the control tower. During the flight the rubber tubing of the stethoscope, being caught between the propeller and the shaft, slowly burned giving off a terrible smell and poisonous gases. These gases caused everyone on board to lose consciousness after about 20 minutes into the flight.

It was a good thing the pilot had already set the autopilot and that it was equipped with an auto-landing feature. Once the plane landed safely on Staniel Cay the passengers and crew received oxygen and medical attention and all have fully recovered. Using a Rain-X Windshield Repair Kit, the previously mentioned tower window has also been repaired.

All is well that ends well.

And yet these same parents and others make no noise at all about the ever present insane grading system which contains the letters a, b,c, d, e, f, g, u.

That's four letters to the right of 'C' which by their very existence pull the "average" to a D.

C is not in the middle, like it is on a piano and like it is in a grading system in the civilized world which uses ABCDF.

Our "independence" has been making us independently stupid and we have the grades to show for it.

Student moral is destroyed in this country, apparently by design.

Many of those 48,000 students went to a wifi by a restaurant to register after they heard that the registration questions asked what type of devices they had. They had hoped to get tablets or something from the government. The rumour at the time was that Govt would start with those already on the lunch program. That was the last heard on this matter.

We never heard if lunch program students got tablets or even if they got lunch.

Now however, they are being punished for flying to Paris and staying at the Ritz Carlton for three months instead of studying.

My question would be why didnt they choose to "accidentally lose" their return flight tickets? LOL

Cigarettes cannot bear any more tax increase. Liquor (with the exception of beer) can afford a slight tax increase.

In addition, there have been reports over the years that Bahamas made beer can be bought in Miami at a lower price than Nassau. I can understand that may be good to encourage exports and increase the inflow of foreign dollars - however - there exists in this country a 6% export tax (only God knows why since we use exports to bring in foreign reserves ) - but anyway - there is NEVER any reporting of what that 6% figure is in total for all beer exports annually. I suspect that these manufacturers do not pay that tax as an "incentive" to increase employment. The back and forth is so complex that nobody knows what is actually coming and going into the Treasury (and what never comes in at all due to exemptions).

Complexity in tax code breeds corruption and unfairness.

Probably not. The VAT could have been 7.5% and then after 2 years raised to 15%. However, the real problem in this Bahamas is the LACK of information. All we get to see are Budgets. The public never gets to the the Actual spending figures for the prior year stood in columns next to that last year's "budgeted" figures.

It's just one nice sounding promise after another - year after year - with no follow-up. No report on what actually happened. A few reports here and there (of course) - like we were going to spend 20 million on police but ended up having to spend 25 million. Okay, fine. But that is nothing. When you're looking at a 6 to 8 billion dollar budget, and all of that money gets spent and people don't know where it goes - and have no way of finding out where it goes - then those who spend it don't have any worries.

Perhaps the opposition Party here, just like the opposition Party in the USA - sees an opportunity to make the ruling Party "look bad" by crippling the economy ? Are they inviting the IMF - is this sort of an informal invitation letter?

We now know who the vulnerable persons are in society and they merely need to take extra precaution until the virus completes its mutation process toward survival. Viruses mutate all the time, and the ones who kill their hosts have a much less chance of transmission (because they die with the host). And so the Darwinian theory applies; those who die before they can reproduce - don't reproduce - and go extinct. The deadlier form of this virus are not immune from this law of nature.