Sad but true. Decriminalizing weed is the right idea but we all know ordinary Bahamians will never be able to establish themselves in the business should it ever become fully legalized. Rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

As much as it is in your interest to cause strife in the FNM camp, you know full well comparing the 2017 general and the recent by-election is a huge false equivalency. It didn't matter who the FNM leader was in 2017, people were sick of Christie and ready to vote in a potcake if they had to in order to get him out of office. West End & Bimini has always been a PHellP stronghold, which is why Papa told the FNM not to waste money competing in the by-election there. Davis has not aroused public scorn to anywhere near the levels of Christie or Minnis, so there was no reason for the FNM to ever think they were going to win that seat in the first place.

The Minnis era is done and over with, Minnis should have completely retired from politics considering the catastrophic losses the FNM suffered in the last general election; some of the seats they lost have never voted PHellP in the entire history of the Bahamas. Anyone still clinging to Minnis as the future of the FNM is blind and delusional.

Davis would deserve re-election if he had the balls to completely privatize BPHell, finding a competent company that could keep the power on and preventing thousands of dollars worth of appliances from being fried every year. Ideologically speaking I am opposed in principle to a private company having complete control over our national power grid, but honest to God BPHell is so incompetently run that the service could only improve by doing so. Get your generators and candles ready, summer soon reach.

The problem with this topic is that most Bahamians are not capable of discussing it logically and separated from emotion. Rape between two strangers is simple to prove, 1.) there will be physical signs of a struggle 2.) there will be DNA of some sort left behind after the act. The problem with proving marital rape (and rape where there is any sort of established relationship) is that the first proof is often lacking with these claims, and the second alone isn't sufficient to prove that rape occurred if there aren't other concurrent signs (documented history of abuse, physical signs of struggle, injuries etc.). Davis is correct, divorce is simply the best solution that doesn't run the risk of unjustly imprisoning an innocent man. With a crime as heinous as rape, the burden of proof has to be exponentially higher and the testimony of the victim alone is not enough to fairly convict someone. It's not like the courts are in any way favourable to men, a woman, even without the claim of rape, should be able to secure custody of any children and associated support and alimony with relative ease. It really is the most convenient solution to this issue but people do not want to think logically regarding this matter.

Get real, young Bahamians leaving this country aren't leaving because of citizenship laws, they are leaving because there are no economic opportunities in this nation for them. Unless you are working in real estate, construction, have a middle to high ranking tourism job, or have a good fishing season, there is absolutely nothing for you to do here and the COL is absolutely absurd considering that we are right next door to Florida. The commentor above mentioned his daughter with a PhD in Chemistry but there would be at most a handful of relevant employment opportunities in this country outside of maybe academia or something educational where that degree would be relevant. This country is not easy to forge a living in unless you were born into a rich family or one that is politically connected, and young people see the bright lights of the city overseas and think that the grass is 100% greener over there. Speaking from experience, trying to move overseas brings it own set of challenges. Some things are better, some things are worse; you won't move to the States or Canada and just fall into money.

There is nothing wrong with NATO as a concept (defensive alliance), the problem is that NATO has never acted as one. There is not a single NATO intervention that was defensive in nature (the Taliban were not responsible for 9/11 so even Afghanistan does not really count), and the one in Libya has been particularly disastrous for that nation (Libya has seen non stop war and instability ever since).

NATO knows full well that adding former Warsaw Pact and Soviet member states into it's ranks has been/will be seen as a provocation in the eyes of Russia, yet continues to do it regardless. They played games with Georgia until the Russians steamrolled them in 2008 and put them in their place, they overthrew the Yanukovych government in Ukraine and gassed the new governments up for war with Russia that is costing thousands of lives on both sides, and they are gassing up Pashinyan in Armenia to make him believe they will have his back while Azerbaijan walks over them. NATO is anything but defensive in actual practice.

Same thing I thought, if he truly felt threatened he should have recorded the incident on his phone and got the plate number. There is a non significant number of conchy joes and expats in Nassau so just saying a "Caucasian man with British accent" really isn't helpful at all. At the end of the day having words is not a crime though, nothing much he can do unless it turns violent or there is some kind of property damage.

Recommended is actually 2 hours according to their website, cutoff is one. I've been denied boarding for a domestic flight on a different carrier being to the airport right before an hour though, so I always try to arrive as early as possible. Air travel in this country is a giant hassle compared to when I lived overseas.

I always have to laugh at the "evil colonizer" rhetoric of these kinds of articles considering that the British did everything they could to undermine the UBP government and implement majority rule (this happened not only here but in Rhodesia, S Africa, anywhere that had a system of White minority rule really). Majority rule would not even exist if it weren't for the British.

That being said, I haven't read the original article referred to but quite frankly critics of independence such as myself don't really give a shit about artists, actors, or any of that superfluous nonsense. We remain critical of Bahamian independence because we have a powergrid that cannot function in the summer (maybe even in the winter sometimes) and that burns up thousands of dollars worth of appliances and equipment every year, water systems that shut off while you are bathing, out of control crime that worsens every year, corrupt governments that worry about nothing else but awarding their friends and lovers no bid contracts for the most part, declining standards of living, etc., the things what really make up a nation. For as much of a clownshow as the UK government has been lately, several of our administrations would have been dissolved on the basis of corruption (like what happened in Turks) had we not been independent. The Bahamian middle class has been dying an agonizing death since the Recession and the recent years of higher than usual inflation is putting more strain than ever on the little bit what remains. Why does anyone think that young Bahamians with a chance will leave if they get the opportunity? Simply because this country is becoming much more economically stratified (not that that process isn't happening abroad either).

The tone of this article reminds of our government who ride around in fancy luxury vehicles going to banquets in three piece suits while there are Bahamians still shitting in the bush and using community pumps. Is everything doom and gloom? No, but don't pretend that things on a national scale aren't much worse off than better and that critics of independence don't have a right to be critical.

How is it going to stay afloat as the Bahamian demographic collapse finishes? The problem with NIB, and a lot of wealth redistribution schemes, is that it really is nothing more than a somewhat elegant Ponzi scheme that depends on consistent population growth to be viable (which is quite frankly not happening here, nor anywhere else in the developed world). Even if the government didn't just simply piss away whatever money they received in contributions, young Bahamians are too financially stressed on average to maintain the fertility rate needed to keep it afloat. The government will continue to raise rates but truthfully that is not enough, and payments will have to be slashed/age raised/or some other measures taken in order to account for the fact that long term the Bahamas is shifting to a top heavy demographic pyramid. Mass immigration is not a solution, as first world countries are starting to figure out, as most immigrants are nothing but a net tax negative on the host country, defeating the purpose of bringing them there in the first place. Raise the tax burden too much and people will just simply emigrate if they have the opportunity. The original critics of NIB saw all of this, and their criticisms were certainly valid. It might work for a time, but simply is unsustainable on a large scale in the long term.