Funny how all of the people I know who went to prison all come from a similar background : absent father, single mother, born out of wedlock. It is almost as if God gave us guidance on how to live for a very good reason.

These people really take Bahamians for fools, the doomsday prophets have been wrong for 2 years now. Anyone with an IQ over 60 can see through this scam.

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Peppridge Farm remembers the 2.2 million Americans that were supposed to be dead by now.

Grocery stores are low margin businesses, they are not making a killing like so many people fantasize they do. What do people honestly expect Mr. Roberts or any other grocer to do? The primary factor behind the rise in costs is inflation, which is something completely outside of the merchant's control.

Bahamians need to wake up, all kind of perverse and sick ideologies are being pushed on in our country under the guise of "gender equality". Murdering your child has nothing to do with "gender equality".

Yes, of course, there are many ways to nickle and dime the taxpayer. Technically speaking, NIB is a roundabout form of "income tax" as well.

I have actually lived and worked abroad before coming back, and I remember vividly how excited I was with my first job's stated salary when signing the employment contract, and then being completely disappointed reading my first pay slip. It is the biggest reason I rail so hard against the numerous taxes that these governments want to impose, and against how hard they piss the money away once it is in their hands. It is a vicious cycle of piss money away, whine that we need more taxes, piss that money away, repeat. We are so blessed not to pay income tax, not pay RPT on the Family Islands as a Bahamian, and so much more. It is something that we should truly be trying to preserve for our children.

My main point was that we cannot expect our society to be any different if our people listen to nothing but that garbage. Dancehall or (c)rap music always involves one (at the least) of the following themes :

a.) Selling drugs
b.) Killing someone because they stepped on my shoes or are wearing the wrong coloured shirt
c.) Having sex with a million different women, spreading STDs everywhere, bringing a bunch of unwanted children into the world, and then abandoning them

I have never once heard a song about :

a.) Getting a good job
b.) Staying married to one woman and raising kids in a stable home
c.) Being an upstanding citizen and caring for the local community

Traditional reggae I don't mind as much because there are some good songs that promote virtuous living, but dancehall and (c)rap music promote nothing but poison. There is a saying in the software development industry that applies well here, "garbage in, garbage out". When our young people have their heads filled with nothing but this nonsense, can we really be shocked that they turn out the way that they do? I'm not, and I only expect it to get worse based off of what I hear/see.

The Biblical part of your post is another discussion, but I reiterate that telling a story/preserving a historical record is a different matter than glorifying certain behaviour. I am not sure what your particular issue with Solomon is? Maybe because of the situation surrounding David and Bathsheeba? If so, remember that Solomon found favour in the eyes of God because he asked for wisdom, and not for wealth, the death of his enemies, etc. The situation regarding Abraham and Isaac requires the context that Isaac was a miracle child that God had given Abraham in old age, and it was the fact that Abraham was not going to withhold even his miracle son from God that was considered praiseworthy. Human sacrifice is condemned in nothing but the strongest of terms in the Deuteronomic law, especially sacrifice of children to Moloch as was the custom of pagan areas in that region at the time. It is given as a key reason that the Canaanites were to be driven out of the Holy Land. Regarding Cain, we have no idea that God did not create other people in addition to Adam and Eve. Scripture certainly doesn't rule it out, and much of the primeval world is left open to different interpretation. Not much can really be defined with any certainty about that time period. I honestly don't have any sympathy for adulterers either, especially not in this day and age where the court rewards them with alimony and child support.

How is having the Ministry of Health make these kinds of decisions constitutionally acceptable?

The Bahamas is overpopulated, there are not enough jobs to go around for everyone. The mass migration of Bahamians to Canada (which has much easier immigration procedures than the US) is a natural vent for this problem, albeit not a big enough one. There are simply not enough jobs here, so it would be beneficial to find a way to make it easier for Bahamians to find overseas work.

Salaries are indeed lower here than in the US, but something to consider is that we don't pay income tax here. What you see listed as your salary in the US or Canada is not what you are going to get paid. The government will take their cut, and depending on where you live/how much you make, it can range from anywhere to 15% - 30% for most people.

At the end of the day, both employees and employers have to work together to find common ground for everyone. Raise the wages on small businesses and watch them shut down while the few workers they do employ end up on the backs of the government (ie. taxpayer). Rather than talking about wages, developing sustainable industries should be the topic. I am sorry, it is ridiculous to expect to pay someone close to 700 a week for an unskilled service job. The problem is that there is a very limited supply of skilled/semi-skilled positions in this country, and no government has focused on creating more. Cleaning rooms and bartending are not skilled professions that can justify paying someone thousands of dollars every month, you can literally pick people off of the street and have them perform those tasks. Shut the businesses down and see how much worse things get for you with everyone on the government dole.

Both the PLP and FNM are malignant tumors doing their best to kill off the Bahamas. At the end of the day, you cannot assign all the blame to them though considering that the Bahamian electorate never pulls their collective head out of their ass to at least vote for someone different. There really is nothing left to lose at this point, you know what you are going to get with either set of goons, so at least try someone new for a change.

Any right thinking Bahamian should be praying that the next storm to pass our way blows both the FNM and PLP so far out to sea that they cannot do any further harm to this country. I am so sick of these buffoons talking bullshit about we need more taxes while continually pissing away the money that we give them. There is a special place in the lower circles of Hell reserved for Bahamian politicians and their cronies who are good for nothing but leeching off of the hard work of others.

The Old Testament does not glorify anything that you listed, it merely recounts such incidences from a historical perspective.

We are just shy of the top ten in both murders and rapes per capita worldwide, have a country full of negligent "parents" (using that term loosely) that don't raise their children and leave the gangs to do so, and have to have burglar bars on windows and run red lights in the wee hours of the night lest we get robbed (if we live in Nassau, at least).

I fully agree with Mr. Evans, the shitty dancehall and (c)rap music polluting our young people's minds should be completely outlawed, it has produced (and does not produce) any positive for our society.