The anwer to that is simple. On Neverary 32nd. If FNM was in power ... same answer.

Social promotion allows parents to give their kids more screen time on their phones and laptops. Govt can't take it away because parents are voters, voting for the destruction of their own children. Govt has to do the parents' wishes. Many teachers get rowed out by parents every day.

I thought Bahamia Bns don't want to become a US state like Greenland and Western Canada. The Bshamas is an independent nation, right? We dont burn down our own BAMSI farms in Andros, right? LOL Bahamians want to be Chinese slaves.

Concerned ??? No. They WOULD be concerned if the victims were not Bahamians.

Tal, no distance is too far for you to reach to defend the PLP right? You are the wackiest. Teachers in the Bahamas who are REAL teachers are treated like dogs by admin and parents, meanwhile those "in the clique" ... well, let's just say they know every square inch of the teachers lounge. Power off, water off, Internet off, educated Bahamians "off" to work in other countries. The FNM & PLP oughta just admit they are in fact the same Party and change their 3-letter Party name to OFF.

Tal, you are amazing. I've been following your writings for years. People like you will not rest until Freeport looks like Nassau north of Wulff Road and west of Mackey Street. Have you ordered the pitcher pumps and the wood for the outhouses yet?

Comments here are insane. How will behaving children have an environment to learn in, IF bad children are permitted to run around like lunatics and do absolutely anything?

Would you like the policy to be, if behavior gets out of hand then those children are sent home? But where can they be kept until parents arrive? Also there is the immediate comeback "How are kids going to learn in they are not in school?" Well that also has a comeback "How are kids going to learn if they ARE in school?" Schools are now insane asylums for several inmates. There are 180 children who come to school to learn, but are prevented from doing so by 20 very badly behaved children who should have never been let out of their playpens.

Constitutional Amendment to hold elections every 2 years instead of 5. Five years is too long. If govt doing good after 2 years then elect them for another 2. But people dying before govt change man.

The back and forth would then become more obvious.

USA would not allow such a high level of trade with China. The tidbit we do now is simply frowned upon. What you are talking about would be blocked with military. Why don't you just up and move to China if you love communism so much?
Bahamians love high prices. Most actually believe that we don't pay taxes here except for vat - lol. People constantly say "Everything cool". So, it's cool.
Like Hubert Ingraham said "When Bahamians go to the gas station, they ask the man for $20 worth." When they pay their fuel surcharge on their BPL bill, it's no questions asked.
Graham Weatherford suggested putting a barge with a heavy oil generator below the PI bridge (a main uplink) but, of course, he is a white man so we ignore him and plod forward upward and onward together. Toward what? Well, higher prices and higher cost of living of course. How's that West End police station coming along? Still got numbers on your voting ballots? Of course. LOL

So by not collecting VAT they can continue to claim they have no money to fix the potholes in the road and the screens in the classroom windows and the fans and anything else they don't feel like doing. No money. LOL