The Bahamas is never going to able to produce enough food to feed itself, there is simply not enough arable land to do so. On top of that, the soil quality is not the best, which means expensive fertilizers will need to be bought in order to have high yields. Farming is not a profitable business, even in areas like the Great Plains, which puts into question whether growing anything of value here is even economically feasible (its probably not). Farming is also extremely labour intensive; where is the cheap labour willing to work 12 hour days going to come from? I think we all know the answer to that, and it is a big reason why Abaco is a foreign colony today.

The really sad part is that they will all up and leave to the US the minute that they finish running this country into the ground. The Bahamian public will have to live with the consequences of their stupid decisions while they get off scot-free living the high life abroad.

Again, what do people expect merchants to do? Run their business at a loss? We literally import everything that we consume, what are stores supposed to do if inflation is taking it's toll abroad?

Bahamians wanted to ride with Biden, so they are getting what they wanted. Here's your inflation and a free crack pipe to go with it.

Your mother should have dismembered you limb by limb and then sucked your remains out of her womb with a vacuum cleaner. Being opposed to murder of the most vulnerable is a basic human concept. Anyone with a sound conscience, religious or not, should stand in opposition to it.

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.