Minimum wage should be increased on a yearly basis tied with the current rate of inflation to ensure that the lower economic stratas of society are not being placed at an economic disadvantage.

The problem with simply saying "lower the COL" is that the government is a huge part of why this country is so expensive to live in with duties and lots of excise taxes, but they have painted themselves into a corner with debt and cannot afford to lose revenue. Some stuff like absurd housing costs on on NP and some Family Islands, extremely high energy costs, etc. is also a result of poor government planning as well.

Another thing to consider is that quite frankly there are very few "skilled" jobs here, with unskilled and semi skilled labour dominant. Unless you are a doctor, lawyer, successful real estate agent, big contractor etc. you there really isn't a chance for you to make much money here unless you have a friend or lover to give you an overpriced gubermint contract. Either that or you have to get tight with the rich foreigners who can give you work and get you connected with that clique, and even then a lot of them will shaft you in favour of their American friends at the first opportunity.

Bahamian economic problems are extremely complex and can't be solved by just raising the minimum wage or saying "lower the COL". I really don't see any way it gets better here; the people with the opportunity to leave will leave (not that overseas is any better at this point) and the ones left behind will either sink or swim as the gap between rich and poor continues to grow bigger.

There really should be an IQ requirement to filter morons like you from posting public opinions. Anti clericals like Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot murdered more than any one ever did in the name of any religion and quite frankly most of the slander against Christianity like accusations of witch burning and the Inquisition are completely fabricated with no historical basis, or like most other "genocides" just completely exaggerated with no historical evidence to back up the claimed death totals.

Go look at South Korea, a country that will be mostly died off in another 50 years, that is the end result of your "modern world" and foolish ideology. The North will be able to just walk over the border and occupy the nation at some point because they at least have a replacement level birthrate. Liberalism is a death cult worse than literal communism, one ideology at least has the sensibility to look at a graph and understand numbers. At least the Bahamas would exist under religious rule, Bahamians will only exist as an obscure footnote in history books (if the people of that time will even be able to read, which I doubt) on a long enough time scale listening to foolish ideologues such as yourself.

Divorce proceedings are only as contentious as either party makes them; it is really easy to sit down as adults and come to an agreement if both parties really want to. That being said, divorces being common is a symptom of a failed society on it's way to collapse.

What our country really needs is for the average Bahamian to evolve past 13 mentally and maybe society will improve. The boomers and silent generation failed to teach their children any values, and we are reaping the fruits of that today. Constant murders, low IQ morons who just steal everything they can and give their friends and lovers government contracts, power that cuts off because it's drizzling outside all come from the fact that older generations didn't teach their children to give a shit about anything in life, besides themselves maybe. We need to be focusing on restoring Bahamian families and helping couples with children stay together and learn how to deal with their problems in a healthy way instead of encouraging further societal collapse. What it's really time for is to get rid of the low IQ morons that have got us in this mess.

No fault divorce already de facto exists here; my mother divorced my father under grounds of cruelty and basically told the judge that he didn't buy her enough shit and take her on vacations and they accepted that because neither party wanted to continue the marriage. The judges don't give a shit about your reasoning, they just want to know if there is any possibility that the marriage will work.

Marijuana is honestly not my thing, but it is an utter waste of time and resources to prosecute people who want to smoke it. Prosecute if they drive high or operate machinery under the influence, but it is a waste of time to go after people for simple possession of small amounts.

Possibly the worst case of testing in production in history. Maybe people will finally abandon Winshit and learn how to Linux. There is literally zero reason to not run a mainstream Linux distro unless you absolutely have to use a program with zero compatibility.

The shitholification of the UK will only progress even faster under a Labour government. It makes no difference whether you back red or blue, things will continue to get worse.

Something much more worthwhile talking about is the fact that FPTP is an archaic system that needs to be thrown into the garbage bin. Whatever you think of Reform's politics, the fact that a party can pull nearly 15% of the total vote and only end up with 5/650 seats in a system that calls itself "representative" is a sick joke. Even in the Bahamas it is high time to throw FPTP out, both the DNA in 2012 and CoI in 21 won enough of the popular vote that they deserved representation in Parliament. The archaic FPTP system is what is stifling third parties in this country, as no third party has the financial resources to actively compete in an election, and it's what makes both the FNM and PhellP completely dependent on shady "investors" and scandalous expats to fund their campaigns. Abolishing FPTP should be priority number one for any Bahamian government seeking to implement real political reform in this country, but we all know why that isn't going to happen. Personal interests always supersede national ones in this country.

I don't see where you keep coming from with the angle that the Chinese own our government, I saw you mention something similar on the article regarding the Palestinian recognition. I don't see anything to suggest that the Chinese strong armed the government into recognizing Palestine, but we have documented proof that we were forced to sanction Russia by the US "government" lest we (implicitly) end up sanctioned ourselves (a conflict that has nothing to do with our day to day lives and in which the moral lines are a lot greyer than the Palestine issue). The Chinese have a presence here but anyone who lives here can see that the American influence is far greater, which was even admitted to by the Chinese embassy a while back. As it relates to FTX, some American politicians took huge payouts just like some Bahamian ones did. They are all in on it together, and many of the worst here have ties with the worst over there. It's all a big club.

I don't get this line of thinking that just because our MPs don't trade blows on the floor (although it has come close to that a few times) everything is fine and dandy with our political system. Nobody is complaining about politicians being rambunctious, we are complaining that Parliament is completely useless and does nothing to fix this country anytime they are in session. Another summer is upon us and the power is still going out, making people sweat and burning up appliances/equipment. You would think that this issue would be fixed by now considering it has been happening for decades but nothing really changes no matter who is in charge. Power will still shut off, juicy no bid contracts will still be given out, and taxes will still be squeezed on a shrinking middle and growing poor class to pay for it all. What is the point in voting if nothing ever gets fixed/improves? I would rather have a competent dictator rule the country and keep everything in order than to keep marking an X pretending that that is doing something while the power and water shut off, crime spirals out of control, taxes keep going higher for no benefit other than feeding increasingly fatter politicians, etc. The only thing that matters is results.

The thing with you Minnis supporters is that you conveniently ignore the 32-7 spanking he took 4.5 years later. That is an outright rejection that cost the FNM several strongholds that were unthinkable for the PHellP to carry in the past. Even Perry had the common sense to retire from politics after he took his similar spanking in '17.

There is still a decent chunk of time left until the next election, but as it stands I think it is going to be the closest one since '07 as long as Pintard remains leader of the FNM. Davis is not nearly as unpopular as Minnis and Perry were, but neither has he done anything to inspire a lot of turnout for him. Pintard hasn't shown himself to be the next coming of Ingraham, but putting Minnis to head the FNM is just giving Brave a next 5 years considering how stink he is in the eyes of the public. Pintard is the least bad out of a bunch of bad FNM candidates, and should at least have his shot at an election. A good politician would have let Pintard had his chance and then try again for power if he took a big loss, but Minnis has not displayed political aptitude during any of his time in or out of power.